dsjoerg

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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   I was with you up until the very end. Pay N times more for tuition, expect to earn N times more _on_your_degree_investment_ in the long run. That doesn't mean your entire income will be N times higher. For example if you spent $100k o
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   "On average, Americans drive 29.2 miles per day, making two trips with an average total duration of 46 minutes."[1] For how many of those 46 minutes do you think they are enjoying control and adrenaline? I would guess approximat
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   Udik and his responders are talking past each other a bit. Udik is talking about Google + their advertisers as if they were a single entity, and it is dumb for "them" to advertise stuff he's not interested in. However Google
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   Hi, this looks pretty. I've been a happy highcharts user for several years; can you summarize what's good/better/different about chartjs?
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   So that people die when they're no longer reproductively viable / relevant, rather than using up valuable resources. Wouldn't telomere shortening have some selection-pressure advantage?
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   Terrible headline; machines are already great at "lying"; recent progress in poker, for example.
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   by dsjoerg 10y ago

   Isn't the original article talking about that? "Total Mosquito Destruction"
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   by dsjoerg 11y ago

   This is a wonderful idea. There are few programming environments that are useful to non-programmers with the possible exception of Excel. A study like this helps us gain inspiration and to remind ourselves how non-programmers think about p
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    One way to do something about this: https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    How does that work for you? I figure it's a good filter - 80% of people think you're a whackball and run away, 20% stay and have interesting conversations.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    Why would it be?
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    I'd like to pay you $1 for your insightful comment. Come to my house to get the cash.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    I don't think OP actually read the NYPost article he's complaining about. http://nypost.com/2015/09/20/the-8-key-that-can-open-new-yor... The keys are being sold so cheaply that it is easier to jus
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    I disagree that he tries too hard to sound smart. I despise the tendency to unnecessarily use complex words when simple ones will do. Police officers, for example, are rightly famous for this tendency. In Eliezer's writing and in th
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    Hilariously simple and trivial are insulting terms to use for problems that challenge many others. There is no absolute difficulty scale on which problems can be judged. The problems you personally find difficult can be called trivial and
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    The art, the magic, is knowing which questions to ask.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    In general you have a point, but in this case the research was conducted at "major U.S. universities and academic hospitals". The funding rules for academic institutions should be changed to require pre-registration and disclosure
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    We need a new term, because "someone else's server" is a superset of what's happening here. How about "transient server" or "one-shot server"?
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    ten well spent minutes thank you
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    If the paper makes these kinds of errors, how can we be sure they didn't make similar errors when conducting the experiment?
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    Would that be a smart move for those investors? Just because you need 10x returns doesn't mean there's a good way to get them.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    well you've found the right guy to ask about that because the author is a professor of Computational Complexity Theory.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    how far down the stack do you go? do open source projects need to include their own compiler? what would compile it?
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    My only regret is that I have but one upvote to give. All these anecdotal comments, and only one reference to RCT. However, this link appears to be paywalled. "You have tried to access content that requires a subscription to BMJ Best
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    Alice is clearly the 10x engineer in this story. Probably more like 100x. She solved the problem with 100x less work. The goal is to solve the problem. I know that's what you're saying already, I'm just summarizing.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    it doesn't take three paragraphs. here, watch this: "ASH began as an internet discussion group about why suicide rates increase over the holidays,"
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    Not maybe, but yes.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    very cool! i use followupthen.com for the same purpose.
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    by dsjoerg 11y ago

    knowledge is great. i am pro knowledge. on the other hand, arguing about the definition of an emotionally charged term such as "human" is not so great. reminds me of the argument about whether or not Pluto is a planet.