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by leto_ii 3y ago
> Sounds to me like more time on hand to prolong those movie nights. Unfortunately that's not how things work under capitalism. To the extent that coding assistants make a difference in productivity (in my experience quite limited g
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Ok, the guy is not some Fields medalist, so it depends what you mean by math chops, but here are a few of his papers published in respectable journals that have non negligible math content: https://www.sciencedirect.com/scie
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Taleb has math chops, what are you talking about? He's also quite a bit less self-aggrandizing. Otoh, they do seem to like reach other, which in my book does cast some doubt on taleb's ability to judge people...
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by leto_ii 3y ago
GEB is one of the books that as an adult I have learned to not care about anymore. I've unsuccessfully tried reading it a few times (once made it a couple of hundred pages in) and came to the (personal) conclusion that if I want an int
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by leto_ii 3y ago
> With three phones and a one-in-eight chance of being affected (assuming 50% for each phone) 1/8 would be the chance to have all 3 affected. The chance of having at least one affected would be 1-1/8.
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Didn't say they were perfect, but when it comes to the speed of scientific and technological progress, nothing beats the late 19th- mid 20th century era.
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Amazing feat. Yet it's not the first time that I've also felt bitterness pondering such past achievements. I can't escape the feeling that we used to be so much bolder and unconstrained in setting goals for ourselves and actu
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Merry Christmas from Romania to the best community on the internet!
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by leto_ii 3y ago
I was thinking about this and how you might get a lognormal from normals. Peer comments I think have good suggestions. The thing is a while back I took a look at the times achieved by competitive athletes at the 100m dash (from worldathleti
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by leto_ii 3y ago
I'm not sure this analysis is as surprising or meaningful as it might seem at first sight. In the end I think what this tells us is that in the general population there are many distinct subpopulations with different distributions of r
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by leto_ii 3y ago
For the original wsj article: https://archive.ph/jMM1k
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Did wsj wisen up to our archive.today trick?
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The Immovable Ladder(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by leto_ii 3y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 3y ago
In Bucharest I've had problems throughout the day. Most noticeably just now while streaming on HBO Max.
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Thanks for the thorough reply. I think part of my point was covered by nathansherburn's sibling comment > It sounds like you took the primary criticism in the parent comment to be about reading in general. > I took it to mean tha
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by leto_ii 3y ago
I find this to be simplistic pop intelectual nonsense. This is not how to learn anything. It's way more meaningful to understand and pursue your own actual interests than to humble brag by ticking the "correct" readings. Not
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Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine (phage therapy)(economist.com)
3 points by leto_ii 3y ago|0 comments
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by leto_ii 3y ago
Interesting to note numerals are still Arabic, but written vertically. Does that mean that in school Mongolian kids learn to write digits sideways? Would be pretty cool :D edit: e.g. here: https://president.mn/mng/?p=7
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Funny, cause Microsoft didn't die. They're doing great. More than that, they're the ones behind OpenAI.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
are the numbers correct?
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Sugar of Lead(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by leto_ii 4y ago|1 comments
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I had the same initial impulse, but I think the transformation 1 -> 2 can't work irl. especially if those are compact solids. Edit: 2->3 also seems impossible. you basically move the hole around.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> their point is that some people have an internal sense of resilience, or a constructed foundation of security This may be true, but I think that this is also something that can be learned, at least to a good degree. Personally I feel I
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> anxiety is something you have First, everybody is capable of anxiety and that's normal and to be expected in the current climate. > a scale up that leaned woke [...] When layoffs happened, it was basically an all out mental hea
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I’ve been with my wife for 20 years and we still stay up too late at least once a week because we don’t want to stop our conversation. It is the richest, most fulfilling relationship I can imagine. > Beyond companionship, she is the
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by leto_ii 4y ago
That's just not true. There are many kinds of social relations, dominance being just one particularity nasty one. Other apes also exhibit a whole range of social relations. It doesn't have to be a dog eat dog world out there, and
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Based on your virulent tone I suspect you still harbor strong resentment against your childhood bullies. I somewhat get that, I was bullied too and I still hate those kids. As an adult however I realize that my bullies were actually abused
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> It's the same rationale as in prison - you don't want to end up at the bottom of the dominance hierarchy. The simple fact that you think it's not a problem to somewhat approvingly compare schools to prisons is already a
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Poll: Would you work for Elon Musk?
6 points by leto_ii 4y ago|1 comments
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Yes, for any of his companies.

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