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by gjm11 4y ago
Except that he isn't spreading it. What his detractors claim is that he secretly believes in some variety of "scientific racism", which makes him a Bad Person. Maybe he does and maybe it does, but believing something secret
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On the first page of _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ there's this: "Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there
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by gjm11 4y ago
It's a little debatable whether Andrew Tang counts as "human" when playing hyperbullet chess.
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24x is more than 1 ply. Typical branching factor isn't so far from 24, and with alpha-beta the effective branching factor is more like sqrt(nominal branching factor), and I think modern engines are pretty good at pruning and extending
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by gjm11 4y ago
<pedant>Not log N, but N/e.</pedant> More seriously, that's the optimal solution if your goal is to maximize the probability that you end up with the single best person in the pool . I don't think that'
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by gjm11 4y ago
The author, George V Neville-Neil, may be right or wrong but definitely isn't a Windows-first programmer with no understanding of Unix-like systems. He cowrote a book about the innards of FreeBSD: https://www.oreilly.com&#
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by gjm11 4y ago
For the avoidance of doubt, I wasn't at all suggesting that the original submission should have been to the Guardian article rather than the Telegraph one, and I don't think anyone else was either. I was just trying to explain
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by gjm11 4y ago
Sure, but the point is that the Guardian doesn't have the same sort of right-wing-outrage-machine reputation that the Telegraph has, so (1) the tone of the article might be less annoying to those of a leftier bent, and (2) someone
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... in mice.
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TeX treats the problems of (1) choosing line breaks to turn a stream of words into a stream of lines, and (2) choosing page breaks to turn a stream of lines into a stream of pages, separately; it does #1 and then #2. The Knuth-Plass algorit
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You don't need matrices to conceptualize these things, you need them to represent them for purposes of calculation. If you want to do calculations on linear maps V -> W, you usually do it with matrices. And if you want to do cal
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by gjm11 4y ago
Don't forget duality. A matrix can represent a linear map (or, if you prefer, a module homomorphism) but if you think of it as a map from V to W* instead of to W, it represents instead a bilinear form on VxW. And of course an array d
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GiveWell's recommended charities are all doing health interventions in poor countries. The largest category in Good Ventures's grants, by more than 2x, is "global health and development". Malaria nets and the like are, i
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Effective Altruism is not a reinvention of logical positivism. Perhaps you mean rationalism (in the internet-rationalist sense; there are others) which is closely associated with EA but not at all the same thing, and is somewhat like lo
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by gjm11 4y ago
Cranking up the "legibility" I see plenty of perfectly respectable "x"s. Are you sure this is "not enough training data" rather than "actually, people writing quickly write pretty bad 'x's"?
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Nope. It means that if you are concerned about the possibility of something destroying the planet (or whatever), you actually have to look at what it is and what it can do and so forth.
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I think something is wrong with the logic of your first paragraph. Suppose (by way of analogy; this is not meant to be directly addressing AI) that in the next year some ingenious physicists finally get quantum gravity figured out, and that
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Those are not mutually exclusive and could perfectly well be true, if you bear in mind that it's some businesses and some knowledge workers. If your proposed explanation is broadly right, then you can describe it in two equally val
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The article doesn't say to call an API without hypermedia a "level 2 REST API"; in fact it says the exact opposite. > I should stress that the RMM, while a good way to think about what the elements of REST, is not a defin
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Coming soon: urllib 3.2 gen 1 2x2.
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I got the impression that the author of the article didn't actually understand the idea they were writing about. It reads like blogspam whose real purpose is not to convey understanding but to contain advertisements for, in this case
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by gjm11 4y ago
Could you elaborate on that? Isn't it true that encode always means text -> bytes and decode always means bytes -> text?
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Bully, as others have said. And I'll add this: if "business" has become something that excuses bullying then so much the worse for that notion of what business is . Suppose I go up to some person I know and say "Give me
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Infuriatingly stuttery for me on Firefox (on Linux; AMD Ryzen 5900X, so not exactly underpowered; plenty of RAM but very weedy GPU) but perfectly smooth on Chrome. It would be interesting to know whether this is something Chrome does bette
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What do you think it would be reasonable to expect me to have, if in fact the article is wrong or dishonest in some way? I am not a virologist or cardiologist or any other sort of medic. I have not gone to Israel and interviewed the people
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In ordinary mathematics there are plenty of ways to define the real numbers, but they're all equivalent; you can translate from one to another and if anything's true of one then its translation will be true of another. With the re
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Of course I would prefer my doctor to give me an accurate account of what's wrong with me and what its likely consequences are. We are talking here about some guy in a brief Hacker News comment, talking to some other guy on Hacker Ne
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Looking at the "Controversial articles" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports does not give me much confidence in the rigorousness of "Scientific Reports"'s review process
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First of all, a disclaimer: I am not a COVID-19 expert and my understanding might be out of date. Accordingly, I am not certain that the AZ vaccine still provides sufficient protection against current variants of SARS-CoV-2 for that benef
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A set is countable iff there is a sequence that counts it. That doesn't require that there be One True Notion of next-ness in the set itself. For instance, if I give you the rational number 337/912 and ask "what's the ne

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