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by gooseus 8y ago
I agree, but this is not a helpful point form which to start a conversation. It's lazy and below the standards many expect from HN. A better way to start this conversation (imo) would be to make reference to the many mistakes Equifax
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Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing(phys.org)
105 points by gooseus 8y ago|35 comments
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by gooseus 8y ago
Mostly agreed, some of my addenda: Physical better: - Persistent subconscious knowledge of where I am in the book (weight in each hand). - Much easier to flip back multiple pages to re-read a section and flip to where you were. - Resilient
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Self-Driving Cars Will Always Be Limited. Even the Industry Leader Admits It(medium.com)
2 points by gooseus 8y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 8y ago
Is there precedence for such a lawsuit? I've wondered about legal obligations to web accessibility in the past and assumed it would eventually become a bigger issue since.
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by gooseus 8y ago
I was expecting/hoping for analysis, but it's more like an anniversary press release touting a bunch of success without reference and ignoring anything negative. > For ten years, the world has known a decentralized source of tr
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by gooseus 8y ago
I'm not good at this (yet), but my understanding is that your prior for just this test would be the likelihood of having Alzheimer's based on the statistical occurrence within the general population. After this test you now have u
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by gooseus 8y ago
I didn't read his book, but I would guess it was his failure to properly account for the diminishing returns of increased complexity in all the systems that these technological advances (increasingly) depend on. This includes the econo
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by gooseus 8y ago
I don't think that means cutting him some slack, that means that he shouldn't be so foolish as to make such specific claims about such specific timings. Also, my impression of Kurzweil was that he didn't think in S-curves, bu
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by gooseus 8y ago
> although many of these hits require reinterpreting "most" as "many" and so on. Words have meanings, if he says "most" and it is less than 50% of the total then I'd have to say it's a miss. I mean
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by gooseus 8y ago
As an aside - if anyone is interested in learning a whole lot about negotiating/diplomacy throughout history, including Yalta (I think), I recommend the When Diplomacy Fails Podcast with Zack Twamley: http://www.wdfpodcast.c
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Bitcoin is a Decentralized Organism (Mycelium) – Part 1 / 3(medium.com)
3 points by gooseus 8y ago|0 comments
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Waymo's driverless cars on the road: Cautious, clunky, impressive(azcentral.com)
6 points by gooseus 8y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 8y ago
I'm currently reading The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and I think that he makes that claim that our brains are Bayesian and then some. Haven't finished yet, he gets into artificial intelligence in the next few chapters, but he se
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by gooseus 8y ago
> New members have mentors who are responsible for them. Does that imply that if you vouch for a new member that you are also expelled if they are or share the cost of their fuckups?
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by gooseus 8y ago
Scrolled through a lot of other comments to find this one. Palm Pre was the first true smart phone I ever owned and I still maintain it was the best - way ahead of its time with the card interface and all you needed to code apps was HTML&#x
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by gooseus 8y ago
Dems the rules: >If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link. > If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd
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by gooseus 8y ago
My only knowledge of Schlitz was from Super Troopers: Farza: Gimme 6 Schlitzes! Bartender: We don't have Schlitz... Farza: Yeah, whatever's free.
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by gooseus 8y ago
Way to go team Nim! I was dabbling in this community almost a year ago before being distracted by work/life, very fun and supportive. Still enjoy wearing my Nim t-shirt and look forward to returning to some dabbling in the (hopefully n
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by gooseus 8y ago
OP disclaimer - I did not write this and do not endorse the claims personally. I'm hoping to aggregate some expert responses for the person who sent it to me, but if it's not worth the time/energy of the HN community then I t
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How Artificial Intelligence Enables the Economics of Abundance(medium.com)
1 points by gooseus 8y ago|1 comments
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by gooseus 8y ago
I put them all through ImageOptim, so not sure if those PNGs can compress anymore... I agree on those complexity graphs since they're actually scanned from Sean Carroll's book and edited in Pixelmator - if I was better with graphi
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by gooseus 8y ago
I can't agree more with the points you make, I've spent a decent amount of time and effort reducing the overhead of my blog, for example - https://goose.us/thoughts/on-the-purpose-of-life/ That page incl
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by gooseus 8y ago
This is, indeed, a silly way to frame the argument, a better approach would be to restructure the malpractice law so that doctor's insurance premiums are lowered and they (hopefully) pass that on to the consumer. Let the malpractice l
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by gooseus 8y ago
They didn't mention it, but I'm assuming that no scrolls or actual library knowledge is recoverable from the site? Whenever I listen to history people talk about all the sources that have been lost, I dream that someday someone wi
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by gooseus 8y ago
Doesn't India's vestigial caste system create a similar structural racial equality problem there? Would America's racial inequality not be an issue if we had 3x the population?
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by gooseus 8y ago
Yep, that's the place... if it's the one I'm thinking of, then I think it's a diagram of a search through a set of potential models during a RA (Reconstructability Analysis) of 3 independent variables with 1 dependent va
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by gooseus 8y ago
I had a similar experience this past week at the ISSS conference in Corvallis. I'm applying to the systems science PhD program at PSU this year and was amazed at the both the depth and breadth of the systems research and discussion to
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by gooseus 8y ago
Well, let's not forget that water vapor is a greenhouse gas[0] though not quite as serious as others since it will condense out in clouds and increase albedo. [0] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/faq
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by gooseus 8y ago
I've always thought that a novel approach would be a social media company in a cooperative structure - where the employees and users are also part owners and would have a say in some of the decision making, as well as sharing in the pr

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