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by dlss 11y ago
Stevia is actually ~four sweetening compounds, not one [1]... the after taste you're discussing comes from stevia extract with the four compounds in their natural ratios. I believe Coke is starting to use stevia because biosynthesis is
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by dlss 11y ago
Just wanted to say this comment made me wish there was a way to nominate comments for a "best of HN" section :) Also: http://www.ebay.com/itm/0-Calorie-Pure-Newtame-powder-10-tim... ships from San Diego if an
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by dlss 12y ago
I think for a story to be compelling there needs to be more substance than "we now accept bitcoin".
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Moral truths don't change just because an election was held / that new laws are passed is evidence that current laws aren't always what's moral. Democracies have a better track record than most governments with respect t
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> Why? Do you think your ancestors were especially healthy? It's the null hypothesis. For me personally, it's more a bet against the modern microbiome than it is a bet for the ancestral one. See also paleo vs margarine, no fat,
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by dlss 12y ago
In general, eating the same diet as thin/healthy people will cause your microbiome to shift toward the microbiome of thin/healthy people. This is because your microbial population is largely determined by resource availability and
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by dlss 12y ago
PSA: http://smile.amazon.com/Source-Naturals-Melatonin-Liquid-Nat... is melatonin in drop form, with 3 drops being 0.3 mg. See http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin for a good writeup :)
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by dlss 12y ago
Surprised this wasn't already mentioned, but the best description I've ever read of debugging is in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Unsurprisingly, it's about debugging motorcycles, but the author was a programmer
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by dlss 12y ago
> how can we trust them to build the future? Don't! Whatever the alternative was in your head when you wrote this sentence -- do that! The world needs more future-builders :D
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by dlss 12y ago
Don't forget 'I hope to personally save the planet by solving the value alignment problem in artificial intelligence', which is where he's spending most of his time. Those are side projects he wants to do with the help o
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by dlss 12y ago
At an absolute minimum you should be collecting lots of statistics and using them to train a bayesian candidate filter to estimate hiring probability (the same architecture as a bayesian spam filter would work). If you find yourself wanting
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by dlss 12y ago
The complexity of the problem solver generally increases faster than the complexity of the problem generator. For example, a general solver for "what is #{x} + #{y}?" is relatively easy. A general solver for "what is the deri
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by dlss 12y ago
As long as starfighter isn't the only way technical recruiting happens, I think that's not really a problem. There will always be lots of ways to demonstrate talent :)
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by dlss 12y ago
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... That said, building a $8 DIY version sounds like fun. Does anyon
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by dlss 12y ago
To be clear, I wasn't focusing on any part in particular, I was giving better examples based on the examples you gave. I also believe that saying you'd like to get drinks frequently with someone doesn't mean you'd like a
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by dlss 12y ago
> Personality/Character evolves, often quite a bit, as people age but still exists. If it evolves, why is it preferable to circumstance when explaining things? To my mind, the benefit of character traits vs circumstance was that dis
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by dlss 12y ago
> FAE requires an alternate explanation where the behaviour is justified and the assumption it's the result of a character flaw is the error No. FAE is pointing out that no one internally says "I'm an asshole, therefore
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by dlss 12y ago
> You realize in practice this means you are against nearly all public discourse I don't believe this to be the case. IMO due process is scalar not binary, and responsible journalism includes many due process protections... for exam
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by dlss 12y ago
So in your case, the FAE is "guy is an asshole" rather than "acted like an asshole". I'm pointing this out because I thought it was interesting that you still at least sounded like you were committing the FAE, even
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by dlss 12y ago
As I said above, my displeasure seeing stories like this one centers around the comments. (which to be clear is not a problem with the story). I agree the moral of this story wasn't "here is a person who is evil". The comme
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by dlss 12y ago
FWIW I do believe sexism exists in tech. My displeasure seeing stories like this one centers around the comments. 1. Commenters seem to be attributing the actions of the investor to character traits, rather than circumstance (ie https:&#x2
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by dlss 12y ago
Carbon is what gives trees their mass, so no need to wait 100 years -- just until it's fully grown :)
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by dlss 12y ago
> It shows a monotone non-decreasing significance because [the value] represents the total amount of accumulated evidence against the null hypothesis. > if we instead looked continuously at a classical t-test, is the significance woul
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by dlss 12y ago
I very much like that people are starting to care about data-driven decisions... However I find it quite aggravating that these tools don't use the best available methods. Optimizely is celebrating that they built a strange, proprietar
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by dlss 12y ago
I think all OP is trying to point out is that it either agrees with bayesian methods or it's wrong ... so at best it's not materially new, and at worst it's using questionable assumptions.
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by dlss 12y ago
He's saying that as new data arrives, it has to adjust both ways, not only toward the correct answer. (If that wasn't the case, you could just figure out which was the only direction it would move and then stop collecting data.
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farewell old friend
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by dlss 12y ago
I would imagine people experiencing family emergencies, depression, etc would also pause work. If you haven't seen the effects of unconditional cash grants for charity, I think that makes for similarly surprising reading: http:/&
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by dlss 12y ago
Ahh, sorry. QS is QuantifiedSelf (for example http://quantifiedself.com/2010/09/seth-roberts-on-arithmetic... ) I was saying that if you were already tracking yourself, we would be interested in that data as well :

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