currymj

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by currymj 2y ago
i would compare base R to basically a shell. meant to be used interactively. okay for small scripts. you can write big programs but it will get weird.
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by currymj 2y ago
If you need to donate to your wife and aren't compatible, separate from the NKR vouchers, there are "kidney exchange" programs where pairs of people in that situation are matched with each other. So you'd donate to someo
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by currymj 2y ago
VW was breaking the law in a way that harmed society but arguably helped the individual driver of the VW car, who gets better performance yet still passes the emissions test.
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by currymj 2y ago
An important fact (illustrated wonderfully in “Gattaca” which everyone rightly loves) is that there is not naturally any such thing as genetic privacy. If someone wants your DNA, you are constantly leaving it everywhere you go, and sequenci
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by currymj 2y ago
the article proposes that placing bets should be done in-person at specific locations. no mobile apps or websites.
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by currymj 2y ago
thanks for the response! those calibration charts don't look too bad. that's reassuring.
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by currymj 2y ago
the market price gives you a number between 0 and 1, which should move higher as the event becomes more likely, so it's pretty useful. however interpreting it as a probability, or an average of agent beliefs, or anything like that, see
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by currymj 2y ago
the same dynamic is true of insurance, credit default swaps, and lots of other financial products. this causes trouble from time to time but can be managed if the products serve a useful purpose.
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by currymj 2y ago
phenylephrine is still pretty effective as a topical nasal spray. so don't write it off if you see it in that form.
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by currymj 2y ago
there's a lot of work in the broad area. most of it doesn't engage with the classical control theory literature (arguably it should). some keywords to search for recent hot research would be "world model", "decision
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by currymj 2y ago
I was in Europe for a while recently (Switzerland). Thought about staying but when I realized that even if I naturalized, I could never really be Swiss, and furthermore future children would not really be Swiss (even if they too naturalized
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by currymj 2y ago
there's not much that will generalize here. the NLRB has a lot of procedural powers around union campaigns and elections. there are a lot of things that, if a company does them in response to a union campaign, are considered to violate
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by currymj 2y ago
Another point: while there are some unique religious aspects to your experience, it also sounds pretty similar to complaints about secular universities. Very common to hear about students who don't care about the material at all, they
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by currymj 2y ago
there are other Christian communities than American-style Evangelical Christianity who tend to be more intellectual and do like arguing about this kind of thing.
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by currymj 2y ago
I think "undeformed travel" means that when people quote it or refer to it, they tend not to change his original words.
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by currymj 2y ago
interestingly chess has made a huge comeback recently even though this was a widely-held attitude for a while after Deep Blue.
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by currymj 2y ago
Generative Pretrained Transformer is also a terrible brand name but it doesn’t seem to matter.
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by currymj 2y ago
A good language model is one with low perplexity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity Reasonable name for a language model startup.
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by currymj 2y ago
i would like a better voting system in the US. but e.g. Australia has a great voting system (on all levels from the voting rules to the election day administration), yet they still seem to have fairly screwed up partisan politics. i think i
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by currymj 2y ago
probably whoever makes the loan will hedge, maybe by shorting the stock. or buying puts, but then whoever sells them the puts will hedge by shorting the stock. if they decide not to hedge, then it must be because they don't think they&
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by currymj 2y ago
apple notes on new iPadOS does this right now -- just cleans up your handwriting to be slightly neater but still look like you.
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by currymj 2y ago
I think that the SpaceX EVA suits are just a little too sleek and modern yet bland. Like default Unreal Engine spacesuit assets. Pleasantly surprised to see these spacesuits look classic yet beautiful. I guess I shouldn't be surprised
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by currymj 2y ago
that is true, but tons of highly frequent on-time commuter trains doesn't help anyone who wants to travel long distances. right now if you want to go between two cities you always have to plan on missing your connection.
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by currymj 2y ago
i think we kind of agree with each other. doctors based on experience found things that worked better at treating patients. and they also had completely wrong theoretical models to rationalize these things. i don't really see monotonic
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by currymj 2y ago
among intercity trains run by Deutsche Bahn, the on-time rate hovers around 2/3. it's technically true that "most were on time", but one third being late is really terrible, especially since you often need to make a tigh
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by currymj 2y ago
i think that astronomy/physics/gravitation is actually a pretty weird case in the history of science and most things don’t go that cleanly. better examples might be medicine, where people just bounced around from one insane wrong
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by currymj 2y ago
partially disagree with this, every proto-science historically had a bunch of wrong but highly sophisticated theories. medicine, alchemy (as mentioned in the article), physics, biology (Aristotle), astronomy. for some reason it seems you ne
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by currymj 2y ago
i can understand walking out due to disgust or confusion but “bored” is hard for me to comprehend.
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by currymj 2y ago
in my theater the audience was laughing uproariously at a lot of it (some but not all intended to be funny). then everyone applauded at the end.
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by currymj 2y ago
i think the number of random gamblers who get so consistently lucky that their bet size gets reduced, is probably quite small. this is because you usually lose money betting on sports, because sports betting is bad. it's mainly going t

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