loonginthetooth

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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
Look I'm all for reminding people that the US government has done a lot of awful stuff, but.. No. It's not a measurement problem or a propaganda issue. It's just the truth. USG just literally doesn't 'disappear&#x27
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
I don't know much about SEO or content pruning, so I make no judgment on the conclusion of this article. What I can say is that this is genuinely one of the worst-written pieces I've ever read. Nowhere does the author provide any
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
I think this is kind of the point. There's a compelling argument that buggy humans are the root of all kinds of profound suffering.
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
I think my ignorance is showing here, but that paper's tldr to me seems to be: neural network performance is not a monotonic function of network width. Like the conclusion and the problem statement seem to be trivially equivalent. They
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
Yeah it's maybe not a concern for everyone, but where I live every once in a while someone gets held at knifepoint and forced to unlock their phone. I set up a screen time password just in case.
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
You should review the psychological literature around sense of purpose. Basically every study ever conducted on humans has concluded that mental health is more or less impossible without a sense of purpose. The experts in this field say it&
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by loonginthetooth 3y ago
It is shocking to me that people spend so little time thinking about the matter that they believe this would be a good thing.
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by loonginthetooth 4y ago
Yeah this is kind of a "Breaking: Water is wet" headline.
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by loonginthetooth 4y ago
Gonna be honest, this guy lost me at 'I decided to learn Haskell—and needed to do that on a business timeline. This was the most difficult learning experience of my 40-year career...' like, really?