danblick

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by danblick 9y ago
> Silicon Valley already does have its version of frats: companies. Ew, no. Work-life balance?
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I think you are conflating "blockchain" with "electronic payment". I can use my Visa card without needing a blockchain. And banks will settle the payment electronically without ever moving paper money. "No Timmy,
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Or Frederic Bastiat's "Candlemaker's Petition", which was a satirical request that officials block out the sun in order "to encourage industry and stimulate employment". http://bastiat.org/en&#x
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I've been thinking a little about the economics of self driving cars and it seems to make sense that they'd seek a partnership with a ride sharing service. While I guess the eventual goal could be "a self driving car in ever
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by danblick 9y ago
Have you seen farmbot.io?
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by danblick 9y ago
For those interested in this topic I might recommend Tim Wu's books "The Master Switch" or "The Attention Merchants". "The Master Switch" in particular is about the history of communications industries in
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by danblick 9y ago
From a security standpoint, it seems like there's a problem treating everyone's social security number as if it's some kind of secret key. Has there been any real discussion about alternatives to the present system? How else
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by danblick 9y ago
Your argument that credit rating agencies shouldn't be on the internet is really terrible. People pay credit rating agencies to retrieve their credit reports, get credit scores, and open disputes, and the best way to do all that is onl
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by danblick 9y ago
In a simulation environment you know ground truth. (Where objects actually were vs. what you saw.) You can play the same scenario from slightly different angles. Or different conditions (rain, snow, low light, bright light). You can look at
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by danblick 9y ago
Miles of data is not the best metric. If you've ever tried to build a machine learning system you'd recognize some of the issues here. First off, where are the labels? How are you to interpret all that data? Say Tesla has recorded
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by danblick 9y ago
> they've already put in the hardware necessary for FSD so when the software is ready a simple OTA software update is all that's necessary for you're car to have full L5 autonomy That's bull. Every other company worki
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Yes, it seems to prevent states from having their own safety policies. It makes an exemption for "performance standards" which I guess is omissions. Page 2: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF00/201
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It seems like the legislation would delegate responsibility for coming up with such policies to the Secretary of transportation and gives them 24 months to come up with such rules. ‘‘§ 30129. Updated or new motor vehicle safety stand- 10 ar
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I wonder what fraction involved smartphones? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/business/tech-distract...
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by danblick 9y ago
Hmm. This might be kind of blasphemous, but I think I'd recommend against the dragon book? As I remember, the emphasis in that book is on syntax-directed translation. I might argue that the less you're thinking about syntax and
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by danblick 9y ago
Software developers are already highly paid with lots of perks. Do they need unions?
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Exactly. It's possible there are other features that would have more predictive power, they just haven't figured out how to quantify them. The title of the paper could be, "We're still not very good at describing what ma
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Another issue: If you want to argue "we all deserve a share of productivity increases", then who is "we"? Does the local community deserve to benefit from the automated cog factory? Does the state? Do all Americans? All
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That chart is interesting, but I'm not sure how to interpret it. I think the authors are suggesting, "people are not being paid in line with what they produce." I think the chart may show something else, which is "an inc
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by danblick 9y ago
Weird. I was so sure that "Michael Jordan" would be the Berkeley CS professor in this context. I guess not!
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by danblick 9y ago
I think this is an interesting topic, really. Credentials are all about signaling. But what is it exactly credentials communicate? Is it, "person X learned about topic Y"? I'd argue it's a lot more than that. If you
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by danblick 9y ago
There's an insane quote from John Ehrlichman about the origin of the war on drugs in the Nixon Whitehouse: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/ "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and
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by danblick 9y ago
If I have an intellectual hero, it was Ericsson's post-doc advisor Herb Simon. In "Peak", Ericsson talks about work they did together on the mental representations used by expert chess players. I recently reread some of a le
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by danblick 9y ago
Since you mentioned both deliberate practice and 10,000 hours: are you familiar with Anders Ericsson's criticism of the 10,000 hours idea? Do you think it's still a concept worth talking about?
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by danblick 9y ago
Are you assuming travel is one-way? That seems okay for probes and maybe problematic for people. Although the poor slob plan comes to mind: https://books.google.com/books?id=7ejGJaFjLccC&lpg=PA154&ots...
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by danblick 9y ago
And not much lidar data, right? I don't work on this, but I imagine the quality of the data set makes a big difference. From what I've learned, lidar and radar are typically used for object detection (i.e., avoiding other cars; pe
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by danblick 9y ago
I recently finished Tim Wu's "The Master Switch", which is a history about the early radio/telephone/television/film industries, consolidation in those industries, and the effects on free speech. One of my favo
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"Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their
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What you are proposing: (1) Is bad economics. In most cases, getting rid of occupational licensing would create wealth. To take law/lawyers as an example, see http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/09/wi
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by danblick 9y ago
Great video. My major takeaway: vertical farming is not economical for many crops due to the cost of electricity. Another takeaway: vertical farming might work well for some crops that are mostly water by weight and have low energy requir

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