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by howlin 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind about direct (learn the policy/behavior) versus indirect (learn the model and then simulate behaviors on the model to choose the best) is that sometimes it's much easier to find a good enough policy than
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by howlin 6y ago
This is a truly terrible perspective. Many pedestrians are slow and extremely vulerable to the effects of being toppled by a wheeled vehicle. This is particularly a problem when people are leaving buildings onto sidewalks unaware of cross t
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by howlin 6y ago
There are several responses to the "plants have senses" rebuttal: If you care about the well being of plants, you should still prefer to eat plants rather than animals. The trophic level of animals in the food chain necessitates
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by howlin 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's daughter-father, not wife-husband.
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by howlin 6y ago
> If your neural net (haven't actually met anyone who uses these in trading) takes 5ms to make a prediction that'll lock you out of a whole lot of trading opportunities/strategies. Let's say you have trading opportuni
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by howlin 6y ago
> Basically, there's a bit of a spectrum of fast vs smart. In general it's hard to do incredibly smart stuff fast enough to compete in the "speed-critical" bucket of trades and vice-versa there's barely any poin
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by howlin 6y ago
There are some rather archaic behaviors of the versions of these tools that come by default on MasOSX. For instance, on a mac the 'sed' command doesn't understand the difference between space and tab https://stacko
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by howlin 6y ago
Especially in the early days, the main competitors to online retail were catalogue services. I would think they have most business and logistics problems in common, minus running a web site.
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by howlin 6y ago
I'd say a 2% mortality rate to ship chicks is unacceptable. We've practically shut down the entire world economy because of a 0.5-2% mortality rate from Covid-19. It's a symptom of a bigger issue. These hatcheries even under
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by howlin 6y ago
Yes, I am very well aware of this. Which is why I don't eat chickens, other animals, or consume any other livestock product. But every once in a while I forget the fractal nature of the horrors we inflict on any animal that is unlucky
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by howlin 6y ago
From the article: Usually they arrive every three weeks like clockwork,” she said Wednesday. “And out of 100 birds you may have one or two that die in shipping. The wrongness of what's happening here is not just that the Post Office is
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by howlin 6y ago
Soy milk is just as reasonable environmentally and probably a little healthier as a nutrition source compared to oat milk. Though the flavor of soy is a little harder to get used to.
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by howlin 6y ago
The 1950's were an interesting time for grand "mad science" engineering projects. Anyone in the Bay area should make an effort to see the Bay Model museum in Sausalito. It contains a huge model of the SF Bay and the local w
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by howlin 6y ago
Which is a great reason to eat as low on the food chain as you can.
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by howlin 6y ago
There are still frontier nations out there. Russia, Greenland, Outback Australia, the Canadian Territories. Perhaps Alaska. But the continental US is a developed land with dense cities. Your idea of what your liberties should be don't
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by howlin 7y ago
He's been working on Go for a very long time. Since he was a PhD student. Though I am sure the team helped, don't think he wasn't the main driving influence behind the algorithms and featurization of the problem.
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by howlin 7y ago
You'd need a matching property in the southern hemisphere for the dark winters.
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by howlin 7y ago
It's best to follow the SP500 rather than the Dow. The former is much more representative of the whole market. And it's best to follow market movement in percentage rather than points. Points inflate over time as the nominal valu
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by howlin 7y ago
It's pretty clear the crime here was unauthorized access to the server, not the sending of the information on to the media.
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by howlin 7y ago
Palm oil effectively replaced partially hydrogenated oils in various junk foods when we learned how unhealthy trans fats were. Fully hydrogenating these oils will not have exactly the same properties as partial hydrogenation, but for many p
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by howlin 7y ago
To be fair to the poster, virtually anyone you meet in real life will be far less interesting than chatting with someone in a specialized forum like hacker news.
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by howlin 7y ago
It's more likely the salt than the wheat. From the article: | The traditional Japanese diet was thought to increase stroke risk because of the heavy use of seasonings such as miso, salt, and soy sauce.
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by howlin 7y ago
Bayesian modeling can be very powerful when it works but it can also be catastrophic when it fails. It helps to think about this in an adversarial decision theoretic context where you play a prediction game against an opponent (usually cal
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by howlin 7y ago
There are a lot of ways of formalizing the problem of recommendation. Perhaps the variant of the problem used by Netflix is "solved", but it's kind of an odd one. Basically, they built a system to answer questions of the fo
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by howlin 7y ago
The main problem here seems to be that the author was working from home. A tiny house is really only good for washing, sleeping and lounging.
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by howlin 7y ago
"What makes us so confident that plants don't also meet this criteria?" Brains or other possible organs for processing information are metabolically expensive to operate and entropically expensive to maintain the genetics req
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by howlin 7y ago
Note that this is mostly about saturated fat sources versus polyunsaturated fats. These polyunsaturated fats were all high in omega 6, which is widely regarded as less heart healthy than omega 3 oils or monounsaturated fats such as olive o
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by howlin 7y ago
I wouldn't accuse these neighborhood stores of price gouging as much as I'd just say they are pricing high enough to cover the much more expensive cost of leasing or owning the commercial space.
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by howlin 7y ago
Literally all of the problems you mentioned existed before GMO was a thing. Companies have been patenting varietals since the 1930's. Patent trolling in agriculture is also quite old. E.g. the yellow bean patent debacle: https:/
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by howlin 7y ago
You'd be taking on currency exchange risk, as the Danes will want to loan you Euros but you'll likely be paying back the loan in USDs.

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