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by inimino 7y ago
The BBC is one of very few respected foreign news outlets that is not routinely blocked by the GFW. They generally have a more China-friendly stance than US news media.
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by inimino 7y ago
The outcome is going to be different if a chef uses an unusual ingredient to create an experience, vs a chain using that same ingredient to cut costs, because they have different incentives. The chain has an incentive to buy from the cheape
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by inimino 7y ago
High end restaurants aren't skimping on ingredients to survive on razor thin margins in a cut-throat value-driven market segment.
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by inimino 7y ago
Most people don't understand Bayesian reasoning either, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. If the polls have no value to you, then you lack the framework to interpret them.
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by inimino 7y ago
> This is all I need to know Perhaps you should update your understanding of how polls work and are to be interpreted... if you think you understand statistics better than the WSJ, consider that you might be mistaken.
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by inimino 7y ago
> Am I misrepresenting anything in your position here? Yes. 1) I never said "no value". The claims have value. Call it 2 bits per claim, with diminishing returns after the first few. 2) The Intel engineer has considerably more
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by inimino 7y ago
They would need to be the same... and if we can't get people to standardize on internet protocols, good luck with something that actually affects whether the product works well or not!
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by inimino 7y ago
> Why it wasn't just named mail, and if the old one was kept around, it could be mail-old, I don't know. Probably because mail system hostnames end up hardcoded in configuration files all over the place, and it's easier to
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by inimino 7y ago
Or if putting a mirror on your desk is the best resolution your employer can offer, run away screaming...
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by inimino 7y ago
Leather and leather goods are easier to export than beef, so what really matters would be total world supply and demand, not so much local per capita consumption, no?
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by inimino 7y ago
Your 5G, and your 4G. That doesn't mean it is the 5G that is the difference, unless you did an exhaustive root cause investigation of the poor performance of the 4G.
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by inimino 7y ago
"order of magnitude" is literally the least explicit you can be without just saying "lots bigger". Why be overly pedantic?
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by inimino 7y ago
They picked up some random news articles and some hearsay. Maybe product reviews are where you get your info, then don't be surprised if you talk to actual engineers and they don't have a lot of respect for your opinions.
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by inimino 7y ago
because the gardener trims them both above and below ground.
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by inimino 7y ago
> This quote advocates for wise people to never try to convince other people No, sometimes the master's job is to teach someone something. It's just not all the time or even every time someone is wrong on the internet.
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by inimino 7y ago
> dismissing information without knowing what the source even is What someone says gives a very strong signal for where they heard it. Yes, you could perhaps challenge the relevance of the standards here, but to do that, you would need t
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by inimino 7y ago
It describes how he had the idea as a teenager, inspired by a friend's description of holograms. In the next paragraph, the idea had already been tried as the perceptron, and had been disproven. It's ambiguous because that's
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by inimino 7y ago
Information is not equally likely to be valid regardless of the source it came from. This is the curse of being an expert (on anything) and engaging with kooks who think they are experts because they read something on the internet. If you h
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by inimino 7y ago
So you'd rather run the mains power to a device that beams power through the air to a light fixture rather than just run a wire to the light fixture?
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by inimino 7y ago
> drawing a wire to connect a button to a light How are you getting power to the light?
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by inimino 7y ago
The World Wide Web sure ain't what it used to be. Let's have some internet content police so people don't accidentally hurt themselves. </s>
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by inimino 7y ago
"Accessible" means more than "there's a web service available somewhere that's running some version of it".
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by inimino 7y ago
>"If it was a high-return fruit somebody would be doing it." Not necessarily. With high likelihood given current funding of ML with $$$ applications but yes, not necessarily. > AI benchmarcks are what direct progress in AI S
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by inimino 7y ago
I mean, "this site should not exist" is being a little harsh, don't you think? Yes misinformation is dangerous, but the author certainly could link to airline sites, the official government travel information websites for e
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by inimino 7y ago
People in general are hard to "manage". Expectations that every one can be treated the same and the breathtaking unawareness within tech of the arbitrariness of social norms and customs generally only exacerbates all of these diff
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by inimino 7y ago
> Most of the time it seems trivial to beat the old state of the art, just use BERT or XLnet on a task where nobody applied it before If it was a high-return fruit somebody would be doing it. Not necessarily publishing papers about it or
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by inimino 7y ago
> Under a sufficiently low population density, genes among splintered groups will diverge. Yes, and this occurs. > Groups with genes that promote expansion and/or adaptation will eventually out-compete groups that don't. For
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by inimino 7y ago
The social ritual exists to create and maintain a connection or relationship. We greet each other for the same reasons that other primates greet each other. We don't grunt or bark like dogs but instead now we say some words so we don&#
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by inimino 7y ago
There are a lot of problems with group selection as a hypothesis. Human groups don't reproduce in pairs and undergo selection, but individual humans do. It's hard to find any examples of genetic material of a group being lost when
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by inimino 7y ago
> I'm sure both people are subtly uncomfortable and probably don't even consciously understand why. And if only one of them becomes consciously aware of it that is enough to break the cycle. Sometimes all you need is a little a

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