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by huffmsa 7y ago
You don't think we're at the most open and accepting time in history? No one gets beheaded for heresy, real or imaginary, anymore, except in Saudi Barbaria. And on Twitter. But you can pretty easily avoid both places. (Curiously,
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by huffmsa 7y ago
The corollary is that your heresy needs to ultimately have an empirical basis which can explain the phenomenon in question better than the existing dogma.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
What's in the author's portfolio will really tell you what they think about the next proximity of the next recession.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It is. But progress has been made taking models fit on pretty different topics and using them for something tangentially related. And that's exactly what humans do. You don't start from zero when you learn to paint if you already
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by huffmsa 7y ago
"casual inference in a general setting" is just your brain running an input through it's existing thought and decision processes with a low threshold for a passing answer. So an ML model running an input through a collection
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by huffmsa 7y ago
I'd say this is outdated. Since its publication, transfer learning has really started to pick up speed. Taking a model trained in one subject, and reapplying it to build out new vertical is pretty much how children learn new things. We
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by huffmsa 7y ago
U.S. v. Leon (1984) disagrees with you. Added a "good faith" exception to the 4th amendment. Meaning that, if the police were acting on a warrant they believe they obtained correctly, the evidence they collected usually is admissi
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by huffmsa 7y ago
That assumes civilians are aware of what "civilian" trackers look like. Not a reasonable assumption.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It should be, but legal precedent is a bit of a mixed bag on the admissibility of evidence collected during the execution of an invalid warrant. If a judge finds that it's not the polics'd fault that the warrant was invalid, they
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Had he been made aware of the tracking device, like one is with an ankle monitoring bracelet, then sure, removal is cause for an arrest on theft, destruction of property, etc. However, since he was not made aware of the device, he has no ob
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by huffmsa 7y ago
And that's the heart of the issue. This is a "convenience" introduced to make markdown easier for people who didn't really use markdown, at the cost of adding a pain point for people who are heavy users of the markdown f
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's not just that the eng/dev/power users (me) prefer the old behavior, it's that we're the only ones I see who use it. I get little pangs of dread a split second before I realize I'm about to have to spend 10
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by huffmsa 7y ago
The seats are comfy enough, the steering wheel is beefy, the only point of failure I've had is the battery. Otherwise, it's exactly what it's supposed to be. CR give my other car, a Jaguar F-Pace low marks for "loud engi
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by huffmsa 7y ago
> CR says Chrysler’s Pacifica was one that contributed to the drop in rankings thanks to the minivan’s infotainment and transmission issues. Every single "downgrade" I read about is either infotainment or transmission or both
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by huffmsa 7y ago
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. It's just the way things are when you "trust the government" to work in your best interest. If you're not on them like stink on a turd, they'll go tyrannic
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by huffmsa 7y ago
A dictatorship gives one person the ability to cause a singular big sadness. So they're no good. He touts the extreme federalism of Switzerland. Small, local governments which can only affect and are only responsible for their immediat
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by huffmsa 7y ago
You can't even get that close to the Mona Lisa, even without a crowd, there's a 4-6 foot cordoned off area in front of it if memory serves. It's only 30" by 21". And again, you can get within a foot of the 83"
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's a bit underwhelming in person TBH. There's nothing about it that's better in person than looking at a high res picture of it. The sculptures at the Louvre, however are astounding. You can't see just how good the art
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's not great, but it sucks the least. Which, given that the US Constitution of "minimize the damage one person / group can do" is the longest standing constitution currently, I think it's one of the better solutio
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by huffmsa 7y ago
The moderate solution failing probably isn't going to be as catastrophic as a unilateral solution from either of the opposite ideological camps. The system survives long enough to make it to the next round of negotiations
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by huffmsa 7y ago
There are two checks against the agreed upon "right thing",the national executive who has to agree with the consensus, and (thanks John Marshall), a system of (theoretically) impartial courts which can decide if the "right th
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Which is the exact reason the system is setup like it is. The federal government is only supposed to take action when it can get two ideological parties to agree on something. The theory being that if the two sides can find common ground, i
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's not increased, we're just more aware of deceptions. Up until 100 years ago, you could go town to town scamming people and there'd be little cross town communication. Each town would know it had been duped, but you wouldn
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by huffmsa 7y ago
That's exactly what the US system is supposed to to. Continuous, rapid cycling between small improvements and slightly smaller regressions. As the Federal bureaucracy grows and as elected politicians stay in office longer the regressio
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by huffmsa 7y ago
You're reducing the evolutionary diversity of the species, making us more susceptible to catastrophic single point failure in the future. Quite selfish.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
That's the problem though. The F-35 tries to be good at too many things. It has the latest sensors and stealth and armaments. But it's taking forever and a day to get the damn thing out the door because it's too academically
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Sure, which is why 60-70% of research findings are difficult to impossible to reproduce. Which is why "economists" are all filthy rich from their highly accurate, highly precise predictions about economic trends. Which is why stor
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Are we sure that it's not just a case of being able to measure more accurately?
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's a classic misunderstanding between "academically viable" and "operationally viable". The military doesn't need to get an A+. It needs to win. Anything else is a bonus. Which is why the A-10 is a better pla
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It is though. Bad products eventually fail under their expected operating conditions. That means you didn't actually make something production ready. It didn't meet the specified requirements. That's a bad product. If I have

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