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by inimino 5y ago
How far "science" has fallen, if this is how people now define the word.
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by inimino 5y ago
> the now unfalsifiable Milgram experiment Total nonsense. Experiments are never falsifiable, what does that even mean? Hypotheses are falsifiable. Did any hypothesis of Milgram's suddenly become unfalsifiable one day in the last 50
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by inimino 5y ago
It's not so much that they have no effect, it's that the effect isn't enough to bring R_0 < 1, so it's going to be at best a slowing of the natural spread, which in practice, you aren't going to be able to measur
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by inimino 5y ago
There's certainly no logical contradiction there, right? You have one group of Careful Carlas who always behave safely, lockdown or not. You also have a group of Reckless Rogers, standing too close to people in supermarkets and not was
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by inimino 5y ago
> yoke Used to turn the plane. Also put on oxen to pull a plow. > yolk Yellow part of an egg.
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by inimino 5y ago
> huge levels of inequality necessarily means that a small group of people are consuming vastly more of the available resources than everyone else. Why would you think so? Inequality means wealth inequality, it does not measure consumpti
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by inimino 5y ago
With this audience, that joke just fell flat and stayed there for all time.
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by inimino 5y ago
> the existence of the effect, given the results of the experiment, has a low likelihood, and that low likelihood can be statistically quantified You have this completely backwards. It means that the likelihood of the null hypothesis was
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by inimino 5y ago
> anyone would be unhireable So since you are defending the practice, please explain what is it about spending your entire career at a single company that makes you unemployable anywhere else. And please don't assume that that mea
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by inimino 5y ago
You don't see the difference between relying on a few battle-hardened libraries, and copy-pasting into your own code some mishmash of code that looked similar that other people wrote and is probably something like what a machine learni
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by inimino 5y ago
I'm amazed to see how positive the overall response is to this idea. Almost as if programmers think that writing programs is the worst part of the job and ready to be automated away. As someone more aligned with the Dijkstra perspectiv
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by inimino 5y ago
I didn't read it that way. I took the audience to be more junior programmers to whom numeric library code can seem inscrutable and terrifying. In my experience "write it yourself first" is very liberating advice that every pr
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by inimino 5y ago
Indeed! That you should be optimistic about it is the best thing to take away from the post.
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by inimino 5y ago
This pattern comes up a lot in comments on this type of post. Author makes a dumb but easy-to-follow example to make a point, and then someone points out how the example is dumb. Try to avoid getting hung up on examples -- in this case nobo
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by inimino 5y ago
If you don't understand why anyone would choose something that many people have chosen, you might want to be a little less bold in announcing what motivation those people must all have.
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by inimino 5y ago
If you have engaged with the Haskell community (I mean, actually talked to folks as you learn or use the language) and you came away with this impression, I would be very surprised. To learn Haskell, just do it, you don't need theory.
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by inimino 5y ago
If you read the article, it is not a gratuity. You are still expected to tip.
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by inimino 5y ago
Does every person who is impacted by this kind of thing have the responsibility to do Google's QC for them? What about people who never notice it? Maybe a lawsuit would be hopeless, but it sure would be nice to see some kind of real co
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by inimino 5y ago
Yes, but: the text snippet is clearly labeled "Wikipedia" and is in the same box with the photo. Combined with the Wikipedia article being the first result, this would certainly give the average person casually searching the impre
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by inimino 5y ago
I agree that scenarios two and three are equivalent. But then in three, the fact that we exist is allowed to influence our belief in what the value of a physical constant is. From this contrived example, can't we get to the argument be
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by inimino 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. The two scenarios don't seem all that different to me, because "there are two possible universes, and you're in one, but you don't know which" is how I think about probability and belief in gen
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by inimino 5y ago
I'm not sure I can agree with this analysis. Consider two hypothetical universes. In one, p = 10^-1000, but by a statistical miracle, here we are. We would certainly be alone in this universe, because the number of stars in the visible
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by inimino 5y ago
Yes. Probability of reaching a game position is a product of the per-move probabilities, so adding them up tells you how much "luck budget" you need to reach that position, or equivalently, how much information is required to pick
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by inimino 5y ago
The concept that there is such a thing as objectively better or worse music is not, I think, a totally new idea.
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by inimino 5y ago
"Almost all of us have an above average number of legs."
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by inimino 5y ago
You don't need to average opinions. Just imagine you pick a person at random from your peer group and ask yourself how likely it is that you have better taste in music than that person.
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by inimino 5y ago
I feel like you either haven't worked at many early startups, or there is a bit of a double standard here.
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by inimino 5y ago
I think the implicit criticism is that it is not suited for similar real life problems, because you never know if you have some problem for which it is well suited or some nearby problem for which it's not until after the fact. This is
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by inimino 5y ago
This is an interesting post, but I think it should have mentioned the point that GoL is a tour-de-force to show off what is possible in the language, but it's not what the language is mostly used for. Most people using J or APL will ju
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by inimino 5y ago
He's personally given billions to helping resolve major global challenges, and he's intentionally used his influence and visibility to advertise ideas that he thinks need broader attention. There doesn't need to be a conspira

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