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by drcode 7y ago
As far as I know, a lot of the criticism Einstein leveled against the foundations of quantum mechanics later in his career are more recently being revisited... instead of being irrelevant, some of his later work may simply have been too far
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by drcode 7y ago
I think part of it is that people back then we're far more likely to not have diverse ancestors- the people in the OP video probably all had parents from the same small town, very different from our modern era. This probably enhanced a
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by drcode 7y ago
It's hard to securely transfer your toenail clippings over the internet, meaning they have no advantages over fiat currency. If you could somehow create a new technology that would allow your specific toenail clippings to be easily tra
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by drcode 7y ago
I think part of the issue is that their "very long bets" (i.e. AI and self driving) have shown enough progress to now be merely "long bets" now which increases R&D expenses and means GOOG is essentially doubling down
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by drcode 7y ago
Other people have written about the HIV-lookalike segment mentioned in that paper and believe it is likely due to chance https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/122336155449582387...
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by drcode 7y ago
More likely, I think they'll realize the verifiers will need to post a bond in order for their scheme to work... reinventing proof-of-stake, instead.
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by drcode 7y ago
Somebody comes up with a "useful proof of work" a few times a year, and so far there has always been a reason why the proposed mechanism is infeasible. In this example, the reasons are (1) the ML tasks require large amounts of dat
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by drcode 7y ago
Part of me thinks the success of javascript is due precisely for the reason that it prevents/discourages multithreaded programming.
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by drcode 7y ago
Yeah, in the early days it was better... I would argue that the average IQ in the community around 2011-2013 was unusually high: The reason some of the people who bought currency in that time period made a fortune is because they foresaw th
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by drcode 7y ago
Sorry, misinterpreted your comment.
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by drcode 7y ago
As someone who's been part of the crypto community since 2011, the level of discourse in most of cryptoland is rock bottom. I attribute it to the decentralized nature of the technology, which encourages lots of people to attempt manipu
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by drcode 7y ago
Thanks for helping me to buy lots of inexpensive cryptocurrency back in 2013, by keeping the prices low with your skepticism!
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm a full believer in POS, but if you don't think that asking Bitcoin variants to switch their algos to POS is contentious...I don't know what to tell you.
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by drcode 7y ago
If you disagree, please post a proposed solution, instead of sharing a quote that describes the existing problem.
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by drcode 7y ago
ELI5: Lots of cyptocurrencies use the same mining algorithm, i.e. they require the same type of puzzle to be solved to make money creating blocks. In recent years, lots of online services have sprung up to offer cloud mining, which people u
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by drcode 7y ago
In Chicago I highly recommend Sushi Tokoro, it has everything you want from a sushi buffet: Great taste, reasonable price, and no food poisoning.
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by drcode 7y ago
LOL that place is so far South you might as well call it an "Indianapolisland" restaurant.
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by drcode 7y ago
The problem is that... people/companies sometimes do things even if they are illegal.
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by drcode 7y ago
...the moment where he jokes about "turning it on and off again" and his GPT2 doppelganger laughs...
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by drcode 7y ago
I would estimate if the cost of Uber cost even just 30% less than it is now it would probably see 2x greater utilization (at least I think I personally would use it 2x more often at such a price) If a self-driving vehicle like OP could hit
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by drcode 7y ago
My comment was a bit flippant, I admit. But still, from an economic standpoint I think it's flawed to think of the $80 after tax profits as just "money owned by the company sitting in a bank account". The idea of "value
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by drcode 7y ago
Not a single comment in this thread, nor the OP document, contained the word "dividend", so I am completely lost as to why you are now referencing something that applies only to dividends, when the discussion clearly is about &quo
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by drcode 7y ago
I never understood that argument: If I buy some Google stock for $8000 and then the value of it goes up and I then sell the shares for $10000, then the $2000 I made have not yet been taxed. Making the argument "but them there people at
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by drcode 7y ago
There is a reason Google's initial DNN project was called "deep dream"- It's because it essentially uses "dreaming" to generate new content based on a source database of unrelated images. It is making up new im
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by drcode 7y ago
I agree something like that, with a more concise naming strategy, would be ideal.
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by drcode 7y ago
So I find very few examples of people using transducers in production code these days. I agree they are very compelling from a theoretical programming standpoint, and I used them heavily for about a year for that reason. However, it clearly
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by drcode 7y ago
I admit a case can be made for having every-pred in the language, since from a mathematical standpoint predicate composition is an innate low-level feature (putting the questionable naming issue aside)
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by drcode 7y ago
Have you watched his "spec-ulation" talk? It makes a very strong case against EVER removing a feature from an API. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
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by drcode 7y ago
The irregular naming of "some" vs "some?" has been the source of several tricky bugs for me in the past, and I suspect many other Clojurians would report this as well.
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by drcode 7y ago
I agree that I'd be far more likely to use these if they were named "conjoin" and "disjoin".

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