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by bermanoid 10y ago
We shouldn't make as stable constructions as other engineers, for very good reasons: they're building things out of concrete, iron, and steel that are meant to last for years doing a very predictable job without alteration aft
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by bermanoid 10y ago
I think what emodendroket is getting at is not that this stuff is unimportant, but that the vast majority of us have no occasion to address the egregious problems with any regularity, so we should also focus on the things we can affect on
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by bermanoid 10y ago
This really doesn't need to be that complicated. The US could quite easily negotiate lower drug prices with drug companies, without setting up a convoluted scheme that references other countries, by simply doing so. There's just n
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by bermanoid 10y ago
Yep, I did. Should have been a bit more specific.
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by bermanoid 10y ago
If you grew up on the east coast, where you have about 1 week of pleasant weather in between hellish hotness in the summer and ball-shriveling cold in the winter, you'd appreciate SF's boringly middling weather. I do miss the snow
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by bermanoid 10y ago
Do you have a source? My own experience, as well as anecdotes from a lot of runners that I know, all confirm that running is very hard on the knees. Whenever I've had knee issues, the exercise that I have to cut out in order to make
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by bermanoid 10y ago
Because it probably doesn't matter if ex-coworkers at Uber figure out who it is. She just doesn't want this story attached to her real name when people Google her. It's also possible that some of that information is slightly
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by bermanoid 10y ago
Betting on a government-granted monopoly is still a bet. Just as if I bought stock in a company that thrives because it has a patent that may or may not be overturned on appeal, or a monopoly that might be smashed due to an anti-trust actio
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by bermanoid 10y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle : 'However, there exist classical solutions to the Einstein equations that allow values of the entropy larger than those allowed by an area law, hence in pri
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by bermanoid 10y ago
You're right, many of these studies use weak methods to infer causality that don't fully rule out that possibility. Usually the problem is that they fail to account for poor diagnosis accuracy - someone with (for instance) active
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by bermanoid 10y ago
I don't really care about that. I just know that if I see the AMP logo on a search result that I'm about to click, it's going to be a pleasant experience when I click through and very quickly am able to read the page. Whereas
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by bermanoid 10y ago
As an ex-manager at a very large gaming company, I assure you, your manager doesn't typically make twice what you do unless you're at the very highest levels (the CTO is, of course, going to make quite a bit more than a mid-level
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by bermanoid 12y ago
Since I moved into a lead role (where I still do day to day coding but don't do as much as my reports), a good rule of thumb for me has been that if I can't track down the offending line of code within half an hour based on a stac
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by bermanoid 12y ago
Can you explain the actual difficulties? In particular, do you question whether the quality of the image would be high enough, or whether the ML techniques can automate what a lab tech does while looking through a lens, or is the problem th
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by bermanoid 12y ago
44€/hr is low, that's pretty much entry level for quality work. People routinely charge multiples of that amount; if I was to go back to contracting now, I'd be charging at least twice that much, probably more. Also, you shou
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by bermanoid 12y ago
You're right that people give professional favor based on personal affinity, what I'm not sure you're right about is that it's so wrong to do so. If I don't like you, then it's likely that your direct reports w
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by bermanoid 12y ago
In math, there are many "proofs" that 1 = 2. Going through them and picking them apart is a useful exercise, and can expose misunderstandings and mistakes that are important to be aware of. But at the end of the day, nobody really
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by bermanoid 12y ago
Not at all - the day you went wrong was the day you wrote code that worked and assumed that the people paying you would let you rewrite it later. That never happens, unless you force the issue by making the first version fundamentally unsal
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by bermanoid 12y ago
"200 years" and "evolve" should never, ever, appear in the same sentence.
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by bermanoid 12y ago
Evolution did just fine, and it's far more scattershot than our current efforts at AI. You're also crucially missing the possibility that someone comes up with an intelligent algorithm that doesn't mirror the human brain in m
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by bermanoid 13y ago
The fact that a few gay people support something doesn't make it any less offensive, homophobic, or idiotic.
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by bermanoid 13y ago
No. I almost never need to read from stdin, as I said. Again, most of us write real apps, not command line utilities.
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by bermanoid 13y ago
These "workers" that are being "exploited" are just copying and pasting code, in this situation. In this case, the code doesn't even work properly, since it's calling someone else's analytics callback. No
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If you could accurately enough define all of the terms in your questions to the point that any imaginable evidence would answer them, I might be interested in the answers. Unfortunately there don't exist definitions that concrete yet,
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by bermanoid 13y ago
I was about to say the exact same thing: I'd probably walk out of an interview if remembering how to read stdin was part of it, because it comes up maybe once every couple of years in real work, better to just Google it. Don't tai
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by bermanoid 13y ago
That's fair - I'm biased by having too many conversations with self professed philosophers telling me that any push towards AGI is wasted effort because of X, where X just means that it wouldn't satisfy whatever they think is
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If your code ends up coming out the other end with fewer defects and ends up costing the company less overall than when similar tasks are done by your peers, then document that and present it to your bosses. If it's incurring a similar
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Are you seriously bringing up Searle's Chinese Room as an argument against AI research? According to Wikipedia, "The Chinese room argument is primarily an argument in the philosophy of mind, and both major computer scientists and
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by bermanoid 13y ago
If you allow widespread polygamy, degenerate gamblers and addicts won't tend to attract many wives, and will generally have far fewer children.. Boom, fewer children stuck with problematic non-providing parents. Thanks, market forces!
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by bermanoid 13y ago
Actually they're exactly the same. As in, completely identical games under a very trivial mapping. Think about how you'd formulate each one in terms of payoff matrices...

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