flaubere

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by flaubere 5y ago
Stephen F. Blinkhorn, is that you?
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by flaubere 5y ago
Gould wrote a controversial book attacking whole swathes of science done in the past. The existence of a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire who has written a criticism of it doesn't seem that surprising and certainly do
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by flaubere 5y ago
Although von Neumann was certainly a genius who happened to be in the right place at the right time, he's also an example of how groups of people can create a culture seemingly much more important than the effect of one outstanding ind
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by flaubere 5y ago
I'm sure there are lots of bright people who are coasting at either Stanford or Google. If that's your goal, you might well achieve it. But at the same time, there are people who are going to be vastly more successful than that. T
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by flaubere 5y ago
Yes, what people competing to get their children into the 0.9% miss is that 1. There are going to be other tests and hurdles in the future which differentiate your child from those with very high natural aptitude. 2. If your child worked 10
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by flaubere 5y ago
It seems like you are advocating, for a bright but not exceptional child, that they do get pushed to the point where they burn out, just in case they manage to win the lottery of appearing to be in the exceptional group. Even if this dubiou
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by flaubere 5y ago
Not sure why you are asking this in this thread, but the implication is that the bullets are fired from ground level, not necessarily horizontally. The maximum distance a projectile can travel when fired from ground level is the basic first
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by flaubere 5y ago
The author said in a postscript that he was worried about seeming elitist. I didn't think it was elitist at all, and I completely understand why it was a good choice for him to write BASIC code. However, I also did manual labour in the
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by flaubere 5y ago
I think he picked a good number. It clearly wasn't $1000 of effort. Jim may not have been interested in hiring someone who, like his previous software guy, was looking to shake him down for as much as possible.
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by flaubere 5y ago
I don't think that Dr Dre gets to evaluate the performance of Apple employees who are women (or Korean, etc) simply because they have a JV making headphones.
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by flaubere 5y ago
I think if you write something which says 'I am biased', the burden of proof is now on you to show hiring managers that it was all a bit, rather than on them to demonstrate that it wasn't.
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by flaubere 5y ago
Absolutely agree. The best and most creative environments I have worked in have been full of people who you could turn to and say "What if we did X?", and they would immediately come up with reasons that X would fail or be impossi
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by flaubere 5y ago
By redefining anyone who has worked very hard and enjoyed success as a 'fierce nerd', you make the term meaningless, and the supposed payoff from being one into a tautology.
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by flaubere 5y ago
I have found a few of his essays very good, indeed expressing things I haven't seen anywhere else. I think he has provided very good advice to young people at times. The vast majority I would say that he is trying to retcon his huge su
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by flaubere 5y ago
That depends on what the alternative is. If it involves clueless people filling up garbage bags with gasoline and storing them in their kitchens perhaps letting the pipeline continue to run would have been safer.
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by flaubere 5y ago
You just end up with a situation where there's intense competition to make cheatbots as good as possible, within the parameters of plausible deniability. People start meta-hacking to find tricks which don't improve the speedrun bu
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by flaubere 5y ago
The rest of the world makes a useful distinction between a 'country' (such as France), a 'state' (the public institutions which run France), and a 'government' (the political entity which controls the French st
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by flaubere 5y ago
It looks like many of these show a construction which you have to follow the details of to check that there aren't gaps or overlaps. Is there a way of checking these automatically? Eg if you can tile a certain amount of space without g
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by flaubere 5y ago
Here's a visualisation that helped me think about the 4-cube: Cut the 3-cube with a plane which is diagonal to all axes, eg x + y + z = c. Start at a corner and take sequential sections. First you get a small equilateral triangle, then
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by flaubere 5y ago
Do all the 2-nets of the 3-cube tile the plane?
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by flaubere 5y ago
If the chance of it happening is that small, isn't it fair to also consider the probability that we live in a universe without objective reality and/or where a god or gods intentionally interfere with random occurrences such as RN
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by flaubere 5y ago
I can only imagine the reaction of all prisoners in large Federal corrections institutions if one sunny morning they are lined up and processing for the release of every single inmate starts to take place. "What's going on, office