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by feoren 2y ago
> zero represents an absence of quantity and doesn't appear in Nature From one point of view, zero never appearing in nature is exactly an example of it appearing in nature! From another point of view, do you not think a prairie dog
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by feoren 2y ago
They expect you to teach them in a way that's immediately understandable to them, and if they don't get it immediately, it's your fault. They get offended if you tell them a single thing they already know, but also blame you
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by feoren 2y ago
How are you cooking that rice? With rainwater collected from gutters over a trash can fire? Both of which are illegal, by the way. How are you preventing others from stealing your rice? Where are you eating it? Where are you sleeping at ni
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by feoren 2y ago
I get the feeling you've never really talked to many academics.
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by feoren 2y ago
> Do they think they will simply be wealthy enough that it won't affect them much, they will be insulated from it? Yes, partly that. Mostly they only care about their rank. Many people would burn down the country if it meant they co
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by feoren 2y ago
I too worry about a future where the rich no longer have any need for the poor. I think the scenario where the rich end up just giving the poor a bit of money each month is an extremely optimistic one. Much more realistic is a slow genocide
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by feoren 2y ago
The dig on chains of map/reduce/filter was listed as a "Halstead Complexity Takeaway", and seemed to come out of the blue, unjustified by any of the points made about Halstead complexity. In fact in your later funcA vs.
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by feoren 2y ago
> You are told explicitly at the beginning what the type of the result will be I would argue that's a downside: you have to pick the appropriate data structure beforehand here, whereas .distinct() picks the data structure for you. I
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by feoren 2y ago
> Chaining together map/reduce/filter and other functional programming constructs (lambdas, iterators, comprehensions) may be concise, but long/multiple chains hurt readability This is not at all implied by anything else i
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by feoren 2y ago
> Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance Wow, it's wild to see this mentioned; I don't think I've ever known anyone else who played it. I sank way more time into that game than it deserved, blasting armies with the bugged
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by feoren 2y ago
> Who is "they"? Galadriel. She would be a great and terrible queen. All would love her, and despair. > People that don't know any history? For some reason, I find that people who accuse others of not knowing history te
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by feoren 2y ago
> We don't have to figure out the best government. We already have all kinds of ideas about this collected from millennia of thought on this subject. Except for 99.9% of those millennia, humanity had very different challenges than i
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by feoren 2y ago
> One friend of mine wrote code that was 1000 times faster than the people in the next cubicle over And did that 1000x speedup make a difference to users? Are we talking about an on-click event that now took 10μs instead of 10ms? Was thi
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by feoren 2y ago
Most internet forms that ask for gender have absolutely no reason to care about that information. Basically, biological sex should matter to healthcare professionals, and gender should matter to virtually nobody. So yes, "simply remove
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by feoren 2y ago
Sure. They say the best form of government is a benevolent dictatorship, while the worst form is a malevolent dictatorship. The problem is that the former almost always turns out to be the latter in disguise, or at least devolves into it ra
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by feoren 2y ago
Your entire post was barely longer than that ... > That isn't how science works. "Science" is a lot of human activities mushed together and there's not "one true way" that it works, except that it is univers
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by feoren 2y ago
>> Note that the comment you are replying to said nor implied anything of the sort. That's literally the exact claim being made: > We have an astounding lack of evidence that there is a Flying Spaghetti Monster roaming around
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by feoren 2y ago
> You turn a O(n^2) operation into O(nlog n). Sounds great until you realize that n is three on average. Sure, but are long convolutions avoided precisely because they're expensive? This paper is talking about an alternative to an a
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by feoren 2y ago
That's not how O(f(n)) notation works. You can't just plug in an n to O(f(n)) / O(g(n)) and claim a specific performance improvement. You have to actually know all the factors that are stripped off by big-O to do that, and
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by feoren 2y ago
Science is ultimately rooted in logic, and I'm not sure why so many people forget this. We seem to pretend that we can evaluate every possible claim in a complete vacuum, and that it's somehow pure to ignore any sort of logic or p
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by feoren 2y ago
> So write something and don't worry if nobody reads it. It's demotivating to have created a huge body of work that you know nobody will ever read/hear/experience. It saps the desire to create any more. I've been
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by feoren 2y ago
The answer to this seems obvious: continuous training of live models. No more "cutoff dates": have a process to continually ingest new information and update weights in existing models, to push out a new version every week. Note t
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by feoren 2y ago
> unwise from the company perspective The goal is to destroy most of these federal agencies, so doing things that are "unwise" for the future of those agencies is exactly the point.
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by feoren 2y ago
> executives, directors and managerial staff think the opposite Executives, directors, and managerial staff have had their heads up their own asses since the dawn of civilization. Riding the waves of terrible executive decisions is unfor
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by feoren 2y ago
> it's obvious why they're not using "non-partisan career employees that have been vetted..." Right, because those people are not loyal to them. > They assume, as rightfully a lot of us do, that this all happened u
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by feoren 2y ago
It's pretty uncommon. Most of my teammates' code is close to my standard -- I am referred to as the "technical lead" even though it's not an official title, but teammates do generally try to code to my standard, so
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by feoren 2y ago
Would you rather be a dairy cow on a farm owned collectively by the dairy cows, or owned by one billionaire family? Is it that hard to see how that's immediately a huge positive even if you can't identify individual instances of t
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by feoren 2y ago
> Oppenheimer was smart, no doubt, but did he have the life experience to warrant 'senior'-level decision making? You're questioning whether the person chosen to be the director of weapons development could be called &qu
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by feoren 2y ago
> Do you know how much the FAA spent renaming “cockpit” and changing Notice to Airmen to Notice to Air Missions in all FAA publications? Do you ? Because I'm guessing it was virtually nothing. That does not sound like a particularl
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by feoren 2y ago
There are so many articles talking about CEOs and other "business leaders" communicating effectively, but they never seem to point out the obvious: all these business leaders have fuck all to say. The emails that the C-suite sen

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