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by enkid 5y ago
A number with a question mark behind it is not evidence, and even if hundreds of doctors did speak up about it, hundreds of doctors thought Cholera was caused by miasma instead of bad drinking water. Hundreds of doctors thought bleeding wa
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by enkid 5y ago
Can you point to anything that says the FDA would consider HCQ or any of these other drugs as alternatives to vaccines? They are not the same, and though they could both treat COVID, my reading is not that this would limit vaccine emergenc
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by enkid 5y ago
Source for the EUA stuff? Source that HCQ and zinc are viable treatments? The problem isn't that some of these things might be viable, the problem is we don't know which of the literally hundreds of treatments are actually going
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by enkid 5y ago
Never negotiate with terrorists is only a thing because it puts you in a stronger negotiation position.
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by enkid 5y ago
Are wind turbines really viable with Mars's atmosphere?
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by enkid 5y ago
How about this? (The sentence you left out directly before that quote) "Malcolm Gladwell's point-of-view about deliberate practice is different from Ericsson's view." "Hard Practice" vs "Soft Practice&quot
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by enkid 5y ago
I don't know, seems like they have pretty different views based on the article you linked.
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by enkid 5y ago
No, because people did behave differently than he expected, and he coached them to behave in line with his expectations. He wasn't a neutral observer, he was a guiding force and the superintendent of the pretend prison. This is what
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by enkid 5y ago
There was a good freakonomics podcast episode on this where they interviewed both Gladwell and the original author. The person who did the original study basically said Gladwell was not representing his research accurately.
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by enkid 5y ago
From what I have read (I'm not a psychologist, so take everything I say with a grain of salt), the Milgram experiment had some major ethical issues and doesn't meet modern standards for statistical evidence. There's also acc
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by enkid 5y ago
No, an experiment should not be set up to prove a hypothesis, it should be set up to test a hypothesis. In one the hypothesis is falsifiable, and in the other it's not.
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by enkid 5y ago
Tangent, but the Stanford Prison Experiment is an awful example of science. It was a researcher who wanted to prove a point and created the conditions to collect the data to prove that point. I hate that it's often the only psycholog
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by enkid 5y ago
You have a source for that?
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by enkid 5y ago
What's the behavior your trying to get the AI to do in this example? Learn how to compute the power of 2? This is a task that can be accomplished much more simply with a different reward system. For example, have A always equal 1 and
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by enkid 5y ago
This is a case I could see going either way. Random mutations are probably much smaller and closer to the original, and therefore potentially more viable. Yes, it's random, but most of the time it won't have a major effect on the
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by enkid 5y ago
How do you even have reinforcement learning with non-real numbers? The point is to maximize a score. It seems to me, any benefit you'd get from using an alternative number system could be replicated by using an algorithm to convert m
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by enkid 5y ago
I am currently obsessed with this game. There are so many meaningful decisions and a lot of trade offs between what is good now versus what is good endgame. I hope they keep adding content, but I feel like I could play it in it's curr
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by enkid 5y ago
I mean, if you know the adversaries plan, it's pretty easy to come up with something that wrecks it, which is what it sounds like that officer did. What the Japanese didn't know was that the Americans also knew the plan.
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by enkid 5y ago
And ~80% of that lives on the ~20% of land in Europe, making the rest of Russia very sparsely populated.
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by enkid 5y ago
Just because the world is experiencing it doesn't also mean that a nation can't experience it. A family is Syria escaping the civil war can say their misery is ending without the civil war ending.
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by enkid 5y ago
I think he's probably talking in the context of the United States because you can't say that the world's misery is over. India, for example, is still experiencing bad numbers. If anything, if he had said the world's mi
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by enkid 5y ago
There absolutely have been pandemics requiring vaccination drives to end them. Polio and Small Pox are two prominent examples that come to mind. And those worked extremely well in controlling those outbreaks. Second, the yearly flu vaccin
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by enkid 5y ago
Except Trump actually thought she used chemicals to clean the server, so there's nothing wrong with this fact check.[0] [0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/10/donald-trump-see... Edit: If you do
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by enkid 5y ago
The USA side was much better than the USSR side...
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by enkid 5y ago
The majority of work in government is on the defensive side, not the offensive side. But that would still be what you call whack-a-mole most of the time.
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by enkid 5y ago
Another possible explanation is that it feels/looks better for demonstration purposes. For press and initial players, having some time to process the information or make the animation look pretty is probably much more attractive then
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by enkid 5y ago
How do you differentiate the infrastructure from the technology? The technology drives the infrastructure.
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by enkid 5y ago
I'm not an expert on either, but based on my one course in neural networks I took, they are basically a series of linear algebra equations.
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by enkid 5y ago
How do you apply theology?
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by enkid 5y ago
Biden is purposing giving tax breaks to cities that stop this practice.[0] How is does this support the other poster's argument? [0] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/04/14&#x2

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