dmgottlieb

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by dmgottlieb 14y ago
"Tell us your life's dreams so we can use them to sell aspirational lifestyle ads!" Or is that not the model? Also your favicon display's Osama Bin Laden's initials. PS this looks cool
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by dmgottlieb 14y ago
This was an interesting story and sounds like a good program. Are there other "non-traditional programming internships" out there (i.e., entry-level training positions for people who are not 18 but also not already programmers)?
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
Yes, this is at least superficially like Newcomb's problem. Your argument roughly corresponds to an argument for the "one-box" move in that game. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_problem ]
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
I don't really like that argument. Even granting that you should consider the possibility that you are a simulation running in the box (you might believe that this is all but certain), I'm not sure you have reason to let the AI out. Conside
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
What a strange thing to say. It is irrelevant from the myopic point of view of a patient receiving care, at the moment they are receiving the care. It is far from irrelevant as a matter of social policy, because society has to pay the cost
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
But the money is just as wasted no matter who pays it.
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
Let's distinguish two possible theories: 1) The underlying companies of the BSA (incl. AAPL and MSFT) were not really in favor of SOPA to begin with, and the public attention has lead them to correct the initial BSA position. 2) The underly
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
The paper in the link includes an instrumental variable model to look at exogenously caused birth spacing (caused by miscarriages). So if the model does what the abstract says it does, then that pins down the direction of causation to some
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
Well, it was a rapidly published cash-in effort. The book industry puts out tons of titles that have no enduring value but are keyed into a very specific marketing opportunity. You don't get paid when someone finishes a book, after all -- a
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by dmgottlieb 15y ago
No. Catastrophic failure does not somehow naturally lead to reform and success. Look at all the catastrophic failures out there that are not in the middle of dazzling recoveries. In fact success is a rare and fragile confluence of many cond