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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Whether someone is a victim of assault or rightfully practiced self-defense is often a difficult question dependent on the states of mind of the people involved in a volatile situation, remembered through the veil of faulty human memories.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I’ve thought along these lines myself, and I do wonder if we’re going to approach general AI by finding ways to “compress” a simulation of a human brain, or just by coming up with new neural net architectures. The second approach is the one
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
How many particles make up a human, and how many transistors does it take to simulate the behavior and interactions of all those particles? How much energy does it take to power that many transistors? How does that compare to the Sun’s outp
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
PPIs cause long-term damage, it’s better to try an H2 blocker first.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I heard a similar scenario as a plan to kill mosquitoes. I’m not sure how it’s supposed to work but a lot of smart people seem to believe it’s possible.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
We can float things in the earth atmosphere at sea level. My completely ignorant prior is that we should be able to do it there too, if the temp and pressure are the same.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
You may be able to answer the questions with a study, although it will be tough to pick all right variables to control for.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
With an endowment of over $2 million per student, Princeton doesn’t need to charge tuition at all - it’s a choice they can make though.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
My antidepressant is a generic, so drug companies are making hardly anything off me. That narrative doesn’t seem to fit.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Maybe your colleagues perceive that they are being asked to study a bunch of off-topic material. Is reading RFC 2119 really the most productive use of their time?
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
And congress only had to grill them for a few hours to make it happen!
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Agreed, I should have specified that all-seasons are the safe option in some parts of California. My frame of reference is the warm climates of Silicon Valley and SoCal. Summer tires could even lose traction in one of the colder nights in a
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Does Google get false positives (incorrectly detecting a mistake and “fixing” it?) or false negatives (failing to detect a mistake you make) more often? Is it possible that cognitive biases prevent you from giving Google credit when it fixe
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
This is a forum for hackers, who are likely to obsess over systems like this. I don’t think it’s indicative of a society-wide focus on Uber passenger ratings.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
In California, summer tires get the best traction and all-seasons are generally worse (many people mistakenly believe that all-seasons perform better than summer in the rain, I suppose because winter is the rainy season here).
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
“Spend other people’s money” is a really weird way to put it IMO - people chose to invest in the company because they thought it was a good investment. Investors would rather have the stock than the cash they paid for it. When the company d
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Our tax policy encourages this. You can write off the interest you pay to bondholders, but you can’t write off the dividends you pay to shareholders. Everyone involved (except for the government) is better off if you sell bonds and buy back
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Perhaps it’s all good when the implementers work for the architects, but when the architects are designing an interface that is going to be sold, it has to be something people want to use.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I’ve worked on projects designed by architects. They had big, beautiful interfaces defined by types. When I implemented the interfaces, working systems magically appeared. But it was my job to implement the interfaces. They didn’t get organ
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Don’t make excuses to yourself when you know there is a problem with your code. Don’t say “well, it will only fail in these edge cases and I know not to use it that way.” You’ll forget, or someone else will use it the wrong way and it will
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I think a more reasonable attitude is that it’s usually possible to improve your material wealth with effort, and people can decide to make the trade-off if they think it’s worth it. This is not a value judgement.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
There’s nothing about getting emancipated that legally obligates schools to care.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
There is a startup called Paribus that was doing automated claims for Amazon price drops. Amazon locked down the policy after a while.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
If juries are allowed to go around awarding billions of dollars to individuals, the big bad wolf won’t be around for long. I hope whatever we replace capitalism with is good!
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Maybe they just have a bartender that likes messing with people.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
It may seem obvious with the benefit of hindsight, but I would have guessed that the better answers might be different in terms of word choice or style.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
College degrees are mostly about signaling. Employers can already check your credit history, so this wouldn’t tell them much they don’t already know.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Way more thoughtful than the GPT-2 model’s take on the question: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/#sample8
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
Lyft doesn’t have the money to spare, so it sounds like they need to find a different job.
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by djakjxnanjak 7y ago
I’m not downvoting you but I’m skeptical that the problems with homelessness can be fixed by putting more money toward mental health care. Are there a lot of skilled mental health practitioners who aren’t working due to a lack of demand?

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