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by erostrate 6y ago
Good point thanks I missed that.
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by erostrate 6y ago
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%284+distance+to+n... It would take about 30 years to get there, assuming constant acceleration & deceleration of 5g, so I hope you won't be dying too fast :)
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by erostrate 6y ago
In France to get into an elite STEM university ("engineering school") students all take the same maths/physics/CS exams and the overall grade is the only factor deciding admission. Everything is state funded. It's n
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by erostrate 6y ago
The idea that morality is a function of situation more than character is called "situationism" in philosophy, I just looked it up, see [1][2]. Experimental psychology does find that character is fairly weak in most people and that
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by erostrate 6y ago
> It's worth remembering that dictators are not inhuman, and they are not so different from us. It's also worth remembering we're talking about someone who assassinates his critics and cuts them up into pieces. I would say
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by erostrate 6y ago
This argument works as long as there is healthy competition, so that consumer's preferences get reflected in the offer. If the market is a monopoly or duopoly you could get very undesirable outcomes.
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The Concorde accident: a case study [pdf](appel.nasa.gov)
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by erostrate 6y ago
Couldn't agree more, as someone very much on the left. I read The Road to Serfdom and along with Smith and Basquiat it made me a libertarian early on. Later I turned and I'm now very much on the left but still respect Hayek's
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by erostrate 6y ago
How come we haven't had big privacy scandals from Visa/ Mastercard? Big companies, a rent-like business, no pressure to do things well, own lots of very sensitive personal data, clients giving the data away without realizing it, l
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by erostrate 6y ago
And one year after that we will get self driving cars. And the next one will definitely be the year of Linux on the desktop :) Sure, it could happen somewhere down the line but saying that blockchain is "destroying the moat" today
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by erostrate 7y ago
I certainly agree that Adler's provocative tone is not helpful and his strokes are sometimes too broad to be fully correct as you have rightfully pointed out, but the general point stands. To me the Turing test gives a falsifiable expe
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by erostrate 7y ago
Why can't you assume time symmetric billiard balls? If you take a lot of them, black and white, put all the black ones on one side and the white on the other, give them random velocities, and wait a bit, you will end up with them all m
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by erostrate 7y ago
See Mike Adler answer to Searle. To use your digestion metaphor, as long as the input is food and the output is energy and byproducts, AI researchers don't care whether philosophers would call it "real digestion" or a "f
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Richard Feynman – The Distinction of Past and Future(informationphilosopher.com)
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by erostrate 7y ago
Richard Feynman has a good explanation for 3. http://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/f...
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by erostrate 7y ago
The article explains that their fully interpretable model actually got within 1% accuracy of the best black box model. Which was within cross validation error. That was at a data science competition whose explicit goal was to encourage peop
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by erostrate 7y ago
Some people, including in these comments, make the argument that preventing E2EE on Facebook is pointless because offenders can simply move to another service. That's not a very good argument for two reasons. First, Facebook is already
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by erostrate 7y ago
"The carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil-—more than half of it during the last generation—may have changed the atmosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warmi
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by erostrate 8y ago
They attacked the Base Management Controller. There's an article by Bruce Schneier from 2013 warning about exactly this attack. Quoting: "Basically, it's a perfect spying platform. You can't control it. You can't pa
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by erostrate 8y ago
Thanks! This is indeed related and part of my inspiration for this question. Some other interesting references: - The waterfall argument in paragraph 6 of the mind-boggling "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity&q
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by erostrate 8y ago
Hi Scott There are non-quantum physical systems that exhibits positive and negative amplitudes and interference. Can I factor large numbers by throwing rocks in a lake and measuring the water height at the right place? Why not?
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How to identify suspicious processes running on OS X?
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by erostrate 10y ago
Economics studies the production of wealth, which is more relevant to business? Also economics claim to have a strong predictive power? I don't know. There are also interesting differences in how economists view themselves compared to
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by erostrate 10y ago
Economists are in favor of carbon taxes because the alternative is environmental regulation. They favor open immigration policies because it brings flexibility to the job market. Leading to less job security for low skill workers and more p
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Richard Feynman – The Character of Physical Law [pdf](people.virginia.edu)
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by erostrate 10y ago
My intuition is that the converse is impossible in general. There is an axis along which an object with infinite volume is infinite, and taking cross sections along this axis you should be able to prove that the object has infinite area.
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by erostrate 11y ago
The swiss roll problem also illustrates nicely the idea behind deep learning. Before deep learning people would manually design all these extra features sin(x_1), x_1^2, etc. because they thought it was necessary to fit this swiss roll data
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by erostrate 11y ago
> Scientific studies have shown that skills in abstract strategy games are so specific to the game that they do not transfer to other tasks Do you have a reference for that please? I'm interested in the subject.
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by erostrate 11y ago
Your first command uses 13 distinct non-alphanumeric characters: '{="\;}$~/.*& It looks more like black magic than code to someone like me who doesn't know awk. It reminds me of these APL/J/K solutions I se
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by erostrate 11y ago
"With the constant (and unsustainable) attention of staff, and three weeks of practice, they eventually became a little more docile [...] It’s like child psychology [...] So if you can’t tell them what to do every two minutes, how on e

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