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by fromMars 2y ago
Whether he endorsed Harris or not is irrelevant to my point. It was a poorly written article. I am actually very sympathetic with some of the pushback against some things associated with wokeness, like poorly implemented DEI policies that d
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by fromMars 2y ago
Not much I can say other than that was a disappointing piece of trash from Paul. The whole tirade against wokeness by the far right is nothing more than a bizarre attempt to stigmatize those who want to improve things for segments of societ
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by fromMars 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification. From the comments I gathered it was about both. I agree that the cosmological constant is the more puzzling of the two.
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by fromMars 2y ago
Not sure what that even means. It's our best theory at the moment and helps explain multiple different cosmological phenomena. There are also hypothesized particles that fit within the Standard Model that researchers are searching for
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by fromMars 2y ago
Why are these anti-dark matter articles upvoted on hacker news. As I understand it, most cosmologists still thing dark matter is the most likely candidate as it explains multiple different daya points unlike Mond.
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by fromMars 2y ago
Linear algebra is a relatively straight forward subject. I won't say easy because there are bits that aren't, and I struggled with it when I was first exposed to it in college. But in graduate school revisited it and didn't h
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by fromMars 2y ago
Sure they can, but niantic offered a free game, I already got some profit out of playing it.
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by fromMars 2y ago
Before smart phones or the rise of the internet your information was mined by credit agencies for use by banks, employers and other forms of credit lending. Credit cards and Banks sold your data to third parties for marketing purposes. Payr
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by fromMars 2y ago
For me it's been fear of impacting friendships. I have some friends who have very different political views than myself, although I consider myself a centrist. Some of my friends are no longer on speaking terms with each other because
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by fromMars 2y ago
The information Credit Bureaus and Banks store is much scarier. They know your salary every place you've worked and lived. And with all the recent links anyone can find this information on the dark web.
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by fromMars 2y ago
This balls in the urn problem is relatively straightforward with Bayesian Updating. We have a uniform prior for the number of red balls that were placed in the Urn, P(U) = 1/101 where U ∈ [0, 100]. We then have the probability the firs
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by fromMars 2y ago
That would be a positive. We need alternatives other than just burning energy to base a currency on.
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by fromMars 2y ago
That's a let down after all the hype in the opening pages.
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by fromMars 2y ago
There is a lot of evidence that aphants score higher on spatial reasoning tests than those with vivid visual recall and are over represented in fields like math and science. These two skill sets appear to be divergent, i.e., people are eith
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by fromMars 2y ago
I sort of agree and disagree. I wouldn't agree with the idea that most FAANG engineers are not passionate by nature about their work. What I would say is that the bureaucracy and bullshit one has to deal with makes it hard to maintain
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by fromMars 2y ago
I find this hard to believe having worked in multiple enterprises and in the FAANG world. In my anecdotal experience, I can only think of one or two examples of someone from the enterprise world who I would consider outstanding. The overall
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by fromMars 2y ago
Not a compelling article especially one from 2005. I think history has already proven Dyson wrong. Sean Carroll has had numerous excellent podcasts on this subject. As I understand, in general, these climate models have actually underpredic
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by fromMars 2y ago
No. Just no. Literacy is incredibly difficult in a language that requires knowing 10,000 characters to learn it.
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by fromMars 2y ago
East Asian Languages are tough for Westerners, or at least that has been my experience. The biggest problem is really the barrier to reading especially with Chinese and a lesser extent Japanese. Would love any tips from someone who has mast
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by fromMars 2y ago
From what I can tell, all the GPT team did was scale up ideas already there invented elsewhere in previous large language models. I am not sure that is a reason to bet on them making any breakthroughs needed for AGI.
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by fromMars 2y ago
Can someone confirm the validity of the section called ”Can we derive the James-Stein estimator rigorously?"? The claim that the best estimator must be smooth seemed surprising to me.
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by fromMars 3y ago
Didn't work out for me. I was pursuing a PhD and got married and shortly after had a child. I could no longer comfortably subsist on the salary of a Research Assistant. So I left academia to make more money. I could imagine marriage he
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by fromMars 3y ago
I wouldn't go that far, but in most cases they have never stood out as extraordinary in my experience. That isn't to say that many aren't extraordinary, but I imagine those who are end up in academia or something.
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by fromMars 3y ago
What happened with Ethereum's proof of stake? Have there been successful alternatives that eliminate the need for mining?
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by fromMars 3y ago
This is why I am not a fan of crypto. It's environmental impact is disastrous in its current form.
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by fromMars 3y ago
I thought this originated at Microsoft long before Google with stack rankings of your team members.
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by fromMars 3y ago
I do know facts about there internal system. Internally, strict separation is taken very seriously and the logs are keyed by cookies with separate access and physical logs for different cookie spaces and no joining is done based on ip addre
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by fromMars 3y ago
Also, different icognito sessions will be logged as different users since all the cookies are deleted when you close all your incognito browsers. So the TLDR, is that yes data is being logged for an incognito session by Google, but that dat
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by fromMars 3y ago
I don't believe this is true. In incognito mode you don't have the same gaia or dblck cookie ids. Your traffic is logged in icognito mode by Google but as a different user under a different identifier. Now certain websites could u
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by fromMars 7y ago
Governments spy on a wide range of people, it would be illogical to call someone a conspiracy theorist for asserting that the US was spying on Assange and lends doubt to your claim that most would be rebuked as such based on that alone. In

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