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by hazbot 3y ago
model.predict() is pretty easy to call, but judging the validity of the model is still hard and very manual. Linear model is less flexible and powerful, but easier to analyse/validate.
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by hazbot 3y ago
Eventually, those who disagree will die out. What a conclusion!
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by hazbot 3y ago
I think they are quite upfront about their values, and I suspect they would quite likely be OK with being labelled human-centric, as would I!
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by hazbot 3y ago
OP assigned -3 units of charge to the electron, so all works out.
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by hazbot 3y ago
Love to hear you're still teaching a decade later - I'm starting my Masters of Teaching next week to become a math teacher!! What do you think the biggest mistake that people who don't last as a teacher make?
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by hazbot 3y ago
The paper is here https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/111114 and is very accessible reading. My takeaway is these ‘Harbingers of Failure’ have tastes not shared by the broader market, and so success only among
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by hazbot 3y ago
How many plumbers feel Like most of the math they did was soulless and irrelevant, but don’t mind or even like that they got to do some art in school?
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by hazbot 3y ago
I read the first few chapters, then went off and just hacked on some math for the joy of it. It was incredibly freeing for me at least to hear the message of ‘think deeply about simple things’ with the realisation I don’t care like I used t
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by hazbot 3y ago
Substack has been broken for me Firefox on iOS for a little while now.
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by hazbot 4y ago
Previous doomsday predictions must be wrong, otherwise we wouldn’t be here to say they were wrong. But part of the reason the other doomsday scenarios were wrong is because people took them seriously and tried to mitigate the risks.
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by hazbot 4y ago
Fair point, defs should be mentioned by any serious article. I have use cases where forbidding writes is a feature, and if it means more stability and performance it’s a trade-off that’s worth it to me.
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by hazbot 4y ago
I’ve been burnt by trying to use FsX as a mount-s3-as-a-readonly-filesystem. Flaky mounts, complicated workarounds for maintenance windows - if this lives up to the promise I can delete a whole module (and the cognitive overhead of reasonin
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by hazbot 4y ago
Every time I get a new windows device, I have to go hunting for the arcane registry settings to disable the start bar ads. It is really jarring when I use a relative’s computer with the default ad vomit.
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by hazbot 4y ago
In Australia we use hydrogen in our weather balloons. It’s essentially a safety/cost trade-off.
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by hazbot 4y ago
Start living on the smaller salary now - see how it feels to cut the luxuries, squirrel away the rest into savings. I’ve been to a colleague’s ‘demotion party’ from team lead to IC in another office - they had no regrets. Be prepared for em
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by hazbot 4y ago
In Australia we refer to ourselves as part of the “western world” - despite the geography being nonsensical!
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by hazbot 5y ago
Also your approach is more honest than saying ‘keep science apolitical’.
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by hazbot 5y ago
I found the generation technique fascinating, but the images felt 'wrong' - I felt like I didn't know where to look to get an overview of the scene, and when I tried to focus on details it was like me eyes kept 'slipping
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by hazbot 5y ago
I remember as a kid doing: 100/3 ans×3 on different calculators, and at the time being baffled at how they often said 99.9999999.
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by hazbot 5y ago
My android calculator app gives me 9.00000... and lets me scroll through the decimal expansion, it's zeros at least to 1000 places, so presumably the calculator's answer is exactly 9. I wonder if our calculator apps are doing some
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by hazbot 5y ago
I think your analogy is pretty apt. However, even though I don't think you can give corporations a free ride just because 'people could choose not to use the product', this is not an absolute! 'People could choose not to
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by hazbot 5y ago
True, but that didn't stop me from finding parts interesting, and just generally enjoying the earnestness.
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by hazbot 5y ago
I like the focus on tools to assist the human, rather than automating merge conflicts. Even if you come up with a new clever algo that reduces merge conflicts by x% from where we are now, how do you decide that these two pieces of now non-c
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by hazbot 5y ago
I was chatting to a speech pathologist the other day, apparently when they were being awarded their degrees, the entire class submitted the IPA transcription of their names to be read out at the graduation ceremony.
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by hazbot 5y ago
I don't think there's not a universal theory of AI for lack of trying - it's just really hard and non obvious. e.g. physics and chemistry took centuries of empirical fooling around to develop the highly predictive theories we
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by hazbot 5y ago
This got me thinking about what we could and could not do if we had a magical a energy-unbottlenecker, say an infinite capacity battery with arbitrary power output. These become much cheaper: - Transport: synthesise fuel from CO2 + seawater
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by hazbot 5y ago
Every time I see one of these threads I think "maybe Python isn't the best choice if we still need threads like this". But it's just so useful...
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by hazbot 5y ago
I just started using a PC I built in 2014 again, also with a Haswell processor. Like you say, still pretty snappy. But honestly I was a bit sad it hadn't become hopelessly obsolete.
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by hazbot 5y ago
CGP Grey has a interesting video on this: Americapox: The Missing Plague - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
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by hazbot 5y ago
paraphrasing one point in the article: "Back in the good old days ads were great". Probably the legions of garbage ads have simply been forgotten about, and we only remember the greats. In the same way that the average quality of

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