empyrrhicist

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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
The cyclist hate is really demoralizing sometimes. Like, I'm out here trying to enjoy life and be healthy and people think it's funny to joke about murdering me.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I saw a funny presentation where Doug Bates said something like: "This kind of evaluation opens the door to do many strange and unspeakable things in R... for some reason Hadley Wickham is very excited about this."
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Is anyone aware of a YouTube or tutorial series that goes deep into the graphics stacks for Julia? I can make some plots, but I feel like I'm missing the deeper understanding of what's going on that I have with R base graphics.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Beware the Helvetica Scenario https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-yKmzP-4U
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
nvm
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Your re-framing is actually not quite right either (or at least, not complete). Key point: if the host picks the car, the game essentially re-sets. Imagine the extreme scenario with 999 goats and 1 car. You select the first door, the host o
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Press X to doubt. "Secure borders" is such a vague phrase - in various courses you can learn about the history of borders, the political theories and history of nation states and concepts of human rights, the socioeconomic drivers
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Similarly, I worked for a restaurant in high school that abused tips to pay wages for non-servers. When I was hired I asked about tips, and was told "yep, you get tip share". It turns out "tip share" meant "you get
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Likewise
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
> when studies are translated to press reports On this particular issue, even the original studies often screw things up unfortunately. Frequentist statistics works very differently from people's natural intuition, and the attractio
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Statistically (at least as a frequentist), it is more correct to say "we do not find significant evidence of a difference between group A and B" than "we find evidence that groups A and B are the same". I would even pick
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
These days it seems at least faster at opening even new Word documents, or maybe that's the network delay of the OneDriveification at work? Don't even get me started on Adobe Creative Cloud.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/outdoor-living/pave-a-parki... And that doesn't cover opportunity cost or the knock-on effects of market distortion, or the exponentially higher costs of e.g. parking garages.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
The difference in body rust in winter climates with road salt is incredible, IME. Many cars from the 90s and early 2000s just absolutely fell apart.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Just look at how easily people are programmed by media, and how that programming works best when playing on primal fears and hatred. Heck, with a brain implant you might not even need to get in via information - just use a reward response l
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
> feeling in their tires. Ignoring the rest... I feel like this would be much easier to accomplish with acoustic sensors and wheel/suspension telemetry, given that an attentive human driver can sort of "feel" the road surf
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Yet you cannot set a new default messaging app...
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Who is talking about SMS? Not I.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Yes, totally understandable that this would be blocked within our legal system... but its a proof of concept that it would not be burdensome for apple to enable interoperability. We should be demanding support for open standards for messagi
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Anecdotally, the Julia approach certainly seems... nicer via e.g. KernelAbstractions etc. I don't know if the performance/flexibility is quite there vs. native CUDA, but going from zero to GPU kernel programming in Julia is as clo
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
You can have passive radar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar But yes, it needs to be doing more than receiving telemetry to qualify, and there has to be something transmitting.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I mean, sure - I don't think banning CC is sensible. I just have thermodynamic doubts about whether it's ever going to make much sense, and in the short term it seems to be a ploy by fossil fuel interests.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Or, more cheaply, non-emitting alternatives
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I had a colleague ask me of I had sound conditioning in my office and I felt so seen. Bad audio is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
I mean, yeah? That's also something we need to seriously consider. These tools have the ability to copy the labor and property of others in a way that is economically important and socially challenging, and we don't yet have a leg
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
Can actors audio-visually mimic their characters with increasingly convincing realism, and can they be artificially scaled, duplicated, extended, and applied for just the cost of a bit of hardware and electricity? It is not sensible to hand
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
That attitude sounds... convenient for people (companies) training these models, but completely untenable at a societal level.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
With respect to surveillance? Perhaps. In general? I think that's a pretty transparently absurd statement to make.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
> like one does with a PC with Windows Maybe in the past, but these days the crapware is coming from inside the OS.
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by empyrrhicist 3y ago
> use ffmpeg Well there's your problem. Such a powerful tool, but that CLI is something else.

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