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by chongli 2y ago
As the answerer, if you have a wide vocabulary or if you're a technical person then it's not too difficult to routinely choose words the other person simply does not know so that no amount of yes/no questions will get them th
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by chongli 2y ago
Dan Luu is missing the issue of food deserts. If you live in a food desert and you can’t afford a car then you’re not bringing home 50lb bags of beans and rice, you’re feeding yourself Doritos and instant noodles from the gas station conven
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, and it doesn't just apply to durable goods. Try doing comparison shopping between Costco and a dollar store. I guarantee you pretty much everything at Costco will be cheaper on a per-unit basis than the dollar store. So why do peo
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, and then they throw it out 2 years later and buy a new one. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus al
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by chongli 2y ago
you cannot ask a customer of a building to specify what strength concrete needs to be used. But you can push back when they ask you to build a 40-storey skyscraper out of dry spaghetti noodles.
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by chongli 2y ago
I'll take smart people playing chess any day over those people choosing to go into the tech industry where they spend all their time building addictive products that drive ad impressions. I'd love it if they put their talents to w
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes and if all you can do is draw in the world championship then you’ll be in trouble when the faster time controls are brought in to resolve the match.
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by chongli 2y ago
Hallmark cards tend to leave a lot of blank space to write. It’s absolutely genuine when you grab a pen and start writing. Bonus points if the Hallmark message is relevant to the person receiving it and maybe something you can riff on in th
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by chongli 2y ago
most people just don't use ... place a huge maximum bid and will only pay the second highest bid plus an increment The reason people don't do this on eBay is because sellers can have a friend bid on the item to raise the second-
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by chongli 2y ago
No need to bypass HTTPS. Just crawl any server that shows up in the logs and block the domain if it has any blacklisted keywords.
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by chongli 2y ago
Externally, yes, we obtain knowledge from the world around us. We’re not brains in vats conjuring knowledge from the void of our isolated minds.
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by chongli 2y ago
Think about this: The sum total of the human-generated knowledge was derived in a similar manner, with each generation learning from the one before and expanding the pool of knowledge incrementally. Not true. No amount of such iteration g
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by chongli 2y ago
Going along the walls means you'll take far longer to traverse wide and shallow rooms. That means running into more traps and using up more food. This dual pressure of traps and food puts a very strong emphasis on economy of movement.
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes and still under active development [1]! We also just finished the 2024 November NetHack Tournament (TNNT) [2]! I played in the tournament for the first time this year. I had one near-win with a very challenging Monk (I was doing a bunch
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by chongli 2y ago
They’re not meant to be niche languages. They’re meant to be general purpose languages. They’re trying to use functional programming to achieve a high degree of correctness with short, readable programs.
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by chongli 2y ago
Right, though the evolution of photosynthesis in early anaerobic microorganisms and then their ability to adapt to the oxygen they produced is quite amazing. Oxygen itself is also really fascinating when talking about life because its oxidi
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by chongli 2y ago
This seems like a contradiction but I don’t think it is. What it’s really saying is that experience is a precondition for intuition. When a high school student looks at a high school math problem they’re drawing on all of their experience i
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by chongli 2y ago
This doesn’t make any sense to me. If I have 2 CMYK images open I should be able to colour pick and copy/paste between them and do any other sorts of manipulations with them without any colour space conversions taking place. The only c
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by chongli 2y ago
Thing is, change in a democratic government takes time, because in a democracy you cannot issue edicts on many things. When we vote at the ballot box and you vote for a red tie and I vote for a blue tie, one of us gets the tie we want and
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes, it seems to be a “made in Canada” economic theory: better to have a regulated domestic oligopoly than a market dominated by foreign competition. Of course the downside is regulatory capture leading to a ratchet effect depressing the ec
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by chongli 2y ago
Yep!
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by chongli 2y ago
Is that writer from Philadelphia? Very quirky and colourful writing style!
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by chongli 2y ago
Neither AlphaZero nor MuZero can learn the rules of chess from an empty chess board and a pile of pieces. There is no objective function so there’s nothing to train upon. That would be like alien archaeologists of the future finding a chess
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by chongli 2y ago
How about just prodigy?
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes and what immediately jumps out to me as a source of bias is that they asked this small group of 48 coin flippers to flip thousands of times each. I would’ve thought it would be obvious that when you ask people to do something thousands
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by chongli 2y ago
Yes. Anyone who has worked on conservation of momentum problems in high school physics should recognize this. Even at low collision speeds if there is a large disparity in mass between the vehicles then the lighter one experiences a lot of
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by chongli 2y ago
We really need to break the stigma on this. If these kids had loved basketball (and grew to 7 feet tall in middle school) nobody would blame the parents for letting them play more basketball! Same goes for young chess prodigies! Yet if a ki
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by chongli 2y ago
SICP isn’t the only way to teach CS, obviously, but I’ll be honest with you: some schools aren’t even trying. They just offer Java and Python programming courses and call it a day.
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by chongli 2y ago
If you watch the lecture videos they make it a point of emphasis that they’re not interested in teaching LISP and that the course is not a LISP course. To show running programs they had to select some programming language. This was a regr
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by chongli 2y ago
I don't see what you mean by this at all The goal of the course is not to teach programming skills, it's to teach computer science. The difference is explained quite thoroughly in the lectures. One might even say that answering

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