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by jhrmnn 11mo ago
Can you name some examples?
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
I’m guessing what was meant is that the price of things that are to be invested in is growing wrt the price of things that are to be consumed. Which naively makes sense to me in an economy based on growth where the total consumption starts
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
I think it should have been “If you need oxygen and have a CNS, then you need sleep.” Other tissues can take oxidative break during wakefulness, but since CNS is _generating_ wakefulness, if it takes a break, by construction there is sleep.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
I think it comes down to how much society is an entity in its own right vs just a collection of individuals. Proportionaly, saving society may be worth restricting the absolute freedom of individuals to some degree.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
> useless ritual fluff I believe that LLMs can be very useful to identify this stuff in our processes. The solution shouldn't be then to fill them with LLMs but strip them entirely away. I tend to think the same about everyone fre
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
When we write source code for compilers and interpreters, we “engineer context” for them.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
Is this essentially the same difference as between vanilla regular-grid and importance-sampling Monte Carlo integration?
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
This is how language develops, I’m afraid. But imagine that the age is 10^k where k is something like “age class”. Then indeed the age grows exponentially :)
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
One thing that'd be hard to give up is the camera. I have two small kids. I captured so many beautiful moments only thanks to a camera always being around.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
Crucially, the intuitive thinking can be often wrong, and that’s precisely what science aims to avoid with all the extra effort.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
I have a theory that this focus on ideas vs solutions also divides individual researchers, in what drives them. Agreed that academia celebrates and rewards ideas, not solutions. And maybe that’s ok and how it should be, solutions can be don
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
> Maintaining context of the overall project and goals while working in the weeds on a subtask of a task on an epic (so to speak) both in terms of what has been accomplished already and what still needs to be accomplished This is a strug
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
Do we understand the early dynamics of cancer? Do the hallmarks need to appear more or less at the same time by chance, or can the cancer cells acquire them sequentially, which would then induce a local microevolution process?
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
The question is what is the right age to learn that lesson at.
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by jhrmnn 1y ago
I and clearly many other people have run into what one could only call “KL variance”, but it doesn’t seem to have an established name. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/210469/kullback-leibler-v...
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
May be down to parenting style indeed. > kind of annoying, needy and of out of control. […] The parents feed into it and treat the behavior like it's ok. Not how I would characterize it.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
There are no goals in evolution. The most fit strain reproduces faster, eventually dominating other less fit strains. There’s no purpose, it just happens.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
I have it the same! But it’s not common. People are always puzzled by this lack of episodic memory.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
And so we could follow the sex chromosome and mitochondrial DNA convention—you’d inherit the grandma’s surname from your mother and the grandpa’s surname from your father.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
In capitalism, power correlates with wealth. So wealth inequality yields power inequality. Too much inequality, and a society can hardly feel just. If we only could somehow fix capitalism so that wealth doesn’t correlate with power.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
Indeed. I spent surely a few thousand hours in books as a teenager. Now I spend majority of time on my phone reading short- and long-form non-fiction. “Time on phone” is irrelevant without specifying the activity. Perhaps not if it automati
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
Loyalty can go away.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
That’s for the low-compute configuration that doesn’t reach human-level performance (not far though)
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
When I was in high school 20 years ago, the school published a big sheet of paper on the central notice board, updated each day. Heading there first thing in the morning and seeing whether some of your classes got cancelled was a nice socia
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania - this one lasted only 3 years though
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
Looks like normalizing to price per sqft might make the price flat at least in some parts of the US? I always debate with my brother, an architect, why people consider an 80-sqm apartment big enough for a family of 4 (Europe), but wouldn’t
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
I don’t think people stopped analyzing data, but the job titles probably changed? Data scientists and data engineers are probably now doing what data analysts used to do?
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
Looking up “brain MRI with contrast”, the biggest difference seems to be that in a regular MRI the contrast goes to the blood, but here it goes straight to the brain cerebrospinal fluid. You need open brain for that, so indeed doesn’t seem
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
Sure, that’s bad, and a service dealing with train ticket machine failures not available in English isn’t as bad.
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by jhrmnn 2y ago
> The person who answered couldn’t speak English. It sounds like this was the main point of failure. I’m not sure it can be considered an error in the system. I’d consider the risk inherent in traveling in a country without knowing its l

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