eli_gottlieb

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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>grammar in most human languages is not the most computationally efficient way of structuring sentences Grammar in most human languages is structured to be information-theoretically efficient, which often winds up being vague, ambiguou
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Yes, sure, but there's a slightly deeper meaning to the joke: fascism as an ideology has always been built around the glorification of death. If you want to spot capital-E Evil in real life, look for the people loudly proclaiming thei
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
I'd actually typed out an elaborate reply, but HN told me not to post that fast. The thing about both poor and rural locations is... they don't have the public funding or private companies for a lot of stuff we take for granted in
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Who says that there's no useful work to be done in jobless areas? "Jobless" just means there's no work in the area that makes a profit for a private capitalist .
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Unfortunately, what people seem to pick up as "evil" from the fictions isn't the immoral actions , but instead the color-coding of villains as wearing ominous clothes (often dressed for a funeral) and accompanied by certain
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Are you kidding? The town of South Park has really gone up in the world with their new CtyPaTown and Whole Foods Market. They've become a worldly, sophisticated town full of charming and educated people. /s
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>DNA is like a programming language for a biological computer, a living cell. However, we don't know nearly everything there is to know about a living cell. We can't predict its mechanisms. There is no debugger. The compiler di
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
We're not really in a peak or valley of any kind at the moment. If evolution pushed us to a zero-point in the derivative of any kind of imaginary fitness function, it was probably a saddle point in which some mutations fall right off
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
You think they actually bothered to hold a conscious image in their mind of the consequence of their actions, rather than just reasoning from "it costs us money" to "let's have our bought-and-paid-for legislators get rid
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Also, the theorem only applies to ranked-choice voting methods for single offices, so the kind of ordinary proportional representation list-voting used in parliamentary systems faces other constraints rather than those of Arrow's Theor
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>Calling someone through-and-through evil and despicable is more isolating and condemning than calling them a pansy. Actually, I think it's worth testing. People have worked in deeply irrational, amoral ways before, you know.
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>I'm pretty sure most men feel the same deep down. No, actually. If I wear my body down so much that I'm dying of work-inflicted wear-and-tear, I damn well do want society's empathy and help. "Manhood" and &quo
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>Timed exams test for speed, which is not something that matters in real mathematics (if you can prove a theorem in one week vs. two it doesn't really matter), Moreover, some conjectures don't get proved as theorems for decades
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>The problem is the increasingly long span of life when people are not working but still consuming, possibly requiring expensive personal and medical care. The goods and services consumed have to come from someone working somewhere. This
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>I was particularly surprised that the method exactly recovers the Big-5 components of personality from the results of the survey questions. Why? Is that a standard dataset? They could have just cherrypicked tasks. I also noticed that
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Which still doesn't explain precisely what sort of statistical inference BNNs are performing.
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>The very notion of generalization to unobserved data is not well understood (I like D. Wolpert papers on that topic). Which papers?
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Actually, there's been a few papers showing solid theoretical progress on understanding what structure in data deep networks are learning to represent. https://github.com/gregversteeg/CorEx http://arxiv
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
Objectivism is a pathetically small-minded ideology.
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs373/sp2009/lectures/lect...
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
There can be multiple real counterfactuals based on multiple contributing causal factors.
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>The number of people in industry who use either tool is incredibly small and is likely to remain so; developers spend 20-50% of their time on test suites and STILL don't feel it's cost-effective to write down formal specs, eve
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
As an Israeli, I just want to let you know: no, we don't support your government. We basically consider every single government in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and basically every other Arab country to be an enemy who will only thin
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>But nowadays, these mostly male, white, Silicon-Valley-type, science-loving and science-fiction-reading do-gooders have found the threat of runaway AI as one of their supposedly objective main issues. Artificial Intelligence which, as i
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>Don't you think it's possible that through diligent study of human interaction and how the mind works you could gain a better understanding of how biases are formed and reinforced and stand a chance of recognizing when your ow
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
> Epistemic status: attempting to point at a thing that I can't fully articulate Oh come on: stop stealing Scott Alexander's lines. As to the rest, well yes, the whole point is that levels of contrarianism and meta-contrarianis
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>Well, the democracy can't build nuclear power plants and fast trains, an an oligarchy can. The democracy once did, and in fact, was probably more democratic when it chose to. Of course, now it chooses not to because the vast major
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>It's why the Elon Musk's, Larry Page's and Bill Gates of the tech world retreat into their own private dreamlands as far away from the politics of the real world as possible, cause they know don't stand a chance agai
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
>Look at these people: do you see happy, healthy, mindful, compassionate, self-confident, well-adjusted human beings? I don't. I see bitter, spiteful, demanding, insecure, Us-vs-Them types, perpetually searching for the next perceiv
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by eli_gottlieb 11y ago
I don't see any more subsequent examples. He appears to cite other people who claim to have data showing there's a "social justice problem", but if his citations have such data, he doesn't present it.

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