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by bloaf 4y ago
> Seems like it could be within a margin of error (3 v 5%). There is no margin of error when your sample is the entire population.
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by bloaf 4y ago
They increase speed, which buys you time to work on harder problems. I bet a nonzero number of 2nd tier students could get a 1st tier score if given an extra 10 mins on each section.
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by bloaf 4y ago
These guys claim a 50% speedup with a similar approach: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xmr3ic/spe...
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by bloaf 4y ago
I love that Nation States uses the "Bus Surprisal Index" as the measure of unexpected death rate. https://nationstates.fandom.com/wiki/World_Census
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by bloaf 4y ago
So on the subject of library science, I think a really valuable use for machine learning would be the automatic derivation of classifications in systems like UDC [0]. That would open the door to easier traversal of this absolutely massive
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by bloaf 4y ago
This particular case is special because it uses 100% library functions. Typically you're composing your own functions, so you just... put breakpoints in your functions. If you want logging, I've added an example of how to auto-lo
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by bloaf 4y ago
No. I did that for people having a first exposure to this non-idiomatic currying/function chaining. In actual code I would have put most of those on one line.
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by bloaf 4y ago
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. Personally I find it much easier to debug code that: 1) fits entirely on my screen and 2) doesn't involve much state modification Every intermediate variable is a chance for me to miss some m
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by bloaf 4y ago
The HP laptop I was running Fedora on had some kind of low power mode on the CPU that would cause linux to crash and require a hard-reset to recover. That meant no idling/sleeping/hibernating without a kernel crash.
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by bloaf 4y ago
Full body spinners are still a thing, see Gigabyte and Captain Shrederator. Unfortunately, their performance tends towards "middling" due to control and reliability issues. The full body spinners struggle to keep spinning, as the
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by bloaf 4y ago
It was all most likely a reference to this: https://longbets.org/1/ I personally think Kurzweil still has a shot at winning it.
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by bloaf 4y ago
I was not implying qualia were magic, insofar as there can be monistic descriptions of qualia. My criticism was that the example appeared to be steering the conversation into a crash course with dualism by invoking qualia-like explanations
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by bloaf 4y ago
This just fundamentally feels like a bad hill to die on. Compositionality feels like it is: A) Something AI is currently known to be bad at B) A matter of degree, not a categorical stumbling block C) Vague enough of a concept that AI skept
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by bloaf 4y ago
That's not my reading. It sounds to me like transparency does always increase accountability full stop. It just turns out that accountability to lobbyists is a greater driver of legislator behavior than accountability to voters .
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by bloaf 4y ago
You know about the Spanish Inquisition, right? Have you heard what Catholics say about it? They say that according to their records it wasn't that bad[0] and that the numbers are deliberately inflated by anti-Catholic sentiment. It wo
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by bloaf 4y ago
I don't think SQL gets replaced until we move to a different database paradigm. For example, I could imagine a function database model [0] getting paired with a "grammar of graphics" type of metadata for the records to creat
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by bloaf 4y ago
I'm willing to tolerate a little friction to setup syncing, but keepass has friction at almost every level. Their importer is powerful... but I had to manually configure it to import from lastpass. Just bake that in ffs. There is no &
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by bloaf 4y ago
It would regularly fail connect to the browser plugins when I tried it (despite successfully connecting previously), and the browser plugins failed to autofill more often than not. There were a ton of usability headaches in the core applica
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by bloaf 4y ago
In that same vein, I really like the Alan Tutorial channel on youtube. Starts off as slightly off comedy, and subtly builds to horror.
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by bloaf 4y ago
I've had way more issues on commodity systems than any PC I've built. Every sub-$1500 laptop I've ever bought has had some form of hardware issue. Anything from CPU incompatibilities with OS low power states to the machine
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by bloaf 4y ago
I'm more curious about Allulose[1] which is claimed to have anti-hyperglycemic effects by reducing glucose absorption in the intestines. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm
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by bloaf 4y ago
> I walk into a library or a bookstore sometimes and see how many of these things are on display, and I feel that same feeling, that there’s so much content you could drown in it all. It makes that howling feeling more intense, as my own
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by bloaf 4y ago
I think this is the missing piece. Excel is great at user input. Getting the same level of copy-paste, drag-drop, drag-auto-complete, "tweak until it looks right before I move on" data-entry experience is non-trivial.
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by bloaf 4y ago
The dangerous things about excel, imho, are: 1. Too many different places for functionality to hide. Are these numbers updated by external links? VBA? Pivot tables? Equations? Some addin? 2. Difficult to version control. To capture al
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by bloaf 4y ago
Unearth can be used in a literal sense, which in this case is false. It can also be used in a figurative sense, which in this case is almost certainly true.
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by bloaf 4y ago
Quillette is cynically using the exact same "social-panic" tactics they're criticizing to create exactly your conclusion. The Q article has exactly two complaints about the facts reported by the media: 1. The media claimed bo
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by bloaf 4y ago
I've seen this used for humorous effect in Twine style games, like this one: https://xrafstar.monster/games/twine/sauna/
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by bloaf 4y ago
I wonder how well it scales, I have a rather large collection and would love to use this. As long as the index is much smaller than the source files, and it doesn't search by re-reading the files from disk I'll give it a go.
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by bloaf 4y ago
Sage/maxima/etc are significantly worse than mathematica at symbolic operations. Check out these benchmarks: https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
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by bloaf 4y ago
Mathematica predates Java by several years. Some capabilities (e.g. database interop) were built with Java though.

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