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by kbrkbr 2y ago
A normal distribution goes to infinity in both directions. Moving the center will not change that.
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Same here still
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply to a rando fellow nerd. Really appreciated!
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Can't wait for the study with duct tape in conjunction with wd40. This is nerdy stuff :D
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Not a week passes where I do not learn something interesting on hn! And this one may even be life altering! Took me 30 years to find out that I have pollen allergies, and from that food allergies. And because my body only produces very litt
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
I want to open a side thread about your definitions or descriptions of what "consciousness" is. I think that could be pretty interesting after reading all the comments, and I think there's a lot of knowledge hidden here that
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
This is in EU. You have three months to find a new job, which I found here after your comment made me think [1]. This may be a reasonable gamble, as many companies do probably not expect such a rochade, and do not have detective measures in
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
We've seen that also. You interview someone online, help file the paperwork to get into the country and work visum, and then someone else, a technically much weaker guy, shows up on the first day. We had that twice in the last two year
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Minor correction: this is the Vice-Chancellor. Germany does not have a Vice-President.
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
Me neither until very recently, when a student died from it. Then it was all over the news for a week. (I'm pretty sure that is in the level of being struck by lightning.) It has even a name: fried rice syndrome. https://hea
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
If she is right in her assessment despite the wording, and these rights are something like a security vulnerability for societies, limiting them is not the only option. You can as well decide to use compensating controls (education, minimum
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by kbrkbr 2y ago
The article's headline states unequivocally that crows are self aware. But the presented evidence seems rather thin and criticism of this very evidence is being presented at the end of the article (as I understand the architecture of t
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
Same here. I never realized until I read an article about it well in my fourties. I read the late Wittgenstein when I was twenty, and I also thought that thing with "the meaning of a dog is a mental image of a dog" was a metaphor
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
You can't read Socrates, because he did not write. You can read Plato though.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
Judging by the ordinals you wrote right there it's probably more five reasons.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
It's an observational study. It could as well be that persons with conditions that are tied to higher cardiovascular mortality more often do intermittent fasting.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
It would appear that sqrt(2) does not have a meaning now, as sqrt(-1) in R. So it does not seem to matter if you do not convert it in an algebraic setting. There is no such number that you can reach with the enumerative approach, which will
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
It seems to me that this comes at the price that now in your geometry the diagonal of a unit square does not have a defined length. Only an approximate one of 1.41421, but what does this approximate?
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
If you could, you could use that procedure to create a mapping 1 => first step in the procedure 2 => second step ... That in turn would mean that N and R have the same cardinality. This would be news.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
> Literally any definition of something infinite can always be reduced to a procedure that recursively transforms or observes some prior state. Could you come up with or point to such a procedure for R (the reals)? As I understand the d
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
That reminds me of Bruce Schneier's notion of security theater [1]. Implementing ineffective measures that give a feeling of being the right thing on superficial view, in security or elsewhere. Populism has understood that thoroughly.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
I do not think the last sentence is an adequate description of what linear logic is, or how it's used and understood. It is interesting in itself, I admit that. But I don't see how it would admit contradiction, or how logicians ar
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
For learning new stuff or deeper understanding old stuff I use "browser tab based backtracking". I research some books and articles on the topic. As soon as I realize that I do not understand something (it doesn't click), I o
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
That is an interesting thought. Maybe the problem is not the ai generated useless noise, but that it is so easy and cheap to publish it. One possible future is going back to a medium with higher cost of publication. Books. Handchiseled ston
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
Talking about extreme situations, here is another possible scenario - if electricity is then rationed and works only for two hours a day, people with cigarettes or gold may actually buy the food, while people with Bitcoin go hungry, and the
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
This axiom is also not plausible, at least not to me. How do under this axiom explain the success of science and engineering? I really don't see it.
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
With ad hominem and ad magazinam. If "method that works" means to you "method that works to convince someone", then there is anyway no difference to focusing on the topic. But if it means "method that works to find
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
I agree with the assessment that there are not many systems we can predict 10 years out with great confidence, specifically geopolitics. But I do not think I painted much of a picture of Tetlock's results. I read the article as conclud
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
I think this article has two shortcomings that make its sweeping conclusions shaky. First, it identifies forecasting with point forecasting. There are other ways to put forecasting questions, e.g. lower and upper level with a certain probab
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by kbrkbr 3y ago
Yes, all the time. That's a way to understand how much I changed, like a mirror. Same with movies.

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