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by jprete 2y ago
The problem is that the free market only really works when all information is available to all parties and there's low switching cost. So it works decently for commodities, but no business ever wants to sell a commodity. In fact most b
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"Just barely passable" is the endless customer support carousel, the nickel-and-diming of airline fees, the addition of more and more ad space and cloned-content spam to web pages, and automobiles that spy on you to sell the data
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Probably feature development slowed to a crawl over a few years. Code debt isn't actually an abstract thing, it's just hard to explain to non-coders the thousand little slowdowns it injects into every project.
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I think the actual answer to your question is that the outcome you're hypothesizing would be absolutely useless for teaching the reader about relativistic effects, so there's no reason for someone to write such a book for a lay au
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I am not a physicist: I've read that C is really the speed of causality, and that electromagnetic radiation is really a disturbance in the EM field that is propagating along a path. A photon is really information about a prior event, t
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As I remember it, it wasn't like this in the period before 2000-2003. The 2000 US Presidential election was very acrimonious; I think that died down because 9/11 was a unifying threat; then controversies about the war in Iraq and
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Behaviors that you think are harmless to others are not necessarily so.
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They're saying that no true definition of autism can contain intellectual disability by classifying any intellectual disability in an autistic person as a distinct, totally independent condition.
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I think you're engaging in the no-true-Scotsman fallacy with the claim that highly autistic people with a lot of special needs are really "autistic with intellectual disabilities". I disagree. They're simply more autisti
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The problem is that the legal methods for Internet streaming are a bad experience. I don't pirate both because I have the money and because it's illegal. But it would probably be a better experience than digital rentals if I did.
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It's impossible to have a uniform distribution over (-inf, +inf). Since the distribution is uniform, each digit has an equal chance of being zero through nine, but that's true of all digits or else it's no longer uniform. At
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The situation isn't the same because anyone buying a DSLR with swappable lenses should understand that they're buying the body and not the lenses. It's fair game to use the best possible lens in that situation because then th
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The metaphor is compression, the visual is crushing. An actual destructive action doesn't work as a metaphor for an imagined conserving action, the connotations of each are almost entirely at odds with each other. The best reason to do
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You didn't see the trumpet that was the focal point of the first few moments? The piano with paint cans prominently shattering right after that? The guitar towards the end?
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Using real objects for 90% of that effect is probably the cheapest way to go. The two things you mention could be added in.
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Doing something like that for real (not just a quick edit to demo the idea) would have been a way cooler ad.
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Crushing the tools of art and fun into a tiny technological device is maybe a little tone-deaf in the context of AI trying to crush all scrapeable human creation into a model that would fit on that same iPad.
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He did attempt to explain why. Wikipedia: "On 4 February 1600, Kepler met Tycho Brahe....Tycho guarded his data closely, but was impressed by Kepler's theoretical ideas and soon allowed him more access. Kepler planned to test his
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The short stories ended with the robots firmly, and invisibly, in control. "You're not allowed to let humans be harmed by your inaction" inherently requires the robots to take over in whatever way causes the least harm.
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The model isn't reality. A theory that disagrees with the model but agrees with reality shouldn't be filtered, but in this process it will be.
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I think the various contributors to the invention of the steam engine had a good idea of what they were trying to do and how their idea would physically work. Wikipedia lists the prerequisites as the concepts of a vacuum and pressure, metho
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The goal of science has always been to discover underlying principles and not merely to predict the outcome of experiments. I don't see any way to classify an opaque ML model as a scientific artifact since by definition it can't r
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Thanks for the reference. Between this, megadal's sibling-comment Wikipedia quote, and a quick search of "economic good", I believe I was mistaken.
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I know about that mechanism but I use it so infrequently that I have to look it up every time; the syntax doesn't really match anything else I know. It's also hard to look up because even the right search terms fetch a lot of near
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Ok, but these are clearly not commodities.
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Filtering is still useful even in that system for sorting mail according to its context, so that one can entirely ignore everything from the context until you're ready to work on it. E.g. if I run a book club or something via email, an
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I never thought about FIRE in those terms. Your comment (unintentionally?) makes FIRE sound like a self-help trend that primarily makes money for self-help gurus.
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This article strikes me as a deliberately over-the-top response to rampant 2000s/2010s narcissism. I wouldn't take anything it says as 100% true.
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We did something similar with prescription opioids and medical amphetamine relatives are extremely regulated. It's really just alcohol, tobacco, and now marijuana that get this treatment.
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My intuition is that the problem is in using squares for the error. The volume of space available for a given distance of error in 3-space is O(N^3) the magnitude of the error, so an error term of O(N^2) doesn't grow fast enough compar

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