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by karpierz 5y ago
They're showing that there are classes of problems that neural networks cannot be trained to consistently approximate, regardless of the amount of data provided. It sounds like you're not interested in the limitations of neural ne
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> The critique I’m seeing here is just saying “no it didn’t” as far as I can tell. The critique is: there's a difference between taking decades to colonize it (hence "decisive") and centuries to colonize it. If your argum
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think if you view "Guns, Germs & Steel" as a book of hypotheses about world history, with no evidence for their factualness, then the critique isn't valuable. Essentially, you'd be viewing GGS as a fan-fic about wo
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> This never happened outside Europe until centuries later for various religious and moral reasons. Can you point to the research you've read that indicates that this never happened outside of Europe, because of religious/moral
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by karpierz 5y ago
That's... a lot of handwaving. Going through this: > lack of tribalism/clans The government structure of European states was hereditary. A clan would lay claim to a region and support/fight other clans in their claims. &gt
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by karpierz 5y ago
The comment is explaining "Guns, Germs & Steel's explanation of why they speak Spanish in Patagonia is inaccurate". Did you find it unconvincing in that regard? If so, what specifically did you find to be flawed in the cr
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Sure, but now we're not saying "Europe had an intellectual tradition, thus it succeeded", but "Europe didn't have a centralized bureaucracy, thus it succeeded". It wasn't an issue of nourishing intellectua
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Maybe in an alternate reality where Rupert Murdoch was in the business of informing the people.
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> European powers were able to militarily overpower so many other regions because they were already richer and technologically advanced compared to other regions. This is a false premise. European powers didn't show up with massive
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by karpierz 5y ago
> (1) multiple, competitive peer states, (2) freedom of travel for intellectuals, and (3) a shared intellectual tradition creating a marketplace of ideas, propelled by high literacy and the printing press. How would this fail to apply to
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by karpierz 5y ago
That's essentially a book of just-so stories/post-hoc hypotheses. Edit: See a more specific critique here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/a_det...
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I think this is why authoritarian governments can be more effective at economic growth when they're behind; they just follow the path that a more economically advanced power did, but with more focus and less concern for individual welf
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Headline: Google follows local laws. Alternate-universe headline: Google uses monopolistic power to ignore government regulation for profit. Which do you prefer?
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They're saying that as a receiver of GPS signals, it doesn't matter if your clock is out of sync with everyone else's clocks, as long as it measures the length of a nanosecond accurately.
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> You can go through mortgage underwriting first and commit to pay the gap between appraised value and deal value, and can make a no-contingency offer with minimum risk. Of course, but unless the amount you commit to bridge is unbounded,
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by karpierz 5y ago
It means that they aren't using a mortgage to buy it. If there's a mortgage involved, then the offer becomes contingent on the bank's due diligence which can cause the deal to fall through in a variety of ways. For example: t
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by karpierz 5y ago
> Factual is class of statements, opposed to normative statements. They're asking for supporting evidence for MMT.
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Totally! If you're not immersed in the mastery loop then it's definitely going to feel like a chore. For me, the runes at stake make the experience more intense. But if you don't feel the same way, I think it's perfectly
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by karpierz 5y ago
> Edit: Maybe it's a bad idea to say this out loud, but when you get protagonists who are "just born preternaturally awesome", they're generally female, right? I'm not sure the same trend applies for male protago
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by karpierz 5y ago
The challenge posed by a game is artificial. It could just give you all of the best items at the start and make you invincible. The question that Souls/Elden Ring ask you is: "Can you do this consistently?" Which is different
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think that you've missed the beauty of Elden Ring (and the Souls series in general). > you don't have quests You do have quests! They just aren't forced upon you. Listen to the dialog of characters and you'll hear w
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by karpierz 5y ago
My concern around this space is less "does it make sense" and more "if the bubble collapses as I expect, what will happen to people who take the crypto/NFT money for granted"? I'm more interested in solutions t
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If I'm interpreting [0] correctly, it's saying that wage growth has outstripped the growth in housing prices?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Of course strong AI is possible; most people can make one with 18 years and a willing partner. It just doesn't scale.
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> Russia sends a few longer range cruise missiles at the base, to destroy the planes that were already part of the war. And kill NATO personnel in the airbase. Russia has now murdered American and Polish soldiers on Polish soil. It'
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Another alternative is Canada, where free speech isn't an absolute right but somehow the whole country hasn't descended into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Don't forget to control for: - Wealth upon entry (If all Nigerian immigrants come from millionaire families, then it doesn't matter if they're underpaid; they'll be far wealthier than most Americans) - Location (If all N
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by karpierz 5y ago
Jamaicans are even more prone to be poorer than Americans. Would your retort be "but Jamaicans who've won multiple gold medals in sprinting are wealthier than most Americans?" People who smoke are more likely to get lung canc
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Or just install a keylogger/virus on your computer to take your crypto.
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So, I think there's two classes of homelessness: transient and chronic. Transient is the class that would be fixed by adding more housing. It's when you leave an abusive spouse and have nowhere to go, or you miss one too many rent

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