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by maxander 7y ago
Pretty few would take the risk, I bet. It's an interesting problem- we have "trigger warnings" and "content warnings" but not "content all-clears."
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by maxander 7y ago
It's definitely a real thing. I don't have it badly , but when I learned about tryptophobia it was satisfying to know why lotus seed pods had always made me feel somewhat uncomfortable. (Google that only if you're reasonabl
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by maxander 7y ago
Trypophobia is presumably an abnormal, overly-aggressive version of the disease-avoidance mechanism, though; there's no evolutionary reason to be unsettled by holes on inorganic objects, or even most kinds of holes on organic ones.
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by maxander 7y ago
This sort of story probably fully explains origins of the OP's lament (that AWS billing is so opaque that even internal Amazon teams can't figure it out.) Some AWS middle manager knows that if he orders better billing tools to be
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by maxander 7y ago
If there are things we can't conceptually comprehend, then definitionally we don't understand what they are , so of course we can't answer this question. We won't know one way or another unless we consult with somethin
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by maxander 7y ago
Academia, for all its faults, is still an excellent system for collecting those who are obsessive about s subject (at least for a certain set of “established” subjects.) It’s preposterously difficult to do the PhD-through-tenure course if
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by maxander 7y ago
In about 10 years, it will be possible to run a cell lysate sample through a mass spec machine and get what a present-day scientist would call a pretty good picture of everything going on at the proteomic/metabolomic level, in perhaps
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by maxander 7y ago
> “I would hate to see say a low-income family who’s concerned about air [quality] review their options and say ‘I could either buy a $400 air cleaner, or I could go out and buy a $30 plant,’” says Gall. “That plant is not going to impro
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by maxander 7y ago
A dedicated, well-maintained name abstraction is certainly something that needs to happen. More than interesting, it's a bit bizarre that this hasn't been done yet (AFAIK.) In terms of developer-facing complexity, this could be a
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by maxander 7y ago
Gardasil is described as a prophylactic vaccine, rather than therapeutic, so no- it sounds like you would have to be vaccinated prior to infection in order for it to be effective. However, it sounds like there are therapeutic vaccines in d
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by maxander 7y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Boston, MA Technologies: Python, C/C++, C#, Linux Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vCk9BIAJHF1hQnV071JxBZ6dGTR2Hb7G/view?usp=sharing Email: w.max.alexander
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by maxander 7y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Possible Willing to relocate: Possible Technologies: Python, C/C++, C#, Linux Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vCk9BIAJHF1hQnV071JxBZ6dGTR2Hb7G/vi
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by maxander 7y ago
Which means the root password is probably still “admin” :)
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by maxander 7y ago
I'd argue the opposite- it's like saying that water is legal but it's illegal to drown someone. Nothing in the field of machine learning is in itself illegal, as opposed to things like hard drugs and heavy weaponry, which
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by maxander 7y ago
There’s still no regulation on what you can do with machine learning (At least until your deepfakes constitute unlawful use of someone’s likeness, or you use your classifier to make hiring decisions or something, or something like that.)
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by maxander 7y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Haskell, R, C/C++/C#; machine learning and statistics. Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-max-alexander-8940469&#
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by maxander 7y ago
Bias in AI (whatever the source or nature of the problem) is a real issue that needs addressing, but taking the relevant training data off of ImageNet seems like a perfect example of papering over a problem to avoid really confronting it.
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by maxander 7y ago
If you you want “affordable rents,” you have two options; high density or long commutes. And high density means large buildings. There’s just geometrically no way to supply a SF/NYC/Boston level city primarily through detached h
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by maxander 7y ago
I’ve never been to Russia and don’t know the Russian attitude towards tech or voting. But I’m confident that if the US had a system like this and made a reasonably usable phone app to be the front end, almost no one under the age of 60 wou
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by maxander 7y ago
As far as I understand it, the mechanisms that trees and other plants use to make themselves plant-shapes wouldn’t generalize to other useful things like houses; e.g., the algorithm is something akin to an L-system [0], and there’s only so
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by maxander 7y ago
But most of these students (particularly ones taking the lin alg course that apparently has APPLIED in all caps in the title) are going to be engineers or similar who will never encounter the fundamentals outside of their application in too
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by maxander 7y ago
I wonder if the issue is liability- people suffering from various ailments are liable to Google their symptoms in hopes of finding an at-home cure instead of going to a doctor[0], and if this turns out badly they could conceivably turn arou
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by maxander 7y ago
I got just the opposite impression- the interviewer gave a problem that is different from the normal “sorting problem,” particularly so that the answer wouldn’t be any of the algorithms one learned in school. He was presumably hoping tha
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by maxander 7y ago
It's for the better- even ignoring the risk of physical harm, these motors are loud . Cities would be orders of magnitude more obnoxious if you had the upper class constantly buzzing overhead in vehicles that made a Harley-Davidson s
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by maxander 7y ago
Two answers: - Hygeine? That was invented by Louis Pasteur in the nineteenth century. :) - In circumstances that allowed it, bread was often used as a plate (“trenchers.”) Would be nicely hygienic if the bread used in this way wasn’t trad
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by maxander 7y ago
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Haskell, R, C/C++/C#; machine learning and general statistics Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-max-alexander-89
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by maxander 7y ago
All sorts of medical drugs have contraindications- that’s why we have doctors prescribe them in the first place. E.g., you have severe sleep apnea, you shouldn’t use benzodiazepines; if you have bad anxiety you shouldn’t take address; et
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by maxander 7y ago
Natural human grammar is error correcting codes, essentially. If sentence should e corrupted, e.g. like this one is, it usually is immediatly visible that is wrong, and what the “correct” should be. IIRC, one of the criticisms of Ithkuil
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by maxander 7y ago
Nee gig for Musk’s Boring Company? Drilling water pipelines right through the mountains.
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by maxander 7y ago
No good reason- but like I said, check out the price tag; a mile of subway development in the U.S. can cost billions (with a B!) of dollars. Additional foot traffic along that mile couldn't get you that much back.

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