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by cultus 7y ago
They are stealing from everyone. Churches do not pay taxes. This is supposed to be contingent on not engaging in politics and actually acting like a non-profit.
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by cultus 7y ago
Panpsychism is really something that makes sense to me. It's a really parsimonious way of solving the hard problem of consciousness without getting into dualism or assuming anything special about matter that makes up sentient beings. I
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by cultus 7y ago
It's reverse order from normal composition, which is really handy.
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by cultus 7y ago
You are factually wrong. The autopilot has even swerved into gore points, causing fatal wrecks. The parent poster was referencing this, which I found immediately using Google: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars&#
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by cultus 7y ago
No, it gives back control if it can't continue in the situation. That means that it can't handle the scenario at all. Other drivers are completely irrelevant. Even if you took that out you'd still need to deal with pedestrian
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by cultus 7y ago
Not at all. Self-driving cars cannot yet safely navigate complex or unusual scenarios. The human backups in test cars still have to take over with good regularity. That's not something you'd see if it were anywhere close to ready.
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by cultus 7y ago
I've got a PhD in geophysics. I'm telling you the state of the field. You can assume I'm lying or in on the climate scam it if you want.
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by cultus 7y ago
People who are arguing in bad faith like this need to be called out. There is no scientific debate on this matter. If you think CO2 does not affect climate significantly, then you are anti-science and should probably find a different websit
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by cultus 7y ago
Ah yes, if it wasn't on that wikipedia page, it must not have happened. I know you aren't arguing in good faith, but here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishai_Schlissel
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by cultus 7y ago
No, there's no debate in science this reality. You are just anti-science.
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by cultus 7y ago
Yes, that's right. The issue is that systems like these have a lot of free parameters that have to be estimated from the data. This is basically because you have to make assumptions if you don't want to simulate Earth's syste
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by cultus 7y ago
The line can be a bit blurry, because they are actually running inverse problems with the PDEs to fit the data. This needs regularization just like statistical ML models. Usually this amounts to solving an iterated least square problem, jus
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by cultus 7y ago
That sounds like it takes a lot more time and mental energy than if the API were consistent.
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by cultus 7y ago
Scaring away bigots is a good thing, not a bad thing. Your blatant homophobia has no place here or anywhere.
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by cultus 7y ago
$1.5 trillion for an inferior plane. The sunk cost fallacy is amazing.
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by cultus 7y ago
FP is easier to reason about because humans have a hard time with implicit state. Just because you don't know it doesn't mean its hard. That's why functional-ish things like Redux are taking off, and every new language except
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by cultus 7y ago
I'm surprised SNNs don't get more attention. The technology to make efficient hardware for training them exists. The key problem is that current DNNs just take too much power to train. They are fundamentally inefficient and none
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by cultus 7y ago
The parser of the Julia compiler is written in this dialect. It just goes to show how much power you have in a small package with lisps.
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by cultus 7y ago
You certainly wouldn't want to frack in the salt dome, but you are conflating entirely separate issues. No one is pumping ultra-high pressure drill fluid into waste repos.
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by cultus 7y ago
No, there's been plenty of worse disasters. The San Francisco 1906 earthquake, the Galveston hurricane, etc. The cumulative earthquake risk around Seattle is about 1/2 of California. I'm not a seismologist, but I was a geophy
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by cultus 7y ago
From the former director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. https://www.washington.edu/boundless/earthquake-authority/
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by cultus 7y ago
This article is misleading and gives a sensationist look at the actual earthquake risk in the NW. It was not well received among seismologists working in the NW. It is not dangerous to live in the NW. Be prepared, yes, but there's no r
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by cultus 7y ago
Storing in salt domes is easier. Salt domes are completely impermeable because any incipient cracks creep close.
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by cultus 7y ago
When I say you can't "not assume" a prior, I am being 100% literal. Every frequentist technique can be interpreted in a Bayesian way, and the priors always contain information (which has a mathematical definition). It is also
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by cultus 7y ago
The magic of capitalism is that the full resources of the planet's human minds are devoted to increasing the wealth of the owners of capital.
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by cultus 7y ago
Potosi is so synonomous with wealth that the word literally means "a fortune" in Spanish now. Like another poster touched on, this came at immense human cost. https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/potos%C3%AD
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by cultus 7y ago
Not necessarily. The vast majority of recording media we have are not nearly as robust as stone or vellum. Not much outside of archival paper will survive.
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by cultus 7y ago
Yeah, this dog-whistling act is getting pretty tiring.
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by cultus 7y ago
You can't "not assume" a prior. Frequentist statistics does indeed use (sometimes improper) implicit priors, and thus implicitly assumes subjective information. Bayesian inference makes it explicit. Anyone who thinks they can
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by cultus 7y ago
The economy cannot be separated from the government. If large capitalist interests exist, they will exert power with the government, in the form of influencing regulations or other rent-seeking. Thus you cannot have a "fair" capit

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