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by bhickey 11y ago
(a) is indeed written by a machine, (b) is excerpted from a famously awful poem, and (c) is an unintentional haiku found in the New York Times. I agree with what you're saying about art, but it's far afield of the point thewarrior
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by bhickey 11y ago
Why do you believe this? I have some familiarity with natural language processing and think that generating passable computer poetry is a fairly rudimentary task. Tell your model about meter, tell it about rhyme, learn word associations.
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by bhickey 11y ago
It is supposed to be mutually beneficial, but it isn't. A lot of this is getting driven by for-profit schools. The loan burden at for-profit colleges tends to be higher than non-profit colleges. Their share of DoE loans is about 25%. T
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by bhickey 11y ago
You should also try out Brogue! ( https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/ ) Brogue is shorter and tighter than DCSS. If I had my way, we'd cut down crawl to 27 levels. In Brogue the maps are smaller, the food
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by bhickey 11y ago
This one is actually kind-of, sort-of obvious. For NaNoGenMo this year I smushed together word2vec and a POS tagger. What the authors have done here is really cool and goes miles beyond my hacks, but the kernel of the idea should be obvious
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by bhickey 11y ago
No, it isn't a reasonable comparison: PCG is a family while MT is particular Generalized Feedback Shift Register. Despite my suspicions I can't tell you off the top of my head if the entire GFSR class is dodgy, but we can point ou
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by bhickey 11y ago
What failure mode are you worried about? Yes, the author has a definite incentive to self-promote. At the same time she's produced a testable artifact. I think her claims about predictability are bogus, but the rest of it we can trivia
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by bhickey 11y ago
PCG is a family of PRNGs. Any sensible member of the family will trivially pass TestU01 BigCrush. If you use a 32-bit PCG it's going to necessarily fail BigCrush. PRNG design is an empirical science. We can implement a generator and th
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by bhickey 11y ago
I haven't looked closely enough at their choice to evaluate it, but there's a good reason not to use Mersenne Twister. MT is a bad generator. * The state size is 2kb * It fails some rudimentary statistical tests * The output is tr
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by bhickey 11y ago
> What the hell is wrong with that? Isn't that exactly what you'd expect? What's wrong with that? They gave her a platform because she was an Asian woman. She disagreed with them, so they revoked the platform. It's fa
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by bhickey 11y ago
The examples here seem to be for doing pattern matching (with wildcards) on portions of DNS query packets. That's definitely in the range of things you can't coerce the pcap filter language to do an even adequate job on.
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by bhickey 11y ago
Given the usability and technical problems with PGP, do you think it's worth saving?
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by bhickey 11y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point of bpfgen. What additional functionality does it provide over tcpdump? tcpdump -i eth0 -d dst 127.0.0.1 (000) ldh [12] (001) jeq #0x800 jt 2 jf 4 (002) ld [30]
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by bhickey 11y ago
Andy, you're very much to ascii rendering what Inigo is to the demo scene. I hope Milwaukee has been treating you well.
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by bhickey 11y ago
The Bullingdon Club members are a nasty bunch. As Right Honourable Tories they back harsh drug policies all the while denying their youthful indiscretions. Separately two British journalists told me that Osborne was deep into cocaine when t
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by bhickey 11y ago
An eye for an eye creates bad incentives. If the state is going to kill as punishment for some crime, rationally a criminal should go for broke once that line is crossed. In the worst case, they'll be killed by police. Trapping someone
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by bhickey 11y ago
If the FDA has approved certain pharmacodynamics, these should be characterized. With well characterized bioavailability curves, re-running the original experiment doesn't tell you anything. If the FDA is instead approving other charac
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by bhickey 11y ago
> Without samples of the original, it's impossible to prove a generic is equivalent. I know we're in FDA-land where logic doesn't rule, but this beggars belief. This is similar to the nonsense by which HFA inhalers knockin
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by bhickey 11y ago
You've probably see this as well: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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A Cryptologist Takes a Crack at Deciphering DNA’s Deep Secrets (2006)(nytimes.com)
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by bhickey 11y ago
Back in 2010, I had a chat with Nick Patterson (one of the authors on that Nature paper) about the admixture problem. At the time, he was looking for an efficient algorithm for reconstructing ancestral trees subject to admixture. What he di
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by bhickey 11y ago
> How do you mean? ... so the refactoring still happens independently. Not all refactors modify APIs, and even some that do can be programmatically applied. Suppose you've deprecated method Foo(..) and have a replacement Bar(..). Wi
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by bhickey 11y ago
> Is it really a single big repo for the whole organization? Yes. It's incredible. It enables organization-wide refactoring. It facilitates code sharing. It provides easy access to examples of how code should be used. > What happ
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by bhickey 11y ago
While I agree that Nuremberg was a dose of victor's justice, there's a more nuanced point lurking in here. Some of the men brought to trial beat the charges by pleading, essentially, "you did it too." Dönitz, for example
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by bhickey 11y ago
> You'll see high quality investments ideas that have been backed by real money. Why should I believe this is something other than wagering on survivor bias?
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by bhickey 11y ago
How about this: A voter takes a paper ballot. The voter marks the ballot with a felt pen a deposits it in a bin. Polling place staff mark the voter's thumb with indelible ink. Electronic voting is a problem looking for a problem. You n
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by bhickey 11y ago
> You need quality entropy, but only up to the quantity of the security level of your system. What do you mean when you say entropy quality? As I said before, entropy is measured in bits. If you have two coin tosses that are correlated,
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by bhickey 11y ago
> You need quality entropy to seed a CSPRNG - not quantity . For the most part I think you're spot on, but I don't follow here. Entropy is measured in bits and bits are bits are bits. When we ask /dev/random for 25
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by bhickey 11y ago
> Land rents drive (...) out wage rises. Should we address rent seeking with land taxes and other Georgist policies?
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by bhickey 11y ago
Yeah, in retrospect that reads way more derpy than I expected. Ben's a great guy. :)

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