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by btilly 3y ago
According to https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/ , the federal government oversees more than 610,000 bridges in the USA. There are a lot of unmaintained small bridges. But I'd hope that the major ones get more attenti
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by btilly 3y ago
The most unbounded recursive time travel paradox story has to be All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. You can find it at https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a... .
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by btilly 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that I encountered the survivorship bias story before that picture, but that picture is how everyone visualizes it. But from https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ I learned that what really helped
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by btilly 3y ago
Ship tracks are concentrated to an from that continent. So the effect of the clearing of those tracks was concentrated on those oceans. The fact that they could warm more easily than expected, only mattered when they started to warm. And th
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by btilly 3y ago
If you check, the GP said "the recent unexplained warming". That's sufficient qualification to say that this is the explanation. Of course the sudden recent spike is on top of an existing warming trend. And that trends is due
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by btilly 3y ago
The key thing to understand about GFS and relatives is how essential it is for distributed computation. It is natural for us to look at a big file and think, "I need to do something complicated, so I'll do a distributed calculatio
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by btilly 3y ago
We have more theory for deterministic games. That doesn't mean that it is harder to solve them to a human level. Computers got to being better than humans in both Go and poker in 2016. The difference is that https://www.deep
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by btilly 3y ago
Every measure of complexity is limited in some way. So they are all poor in various ways. That doesn't make them not worthwhile. Total game states is one measure. What does it take to solve the game? You can also look at the branching
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by btilly 3y ago
As someone who has given such interviews, and been taught to give such interviews, the first version works. Your version doesn't. This is illustrated by my single favorite interview question was someone being interviewed for a senior d
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by btilly 3y ago
It isn't often that I see a case which really could change the internet. Particularly eye-opening was https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-277/292540/2023... - an amicus brief from the moder
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by btilly 3y ago
It's how probability works under Bayes' theorem. The probability of A given B is the probability of A and B divided by the probability of observing B. And the probability of observing B depends on counterfactuals of various sorts.
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by btilly 3y ago
More to the point, theoretically they should be able to build quantum computers that don't need error correction. If so, then down the road this will allow us to scale usable qbits much faster than our existing technologies. Which make
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by btilly 3y ago
It is feasible. In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event it is estimated that the time from spotting the flare to the solar storm was 17.6 hours. That's plenty of time. The problem is figuring out how big
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by btilly 3y ago
(Rereads the article.) You're right. The problem is stated multiple times in the article. As is usual, most of the statements do not address knowledge. But Marilyn's own statement did. However she did not address motivation. Monty
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by btilly 3y ago
Ignorant Monty absolutely can exist. The person standing in front of the audience is not necessarily the person who arranged the prize. And if he's not, he knows nothing more than the audience. I was, however, wrong that Monty was igno
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by btilly 3y ago
So you made an assertion about what happened 100% of the time on the show, when you don't even remember it??? I went and re-read the interview with him that I'd read decades ago. It turns out that we're both wrong. The game w
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by btilly 3y ago
As stated, the answer is indeterminate. To demonstrate, consider these scenarios. - Savant's Monty: The host knows where the car is, and wants to prolong the game. Switching wins 2/3 of the time. - Ignorant Monty: The host has
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by btilly 3y ago
Why would you assume that this is a joke? C (particularly back when this was written) was a low level language. You could not simply use an external iterator - they didn't exist. And if you try to roll your own, you'll wind up dea
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by btilly 3y ago
I strongly disagree. But saying that it is required, I'm drawing attention to the fact that it must be done to succeed. I believe it must be done because, starting with Piaget's work, we have evidence that children go through impo
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by btilly 3y ago
You ALMOST get it, but then entirely missed the point. You need to demonstrate that the test is consistent with a business necessity. If you have a large enough people who have taken the test, and enough data on how they perform, you can ma
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by btilly 3y ago
I agree with the spirit of this comment, but note that quitting treating people differently requires fixing the school system so that minorities don't consistently start off in second rate schools. It isn't just one side that find
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by btilly 3y ago
A better reason to go was that her research was crap based on bad statistics. Things like the citation scandal are a signal for the kind of problem that lead to that.
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by btilly 3y ago
Yale definitely is that. Elon Musk put it bluntly in https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526975113597489154?lang... Yale is the epicenter of the woke mind virus attempting to destroy civilization. Paul Graham&#
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by btilly 3y ago
To prove a job-related business necessity for IQ tests, you need a large group of people who have been through IQ tests, and whose performance you can measure. The US military has collected this data and can use that. Your average company w
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by btilly 3y ago
No. They are done in specific locations, administered by the testing organization. They do a lot to try to avoid cheating, limit memorizing answers, and so on. There is a conflict of interest with actually trusting the school whose reputati
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by btilly 3y ago
When did the officials find this out? It's only been known for close to a century. It is the reason why standardized tests were accepted in the first place. It has been confirmed in many ways since. If they were ever ignorant of this f
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The Heart Shape(artandobject.com)
17 points by btilly 3y ago|5 comments
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by btilly 3y ago
Hearts are lopsided and don't look anything like what we now call a heart shape.
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by btilly 3y ago
Two notes. The first is for fun. See the miniature lasso that he used? It is easy to tie one out of a long blade of grass and catch lizards that way. The trick is that they've been adapted to ignore grass as a non-threat. So when they&
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by btilly 3y ago
That point can be reached with a relatively small amount of history. Nobody could possibly learn all of it.

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