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by conistonwater 6y ago
I think there is clear precedent for this sort of thing. When I read Fatal Risk (about AIG's financial division from 1980's to the financial crisis in which it collapsed), there was if I remember correctly Eliot Spitzer, the att
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by conistonwater 6y ago
If I understood correctly(?), the claim is that PRISM data was used in only one case, and in that case it was later judged to be irrelevant, therefore PRISM data was never used to help secure a single conviction. But I'm not sure this
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by conistonwater 6y ago
For anything specific to do with statistics, risk management, finance, or programming, you are always better off studying it directly, the normal way, instead of going through poker. The same is true for basically any hobby. It's a cru
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Like that famous song, "Don't say he's hypocritical, say rather that he's apolitical. 'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down, that's not my department', says Wernher von Braun."
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by conistonwater 6y ago
In English quotes can be ambiguous, in this case they mean it is a direct quote from the parent comment (for emphasis, basically), not that it's under suspicion.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I agree with you mostly because doctors were evidently capable of running their departments way back when on paper and pencil alone. But I also think it's possible that there's a well-intentioned regulation somewhere that says tha
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I assume in one case the money goes to the department, in the other only a small fraction of it does, so the department is okay with it.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
The last time I looked into this what I got was that there'd been a statistical error made in the process of determining the RDA, and it was just never corrected. The RDA is the amount that guarantees that only a certain fraction of th
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Here is the abstract for the linked study: > In two experiments, the claim was tested that the font “Dyslexie”, specifically designed for people with dyslexia, eases reading performance of children with (and without) dyslexia. Three ques
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Terrible idea, it would break that person's use case.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Thanks, I did not know that.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Why is this controversial? Everything you do at work is owned by the employer, is that not how it always works?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
That is not at all the argument they are making, as far as I can tell.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Launches with payload numbers 5 through 40: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV#Delta_IV_launches_in_... I wonder if the trick is something like "launches in the same configuration" because that would real
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Maybe it's distributed systems thinking, but they should really paint six more of these copies so that we can withstand a random failure of any three.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Reconstructing pixelated white faces is a lame research goal. If they think it would work on all faces, make them show that: it's science and it's their job to demonstrate that their approach works. Why bring "larger prob
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> It's not the job of the AI researcher to solve "social biases" in every field, it's their job to build the AI. No, this is only technically correct but actually wrong. In the example, they did in fact fail to bu
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I suppose I just fundamentally don't agree with you about the confusion existing in the first place. Here's my understanding. All of those things are fine, in moderation, unless you have a specific medical condition against someth
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by conistonwater 6y ago
So like a very expensive placebo?
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Atkins and other low-card diets appear to try to use the increase in energy expenditure ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5568065 , Figure 2, they do a meta analysis but conclude "the effect sizes
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by conistonwater 6y ago
This is kind of funny, but we're already there! Take 0 tests, eat a balanced diet with plenty of vegetables, don't eat too much, avoid processed meats and junk food and the rest of it, exercise, and you'll be healthy, you&#x2
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Calorie counting is well supported by the studies in which people stay in metabolic wards and are fed a controlled calorie-counted diet. This is close enough to regular life experience to be meaningful, and would disprove your assertion tha
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I read the book and it's pretty solid, you can read more about how he introduces reasoning by analogy in the book itself.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
The main metaphor I'm familiar with is that cockroaches always come back even as you try to kill more and more of them, rather like zombies, and never in a positive way.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I think it would be cool to make a mosaic of such circuit boards, one per European city with a subway, arranged in the shape of Europe.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
They make the CIA sound positively competent.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
> anyone can win anygame (in theory, at least). Is this supposed to be a good thing in a game? It's kind of like the opposite of being skill-based. E.g., poker has this "problem", and it's a huge part of the game an
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I do not think "pouring jet fuel on something", meaning to make it go faster, is a legitimate English idiom.
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by conistonwater 6y ago
I'd say the title is correct almost surely .
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by conistonwater 6y ago
Go is a small community, and there's just no chance they managed to donate $36M worth of anything, whatever the electricity and hardware costs, that's just too much money. KataGo's page says it was developed using resources d

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