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by hgsgm 3y ago
The point is that language is unavoidably ambiguous (I'm sure there's a mathematical information theory proof of this, akin to the Byzantine Generals problem.).
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by hgsgm 3y ago
No, they were interpreting based on prior experience in communication.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
> Regular expressions can describe context free shapes of symbols. What is "shapes of symbols"? Do you mean "characters"? If you are trying to say that "regular languages" are a proper subset of (less expre
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Because they want to make more profit.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
When you've worked with dozens of professional genius engineering companies, the idea that a clown is somehow running a fake one exits the realm of possibility for you. Same as when your company hires an idiot coworker who bullshits hi
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why does that matter? 3 trips vs 1 trip? The people who went didn't need to go all together.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
On the one hand, yeah, maybe it's fine if the 100 morons per year have to sign a waiver acknowledging "this experimental submarine has not been approved by any verification provess. There is no reason to believe you will survive t
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by hgsgm 3y ago
More specifically, mission control management intentionally chose to launch Challenger after being notified that the launch was rejected by engineering. Same as Titan -- Management intentionally launched into catastrophe. At least Rush bet
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's like a .io domain or using Bitcoin. If you intentionally exit jurisdiction of a country you trust, you are on your own. I hope the rescue teams sue the perpetrators' estates and corpos for their costs.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Preparedness Paradox.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
"limited value" does not mean "net negatives value".
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by hgsgm 3y ago
And antivaxxers.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
How is that relevant? Incompetent / criminal lawyers are almost never disbarred in any field.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Wikipedia is (almost always) not a citable source. Everyone who knows what "citing a source" is (including Wikipedia itself) knows that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia Sure, we al
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Imagine if your only responsibility is to check the work of someone deemed untrustworthy, to protect everyone else from their malice or incompetence, and you just skip doing that and lie and say you did it. Why should you get off easy?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I don't know. It's easier to remember the html tags and to see if they are correct. In markdown I have to remember the weird punctuation and get the | counts exactly correct.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Maybe the secret to being a good evaluator is to not do a distracting different task at the same time.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Ah, I am one of those the tprefer to reduce complexity and prefer higher level programming. Such a person likes Python, for example :-)
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's not that people disagree about which approach is more effective, it's about whether the person cares more about theory or practice (or in what balance, people are not binary). The theory hat doesn't like practice, and sa
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Are you sure that the people who learned the material are dumber than you? Knowing the range of application of a technique is important.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
No! Instead of rushing ahead into meaningless abstraction, you should spend more learning in the world of concrete examples and applications, to provide meat for those abstract skeletons. We don't need a mathematician is who is a poor
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The OP article is in part about how people whom memorize things perform worse because their memory is incorrect, while people who understand things will spend more time making sense of a problem of solution instead of more quickly guessing
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Ugh, Techdirt Here's the decision https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23851009/drag-decisio... Sad tha Gov Cox approved this law, after previously vetoing the trans athlete ban.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
If it is that flexible, can you have a C++ program that runs a python interpreter as a module?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's popular because it's a profound topic, and Sandel is an amazing orator who makes the topic interesting, and when something is enjoyable, almost everyone wants to do it.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
We were "all" wrong, but at least we agreed! (Of course it wasn't really "all" , either within one community or between communities. People in power were just better about killing the weak people were just better ab
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's interesting thar Miller left NYT in 2008, the year Obama won the Presidency, and NYT shifted from (right wing) Establishment to (left wing Establishment) to stay aligned with the President.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Academics used to be rich people (entrepreneurs or aristocrats) who funded their own work. Then (late 1800s?) it changed to a profession, and the focus became extracting funding from ignorant patrons.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Axios is an SEO hack shop that doesn't cite sources. Where is the real article? Edit: Here is real article: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/ Scores dropped more for the lower percen
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by hgsgm 3y ago
He negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam war. That was peace. His other activities in life were not peace prize winning. That award was less satirical than Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize just for winning an election.

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