emmab

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by emmab 10y ago
Why did you have no male examples?
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by emmab 11y ago
> I've lost about 100lbs in 2.5 years... Not all of us are trying to lose weight. I'm trying to maintain my weight and sometimes that involves forcing myself to eat.
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by emmab 11y ago
Would be interesting to compare writing by hand to typewriters
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by emmab 11y ago
This is why people specialize in one thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
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by emmab 11y ago
Runescape has enough grinding to provide near perpetual play. WoW you get the best end-game raid gear and there's a lot less left to do.
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by emmab 11y ago
You're acting as if there are a fixed number of jobs. More people with jobs -> more people with money -> more demand for goods/services when they spend that money -> more jobs to produce those goods/services. How do
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by emmab 11y ago
For everyone who's not seeing it, it's possible it's being AB tested or something.
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by emmab 11y ago
Yes, it is not tractable. It serves as an example of a definition of an agent though.
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by emmab 11y ago
You can do time-bound AIXI and for a large enough time bound it's sufficient for all practical situations. AIXI is not tractable, but I'm responding to the parent comment saying we don't even know what a cake is.
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by emmab 11y ago
We can describe Solomonoff-based agents like AIXI. None of them are fully sufficient for true general AI, but you could probably accomplish quite a bit with an AIXI-like agent.
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by emmab 11y ago
Down http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R2PmRfU...
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by emmab 11y ago
I would be ok with a feature that looked at any history I had chosen to enable and informed me and only me that it believed I may be at risk for some mental illness, and suggested how to get help. For example if you search for https:&#
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by emmab 11y ago
Could the OS default to not allowing time to be set over NTP to anything before a certain hardcoded date? OS updates could increase this hardcoded date, and the user could still override it if they wanted.
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by emmab 11y ago
Why are you making rate directly dependent on having a degree?
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by emmab 11y ago
How can anything this horrible exist ;_;
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by emmab 11y ago
Maybe they are just being nice.
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by emmab 11y ago
> “There are fewer customers, so we need less light?” I asked. “Correct,” he said. His non sequitur had me leaving the store fortified with both a six-pack and the reinforced conviction that books on how to think should be required readi
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by emmab 11y ago
I did a quick search on google scholar. Don't see any articles linking psychedelic use to suicide and there is a study of 130,000 people failing to find a link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=psychedelic
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by emmab 11y ago
> The transgender situation is similarly tragic, but it's an issue that trans people run into when presenting ID to buy beer as well. That is different than a name you are seeing in front of your face, every time you say something.
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by emmab 11y ago
I can understand the harm of opiates and stimulants, but are psychedelics really that damaging to society? And if he grew them himself it wasn't contributing to harmful suppliers...
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by emmab 11y ago
An interesting perspective on this from Japanese culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
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by emmab 11y ago
I have insufficient appetite and it's much easier to drink than eat when I don't feel hungry but need to eat to maintain my weight. My doctor recommended Ensure but I later switched to soylent.
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by emmab 11y ago
I used to drink Ensure before I switched to soylent. I couldn't stand how sweet Ensure tasted, it's kind of disgusting.
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by emmab 11y ago
Most food products you do not eat as regularly so it is much less dangerous if there is a problem with them.
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by emmab 11y ago
https://github.com/jandre/safe-commit-hook/blob/master/git-d... > schema.rb Don't you kind of need this in a rails project?
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by emmab 11y ago
Why is half the article in quotes?
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by emmab 11y ago
The switch to male pronouns partway through the article when it became a theoretical person was a little jarring.
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by emmab 11y ago
This is called XSS. see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting#Persisten...
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by emmab 11y ago
You should read Reflections on Trusting Trust, it expands on this idea in the most beautiful way: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
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by emmab 11y ago
I have third party cookies off so it didn't work.

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