maxander

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by maxander 9y ago
Indeed. The site itself is uncomfortable! It's meta .
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by maxander 9y ago
The argument makes some intuitive sense (more people buying X over Y makes the value of X go up, which makes holding X more desirable, so more people buy X instead of Y...), but if this effect actually happened I don't see why it would
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by maxander 9y ago
It's not as if Open Markets were a bunch of Google employees. If some rich guy calls up your employer and leans on them so that they fire you, you're still "free to continue your work elsewhere," but you would still be
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by maxander 9y ago
A bit of googling can get you a publication history of the researcher mentioned as pioneering the field: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=q0n-slAAAAAJ... . From a glance, there aren't any actual bio
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by maxander 9y ago
You would need more than a non-programmer friendly interface on top - biologists, astronomers, chemists, et al. usually aren't fully fledged programmers themselves, and aren't likely to understand what Docker is, let alone how to
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by maxander 9y ago
Whether there would be a benefit is an open scientific/engineering problem. We certainly haven't reached the limits if Jnon-neural interfaces (I still can't casually mumble to my computer and have it reliably understand), bu
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by maxander 9y ago
The top answers are essentially well-thought-out probability arguments describing the Lizardman Constant [1]. Essentially, random humans who don't care very much about your survey are likely to respond in arbitrary or perverse ways, m
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by maxander 9y ago
Carbon- and mineral-sharing between trees makes good game-theoretic sense. Any two neighbouring trees could easily be neighbours for upwards of a century, effecting and relying on the same soil; its an iterated "game" of extreme
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by maxander 9y ago
Many, many countries are brutal, totalitarian dictatorships. Doesn't mean we have an excuse to sink to their level. I couldn't imagine this story coming from, say, Germany or Sweden.
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by maxander 9y ago
> ...but is it really the best use of resources to throw $1 billion at reinforcement learning without any similar investments into addressing... <important things> The precise same sentiment could be made about his plans to go to M
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by maxander 9y ago
We don't have the luxury of designing humans from the ground up. Nor do we fully understand the structures underlying human motivation. Neither will be true (we expect) of AI, eventually. It would be nice if there were some fundament
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by maxander 9y ago
As you note, both nuclear and traditional energy can fail spectacularly (e.g., Brightwater Horizon,) but a good comparison of these events can be tricky. Particularly, for nuclear "harm," careful how much is real science vs how m
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by maxander 9y ago
I'm actually not sure whether this is satire. There's a couple fair points there (read books, do open-source work, get out to seminars/etc), but the bulk of could be summed up as "be a sociopath that has no life beyond
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by maxander 9y ago
An interesting experiment, but it all comes down to an effect at "p < 0.05." That's potentially a 1-in-20 chance of it being a meaningless fluke. Which given the very relaxed statistical standards in most behavioral stud
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by maxander 9y ago
Yep. The March sales numbers directly show this, but it wouldn't have made as nice a headline. Therein is the art of this kind of cheap click-based journalism; look around until you find something that looks surprising or disturbing,
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by maxander 9y ago
Gravity isn't waves, but it's a field that waves can exist in. (Similar to, the ocean isn't a wave but it can contain waves.)
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by maxander 9y ago
To my knowledge, the current opinion (with no known proof) is that quantum computers can't efficiently solve NP-hard problems. So, the answer is (probably) "still hard," but I haven't the slightest how that would be for
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by maxander 9y ago
Do they propose a mechanism for how there could be simultaneous correlations between the two detectors that aren't gravitational waves? There's few enough forces that can act through kilometers of solid earth that I'd be w
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by maxander 9y ago
Oops... I plead autocorrect.
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by maxander 9y ago
I guess I respect having the intestinal fortitude to do the responsible thing, but at least in the U.S., seeing any service position with obvious privilege connotations makes people uncomfortable. The meal-in-a-box industry is another clev
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by maxander 9y ago
I honestly cannot tell if this is brilliant sarcasm or if you'be somehow missed all the "very loud discussion" about Windows 10 on HN. :)
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by maxander 9y ago
Russia and China are giants, though, with substantial economic clout- and, further, it's not clear that measures like those would actually solve the capital flow problems the article describes. If you're a small country like Belg
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by maxander 9y ago
What exactly is the important difference between "discussing things in great detail to avoid conflict" and "having a contract"? When problems come up, is a contract more likely to be disregarded because it is written
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by maxander 9y ago
You're right, for some reason I was thinking there was a generation gap there, but it's true that Aristotle did his own teaching also in Athens only a bit later. But I think my point survives, since what we have of Aristotle&#x27
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by maxander 9y ago
Roochnik is surely more familiar with the works of Plato than I am, but his thesis that "Plato wouldn't conceive of ethical philosophy as techne" flies in the face of much of what Plato and his school explicitly says. To P
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by maxander 9y ago
It's worth noting that the paper was published in ACS Sensors, a journal on the topic of "new and original knowledge on all aspects of sensor science that selectively sense chemical or biological species or processes." So, t
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by maxander 9y ago
Am I right to read this as "the classical computer and quantum computer compete at the task of being that particular quantum computer ?" Scott Aaronson is probably preparing to denounce this experiment already.
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by maxander 9y ago
There exists a body of theory about how to do software engineering as described here, but there doesn't exist a sizable community of software engineers willing to do this kind of work on a reasonably large scale. Judging by HN (whic
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by maxander 9y ago
Decaf? Probably not at most cafes, but if you're making it at home. Of course, the better answer is to simply gradually increase your caffeine tolerance until a pint of cold brew has no effect. :)
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by maxander 9y ago
Did you read the article? She finds that the typical pattern of men dating younger women is true , merely that there are more exceptions than one might expect, and that older women have decent success rates with younger men. Note that &q

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