maxander

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by maxander 6y ago
That’s still a metaphor; how processes actually occupy space isn’t relevant to the distinction. If the backend is running on a laptop right in front of you, it’s still a backend. The frontend is probably on the same machine, nether in fro
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by maxander 6y ago
Surely, if you’ve been putting up exhaustive evidence many times before, you could take a second to link to one of these studies you mention? Otherwise your comment carries much less weight, and you should expect the sort of response you j
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by maxander 6y ago
As with bizarrely restrictive FDA regulations on, e.g., face masks, the famous conservatism of IRB committees is another thing that the COVID19 story should motivate us to re-examine.
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by maxander 6y ago
That is extremely Hieronymous Bosch.
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by maxander 7y ago
For some reason, though, the oil industry is one of the most technologically advanced sectors that exist, and employs some dominating fraction of all PhDs in geology and related fields. Even though they’re just “pumping oil from holes in
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by maxander 7y ago
If some great catastrophe someday flattens our civilization, these reserves (and others of the sort, globally) will probably be the only oil sources accessible to civilization as it tries to rebuild. They may even be enough - we use oil at
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by maxander 7y ago
It's also interesting that the Roman Army apparently ate five times as much as the entire city of Rome. Resource allocation was clearly very different back then (and apparently in our favor.)
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by maxander 7y ago
> (Submitted on 15 Mar 2020) I feel like if this would work, it would mean one could inhale vaporized alcohol efficiently enough to get drunk on the vapor alone. And if that were a thing people could do, one would certainly expect it to
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by maxander 7y ago
Has anyone looked at the equivalent numbers in the US? Or South Korea, or other places with outbreaks?
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by maxander 7y ago
Herd immunity kicks in when a large fraction of the people you encounter were already infected, giving you fewer chances to infect new people. So incubation time doesn’t matter there (though certainly it doesn’t help, for other reasons.)
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by maxander 7y ago
People are probably downvoting you because it's generally frowned upon to make baseless "just-so" claims, especially in something as difficult to make credible claims in as geopolitics, and especially when it asserts the su
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by maxander 7y ago
"As long as the health care system is under capacity" is about a week or so at best, in much of the U.S., and not much longer (or already past) in many other places. And it's going to stay that way for awhile - outside China
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by maxander 7y ago
In many cases, people aren't available; they're sheltering at home, social distancing. Even for those who can work remotely, the disruption to routine is going to reduce productivity. And worse, many assets are going to be d
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by maxander 7y ago
If it’s just for yourself, a regular thermometer will do, certainly?
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by maxander 7y ago
I wonder if dealers in fraudulent art/whisky/whatever have started purchasing samples of 13C or 14C to try to fool this kind of analysis. I don't know what the cost would be, but it would only need very small quantities (and
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by maxander 7y ago
Strong social ties can exist without an overarching authority, or even without any sort of authoritative structure at all- I think the best thing to look at in this regard are modern subcultures (punks, hipsters, hippies, goths, burners, et
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by maxander 7y ago
At least one company is working on that general concept: https://www.ctrl-labs.com/
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by maxander 7y ago
This is perhaps the first time I had heard of China's "Greater Bay Area" (according to wikipedia a "megalopolis" consisting of 11 cities besides Shenzhen) and, particularly in the context of this article on Shenzhen
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by maxander 7y ago
It’s a pity that the common annotation for a “surprising” move is to follow the move code with an examination mark (or two) rather than preceding it; otherwise we would have a simple way of making the model generate surprising moves on comm
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by maxander 7y ago
Was halfway expecting a GPT-2 model trained to act like a bash shell.
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by maxander 7y ago
That’s because you’re concerned with the laptop still being usable afterwards. :)
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by maxander 7y ago
Not just the desire, but also the ability- the cultural context for an industrial base potentially far more powerful than what we have. That may be extremely difficult to sustain over such timescales.
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by maxander 7y ago
You know, I your heart of hearts, you’re not going to generate a plan on this site and stick to it... but , likewise, you’ll remember roughly what the plan would have been, giving you a slightly better idea of the boundaries of a “good” di
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by maxander 7y ago
Dump more money into mining and more mining will happen (much as what happens with farm subsidies.). This probably wouldn’t achieve the reduction in suffering you’re looking for.
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by maxander 7y ago
Since each hand beats two other hands, you only need three possible outputs to beat any opposing hand.
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by maxander 7y ago
Perhaps they could get a grant from OpenAI or some similar AI research firm; someday, when the technology arrives, the Internet Archive will be the ultimate corpus.
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by maxander 7y ago
“Technology to get an individual from anyplace on Earth to any other place in less than an hour” ... so, a mobile-platform-launched ICBM that you can climb into. I’d believe that the military would have developed that for that sake of some
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by maxander 7y ago
> Switching transportation in the middle of a trip even once wastes a ton of time and adds hassle. Does it? When driving into Boston, I’ve found it almost always better to park in a big garage on the edge of town and ride a bus/sub
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by maxander 7y ago
From jellyfish’s pypi page: “ a library for doing approximate and phonetic matching of strings.” Huh! Hadn’t realized. That adds an ironic spin to the whole thing.
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by maxander 7y ago
So they caught the guy using a cliched I-vs-l typosquatting scheme and lazily writing the malicious code in Python; we can presume they haven't caught the guy who took the trouble to put their malicious code in a pre-compiled C extensi

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