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by comicjk 10y ago
> Let’s say you want to improve on a complex process where the physics is highly approximated (i.e., a “spherical cow” situation); you have a choice to input the data into a deep network that will (hopefully) output the desired result or
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by comicjk 10y ago
Possibly yes, but it's too easy to create narratives like this. For example, women are more likely to become the caretakers of children and elderly parents, so they have a stronger force to ask for a higher salary now. You can't s
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by comicjk 10y ago
A bill to legitimize lying would help people who know about it. But the people who most need the help are those who have never heard about this controversy or don't think they have the power in the negotiation to consider lying. The wa
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by comicjk 10y ago
This points to an interesting method of poverty reduction - identify the little tricks which knowledgeable people use to get ahead in the system, and tweak the system to make the tricks less necessary.
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by comicjk 10y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. When I'm reading, it feels like comprehension of ideas is the limiting factor, not optical recognition. A cursory internet search backs up this intuition: https://persquaremile.com/20
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by comicjk 10y ago
You're mistaken about all solid metal being crystalline - look up amorphous metal. I've held a ribbon of it, it's quite impressive how it flexes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal
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by comicjk 10y ago
Maybe they should have a second, international press release.
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by comicjk 10y ago
Everything up to the final fuel rods. See here (go to Operating Costs): http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-as...
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by comicjk 10y ago
This whole discussion is misplaced. Economically, the cost of fuel for a nuclear plant is almost negligible, about half a cent per kWh! Up-front capital costs are the vast majority of the total. That's where research and venture capita
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by comicjk 10y ago
The boycotts might help Uber's profits - by bringing them closer to zero - but that's irrelevant to Uber's goal of growing its user base.
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by comicjk 10y ago
Other people on the road benefitted, at least in some places. A major reason for taxi regulation in NYC was to reduce road congestion - they calculated that adding more taxis would increase the average travel time. Now Uber has upended this
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by comicjk 10y ago
I have traveled in some of the most socially liberal circles in the US, and I have to disagree with you about what's popular - or at least make it much more specific. It's not popular to claim that there are significant, biologica
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by comicjk 10y ago
There exist groups whose sole purpose is... every conceivable political position. This argument is so general as to be completely reversible. "We have to support the NRA to stop excessive anti-gun legislation," but also "we h
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by comicjk 10y ago
And the same goes for a biscotti ("a cookies").
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by comicjk 10y ago
That's an absurd degree of cynicism. I just finished my PhD in chemical engineering, and I did the reverse of this. In fact, I successfully migrated the younger members of my research group to a completely open-source software stack fo
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by comicjk 10y ago
Every gallon of oil that's taken out of the ground (besides plastics) goes into the air. Mining waste is very local and tractable compared to that.
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by comicjk 10y ago
"Secret" is not the right concept. It's not that people didn't know the price, it's that they didn't see the implications of the price for opening a new market. That kind of insight takes imagination as well as
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by comicjk 10y ago
I appreciate that you're concerned for people inside and outside of the womb, but I think you're not paying enough attention to a third group: the people who are the womb.
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by comicjk 10y ago
Experiments with this type of program have found that it mainly acts as a windfall to people who would have had children anyway. Demand for children seems to be pretty inelastic with respect to money. As far as I can see, it's a matter
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by comicjk 10y ago
> For "words" to generate a collision, you'd have to increase the input domain by allowing "words" to mean any sequence of bytes (e.g. bytes of jpg image or audio file). That is way overkill - the input domain co
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by comicjk 10y ago
The US government, no matter what its size, has been capable of large-scale human rights abuses throughout its history. How small do you plan to make it? As small as it was under Andrew Jackson?
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by comicjk 10y ago
I don't think the claim falls apart on inspection - the fake FBI suicide story was shared 2.5 times more on Facebook than the fake Atlanta shooting story. Do you have any examples of liberal fake news that were as popular as conservati
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by comicjk 10y ago
> For one thing, supporters of the sustainable information society ignore the fact that we have moved most of our manufacturing industries (and our waste) to low wage countries. This is a common myth about the US economy, probably spread
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by comicjk 10y ago
The people who are left around him, perhaps - there's been pretty high attrition over the course of the campaign. And (sample size of 1) the only person I know personally who has worked with Trump did not like the experience.
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by comicjk 10y ago
Yes, I'm referring to big and detailed relative to what we can simulate with foreseeable technology. Sure, we can see how to maybe simulate a universe the size of a cell, and a much much larger universe could maybe simulate everything
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by comicjk 10y ago
The particle's characteristics ARE the wavefunction - or to say it another way, the wavefunction is the only real characteristic a particle has. When I run a quantum mechanics simulation at work, I might afterwards calculate the partic
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by comicjk 10y ago
This is a common misconception, but superposition has nothing to do with "do not render if the player is not watching." As far as we know, every particle in the universe is interacting with every other (with a light speed delay) a
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by comicjk 10y ago
I agree that, for a given caloric deficit, a ketogenic diet produces less perceived hunger, so you "lose weight while not even trying". However, keto also keeps your glycogen stores low, which reduces cardiovascular performance wh
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by comicjk 10y ago
I disagree. Besides specialists, I think most people think that Autopilot means it doesn't need supervision. Wiktionary's definition: A mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a
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by comicjk 10y ago
> Long term it should not decrease the supply of housing. Visitors are either going to stay in airbnbs, with friends, or at hotels. This is a slices-of-pie argument, neglecting changes in the size of the pie. By being a better value than

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