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by guscost 6y ago
Added some clarification - Yes, the incompleteness theorems only concern the behavior of mathematical/formal systems themselves. But to me it seems perfectly reasonable that correspondingly, there may be features of the universe (&quot
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by guscost 6y ago
> Surely you would not call a differential equation with a given initial condition describing a simple harmonic oscillator along with an initial condition “inconsistent”. No, certainly not. > Would you call it incomplete? Yes, absolut
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by guscost 6y ago
All formal systems are incomplete or inconsistent. There is zero evidence that the universe is either.
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by guscost 6y ago
And in this case, the government of a country whose primary export is oil .
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by guscost 6y ago
It was a cheaper design, and better for enriching uranium. At the time it was built there were already many passively-safe reactors in operation.
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by guscost 6y ago
Best news I’ve heard in years.
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by guscost 6y ago
With chemical weapons, a tiny palm-sized drone can lift a deadly payload. And it is not hard to assemble a (very) large fleet of cheap micro-drones, so yeah.
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by guscost 6y ago
The top 50% are capable of actually doing TDD? I don’t see why that’s impossible, especially if they are the ones implementing it, not just pushing tickets along within it. And I don’t really follow TDD practices myself, so this would say n
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by guscost 6y ago
> I’ve noticed the ones that do generally make more. The market may be rewarding the TDD skill, it makes sense. But consider that causality makes sense the other way around too. Anyone with the patience, eye for detail, and organizationa
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by guscost 6y ago
You think all the other non-“notable” people executed in one of those things got the appropriate legal protections too? Anyway I’m just trying to say that if you want to apply the most unfriendly interpretation to some happening in America,
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by guscost 6y ago
This stuff is difficult to talk about because most people are not used to clinical reasoning about health outcomes. There are essentially priorities to balance between the COVID group and the other 8000 dying every day. And between the extr
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by guscost 6y ago
If you care about hearing a serious response, I think most Americans would agree that this protocol is on the wrong side of the line, but at the same time not thoroughly murderous in intent. It sounds like an extreme tactic that should be r
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by guscost 6y ago
The first GPT-3 academic paper will be accepted before the end of the year.
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by guscost 6y ago
As someone who may be tinkering with a game this decade, one big factor which favors “use prebuilt engine” in my thinking is that some of them abstract away the work required to port between different systems. Is this really a very big hurd
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by guscost 6y ago
Cool tech, but most people will have tuned out what we know as "the news" (or become jaded to its purpose beyond entertainment) before a tool like this is necessary.
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by guscost 6y ago
> R0 must be reevaluated I'm at the point of concluding: "All R0-based models are useless for a disease like this." The true dynamics are far too complex, and this assumption that we can conclude anything by plugging lin
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by guscost 6y ago
> At its heart is the understanding that controlling the virus is the single most important thing right now You misspelled “belief”.
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by guscost 6y ago
> The whole human population is immunologically naive to it. This study provides direct evidence that the “novel factor” is not as important as was previously thought. Maybe no-one has cleared a virus exactly like this one before (we can
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by guscost 6y ago
I would bet that you are right, but it is still a controversial opinion, and droplet transmission is probably still a major factor. Plenty of research supports the claim, although some studies conclude that it is only significant when the s
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by guscost 6y ago
I would be described as a "climate denier" by many people here, but my YouTube recommendations have zero overlap with the fictional recommendations. This is because I do not feel any need to prop up my opinions with endless wack
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by guscost 6y ago
To me the most important discovery from GPT-3 is actually how bad we are at close reading. Our brains repair small inconsistencies, and even invert the meaning of whole passages, without us noticing. GPT-3 produces text similar enough to co
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by guscost 6y ago
Yes, designed in-house by some very talented colleagues.
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by guscost 6y ago
Right now our production backend relies on Postgres, Django, Kafka, Docker, Nomad, Celery (yes, those queues probably should be folded back into Kafka eventually), and lots of other open-source tech. I'm not sure if I should share much
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by guscost 6y ago
Thank you, I agree! My focus is mainly on the parts downstream from all of this, once counts & count deltas can be uploaded to the cloud. When I joined, the focus on advanced hardware, anonymity/privacy, and edge-computing all stru
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by guscost 6y ago
Density (software) engineer here. Our sensor uses active infrared lasers to read depth, and it classifies "persons" with a deep-learning algorithm that runs on the device.
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by guscost 6y ago
Hi, please add me if you don't mind. My username at gmail.
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by guscost 6y ago
“Move slowly and don’t break anything.”
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Covid-19 serosurvey of individuals with no history of infection in Daegu, Korea(jkms.org)
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by guscost 6y ago
Note that similar effects have been observed with other critical illnesses: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1301372
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by guscost 6y ago
Derek Lowe's blog (linked by jhayward, thanks) has a good rundown of the recent T Cell research and what it means in general: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/15/ne... But

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