ectoplasm

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by ectoplasm 11y ago
In general I believe that there are no hard and fast rules about the expression of feelings in life. I agree that going on about all the emotional agony you went through to make the decision is worse than useless, but expressions of remors
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I think it's okay to express gratitude. And other feelings, maybe. It just depends on how it's said, and whether you're self-centered about it or empathetic. It's like breaking up with someone. If an employee says th
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It sounds like a frustrating situation. If you still want a position, keep on trying to get through to them. Worst case you get to a definitive no and then you can drop it.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The problem is you've addressed your post to Brian, complaining about the fact that you cold-emailed him in 2012 about a job opportunity and never heard back. First, the advice from the article would be to keep trying and not get disc
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It's actually kind of funny, because unless I'm missing something, my girlfriend is allowed to download the software, relicense it under a license of her choosing or release it into the public domain, and then send the sanitized v
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Big fish are almost always eaten by small fish. Small fish are almost always eaten by big fish. At least there's a nice symmetry to it.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yes, of course, it's just the first step. In fact you'd probably need to introduce a couple more variables. For example, i gets defined three times: i = sk_X509_num(ctx->chain); i = check_trust(ctx); i = X509_chain_ch
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Technically speaking, that's a parameter, not an argument.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
The use of shorthand names like that is a strong indication that the variables don't need to be live for ~319 lines. If you reduce the live range of your variables, you reduce the complexity of your function. Less complex functions a
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
:) No worries. I personally don't like the term because I'm a man who is quite capable of explaining things well. Most of the things I see labelled as mansplaining I think are poor explanations that lack nuance, introspection,
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
You just mansplained what it means to mansplain something. Are you offended by this remark?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I thought maybe the AI player could try to convince the human that he was living in a simulation, and that the only way to maintain a connection to reality was to let the AI go. The abuse thing, while believable, doesn't make for a ver
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Eliezer bet some people that if he played an AI he could convince them to let him out of a box, on the condition they not reveal his method. He actually won the bet twice IIRC. Do you know if he ever revealed his secret or at least what s
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I was curious, so I clicked on the Twitter search link you posted. This conversation took place between between Randi and a developer (Johannes Meixner a.k.a. xmj): https://archive.is/9KGyX randi> xmj: kindly go fuc
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Just guessing of course, but I'd say testosterone is probably responsible for a good number of men filling high-status positions, see the sources on this page for effects on behavior: https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/qu
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There's a 60/40 male/female split in that graph for people with IQ's of 140. First, you don't need an IQ of 140 to have a high-status position. Second, the male/female ratio for high-status positions is much
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yes, that 10% is an average over seven benchmarks. The numerical one gets a 25% speedup, the one with a bunch of exceptions doesn't benefit at all. The funny thing is, if you're interested in performance, you're probably go
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Since you asked, there's an assembly comparison on pages 5-6 of http://www.jilp.org/vol5/v5paper12.pdf and a performance comparison on page 12 of http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?