konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
I'll have you know I had to use cat and tac in the way they were intended a few days ago. I can't remember for the life of me why, but I was shocked.
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by konjin 6y ago
You both are right. Apis are extortion and scraping is fragile. I once amused myself by crating random invisible divs when generating a server side html page. It made scraping resulting files impossible, and made no difference to the look o
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by konjin 6y ago
The category of race in the US means 'too dark to pass for smart' according to Joe Biden anyway. That it used to include Italians not too long ago should tell you all you need to know about its scientific basis. Now if you want to
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by konjin 6y ago
Math algorithms are the one area where good enough really isn't good enough.
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by konjin 6y ago
It's been over a decade since I studied it, but from memory you could also end up in infinite loops when you start generating the closed form solution if it doesn't exist. Which with as much hand waving as possible is ultimately e
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by konjin 6y ago
Wait until I introduce you to transrace theory. Blobology [1] applied to black and white brains. It is just running sed on the papers that talk about differences in male and female brains as a biological basis for being transgendered with r
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by konjin 6y ago
Fascinating. I know what I'm doing for the next hour. It does make an interesting comparison to the internet today. The Victorians had the wired telegraph for information, but without the trains most of the advancements of the 19th cen
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by konjin 6y ago
In automatic differentiation we depend on the fact that a closed form elementary solution exists even if we don't calculate it directly. For integration we need to prove that such a object exists for each expression we want to integrat
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by konjin 6y ago
Because there is no known algorithm for deciding equality. It becomes automatic if we assume an oracle. Since deciding equality is an open problem and the answer is probably 'no there isn't a decidable equality algorithm' it
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by konjin 6y ago
It has been figured out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm The problem is that it's unknown if a symbolic equality algorithm exists for elementary functions and what those functions should be. It is kn
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by konjin 6y ago
That sounds fascinating. Is there an article or book about it?
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by konjin 6y ago
Everyone knows that you should run openbsd on a modded t420, with coreboot and only use emacs for graphical work. Sent from eww.
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by konjin 6y ago
I have and the article starts off with the assumption that it hasn't and then ties itself in knots to reach that conclusion. The network speeds have increased, network latency has decreased, the hardware has gotten faster and we'r
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by konjin 6y ago
You can't go wrong with Ncurses. Ancient, bindings to literally every language, stable and works everywhere including the kitchen sink. The terminal is not meant to be existing. You are emulating 80 year old technology at the base of i
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by konjin 6y ago
The assumption that industrial civilization is possible in 50 years is the absurd proposition.
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by konjin 6y ago
And how about people without real psychological problems who ruin their lives? Psychiatry has a rolling history where everything that was done 30 years ago is so barbarous that the treatments are criminalize, and it has been that way for a
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by konjin 6y ago
I've never seen anyone use false negatives to argue that we should accept false positives as reasonable. I guess there's a first time for everything. But to answer your question, yes, it would be statistically prudent to assume th
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by konjin 6y ago
Posts like these make me wonder if lizard people actually exist and have a conspiracy to use monkeys to return the world to a state they can thrive in without minions. An /s but barely. The last time CO2 levels were at levels we see to
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by konjin 6y ago
In 2020: Your idea that people should own their own computers because they’re critical tools isn't wrong, but it is elitist. In 1515: Your idea that people learn to read isn't wrong, but it's elitist. The majority of peoples
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by konjin 6y ago
If a 14 year old can consistently outsmart multiple professionals then it's not the 14 year old that's the problem. If there no way to detect false positives then everyone is a false positive.
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by konjin 6y ago
Meta studies on vaccines find them to be generally effective [1] but the government has managed to screw up major drives and damage peoples view of vaccines because of those [2]. Psychiatry on the other hand has evidence that disappears eve
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by konjin 6y ago
>Another issue is that this progress in research takes awhile before you see results in practice and much longer for it to disseminate through the whole psychiatric community. The problem is that when I was a teenager I could walk into a
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by konjin 6y ago
The ones with women are jarring. I wonder if future generations will see how we treat children the same way. >Simone doesn't want to cook breakfast for her husband, a lobotomy and Thorazine fixed her right up. >Little Timmy doesn
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by konjin 6y ago
>They should just pay you instead of paying the insane office rent. Or pay the shareholders instead. Or the CEO. Or ... you are a cost center for your company. Why would they pay you more than the minimum anyone than they would for any o
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by konjin 6y ago
>By most microscopic measurements, clinical psychology is a cure that does help the majority of patients. Both in the long-term and short-term. That is where we disagree. Clinical psychology makes people feel better about themselves in t
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by konjin 6y ago
If you do not have any objective measures then what you have is a cult. By any objective standard - suicide rates, lost days of work, self harm, substance abuse, murder, etc. - we are worse off or no better today than in 1960 when we were s
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by konjin 6y ago
>You're getting downvoted for the coma comment It was just a modest proposal.
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by konjin 6y ago
At what school did you not get forced to do homework? Because I would have liked to sign up there and not do any of it.
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by konjin 6y ago
At this point we might as well admit that schools are daycare for teens. And universities are daycare for adolescents. So lets cut the bullshit and focus on what matters, keeping kids occupied and keeping them from killing themselves. I sug
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by konjin 6y ago
>- Kids should be made aware of the psychological help they can receive if they have personal issues. We had a psychologist at school, but I don't think anyone consulted them. I used them, they were great for scoring high quality dr

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