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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> Algorithms already can construct pretty accurate models of a person’s preferences based on physical activities, including typing search terms or tapping to “like” a photo. While there are high hopes that reconstructing words and music
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I see it as a clever and extreme variation of the same underlying fallacy: a) the favored outcome is slightly more probable (51%) b) the expected value of losing could be expressed as negative infinity That SBF answered this (rhetorical) q
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
For anyone wondering about the verb to St. Petersburg paradox : The game is a simple 50/50 for a win or loss. You begin with one unit (say: $1). Every round you don't lose the stake doubles. The game terminates if you lose. How
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> Official guidance from the International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO, which signatory nations use to create their own regulations, did not say what to do if TCAS and ATC issued conflicting avoidance instructions. Similarly, Eu
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> By the time they gave up on this effort, it was too late to prevent the crash even by breaking the rules. There was too little time. And I imagine it is hard to be that quick and lucid in breaking the rules of ATC. Edit: I've loo
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
While TCAS priority was the technical point of failure, I feel that the transition phase from public to private of the Swiss air traffic control services in 2001 seems to be the greatest disruption of this finely coordinated ATC. Under the
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> a Sean Carroll 4hr rebuttal that there is a problem of physics by not opening up to new ideas Indeed he likes to indulge in his solos (that's what they are for) but after almost 4 hours of reviewing the status quo[0]; he goes on
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Sorry to hear that. I wasn't trying to downplay the issue, I was just recounting from own experiences just visiting the cities (Leipzig, Dresden) multiple times. > The city itself and university are super nice though. Then, I hope
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
For those unfamiliar with the region (Saxony, Dresden): A registered association ( e.V. in German) bluntly named "Silicon Saxony e.V." (est. in 2000) with over 450 members headquartered in Dresden pretty much sums up the infrastr
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I guess this must be from '99. Consequently the author went to get his Masters and PhD in CS.[0] Having gone through a similar ordeal and frustration at the end of my uni career, in the end I went out with the highest admiration for th
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
A quick search would tell you: > The angle of deflection (theta) is: theta = (4GM)/(cr^2) toward the mass M at a distance r from the affected radiation, where G is the universal constant of gravitation and c is the speed of light in
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Basically, that is the gist of the vid, the rest is more or less common sense, I guess. A short & catchy variation of "Overpass turbo - a super powerful mining tool for OSM" would be a more appropriate title [0][1]. It exists
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
As a fun side note regarding rigorous anatomical study: It was always very clear to me from my basic anatomical knowledge that the "delts" are obviously divided in three section: anterior, middle and posterior. Very easy to spot o
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
In the context of the Bhagavad Gita the quote given by Oppenheimer is actually pretty accurate if you look up the relevant passage in Sanskrit and consider possible translations: Chapter 11, Verse 30-33 [0]. A quick summary of the context i
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods. But th
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Here in Europe over the last two years the main contributor for inflation are corporate profits (approx. half of inflation) followed by import prices (one third) and labour cost (one quarter) according to an IMF paper [0] published three we
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
In physics ToE ("Theory of Everything") is shorthand for a theoretical framework - mathematically formalized - which unifies all observable fundamental forces in nature (observable universe/s) without contradiction. Depending
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
To be fair: I don't know enough about the case to judge but it plays well into OP's cards that Amazon closes his long-standing affiliate account because he allegedly had used relatives and friends to squeeze more money.
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> Dear Louis Rossmann, our affiliate program is designed to direct positive attention to Amazon. The way you have represented the company in your opinions in how we do business are antithetical to the way we believe we represent ourselve
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
German is not a pure SVO language rather it is classified as V2 (verb second language) in main clauses and SOV in subordinate clauses. At least I prefer to look at it in that - admittedly unsatisfactory - descriptive manner.[0][1] There are
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> Schools do a terrible job with their gamification of grades so my GPA and attendance were terrible. Well, it is simply another skillset since at some point you have to game the teachers setting the grades, which involves other kinds o
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Reading through the text which implicitly and as a perlocutionary/performative act by the author is precisely intended to be not the kind of low-effort content of the evoked 'Ennui Engine', actually strengthens my perceptio
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
From a European perspective it is really refreshing to see some direct words spoken, here. Mao questioning the US-allegiance of Western-Europe i.e. 1) the Gaullist approach which was successfully soften by Kissinger through Pompidou and 2)
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I dig his vision of huge, persistent infospaces after all the "method of loci" [0] is a very effective and well described mnemonic device at least since antiquity. The basic observation: It takes very little effort and exposure
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Thanks for the resource. The list is indeed helpful and a good start if one is able to have enough distance to recognize the distortion. In my case it was so all encompassing (drowned in the noise) that behavioral therapy just increased my
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
> She said that for people who have the angry little angry waspy voices in their head, the particular placement of the electrode that I had for that part of the cortex found great success. She said those people have this overactive angry
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
One thing which is often missing or just left implicit in two-way communication is the self-referential aspect: How are you talking to yourself? Most people have a hard time tuning into this part because self-talk usually starts in early
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
I've heard a joke somewhere, I'm paraphrasing: If European taxpayers could directly offer all the lobbyists residing in Brussels double the money for not doing what they are being paid for, now, it would be one of the most profi
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
Distance: a straight line (i.e. shortest line in Euclidean geometry) between two points - is a one dimensional object/projection. On Earth crust where we evolved as 1 m long objects immersed in 1 atm of mostly nitrogen at around 2
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by dav_Oz 3y ago
For the life of me I couldn't cope with western bar notations especially regarding polyrhythms/polymeters trying to follow accents and groupings ... it gets unwieldy So in the spirit of "pass the goddamn butter" [0] I wa

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