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by glial 2y ago
> if there was a startup that negotiates on behalf of employees for salary, benefits, remote vs in-office, etc. using collective influence as more people from a particular company used it. I...love this idea. And end-users could pay them
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by glial 2y ago
I can't tell whether you're making an argument for or against it.
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by glial 2y ago
Interesting, so in general you could construct polygons with 2^n+1 sides?
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by glial 2y ago
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but aren't all computations inherently serial? In that a Turing machine performs operations serially?
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by glial 2y ago
Is that mainly because AGI is one of those "I'll know it when I see it" things?
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by glial 2y ago
From o1-mini: To determine which number is larger between 9.11 and 9.9, let's compare them step by step: Understanding the Numbers: 9.11 can be read as "nine and eleven hundredths." 9.9 can be read as "nine and nine tent
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by glial 2y ago
In my experience, the best thing about Pandas is how much it made me appreciate using dplyr and the tidyverse. If it wasn't for Pandas, I may not be the avid R user I am today.
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by glial 2y ago
Many of the results in the 'agent' literature require several agents and many iterations to produce an output. See some examples here [1]. Getting these results in seconds instead of minutes or hours would be incredible - and wou
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by glial 2y ago
Where in Euclid's Elements does this proof appear? I can't seem to find it.
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by glial 2y ago
Yes - here's a short TED talk on the topic: https://youtu.be/Vf_m65MLdLI?feature=shared
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by glial 2y ago
Good call - 'news' as we know it today is optimized for engagement, not creating an informed citizenry.
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by glial 2y ago
Ideally, governments solve problems that are important but that society can't figure out how to solve in other ways. The questions for us are then: - is it important that voting citizens are informed about various issues? - is the mark
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by glial 2y ago
My TCL has no ads and has quite good picture quality besides.
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by glial 2y ago
Yes, so-called "social technology" sometimes doesn't feel very advanced.
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by glial 2y ago
PhD students are in training, and replicating a published result is a great training exercise. PhD students ARE paid. But this work won't be prioritized by their PI unless it's also a requirement of the program.
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by glial 2y ago
The article hints at this, but not publishing null results (at least in a database - somewhere!) goes hand-in-hand with the replication crisis. An experimental outcome is always a single sample from a distribution of outcomes that you wou
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by glial 2y ago
Can you explain this in more detail? Entropy is calculated as a function of a probability distribution over possible messages or symbols. The sender might have a distribution P over possible symbols, and the receiver might have another dist
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by glial 2y ago
I felt like I finally understood Shannon entropy when I realized that it's a subjective quantity -- a property of the observer, not the observed. The entropy of a variable X is the amount of information required to drive the observer&#
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by glial 2y ago
> Regardless, morals can only be applied to humans. Try to apply it to animals and you get nonsense. This seems overly simplistic. For the sake of argument, I'll accept that moral judgments can only be made for human actions. But wh
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by glial 2y ago
I agree with your general point -- we should lean into kids' existing motivations rather than wring our hands that kids don't like to do rote practice. Doing anything else is a failing strategy, unless we devise new motivational
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by glial 2y ago
> We don't teach students how to be present, to know nature, how to explore their thoughts and emotions, or how to collaborate. Montessori schools do. Wish they were more common.
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by glial 2y ago
Phones have relatively terrible lenses and sensors.
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by glial 2y ago
+1 I would absolutely buy this.
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by glial 2y ago
Similar for textures - it would be really neat if textures were auto-generated to add detail when you get close to something. As it is, the sprites just look bad.
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by glial 2y ago
I haven't used the new one! Will check it out, thanks.
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by glial 2y ago
Nice to see this writeup. Entering text into the terminal, and copying output out, is a huge barrier to entry for beginners. Windows terminals in particular feel downright antagonistic to use.
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by glial 2y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/
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by glial 2y ago
I already own a copy! I was just wondering whether it was against HN guidelines to post the entirety of a copyrighted work. Perhaps I should have been more direct.
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by glial 2y ago
Is this in the public domain?
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by glial 2y ago
> as long as the money can keep flowing I think you answered your own question there. But then, this was true before history ended too. I strongly recommend "How to Hide an Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr - it's an easy and fa

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