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by dash2 10mo ago
I was told by my teacher as a kid that traditional Catholics used to believe that if you didn't eat fish on Fridays, you'd go to Hell. I wonder if that was true?
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by dash2 10mo ago
Unfortunately not all insects are mosquitoes, and one reason we have many fewer birds in (e.g.) the UK than when I was young, is the decline of insect life.
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by dash2 10mo ago
> This disproportionately rewards chains and already-central venues. Chains benefit from cross-location brand recognition. High-footfall areas generate reviews faster.... I think this is very likely false if you mean compared to the stat
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by dash2 10mo ago
Jepsen: 'The new "Optimistic Merge" strategy attempts to reconcile these divergent histories by asking ChatGPT-9 to write a poem about the two datasets merging. While the poem was structurally sound, the account balances were
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by dash2 10mo ago
I dunno, I interacted with perl about 2000-2003 in a small way, it always seemed pretty friendly and welcoming, I loved perlmonks and remember it happily. I'm a bit sceptical about this: > (Pause a second and ask yourself about the
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by dash2 10mo ago
This is true and fair, yet there is another mistake which I see a lot of: thinking that because people didn't live lives as comfortable as we do, their lot was unremitting misery. Kind of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail view of p
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by dash2 10mo ago
There's also this thing going on right now: https://nof1.ai/leaderboard Results are... underwhelming. All the AIs are focused on daytrading Mag7 stocks; almost all have lost money with gusto.
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The Song of the Western Men(trelawnysarmy.org)
2 points by dash2 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dash2 11mo ago
SL = supervised learning, right?
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by dash2 11mo ago
Impressively, this managed to download the large nycflights13 library very quickly, and run a regression on its multimillion-row data in just a second or two.
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by dash2 11mo ago
This is a wildly hysterical comment.
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by dash2 11mo ago
It's not non-empirical. He was careful to give it the same experiment twice. The dependent variable is his judgment, sure, but why shouldn't we trust that if he's an experienced SWE?
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by dash2 11mo ago
Right. It also suggests two possibilities: 1. Maybe the measurements are just very noisy. In which case they may also have other biases. 2. Maybe there are systematic causes which the study didn't capture. If so, controlling for them m
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Why I Wrote Rmlx(hughjonesd.github.io)
2 points by dash2 11mo ago|0 comments
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by dash2 11mo ago
> Indeed, very different measures of political bias are possible and might show quite different results than those reported here. Yeah, I was quite disappointed! I would like to see an e.g. Gentzkow & Shapiro "What Drives Media
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by dash2 11mo ago
There are lots of principled arguments about privacy versus growth versus monopoly here. But the reality is: for 95% of people in the EU (or the UK), their only direct experience of GDPR is the cookie banner. They aren't going to under
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by dash2 11mo ago
I'm a scientist with about four published papers in genetics - not a geneticist myself, but I coauthor. I'm simply reporting my experience with the field.
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by dash2 11mo ago
1. Pretty obviously, epigenetics in bacteria provides only very weak support for epigenetics in humans. 2. The case against epigenetics in humans is laid out nicely by Razib Khan: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/you-cant-ta
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by dash2 11mo ago
Sure. The graph on its own doesn't prove causality. The graph, plus a little basic common sense, does give strong evidence of causality. Specifically, there's no other plausible alternative for the sudden dramatic turnaround in th
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by dash2 11mo ago
There are lots of wiggles in any graph and you can always take a wiggle and say "ah the trend was reversed". Privatization showed a steady growth in passenger numbers for decades. Nationalization didn't.
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by dash2 11mo ago
Cool story. Got evidence? I googled for a minute and found this official document: "Thus, as shown in Figure 3, the modal share of rail has oscillated between 7 and 10% for almost 30 years, with a low point reached in 1995 following se
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by dash2 11mo ago
What do you think happened exactly at the time the railway was privatized? Suddenly the population shot up? This is like looking at the light map of the border between North and South Korea and saying "ah, but they aren't controll
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by dash2 11mo ago
I'm in the UK and services seem worse to me. I also remember pre-privatization British Rail. It was unbelievably awful. The basic fact about rail privatization is captured in this chart. All else is commentary: https://en.wi
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by dash2 11mo ago
... because it doesn't have enough therapists?
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by dash2 11mo ago
The point about government waste is that some of the things government does save lives. So money wasted equates to lives that could have been saved. See value of a statistical life etc.
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by dash2 11mo ago
If it is good for Jim to be alive, given his level of utility, then why isn't it also good for Jane and George to be alive at the same level of utility?
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by dash2 11mo ago
> Prior to the rise of Rome, for example, average heights in regions that would subsequently fall under its yoke were increasing. Agh no. Please don't use average utility (or its proxies like height or income) to evaluate societies.
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by dash2 11mo ago
I wrote this almost entirely vibe-coded, I don't even know C++. A slightly scary process, but interesting to see how codex/claude can be both brilliantly fast and competent, and ridiculously stupid and/or dishonest. There&#x2
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R interface to Apple's MLX library(hughjonesd.github.io)
22 points by dash2 1y ago|2 comments
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by dash2 1y ago
Given that, maybe the submission title should be changed?

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