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by kevinwang 6mo ago
You probably meant "conscience" instead of "conscious"
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A $440k Breast Reduction: How Doctors Cashed in on a Consumer Protection Law(nytimes.com)
4 points by kevinwang 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kevinwang 6mo ago
for hn comment-only readers: paper link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2981 --- Editor Summary: Body size and metabolic rate are intertwined, a factor that is especially important to understand wi
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by kevinwang 6mo ago
Still down for me. (And still nothing on the status page!)
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by kevinwang 7mo ago
Even in your analogy, it's appropriate to reject the terms of marriage and not wed this person. But it's unprecedented to also vindictively ruin their life (e.g. by unilaterally putting them in jail)
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by kevinwang 9mo ago
From the link alone, it looks like the state actively funds cloud seeding research , not active practical cloud seeding?
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by kevinwang 10mo ago
Thanks. Link should be changed to this. Edit: oh wait, this article isn't the source either. It references an article by "The Information", which I assume is https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesf
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by kevinwang 10mo ago
The YXY problem?
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by kevinwang 11mo ago
It says: We see potential uses in companionship and affective interaction. The robot’s ability to elicit spontaneous touching and positive emotional responses suggests it could serve in therapeutic settings or as a social presence for peopl
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by kevinwang 11mo ago
Well said. I feel similarly despite being born about 15 years later.
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by kevinwang 11mo ago
Good idea! Anyone should be able to add it if it's in the public domain.
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Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.'S Figueroa Street?(nytimes.com)
4 points by kevinwang 1y ago|1 comments
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by kevinwang 1y ago
A little sad for me because I've enjoyed the global leaderboard aspect for years but of course my second reaction has to be to take a step back and appreciate all the joy that this one man has given us for all these years. And he'
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Luigi Mangione's Missing Months(nytimes.com)
3 points by kevinwang 1y ago|2 comments
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Not sure if you meant this because it doesn't cite the paper you mention, but it's a similar work: "An Investigation of Model-Free Planning", Guez et Al. (Deepmind) 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03
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by kevinwang 1y ago
For problems that human teams eventually get correct, they seem to have submitted mostly 1 time -- occasionally 2 or 3. For problems that they did not get correct, there are some problems with up to 16 submissions.
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Darn, I can't hear the music on iphone safari :(
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Thanks, that was a fun read!
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by kevinwang 1y ago
I remember reading an essay (probably from here?) about how a great way to build a game is to build it around a "toy" -- something that is pleasurable to simply interact with, even without objectives. I can't find it anymore
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Oooo, that looks a lot better than the initial designs!
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by kevinwang 1y ago
A quick take: > reasonable possibilities are too many to analyze, one is forced to pretty much guess. You could say the same thing about chess, but an experienced player wouldn't, because they know which candidate moves are reasonab
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by kevinwang 1y ago
This seems to have just happened: https://polymarket.com/event/another-dildo-thrown-at-wnba-ga... (and it could happen again: https://polymarket.com/event/another-dildo-thrown-at-wnba-ga... https
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't get this at all? Why use a recurrent architecture at all if you're only going to backprop through 1 step?
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Looks like the default settings correspond to a 31-note scale instead of the usual 12-tone scale. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_equal_temperament
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by kevinwang 1y ago
Much better, thank you!
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by kevinwang 2y ago
very nice, vincent!
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Hollywood Career: How to Tell When the End Is Nigh(hollywoodreporter.com)
4 points by kevinwang 2y ago|0 comments
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by kevinwang 2y ago
[2022]
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by kevinwang 2y ago
> When you have some knowledge of the topology of the graph you can use different techniques to do better than djikstra's. But that statement doesn't apply to the version of Dijkstra's developed in this paper right? > U
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by kevinwang 2y ago
yeah kinda

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