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by bryan0 4y ago
Yeah I agree with you. I think the author’s main point that this is a harmful analogy is not correct. We need some model to make progress on the complexities.
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by bryan0 4y ago
The author said specifically that he did not want to make the video about this philosophical point: > I imagine I'll get some pushback on my definition of a machine. I didn't want to turn the video into a definitional debate so
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China may have ‘passed the point of no return’ as Covid infections soar(cnbc.com)
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Iran protests: Tehran court sentences first person to death over unrest(bbc.com)
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What micromanaging from the top looks like(twitter.com)
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by bryan0 4y ago
Just to add that they have since lowered the upper bound from 70m to 246: https://asone.ai/polymath/index.php?title=Bounded_gaps_betwe...
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by bryan0 4y ago
Will Sawin on Peter Woit’s blog points out that Zhang is making a weaker claim than non-existence of Siegel zeros: > The “no Siegel zeros” conjecture is that the distance of any real zero of L(s,chi_D) from 1 is bounded below by a consta
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Mathematician who solved prime-number riddle claims new breakthrough(nature.com)
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These are the men running Elon Musk’s Twitter(washingtonpost.com)
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A step by step backpropagation example (2015)(mattmazur.com)
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by bryan0 4y ago
> I want proper labeling so that I can self-filter out things that I don't want to see. This is basically what he describes in the article as a form of moderation: "If you wanted to get fancy, you could have a bunch of filters
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by bryan0 4y ago
> At most the distinction the article seems to be making is that moderation should be optional and censorship forced I don't think this is the correct distinction he is making. He defines moderation as a receiver being able to choos
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Facebook workers told to give '200%' yet warned to prepare for layoffs(businessinsider.com)
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The Ripples of a Beijing Protest(wsj.com)
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More people want to leave San Francisco than any other city(sfgate.com)
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by bryan0 4y ago
This isn't too far from the truth. Carmack is known for giving presentations lying on his back with his legs up in the air. this simply wouldnt work on an avatar with legs. Kudos to Meta for recognizing this before giving an embarrassi
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by bryan0 4y ago
my setup is pretty simple: hand grinder, scale, electric kettle, v60 pour over or aeropress. only the kettle really requires countertop space, but of course I leave all of this stuff out on the counter anyway.
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by bryan0 4y ago
Yup I paid for online dating around when this article was written and it was one of the best decisions of my life!
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Streamer Breaks Back in Two Places After TwitchCon Foam Pit Accident(kotaku.com)
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Iran Oil Workers Strike as Antigovernment Protests Expand(wsj.com)
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by bryan0 4y ago
Thanks. That explanation on avoiding selection bias makes sense, but it seems like the study is saying those who choose to get a colonoscopy (whether invited or not) are 50% less likely to die of colon cancer. Also I’m not sure if the artic
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by bryan0 4y ago
> When the investigators compared just the 42% of participants in the invited group who actually showed up for a colonoscopy to the control group, they saw about a 30% reduction in colon cancer risk and a 50% reduction in colon cancer de
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by bryan0 4y ago
I actually just dusted this code off, and unfortunately the code is way too crappy to share as a fun learning and POC using TypeScript and React. but here is the basic idea: start with the standard mandelbrot equation: Zn+1^2 = Zn^2 + c whe
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by bryan0 4y ago
Apparently the study only looked at people with a single dose which is selecting a very specific group of people.
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by bryan0 4y ago
> The main problem by introducing the fourth dimension in the calculation is the enormous increase of processing needs and the difficulties of selecting an adequate projecting surface. This article was written over 10 years ago and this
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by bryan0 4y ago
Is the original memo posted anywhere? This article with the accompanying Zuck-in-the-meta screenshot is so ridiculous it seems like it can’t be real…
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National Gallery of Art Discovered One Vermeer Painting Not Painted by Vermeer(news.artnet.com)
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by bryan0 4y ago
Our last trip we put airtags in all of our checked luggage. When we arrived at our destination before collecting our bags, 1 of the airtags showed it was still at the departing airport! Lucky for us it was not correct, and for some reason t
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by bryan0 4y ago
I read the title as: "How to distort Scrum until it actually works". At least that's been my experience over the past 15 years.
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by bryan0 4y ago
Agile is very different than Scrum. Agile actually has very good SWE principles. Scrum is one heavy-handed approach to following them.

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