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by lincolnq 15y ago
Very interesting and thoughtful. But I think the author gets it dead wrong. "the budget cuts he seemed so giddy about invariably mean fewer teachers, and to argue that this is somehow beneficial to learning is to argue against years of rese
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I had the same reaction as you. </meta> Stat'ing a million files is going to take a long time. Perforce doesn't have this problem because you explicitly check out files (p4 edit). (Perforce marks the whole tree read-only, as a remin
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Seconded. ViEmu is better. Use that instead. It's easily worth the $99.
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Wow, this is effortless and works well, just like Dropbox. Nice job.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
This is a great story. It illustrates everything perfectly: Why, as employee, you're probably getting played and that you should ask for more money. Why, as employer, it's advantageous to be magnanimous and not lowball the employee. And it
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Yes, salient risks seem more threatening than they actually are, but for a similar reason, invisible risks are more threatening than they seem. Which is why the future does not look as bright as this article is claiming. In the last year or
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by lincolnq 15y ago
If you're interested in changing the world, it's worth considering the path of "make lots of money, then spend it on something good". Check out http://80000hours.org/ and Jaan Tallinn's talk about how to make an impact, http://www.accele
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by lincolnq 15y ago
The Nobel Prize has a famous chilling effect on actual productivity. It's good to give people recognition for their work but I would be wary of giving them too much.
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Seconded. GiveWell needn't be the only source for estimates, but a mission that strongly promoted cost-effective charities could make a huge difference... It's sometimes hard to convince donors of this case. For many (most?) the goal is not
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by lincolnq 15y ago
If you're interested in charitable giving: GiveWell ( http://givewell.org ) does in-depth reviews of charities and recommends the best ones, based on things like cost-effectiveness and transparency. Giving What We Can ( http://givingwhatwec
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by lincolnq 15y ago
The mind design space is HUGE. ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/rm/the_design_space_of_mindsingenera... ) The "default AI" is a program that we build. That's all we know. Most programs that we build do not properly represent human values. If they
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by lincolnq 15y ago
Thanks. I updated my post to point to this one.
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No, they indicated it was "by design" in the bug report. I suspect they decided it wasn't worth their time to maintain it.
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Does anyone with knowledge of the industry care to estimate how much money these companies could make using such a scheme? Considering how often these sorts of stories pop up (once in a while -- maybe a few times a year), and how profitable
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Facebook deleted their Python SDK repository without warning(techhouse.org)
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"X times greater risk" refers to the likelihood ratio over the Bayesian prior, assuming that this bit of evidence (smoking/not) is independent of other known evidence. Usually the prior is "all people" or "people of <X> ethnotype" o
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by lincolnq 15y ago
OK, the gene is called CHRNA5 and it seems to be related to a nicotine receptor. Here's where I found that: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v40/n5/abs/ng.109.html According to that article, the SNPs in question are rs1051730 and rs803419
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Huh. Your insight is an interesting one, but I am having trouble understanding how it is actually useful. If I may reduce to a concrete example: Posit shared variables x and y, both zero, and simultaneously do (on threads T1 and T2) T
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by lincolnq 15y ago
You just made me look seriously into coffeescript. Thanks!
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Thanks. Contracts are an AWESOME idea and I would love to see them make it into a language that everyone uses. The ideas behind powerful contracts / type systems have been around for a long time: provide properties that are checked such tha
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by lincolnq 15y ago
I posted this as its own link, but it's worth reposting here: Jaan Tallinn, founder of Skype, at the most recent Singularity Summit, talks about what to do with your money and how to make a difference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84G6An
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by lincolnq 15y ago
The optimal philanthropy community is trying to figure out how to convey these messages: 1) more money doesn't directly buy more happiness; and 2) more money DOES buy better world outcomes (which probably leads to more happiness overall). I
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Jaan Tallinn (founder of Kazaa and Skype): "Balancing the Trichotomy"(youtube.com)
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It seems like you would make more money keeping this technology secret and using it yourself or convincing a single investor to use it and share the proceeds. Why are you trying to market it?
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I agree that there are problems, but at any given time, with the choice between life and death, would you really ever pick death? Check out "Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism": http://singinst.org/blog/2007/06/16/transhumanism-as-simpli
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Humans have a "reserve" of willpower which can be depleted. This is science; I can't find the study right now but here's an article about it? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinion/02aamodt.html Now, consider actions which you take. As
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by lincolnq 15y ago
It doesn't really matter whether you use Play, Grails, Django or Rails. What matters is that you actually sit down with a few hours and follow the tutorial. You have permission to start coding. Go forth and build!
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I would be interested to see whether a genetic algorithm performs better than a hill-climbing one in this context. By hill-climbing I mean searching for a vector in the seven-dimensional space you've defined which makes the biggest improvem
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Great! Go right ahead and program everything you want in assembly. If it's for fun, or for educational purposes, or whatever, awesome. But don't go around saying it's going to perform better than Haskell code, or whatever higher-level langu
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Modern compilers are generally considered smart enough to do a better job at optimizing your code than you. Maybe if you're really, really smart you can do a better job than the compiler. But I suspect most people who say this are not, in f

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