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by gweinberg 9mo ago
Bob isn't giving you any actionable information. If Alice and Bob agree, you're more confident than you were before, but you're still going to be trusting Alice. If they disagree you're down to 50% confidence, but you st
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by gweinberg 9mo ago
In the US they don't hang it on trees, they just leave by the side of the trail or road or whatever. But it is very common to see bags of dogshit on the sidewalk or by the side of a trail in the US.
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
Can't we just leapfrog to IPv7? or 8 for that matter?
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
I have fun, but I probably wouldn't if the AI was right all the time. Or if I was helpless when it was wrong. But for now I'm still in the centaur zone.
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
Are you seriously saying that, because a point distribution may well make sense if the point in question is zero (or 1) other points are plausible also? Srsly? The nonsense isn't just that they're assuming a point probability, it&
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
How is "more than 100" people "rallying" even remotely newsworthy? What's the threshold, three?
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
I don't understand why anyone thinks self-reported happiness scores mean anything at all. I don't see how they possibly could. If someone says he's a 10 on his personal scale I guess that means he can't imagine being muc
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by gweinberg 10mo ago
I read the page on Lindsey's paradox, and it's astonishing bullshit. It's well known that with sufficiently insane priors you can come up with stupid conclusions. The page asserts that a Bayesian would accept as reasonable pr
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
Yeah, it may seem like a "better" (because stronger) conclusion to the author that if you have more pigeons than pigeonholes you must have more than one pigeon in a hole even if negative or irrational numbers of pigeons. But you&#
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
For a fingerprint to be useful it must not only be unique but also persistent. If I have a process that randomly installs and deletes wacky fonts, I'm unique at any given time, but the me of today can't be linked to the me of tomo
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
You seem to be confused about the difference between "less" and "more". In general a yes-no question gives less than 1 bit of information if yes and no are not equally likely. There is no way it can be expected to give m
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
The commutation problem has nothing to do with matrices. Rotations in space do not commute, and that will be the case whether you represent them as matrices or in some other way.
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
Right, just monkeys, and they only had 200 study monkeys in the first place. Pretty much a bacon double nothingingburger.
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
Well, I had to write it down, but I have to write down everything these days. But from the way the problem was phrased, it was obvious you don;t have to actually find to numbers.
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by gweinberg 11mo ago
They're prone to genetic issues because they're inbred.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I understand the assertion perfectly. I understand why people might feel it intuitively makes sense. I don't understand why anyone purports to believe that saying "Chinese characters" rather than bit sequences serves any purp
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I don;t understand why people have any respect at all for Searle's"argument", it's just a bare assertion "machines's can't think", combined with some cheap misdirection. Can anyoneone argue that havin
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by gweinberg 1y ago
It's really pretty stupid. Your encryption is there in case your laptop gets stolen. If you have people willing and able to kidnap and torture you to get your data, you have much bigger problems than the fact that they'll probably
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Okay, but this is the average temperature of a big cloud of hydrogen with oxygen yet to be invented right?
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Your understanding is silly. Inflation or no inflation, you'd like to maximize your roi.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
πthon
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Why not? Too wide? Sharp edges?
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by gweinberg 1y ago
The sears catalog was all selling sears stuff, there were no third party sales. Branding as assurance of quality can actually work pretty well.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
That's not unreliable narrator, it's alternative history. Like when his heroes kill Hitler and end the war early saving millions of lives.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Phish has a helpful song explaining how to deal with laser ahrassment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YpLTljxq6M&list=RD2YpLTljxq...
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by gweinberg 1y ago
In the flick Tarantino made it seem like Lee was all bluff, that he could just talk tough and make some fancy moves and much bigger guys would all back down. The world doesn't work like that.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
I don't understand why anyone would try to invent a new screensaver when we already have flying toasters.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
Abandon is too strong a word. I imagine most people who are still using 32 bit operating systems aren't too concerned about getting the very latest version of firefox either.
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by gweinberg 1y ago
It takes more than 20 years for a kid to provide net economic benefit to a country. So unless they're just looking at countries whose population has been declining for well over 20 years, this "data" is bullshit.

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