kosievdmerwe

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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
It's interesting to me the differences between countries. In South Africa, the first way you get your final grade 12 results (which are used for university admissions) is via the newspapers. Every year, everyone's grades are publi
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Given how heavily mathematical physics is this isn't surprising. Some mathematical concepts themselves can take a couple of months to learn to a sufficient level, especially if you include the prerequisites.
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Interesting. I definitely don't agree with that myself. It sort of reminds me of the Philosophy of Mathematics[1], where there are some schools of thought that I consider vaguely ridiculous too. Like some schools of Platonism suggestin
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
How do you mean emergent phenomena? Like with gliders and stuff in Conway's game of life? Where the rules of the game are trivial, but the higher level behavior is not. That said, if that's what you mean, then it's been my be
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Yeah, I imagine it would involve a lawsuit, so not trivial if the politician is willing to fight. Though I'm not sure if most of the straw donors are 3rd parties, since the ones I knew about were officers of the company. Either way, I
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
It's not their money to donate, stolen proceeds belong to the victims. They should've given it back to FTX. Additionally, money is fungible, so the politicians can't claim the money is "gone" after being donated, si
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Yeah, it's an incredibly obvious loophole to suddenly "discover" new charges after the person is in your possession.
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
It would be especially valuable if there was also a government registry of known unenforceable provisions that employers are assumed by the law to be aware of. This would cut off arguments regarding "knowledge"/ I would also
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
I frankly can't think of a more dangerous thing humanity can be doing than gain of function research. Especially if done near population centers.
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Hopefully, the building would have been demolished by the relevant authorities before it became a risk of actually happening. That said I don't know if there is even a tall, new building that was demolished as a danger to the public wi
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
Also you want your voice assistant to play you music not hassle you about correct pronunciations.
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by kosievdmerwe 3y ago
A system that doesn't take into account human failings is a flawed system.
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
The problem is that as far as I understand Russia claims to be the successor state of the USSR, meaning they want to claim all its glories (and crimes) Which if true, means that Russian civilian victimization by the Soviet Union is somethi
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
Don't forget being able to throw accurately.
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
That makes sense, though I still think that at 31 you still pretty much have most of your life ahead of you, so facing a lifetime of jail is a terrible personal tragedy, which is why I didn't pick up the implied sarcasm. (But the perso
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
It sucks for SBF, but keep in perspective the suffering and hardship he's caused lots of people by costing them their savings. Just because a long sentence sucks doesn't mean we should forget what criminals did to deserve it and a
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
One youtube video[1] I watched had someone state that if you scaled up one of the curved mirrors to the size of the Earth, the largest imperfection would be the width of a hair. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en7hhFJBrA
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
You can use lenses and curved mirrors to make a larger mask focus the light onto a smaller area.
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
I don't know JS at all, I just found it funny that in my modern Chrome browser the example automated conversion just output exactly the same JS as was input.
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
Furthermore, the language model itself is clearly a for profit derivative work and so would be subject to the wants of the original copyright owners and it is clearly a derivative work since without the inputs of the copyrighted code in its
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
This viewpoint renders the word "risk" meaningless. Something isn't a risk if there isn't some sequence of events that can cause it to happen. And even if we lived in a deterministic universe, we don't have perfect
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
I'm not sure why you're trying to pigeonhole my world view into a dice roll example. The core point I'm making is that something doesn't become "not a risk" just because you didn't fail. If we're talk
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
This argument is equivalent to saying "Someone told me that Russian Roulette is dangerous, but I didn't die when I played it, so they're wrong." Systematic risks are still risks even if they don't manifest and if yo
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
As far as I understand what they essentially said is "We'll pay $X if SBF doesn't show up to court" (where X is $200k or $500k) To the best of my knowledge they haven't paid anything yet. Bail bonds are when you hav
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
It's amazing what a small amount of bail (200k and 500k) the two individuals put up relative to the supposed $250 million bail. The value of course to court is that these two people would help ensure that SBF doesn't vanish, but g
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
A car switching into an empty lane and then stopping hard even more. If a human driver did it deliberately as the Tesla did (since it was designed to pull over and stop) then I would consider it a criminal level traffic violation on the par
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
And of the two eating less is more important. The human body is remarkably efficient when it comes to exercise. Also important is eating your food in a manner (e.g., smaller portions more frequently) that you don't ever get really hung
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
Probably not that easy to play dumb if you set up a corporate structure involving a hundred different companies. I don't imagine a jury would see that level of unfathomable complexity and think "clearly a guy in over his head&quot
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
There's also the fact that you don't develop a corporate hierarchy as complicated as the FTX and Alameda clusters of companies (something like 130 companies), due to ignorance and naivety.
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by kosievdmerwe 4y ago
Yeah, it's something I heard about someone checking before taking their kids to a movies. I think it's great, since the age rating doesn't tell you enough to be able to choose what your young children should be exposed to.

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