j15t

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by j15t 5y ago
Non-ionizing radiation is certainly able to have effects on biological systems, and there is no reason to believe that effects are strictly neutral or positive. Calling these facts 'anti-science' is blatantly asinine.
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by j15t 6y ago
I'm curious, why not?
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by j15t 6y ago
>It's not just a question of there being a huge pool of money, you can buy a car with loans and car prices haven't skyrocketed. The obvious difference is that car loans are not Federally issued and defaults are possible. Hence
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by j15t 6y ago
The Fed is not focused on the stock market. When they improve the status of the economy through monetary policy, they indirectly improve the value of publically listed companies. This makes sense, because companies are the central entities
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by j15t 7y ago
Hey do you have a link to some more information on your one-shot learning algorithm? Sounds interesting, thanks.
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by j15t 7y ago
What software do you use to rename PDF files and extract their metadata automatically? I have found this difficult to accomplish, despite trying multiple different tools. PDFs from Arxiv are commonly a problem.
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by j15t 7y ago
Yes a blog post would be terrific, thanks.
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by j15t 7y ago
Hi, I'm interested in program execution state and the different ways it can be represented/modelled. The "relational model" you describe sounds very interesting. Do you have a technical whitepaper on this topic, or perha
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by j15t 8y ago
Are you talking about the yield curve or credit spreads? Either way, as far as I understand they are independent variables to the absolute value of federal fund rate -- what matters more is the stage in the business cycle.
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by j15t 10y ago
Hi, would you happen to have any additional information on #3? (links to companies that require these services and/or industry reports)? I am work with technology that might be useful for this type of application. Thanks!
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by j15t 10y ago
I think labelling one side of this debate as "pro-science" and the other as not, is disingenuous. Science at its core is about scepticism and degrees of certainty - never about absolute truth (see: inductive logic, etc.). Using &q
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by j15t 10y ago
The thing is, "good for the world" is a subjective notion. In my studies of philosophy I am yet to find any system of ethics that provides an objective and universal definition of right and wrong - if you find one, please let me k
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by j15t 10y ago
Just to be clear, most insurance companies have very strict risk management policies and almost exclusively invest capital in government bonds. As you are probably aware, these bonds have had very low rates of return in recent years - getti
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by j15t 10y ago
Are you suggesting that such a scenario would be worse than the current situation - nVIdia having a monopoly on DL hardware?
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by j15t 10y ago
I think you'll find that birthrates are negatively correlated with education level, so globally the reverse is happening (with regards to your breeding theory). But more generally, the reason why evolution works is because organisms ar
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by j15t 10y ago
I don't see how this study is 'presuming' anything. The results section quite early explores the creation between genetic and non-genetic factors: > To test whether intelligence mediates the observed association between fa
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by j15t 10y ago
In which jurisdiction?
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by j15t 10y ago
Mods, could you please indicate in the title that the validity of this letter has not yet been verified. The attribution in the title: "(The DAO hacker)" assumes that this is an authentic letter.
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by j15t 10y ago
Just out of interest, what was the outcome when your accounts were closed because of Bitcoin? Did you lose any funds?
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by j15t 10y ago
> It's ironic that Taleb prefers a statistic that ignores extreme examples (i.e. black swans) No that it incorrect on two fronts. 1) MAD does not "ignore" extreme examples, it just weights them the same as other examples.
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by j15t 10y ago
[1] https://btcvol.info/
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by j15t 10y ago
> and see your money oscillate 20% per day I get that you're not a fan, but exaggerations don't enhance your argument. Over the last 60 days the XBT/USD pair has an average volatility of 1.23 % [1] which is obviously highe
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by j15t 10y ago
Who would buy coins (or mine) on a unofficial Zcash network? I can't imagine many people would expend resources supporting an unofficial network since one of the major risks of a zero-knowledge protocol is that the initial operator cou
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by j15t 10y ago
Ues but not everyone can link Bitcoin addresses to individuals. Bitcoin has poor privacy in theory, but the practice of actually deanonymizing is non-trivial. Also since it is an open system, improvements are possible.
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by j15t 10y ago
How do you decide what is right and what is wrong? I don't think a world where you can only act with 'permission' from a certain group pf people is sustainable or enviable. It's surprising how little people agree on with
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by j15t 10y ago
You did say that because you said that using a Bitcoin mixer is equivalent to money laundering. On the Bitcoin network all transactions are public and can be linked to an individual. Without mixers it quite possible that the details of all
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by j15t 10y ago
If you think it does, then I assume you also want to ban cash? By the way, that is a valid opinion to have - it's just that not everyone agrees that it optimal in the long run for all personal information to be auditable by a governmen
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by j15t 10y ago
KYC = Know Your Customer As the name implies, this law only applies to (financial) businesses and their customers. Most Bitcoin transactions are P2P and hence there is no business/customer relationship and hence there is no KYC law ap
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by j15t 11y ago
Using Ethereum to create a token would be a good option. by doing so you get the security of the Ethereum blockchain (i.e. you don't need to mine yourself) and you can use smart contracts for blockchain logic. https://www.et
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by j15t 11y ago
> Right, but the gas cost cannot be distributed over _all_ nodes All computation on the Ethereum blockchain is done through the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). The protocol defines a gas cost for each opcode in the EVM, hence the gas cos

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