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by j2kun 9y ago
That seems dishonest to me. They're saying that some results are more significant after the fact. Is there any mathematical justification for why this is OK?
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by j2kun 9y ago
They use... varying p-values? Can you do that? It almost looks like they're choosing p after the analysis is done...
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by j2kun 9y ago
What's even crazier is how (according to this snippet) R thinks that 10*10 is 1000 :)
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by j2kun 9y ago
> R has lazy evaluation, which means here that a function will not be evaluated when you define it, it will be evaluated when you call it. It seems unlikely you meant this as stated. How is it possible to "evaluate a function"
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Good things don't scale(blog.vickiboykis.com)
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by j2kun 9y ago
Right. http://www.snopes.com/2017/08/17/is-the-alt-left-a-real-thin...
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by j2kun 9y ago
> Internet service providers and governments Which of these is Google? You seem to have reiterated my argument back to me. > If you're an android user you don't have an alternative. Cell phone operating systems are not a fun
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by j2kun 9y ago
Exactly. Alt-left is a term made up by literal white supremacists to make violent leftist terrorists look like they're a broad, organized movement. They use it to excuse themselves for the violence their side commits. It gives them non
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by j2kun 9y ago
Did he self-identify as alt-left? Literally nobody identifies as alt-left. Unless he did, it's irrelevant to my comment.
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by j2kun 9y ago
"Alt-left" is a fabricated term that does not refer to a movement. It creates a false equivalency between white supremacists and people who protest them.
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by j2kun 9y ago
How are they contradictory? The goal of net neutrality is to have physical internet lines be regulated in the same way that phone lines are: as a part of the communication infrastructure of the country. Is Google Play a fundamental part of
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by j2kun 9y ago
The "second" best time would be the instant following the first best time! :) That leaves a continuum of "next best times" in between the first best time and now that one could have planted a tree.
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by j2kun 9y ago
A cursory Google search shows they paid a fine to the US government that is only 1/5 the EU fine, and that was in 2011, when its stock was 1/5 what it is today. [edit formatting and remove snark]
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by j2kun 9y ago
You act as if Google didn't just pay a multibillion dollar fine for violating a law based on censorship of certain shopping comparison websites. SV is not beyond the power of governments, governments are just slow to catch up. For good
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by j2kun 9y ago
So you're questioning the integrity of the scientists Damore cited...to give more credit to his argument. Neat how that works.
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by j2kun 9y ago
The people he cited told reporters they disagree with his interpretations of their research. There's a wired article going around with direct quotes but I'm mobile and can't find it easily.
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by j2kun 9y ago
This is one of the best comments in this messy thread. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
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by j2kun 9y ago
I just used keybase fs the other day to send someone a draft of a book I'm working on, with nothing but our reply chain on HN as a starting point. It's like you're just one `cp` away from anyone who uses keybase!
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by j2kun 9y ago
> Finding the maximum sum subarray isn't testing for any fundamental. There is quite literally nothing more fundamental to computer science than data organization and access. And for what it's worth, Google and others are very
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by j2kun 9y ago
I would not be surprised if there were other, non-technical issues during such an interview. I know many people who are supposed to be smart, but they consider the basics beneath them and refuse to do anything by hand in the presence of peo
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by j2kun 9y ago
There's a difference between not being able to write bubble sort and realizing that looking it up is a better use of your time. But when it actually comes time to do something you can't copy/paste off the internet, what do yo
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by j2kun 9y ago
Check your keybase folder /private/j2kun,krissiegel/ or ping me at mathintersectprogramming@gmail.com
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by j2kun 9y ago
I don't believe I have a way to contact you, but shoot me an email at mathintersectprogramming@gmail.com
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by j2kun 9y ago
Musk says AI is the single biggest existential threat (unless I'm mistaken and someone else similarly famous said that, maybe Thiel?). From this it appears that you, along with the rest of society (as you mentioned by how much is spent
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by j2kun 9y ago
Why do you have so much faith that autonomous superhuman AI will be such a Dalek-eqsue threat? If it's faith against faith, and you have no evidence to back up your side (while humanity adapting has millennia of evidence), there's
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by j2kun 9y ago
That would be at the top of my list. And then there's nuclear attacks/disaster, asteroid hitting the earth, superbugs and biological weapons gone awry, physics experiment gone awry creating a black hole... I put superintelligent A
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by j2kun 9y ago
You are imagining super intelligent malicious AI (or AI piloted by malicious actors) with orders of magnitude more resources and reach than we have today is instantaneously implanted into today's society. That is also not relevant to t
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by j2kun 9y ago
My issue is that, while of course you're right that one can't know for sure, some people conclude that simply not being able to know justifies whipping up a frenzy and (in all likelihood) wasting part of a billion dollars that cou
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by j2kun 9y ago
I'm working on a book for programmers who want to learn math. I can send you the first few chapters if you're interested, but I'm also interested to hear your thoughts about math in general.

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