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by bo1024 5y ago
Economists use the term "welfare" for this, not "wealth".
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by bo1024 5y ago
Let me add something to be clear. As I understand it, free software was always happy to let you or your company modify and use software for your own use. The philosophy was always about respecting the users of the software, so the licenses
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by bo1024 5y ago
I'll also chime in. Early in high school, went from writing one-line basic programs to reading the assembly and C source code of Phoenix and other games. Wrote some games of my own in C and assembler. Now pursuing a career in CS. A ver
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by bo1024 5y ago
I believe so, and this is why the AGPL was created: > The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public. > The GNU Affero
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by bo1024 5y ago
> The limit that does make sense is the ratio of volumes of n-sphere to an n-cube. That that goes to zero is maybe not so surprising. This is why I start by recalling that the volume of the n-cube is always one, as the frame of referen
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by bo1024 5y ago
Great list! > 33. "...if you flip fair coins to generate n-dimensional vectors (heads => 1, tails => -1) then the probability they're linearly independent is at least 1-(1/2 + o(n))^n. I.e., they're very very l
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by bo1024 5y ago
Yes, and the paper makes no mention of it, hm. Sorry to be a grumpy gatekeeper, but this really belongs as a blog post, not an arxiv paper, unless it were to cite more sources at least.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think the point of that quote is people reacting only to the present and the past. I.e. not any beliefs (expectations) about the future.
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by bo1024 5y ago
It’s a scam but the reason it works is regular people are still better off “falling for it” than not. At least to this point in history.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Yeah, that’s the question. My attempt at an answer is that they can set up a powerful environment for disinformation to thrive and influence people, it doesn’t mean they can use it to push any random product with the same level of success.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think Cory misses a really big point here. He seems to assume that the source of disinformation is ads, such as political advertisement. This implies that advertising works if and only if disinformation works. Of course, in reality disinf
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by bo1024 5y ago
But the problem is that people aren't even agreeing on facts.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Yes to all of that, I just meant that it's not a big deal if a few companies reject my emails or things like that.
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by bo1024 5y ago
My personal email isn't all that high stakes so the $5/month VPS self-host is working great for me.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Agree, a comparison to rainloop would be nice.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think NFTs are really dumb, a scam, and/or vectors for money laundering. Then again, I think the same thing about multimillion dollar private artwork and politicians' "nonprofits". I think most cryptocurrencies and tok
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think the most interesting question is how you can tell if someone is actually good vs fluctuations due to luck. I'd think it takes a long time to get statistical significance. Or, during a bull run the optimistic traders all look gr
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by bo1024 5y ago
The problem is you can't use the Kobo until you create an online account and connect it to the internet. After that, though, you can do airplane mode forever.
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by bo1024 5y ago
My devices aren't USB-C (e.g. headset, tablet) and I use HDMI cables a lot. So it's great for me. Turns out thanks to the modular port design it's also great for you!
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by bo1024 5y ago
I'd say no, not on its own. It's not clear how to implement a Lisp program in hardware. You need some steps which today involve a von Neumann architecture and an imperative assembly language that implement Lisp constructs...
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don't think it's important to quibble over who's overrated or underrated among these giants of math and CS who already get tons of recognition (I'm glad Schmidhuber brings many other historical names into the narrative
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by bo1024 5y ago
We've been over this. Gödel's mu-recursive functions were a poor model of computation because it's completely unclear how to physically implement the arbitrary-function minimization operator. So people didn't see how to
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by bo1024 5y ago
> if we estimate the median and move it a small amount for each new data point, it would be pretty close. Yeah, this is gradient descent on the absolute loss.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Yeah, I generally agree with you. Youtube and Twitter have the same issues, and I think Reddit too. (Does TikTok?) I don't know if the extent is as broad. Or how possible it is to use each platform for its purpose without running into
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by bo1024 5y ago
Thanks a lot for posting these details and dealing with the critical replies. I think that with your background and investment in improving these problems, it will be hard for you to understand the perspective many people have that Facebook
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by bo1024 5y ago
The intriguing part is not that elites get to make decisions instead of experts (that's practically the definition of elite), but that people seem to prefer listening to elites. The panel vs talk example resonated with me. I think a
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by bo1024 5y ago
I'm happy to recognize the distinction between fact-checking and partisanship. But if you're running an algorithm that decides who sees what content, you're responsible for the choices that algorithm makes. I think platforms
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by bo1024 5y ago
I see people talking past each other here and I suspect it has to do with the level of achievement one is picturing. Many smart (and talented) people work really hard at chess with good methods for many years and don’t become grandmasters.
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If your algorithm is deciding what to promote or display to people, then you’re already not staying neutral.
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I don't know the history, but it's consistent with all the other rules, e.g. checkmate stops the game one move before the king is captured, stalemate occurs if the king would have to open himself up to capture, etc.

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