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by eterevsky 3y ago
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667278
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I think this article would've made more sense if it had a title "The Dunning-Kruger effect is regression toward the mean", because that's what the author is actually showing.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Yep. In 2000 when I saw "GNU" in the name, I got mildly excited. Now when I see it, I'm expecting it to be semi-abandoned and its developers to care more about ideology than about the technology.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
The author would've had a point if SBF actually donated all the stolen money to effective charities. But he didn't, he just appropriated it. So his actions are in no way consistent with EA, and shouldn't be considered indicat
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by eterevsky 3y ago
With the same optics the 2x picture the effective size of the sensor is 2x smaller and it receives 4x less light. This has to result in the lower-quality picture. Also, the resolution of the photo is mostly limited not by the number of mega
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by eterevsky 3y ago
When my cat does something funny, I usually have a phone at hand, but the camera is in another room. There's a lot of other situations in which snapping a quick photo on the phone is the only way.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I also bought iPhone 15 Pro Max partly because of the 5x zoom, but I'm somewhat disappointed. The gap between 1x and 5x is just too big and includes focal lengths that are very useful for things like portraits. I wish they had 4 camera
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by eterevsky 3y ago
1) Why is it better than wrapping it in an interface with a clear API without extracting it into a separate service?
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by eterevsky 3y ago
In my experience, if a piece of code is stateful and is called from several different services, then it should be its own service. Otherwise it is usually better off as a library.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
The article suggests that this land is owned by a public organization.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
What is Temple Quay?
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by eterevsky 3y ago
My cats have been bitten by various insects more than once and are still not at all "scaredy" around them.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
The main advantage of handwriting is in the fact that it is slower, so it requires putting more thought into compressing whatever you are writing. (The article itself states it and I remember this explanation coming up in other studies.) To
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by eterevsky 3y ago
micro-USB 3.0? Why?
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by eterevsky 3y ago
This metric time goes only part of the way. "Day" shouldn't be a metric unit, since it changes over time and only makes sense on Earth. Unix timestamp is the real metric time because it only uses seconds which is a metric uni
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I had a Fido node in the late 90s — early 2000s. One thing I miss is the fact that it was possible to have civil conversations on very controversial subjects.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I would immediately buy those for my three cats. We are currently using Tractive and the battery barely lasts a whole day.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I'm not sure about "spending hours". In my experience it's more like "detect an error during compilation instead of an exception during execution". Once you see the exception, it's usually quite clear what
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I disagree with Twitter's decision on the first count and don't have a good opinion about the second. However these examples fall far short of what other social media companies are doing. On YouTube a year ago you could be banned
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Why quit Goodreads completely if you can just use the good parts of it? I use it to: - manage my "read" and "to-read" books, - glance through a couple of top reviews for the book that I'm intending to read Goodreads
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I don't really see Twitter banning users for "incorrect" political speech. Moreover, their Community Notes work very well for fact-checking.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Aren't missions paying for the usage of DSN? How come a small cubesat gets the amount of time on the network comparable to JWST? Could this be commercialized? If there's high demand it should be profitable to build new dishes to i
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Descartes' and Spinoza's view as you are describing them are purely philosophical and don't have any bearing on the empirical science. I don't see how your description Hume's contribution extends beyond basic scient
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by eterevsky 3y ago
1. I think most traditional approaches to epistemology disagree with you. 2. Doesn't the same logic apply to basically everything else? It doesn't rely on any specific properties of the brain. 3. Replace an arm by a car. Would a p
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by eterevsky 3y ago
I don't quite get your arguments about requiring us to be "external" to reality to be able to understand brain. First of all, I don't see why you can't study something of which you are a part of. Secondly, even if y
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Could you elaborate? In my view the current empirical consciousness research is built on top of neuroscience and cognitive science. I don't see any connection between them and the works of Hume, Descartes and Spinoza.
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by eterevsky 3y ago
> I don’t think full-brain simulation is possible We clearly aren't close to implementing them, but why do you think they are outright impossible? Brain is a physical object. Why isn't it possible to simulate its behavior? >
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by eterevsky 3y ago
... and is pretty much useless. Could you name any pre-20th century theory about consciousness that would be remotely relevant today?
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by eterevsky 3y ago
Consider full-brain simulation. Do you think that it shouldn't be afforded the same way as a flesh-and-blood human? If not, would you be ok with torturing simulated individuals to make them work? If yes, then how would you draw a line
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by eterevsky 3y ago
> Consciousness and attendant concepts have been active research problems for thousands of years. In the book "Consciousness and the Brain" neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene writes that up until 1980s or 90s studying consciousne

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