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by hatthew 7mo ago
While true, I'm not sure what your point is? Centuries ago, everyone got up at sunrise to tend to the farm because the farm needed tending at sunrise. These days, organizations like schools and grocery stores need to coordinate with hu
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by hatthew 9mo ago
Yeah my intuition was the same; if I had 1 second to make a guess I probably would have said 1% chance of >0 collisions
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by hatthew 9mo ago
By my calculations there will be an average of 500 collisions, no? Each shoebox has an effective width of 2 feet, and with 50k of them that's about 1% density. With 50k in the other direction, and about a 1% collision rate, that's
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by hatthew 9mo ago
I agree in general, but as a one-off thing I'd very much enjoy getting a lime with a message saying "this was cheaper than sending a letter myself"
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by hatthew 10mo ago
Would you say a country of 300 people isn't small? Big, small, etc. are relative terms. There is no way to decide whether or not 300 is small without implicitly saying what it's small relative to. In context, it was obvious that t
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by hatthew 10mo ago
the implied observation is that valve is extremely small relative to what it does and how big most people would expect it to be
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by hatthew 10mo ago
Sure, and the issue is that the article says "Suppose we have calculated the expected information gained by potential truth booths like below:" and then lists some values >1 edit: just saw that the article fixed this recently,
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by hatthew 10mo ago
The article states "Suppose we have calculated the expected information gained by potential truth booths like below: Expected information: 1.60 bits ..." This is impossible because of the general fact in information theory that (p
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by hatthew 10mo ago
An answer of "yes" will generally eliminate many edges, with potential for >1 bit. However, an answer of "no" will generally eliminate just that one edge, which is generally <1 bit.
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by hatthew 10mo ago
We have to make a distinction between "expected information gain" vs "maximum information gain". An answer of "yes" generally gains >1 bit, but an answer of "no" generally gains <1 bit, and the
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by hatthew 10mo ago
Yes, you learn more than 1 bit in that case. However, if you are told A is false, you still don't know whether B or C is true, so you gain less than 1 bit. Assuming A, B and C all have equal probability, your average/expected info
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by hatthew 10mo ago
IMO the article reads like it was written by a high schooler trying to reach a page count. It has original content, but it rehashes the same points many times, is short on actual substance, and doesn't have a clear point.
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by hatthew 10mo ago
My context window is about a day. I can remember what I had for lunch today, and sometimes what I had for lunch yesterday. Beyond that, my lunches are gone from my context window and are only in my training data. I have vague ideas about wh
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by hatthew 10mo ago
Eclipse was great for java specifically, but a lot of its useful/reliable features came from java being easy to standardize around. Strong static typing and javadocs combined allow for a lot of convenient and reliable features like p
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by hatthew 10mo ago
saying "a coin may land on head or on tail" is useful when other people are saying "we will soon have coins that always land on heads"
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by hatthew 11mo ago
> How many people died or were seriously injured in the latest Cloudflare outage? I would not be surprised if the answer is "several". The average impact per human is obviously pretty small, but across billions of humans, there
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by hatthew 11mo ago
I was homeschooled up until college. I was part of a non-religious (maybe vaguely pagan) homeschooler community. I eased into college by taking a couple courses per semester at my local community college for two years around the end of high
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by hatthew 11mo ago
Who's going to verify whether or not you're violating the license?
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by hatthew 11mo ago
As far as I'm aware, high speed drones tend to have quite short flight durations due to battery limitations. Drones that have the range to follow a fleeing suspect for a long time would probably have to be big enough that they could ca
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by hatthew 11mo ago
That makes sense, thanks!
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by hatthew 11mo ago
this thread comes from a provocative quip that the democrats are conservative, with no mention whatsoever of any context other than america
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by hatthew 11mo ago
left and right are directions, not locations
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by hatthew 11mo ago
I'm a little confused about what the point of these are compared to the existing features/models that kagi already has. Are they just supposed to be a one-stop shop where I don't have to choose which model to use? When should
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by hatthew 11mo ago
Did you perhaps intend to post this on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968611
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by hatthew 11mo ago
The link suggests that we expect to see 100:1 four-leaf to six-leaf ratio, but in that one patch I found about a 4:1 ratio. I think it is very plausible that different lineages and/or different environmental conditions could cause wild
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by hatthew 11mo ago
The wording seems to strongly imply no; you need two separate plates with 500 on them.
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by hatthew 11mo ago
my point is that the ratios are variable, and thus 100:1 four-leaf:five-leaf is plausible
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by hatthew 11mo ago
why not make many local commits and then squash before rebase/push/merge?
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by hatthew 11mo ago
I don't think they are uniformly distributed. Anecdotally, in my friend's backyard, the ratios I found were more like 10000 three-leaf 15 four-leaf 7 five-leaf 4 six-leaf 2 seven-leaf I would assume that t
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by hatthew 11mo ago
Hmm yeah I didn't consider that they might use part of their yields in ways that don't generate revenue. However that would mean they use $2,400/acre/month of their crops for subsistence which doesn't seem very plau

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