hcta

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by hcta 4y ago
If you have a decent amount of downtime at work, maybe allocate some of it to mindfully practicing programming skills (or other skills relevant to your job). Maybe look at problems you've solved/tasks completed and try re-doing th
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by hcta 4y ago
Yes, I agree with all of that, but I note that everything you say applies equally well to the site I linked.
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by hcta 4y ago
I suspect anyone would be hard-pressed to explain what makes this more worth reading than http://web.archive.org/web/20150818094035/http://www.timecub... , except perhaps as part of a sociological study
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by hcta 4y ago
> something better than Wikipedia, perhaps You can probably ask a large language model like GPT-N to generate a summary.
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by hcta 4y ago
(2017) Wish she had included more socially 'regressive' ideas on this list. Some changes to social norms over the course of our lifetimes have surely been mistakes [from a utilitarian perspective, presumably the paradigm of choice
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by hcta 5y ago
> I'm not very knowledgeable in this, but my understanding is that there are a number of accounting tricks that many different industries can use to disguise profits as losses, which feeds directly into corruption. I'm not know
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by hcta 5y ago
Losses are already disincentivized by virtue of their being losses. Your proposal would merely create additional risk for any action. I suppose the extreme would be to forcibly liquidate any company that ever loses money. If you can come up
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by hcta 5y ago
it does seem legitimate to ask whether mere speech may be more potentially harmful in modern times, when any person's speech can have much greater reach than ever before and with much shorter latency. Maybe our norms do need to be adju
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by hcta 5y ago
> In my opinion a clearly superior question is "Why might you want to rebalance a binary tree?" How would you answer a prospective candidate who's convinced the only reason you would ask such a question is to make them fee
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by hcta 5y ago
I think this is a ridiculously bleak way of looking at things. The glaring flaw in your reasoning IMHO is this: when someone puts out a test like this, _they want you to succeed_; after all they are trying to hire people, it is to their adv
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by hcta 5y ago
wonder if something like this can be used to facilitate human-bird communication
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by hcta 5y ago
It looks like she has also done some interesting work in number theory.
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by hcta 5y ago
A history of mathematics course with focus on underappreciated contributions from marginalized groups sounds potentially interesting to me. This page seems scant on details though.
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by hcta 5y ago
I'm a bot, you're a bot, we are all bots, so what does this even mean. If someone is trying to discriminate between one set of visitors that they welcome and another that they deny service to, by definition they are the ones creat
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by hcta 5y ago
Pushing it around on wheels makes you look wimpy when no one else is doing it?
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by hcta 5y ago
What's emotional about it?
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by hcta 5y ago
As a layman, I'd intuitively want to try to solve this problem with an adversarial approach, i.e. train an adversary network to predict the info we want hidden better than chance given oracle access to the system we're trying to s
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by hcta 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle "Science progresses one funeral at a time" basically says that people, even very smart people, can't unlearn, so the only way humanity as a whole can un
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by hcta 5y ago
Do you have any pointers/docs on how to make this work? At the most basic level, how do you prevent people from wasting your money with no effort on their part e.g. by transitively contracting the task to the lowest bidder and pocketin
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by hcta 5y ago
Agreed that it's bad for science and for society when we start ascribing moral orientation to the two sides of a question of scientific truth. These days people seem to do it often on the question of efficacy of preventive measures aga
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by hcta 5y ago
> Assume that I'm not. (I'm not, and it seems surprising to me that it seems that way.) Fine - maybe I misread simple annoyance as personal offense. > I'm just not interested in any discussion about the other things you
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by hcta 5y ago
> it bristles It seems to me that you're taking this too personally. First of all, the person you're responding to wasn't even talking to you or about you when they wrote the "Just because you don't understand...
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by hcta 5y ago
True, but all other things being equal (in particular, controlling for people's innate level of dogmatism), a world where more people accept the best available theory represents progress over one where they espouse an outdated/dis
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by hcta 5y ago
I can tell this guy has been reading too much Heidegger because this post and the one it references are completely incomprehensible to me.
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by hcta 5y ago
kind of hilariously ironic. What do you call an app that makes itself impossible to remove, and deletes users' files without their consent? I guess when you spend too long fighting malware, you end up becoming the malware, or something
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by hcta 6y ago
Huh? This just seems like a bunch of name-calling. > I don't know about you, but to me it seems like a comical case of the psychiatrist being the one who's in need of help. In what way? Can you spell it out a little? What about
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by hcta 6y ago
Do it client-side with tensorflow.js
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by hcta 6y ago
If you taboo the word 'personality', the underlying question here is still interesting. Do different people in the "exact same" situation always behave /identically/? (Obviously not.) What are the most informat
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by hcta 6y ago
Is there any difference between "Two GPT-3s" and "one" GPT-3? It's the same generative model accessed via API calls.
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by hcta 6y ago
The buymeacoffee link on https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/ is broken - it points at https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2020/01/buymeacoff.... which 404s.

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