haberman

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by haberman 8y ago
SketchUp has been running in the brower for the better part of a year (or at least their free version does): https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000315 I wasn't able to find any technical information about
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by haberman 8y ago
Do you have any references for this? I couldn't find any mention of this in my research. For example it's not mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
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by haberman 8y ago
I very much want to believe this. But how?
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by haberman 8y ago
I didn't know that! I'll update my comment.
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by haberman 8y ago
> The root problem with this aircraft is that people prefer cheaper flights over faster flights. Agreed. And that's not even mentioning the climate angle of it. I've done some reading lately about the effects of air travel on
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by haberman 9y ago
What is the difference between a flamethrower and a propane torch? I find myself inexplicably delighted at the prospect of understanding this distinction.
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by haberman 9y ago
There is also pointer authentication in ARM: https://lwn.net/Articles/718888/ It seems pretty difficult to define function types at the ISA level, since anything to do with typing is language/VM-specific. Wh
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by haberman 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure what my point is. I just think it's an interesting comparison that one article calls iron working a "high-paying job" while another says iron-workers don't make enough to live in certain citie
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by haberman 9y ago
In an interesting coincidence, The Stranger (local leftie paper in Seattle) just published this guest op-ed about how iron-workers don't earn enough to live in Seattle: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04
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by haberman 9y ago
I agree. My point was only that such questioning is healthy and necessary. But even so, people should not misrepresent what the consensus is.
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by haberman 9y ago
I think you make a good point overall, and I think anthropogenic global warming should be open to questioning. It should be be able to prevail on its merits in the face of competing theories. However if you are speaking in terms of what &q
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by haberman 9y ago
This is especially troubling when combined with confirmation bias. The whole point of data is that it anchors us to reality. Data should be the check that prevents us from believing something simply because we want it to be true. But if
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by haberman 9y ago
I'm glad you had a good experience with Protocol Buffers. (I work on the protobuf team at Google). But I would advise a bit of caution. Writing a fully-compliant protobuf implementation is trickier than it looks. I'd recommend
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by haberman 9y ago
When I was house-hunting, I found it really frustrating how difficult it is to truly price out the total cost of owning a house. Many people think that renting is throwing your money away, and buying is acquiring equity. This is true as a
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by haberman 9y ago
"Bad faith" doesn't mean "I think this person is being unfair." It means "I think this person is being intentionally deceitful." If a person genuinely believes what they are saying, it is not bad faith, no
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by haberman 9y ago
> It has never been about opinions, and you know it. It has to do with antisocial behavior. It is my genuine belief that presuming bad faith (as you have done here) is one of the most common antisocial behaviors that people don't ev
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by haberman 9y ago
If we're trading anecdotes, I grew up in a small town where I didn't worry about where I went. Then as an adult in a big city I was mugged at knife-point for obliviously walking through a bad part of town at night. If you want t
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by haberman 9y ago
The author has assembled an interesting timeline. It leaves a lot out (this is inevitable; the theoretical research around parsing is unbelievably vast). But ultimately the goal of the article appears to be placing their project Marpa in
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by haberman 9y ago
I think you make an interesting point: if we use context to train a model to reflect local biases instead of global biases , will that be more just and/or lead to better user experience? It seems related to the question of whether G
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by haberman 9y ago
The shameful history of "redlining" (housing segregation) was driven by policy, not market forces. Black people weren't being judged non-credit-worthy, they were being explicitly prohibited from borrowing and buying by FHA p
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by haberman 9y ago
I think your point was a straw man. You can tell if your model is good by measuring its predictive power on data outside your training set. You seemed to be arguing that only way to know the model is wrong is to insert a human who just k
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by haberman 9y ago
When is a model ever evaluated based on its ability to predict the training data? That is classic overfitting. This is why the training set is kept separate from test/validation sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by haberman 9y ago
> In fact, we can remove the layer of indirection and note that some people have names that are spelled the same as a curse word, and already have similar issues with today's software, making it literally impossible for them to ente
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by haberman 9y ago
If a person is loan-worthy, offering them a loan is good business sense. If others are denying loans for no good reason, that is a business opportunity. It doesn't require benevolence to offer people loans that they are qualified for.
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by haberman 9y ago
This sounds a lot like how people get TSA redress numbers when their info falsely flags them as suspicious ( https://www.dhs.gov/redress-control-numbers ). Or how Barack Obama suffered innuendo around the middle name "H
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by haberman 9y ago
What makes that story (in my link) so compelling to me is that it happened to people who were XHTML advocates. They were the people arguing that browsers should be strict. They were the people writing blogging software The Way It Should B
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by haberman 9y ago
Yes, it seems reasonable, and the analogy with programming languages seems to make sense. But there's a big difference. With programming languages, you write a program, and when it's correct, you check it in and it's immuta
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by haberman 9y ago
I agree completely with you and also with grandparent. I don't think these perspectives are in conflict at all. You have to take responsibility for your own safety. But at the same time, Tesla's response makes me lose respect f
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by haberman 9y ago
Oh yeah, my post wasn't about PNaCl at all (I wasn't even thinking about PNaCl when I wrote it). It's very clear to me that wasm is a superior design compared to PNaCl, and I'm glad history went the way it did. :) I wa
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by haberman 9y ago
I think the open-source equivalent of RecordIO is the leveldb log format: https://github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/log_format... https://github.com/google/leveldb/

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