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by bloaf 6y ago
My personal favorite math-input-system is Mathematica, which has sane keyboard shortcuts and WYSIWYG typesetting. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/menuitem/Typesett... https://reference.w
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by bloaf 6y ago
- How do I put math into it?
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by bloaf 6y ago
I know that there are allegedly NLP algorithms for generating things like articles about sports games. I assume they have something more like the type signature (timeline of events) -> (narrative about said events) What this article is
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by bloaf 6y ago
If Amazon can get sued every time someone burns themselves with a knockoff product, I would think their incentives would shift from: "Pay as little as possible for quality assurance, down to a floor of $0" to "Pay as little a
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by bloaf 6y ago
I get them all the dang time Suppose I want to search for a textbook in an open directory. This query will get flagged almost immediately: textbook -inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:"index of" +(epub|mobi|pdf|txt)
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by bloaf 6y ago
After the "Red Summer" of 1919, in which black people fought back against attacks by white people, whites blamed the violence on "communists" inciting the black community to riot.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Its easy to lose sight of social change too. In 2008, when Joe Biden debated Sarah Palin, they both supported civil unions over gay marriage because that was the centrist position at the time. When the author was born, the USA was over 90%
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by bloaf 6y ago
For an interesting discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/wiki/lag
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by bloaf 6y ago
Yeah, the wording is quite poor. The second question about the distribution of random answers to the test is literally incoherent. They probably meant to ask a question about the expected number of random answers on a randomly completed
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by bloaf 6y ago
If you have sequential pages, I don't like dates in the URIs. For example if you have something spread over 5-pages (e.g. a 5-part blog post), I should be able to guess the URIs for all 5 parts just given one. Dates mean that I cann
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by bloaf 6y ago
mea culpa on the eval/expr. I did the comments inline for brevity. I am confused about the $$ examples though, since swear I have worked on production code that literally behaves like that. Maybe they had some extra non-alphanumeric
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by bloaf 6y ago
To really show how much "everything is a string" in Tcl, I love the "sum a list" one liner: set a [list 1 2 3 4] set sumValue [eval [join $a +]] [join $a +] produces a string "1+2+3+4" from the lis
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by bloaf 6y ago
Yeah, I use it in chemical process simulation and I pretend arrays don't exist. Dictionaries for everything, unless my software version is old enough that the Tcl version doesn't support them.
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by bloaf 6y ago
I agree. I've seen some marvelous pigeon hole explanations of why you cannot write a general lossless compression algorithm that makes all files smaller. I have no idea what that explanation would look like in terms of maxes and aver
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by bloaf 6y ago
ML models don't exist in a vacuum, but they do exist in an empirical reality. And in an empirical reality, there is always the fundamental unbiased measure of success: predicting whatever it is the model is built to predict. And this,
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by bloaf 6y ago
The practical difference is that the association was in Hsu's professional capacity. That is to say, he didn't decide to join the same bowling league as Molyneux as a random guy, he went on Molyneux's show as an academic au
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by bloaf 6y ago
Good thing I am not accusing Hsu of being guilty of the same crimes as the people who he has lent his name to. Those people are racist, Hsu is academically irresponsible.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Yes. To be fair to Noam Chomsky, he very directly attacked Stefan's ideas, so I don't think there can be quite as much perception of support.
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by bloaf 6y ago
No one is against learning. There is a difference between an academic dispassionately studying the subject and a man trying to harm other people by saying stuff like this[1]. What the academics must not do is give their credibility to suc
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by bloaf 6y ago
>Not because I think it's impossible, but because it's such a charged thing we should really make sure the science is solid before we speculate. We shouldn't randomly speculate on something that sensitive. I think he doesn
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by bloaf 6y ago
A testable hypothesis for your idea: do women age slower than men.
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by bloaf 6y ago
I second the motion. I would love for more realistic simulation to make its way into games. I've often thought that if my current petro-modeling job doesn't work out, I should take my domain knowledge and plug it into an educati
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by bloaf 6y ago
I wonder if the bones of this language came out of the work Microsoft put into Sing# 15 years ago.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Because as I said, we would do science and end up rejecting all claims requiring causal regularities. That we might observe something that seems like a causal regularity is irrelevant, because it wouldn't be repeatable, so we'd e
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by bloaf 6y ago
The problem with the "actively deceived" scenario is that it defeats science, so demanding that we use science to determine whether or not scientists are actively deceived would mean that we have not quite understood the point.
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by bloaf 6y ago
Feser is actually wrong on a handful of points. Science-qua-epistemic-method does not require "that this world is governed by causal regularities." In such a case, the method would still work, it would just figure out that all
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by bloaf 7y ago
It was several years ago, so I don't remember the details, but I have heard echos of the sentiment in the recent criticism of alzheimers research. I.e. that amyloid plaques may actually be the equivalent of a cellular AC that's be
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by bloaf 7y ago
Or more simply than that, if you only ever look at "cold" and "hot" rooms (e.g. analysis of cancerous and non-cancerous patients) you're never going to see the dynamics at all. But more fundamentally, I believe ther
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by bloaf 7y ago
The point is that the brain is a kind of controller, and evolution does in fact select for the controllers fitness. The theorem asserts that the maximally efficient controller is one which has an accurate model of the environment. That ev
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by bloaf 7y ago
Process control definitely seems like one of those disciplines where the old adage There are two kinds of problems in the world, problems that are linear, and problems I can't solve. holds true.

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