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by galimaufry 6y ago
Agreed that Foxconn doesn't sound malicious here. But it does seem like more than typical bumbling. In particular, I can't see how this management structure is supposed to work - competing subdivisions is fine, and having divisio
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I'm kind of surprised that being an island would help, actually. Is international travel into prosperous islands really less than into equally prosperous contintental countries? Most long-distance travel is by air anyway.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> That can easily be contrasted to Manhattan that was cleaned up by "broken windows policy". I believe this is more a just-so story than a fact. While New York did use the broken windows policy, they also grew the police force
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Have any games tried frequent savepoints + only allowing the player to reload 24 hours after dying? Seems like that would make reloads feel a bit more fresh/consequential, and also prevent addiction.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
US higher ed already is a public service. Only 25% of students are in private colleges/universities, and ~every professor who does research is funded mostly by government. I believe that what's actually happening with US higher e
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I run tensorflow on my laptop for small jobs, and AWS for big ones or in production. Not sure what the "push" is supposed to be.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I really don't think that Chester Pierce was an idiot who valued being emotional over being logical. While there is disagreement over how prevalent they are or what if anything should be done about them, micro-aggressions obviously exi
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> In China, English language students are taught to break that habit for fear of it being misinterpreted by a native English speaker. Based on my Chinese colleagues this is not true, or at least is not universal, or it changed within the
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Politics isn't going to solve this. You could elect an anti-PC theorist like Donald Trump, or an old school liberal like Nancy Pelosi, and this sort of thing would keep happening. The real solution is just awareness. As people see mo
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Just spitballing, but you could have composition eat the name of an input to the outer function: Given f(x,y) and g(z), write let q = (f .y g)(z=a) then q(y=b) = f(x=g(z=a), y=b) let q = (f .x g)(z=a) then q(z=a) = f(y=g(z=a), x=b) Aestheti
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I am wondering this as well. Disclaimer I did not read the paper. On the one hand, there are infinitely many geodesics on a dodecahedron, of unbounded length, so you can't really brute force all of them. On the other hand, the actual
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Could just be very risk-averse plea-bargaining on Ramesh's part.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
People do foot races even though gazelle is invented.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I'm using 'finite' in the same colloquial sense as GP: > there is a fundamental difference between finite, rent-generating resources like land, and value-added goods
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Sorry, I should have consistently specified "urban" land. Urban land is not finite (cities grow) and is very high value-added. American policy makers have chosen policies (eg zoning law) that make it easy to produce valuable urba
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Land is just an export like any other. China produces lots of manufactured goods, and sells them to the US. The US produces tons of valuable urban real estate and exports it to China. (Similarly the US produces lots of higher education,
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by galimaufry 6y ago
The point is that, with hindsight, we can say that this espionage was a good thing. It allowed the industrial revolution to spread to America, creating a major driver of global prosperity. Perhaps mankind should repeat this highly succe
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I don't think that's true. There have been frauds in materials science, but people still trust it. The fields that are untrusted are the ones that are so hard that it's plausible that the conventional wisdom might be wrong
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by galimaufry 6y ago
This illustrates the problem with calling out virtue-signalling. I see two references related to ethics. It seems the only way to avoid accusations of virtue-signalling would be to have 0 references to AI fairness. In practice, comments l
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> It is both, in the same way as a function is both its implementation and its "extension" (its effect on all inputs). Note that, according to definition of 'function' most common in math, this is false. A function n
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by galimaufry 6y ago
A partial answer is that big fully connected neural networks _are_ pretty much untrainable. Neural networks only became successful once programmers started constraining the space they were optimizing over pretty radically (like requiring c
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> It seems like the vast majority of photons would just fly through the universe without interacting with anything, unless there are other ways for photons to interact with matter besides being absorbed. Maybe someone who actually knows
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by galimaufry 6y ago
I think the best motivation for the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras is representation theory. Like you don't need anything besides linear algebra to know what SO_n is, but if you want to know about how it can act on a vector spa
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> angular momentum is only conserved if you take spin into account as well. Do you know an example of a process that moves angular momentum from one kind of spin to the other?
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Are parents' incentives really that strong? We need all sorts of laws to prevent parents from exploiting or maltreating their children. It seems that parental instincts are not very reliable.
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by galimaufry 7y ago
This. Preventing cheating in an online-only course requires meatspace infrastructure: testing facilities where students can be monitored. That infrastructure is still patchy.
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by galimaufry 7y ago
> Why would someone like that work for an online school when they could work for one that would give them tenure, funding, lab space, grad students, etc? Well, someone like that would love to not have to waste time lecturing. By not bein
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by galimaufry 7y ago
I strongly suspect that the cause of isolation is that we don't treat our workplaces as our community anymore. My parents' community all met their spouses and friends at work, whereas people of my age seem to find something unpr
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by galimaufry 7y ago
The Bachelors by de Montherlant. About two socially isolated impoverished turn-of-the-century aristocrats. The plot is very bitter and the main characters are awful people so you'd expect it to be fairly cynical, but it isn't a
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by galimaufry 7y ago
The problem I have with this is that love is a complicated thing. I love playing soccer, but without the social validation of my friends who also play it I would absolutely never practice. Similarly for most careers, even highly lovable o

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