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by mckirk 6y ago
That's the most random nugget of wisdom I've encountered in some time. Thanks, I'll keep it in mind should I ever have a kid!
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by mckirk 6y ago
It might be that people are taking issue with the survivorship-bias argument. The important question here is: Given a virus that is as well adapted to humans as SARS-CoV-2, how likely is it that it emerged spontaneously (without a trace of
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by mckirk 6y ago
Transparent OLED screens on window sills cycling through simulations of virtual plants, together with their NFT tags... I want the future back, we were promised hoverboards!
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by mckirk 6y ago
Wherever you go, there you are. At first I just found that line funny, but the more I've traveled, the truer I've found it to be. A change in scenery can be immensely helpful in many ways, but you'll still relate to the world
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by mckirk 6y ago
I've come to realize the same thing: it's not all bad and at least makes sense in some regard. If you think of your will power as a limited resource for example, with blocking out distractions an actively depleting activity (not s
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by mckirk 6y ago
I'm curious, what does that specific anxiety+ADHD combination mean for treatment, in your experience? I'd imagine it could first of all be difficult to diagnose because the symptoms might occlude each other (i.e., 'getting im
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by mckirk 6y ago
For an explanation of the underlying algorithm and the (already impressive) previous iteration of his AI, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WQnwNFqJM
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AI sets new QWOP World Record using Reinforcement Learning [video](youtube.com)
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by mckirk 6y ago
Yes, that's what we have now though, isn't it? It went from having 0 pattern matching to having 1 pattern matching -- that seems like '100% more of this thing we are talking about' to me. This of course only makes sense
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by mckirk 6y ago
There's the awesome 'Containerise'[1] add-on for Firefox that lets you define containers for specific sites based on URL filter expressions. Pretty handy to e.g. keep Google cookies in their own Google container. (The only do
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by mckirk 6y ago
No, it's probably just a good idea to remind people of this feat, similarly to the legendary wrestling match in nineteen ninety-eight when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's
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by mckirk 6y ago
There is the effect of 'electromigration' at least, which causes atoms of conducting materials to be transported over time because of the current (if I understand it correctly). That might be an issue over the long term, especiall
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by mckirk 6y ago
I found this story yesterday and was quite confused as well, because in the YouTube video of him telling the story that they link, he just leaves that part out. But in the audio at the top of the page (and the transcript), he explains it.
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by mckirk 6y ago
That seems like a harsh view. A lot of software isn't very glamorous or exciting at first glance, that's true. But if you're sufficiently intrigued by logic puzzles and the challenge of solving things elegantly, my guess is t
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by mckirk 6y ago
I'm honestly glad to hear that, it's been a while since I've been to the US and I was quite confused about the yogurt-availability back then :D (Or maybe I was just unlucky and in an anti-full-fat-yogurt part of the country.)
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by mckirk 6y ago
Basically, you have to go to specialty food stores (the arabian ones are really awesome from my experience) to actually find yogurt that's deserving of the name. For some reason the yogurt sold in regular supermarkets in the US is &#x2
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by mckirk 6y ago
You might be on to something. I think what the US has done to yogurt should be banned under the Geneva convention.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Hmm, I don't quite agree with that characterization of Jordan Peterson. I believe his main point when talking of these prison-guard horror stories is to "embrace your shadow", as in: Realize that you might not be as far away
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by mckirk 6y ago
If we already had a GPT-deepfake interface I would now ask it to generate a costumed Elon Musk confusedly 'John Travolta'ing (the Pulp Fiction meme) in the middle of a SciFi sex party. In a year or two, perhaps.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I have met a few people that alleged being from Bielefeld, but they were clearly untrustworthy because they strongly supported the dubious claim that it existed.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I can only second the Huberman podcast suggestion. It's so much good information in one place and the guy does such a good job of explaining things that I'm really happy to see it gain traction :)
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by mckirk 6y ago
I feel like either I'm misunderstanding your comment, or you've whooshed everyone else commenting on it so far.
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That would indeed be an interesting comparison. It's worth noting though that cryptocurrencies aren't automatically energy-hungry on the scale of Bitcoin. There are alternatives, such as the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 chain, that try t
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It's basically Dogecoin with old presidents instead of a dog.
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by mckirk 6y ago
As always in ML: Even with the awesome capabilities that graph neural networks offer, one should always stop to question whether you actually need all that power though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KlDUazbcMc (only 2:1
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by mckirk 6y ago
True, when you break it down, people will ultimately invest in anything they "trust" (well, hope) to rise in value, no matter how trustworthy they inherently are. So you will indeed have a lot of people that invest in BTC simply b
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by mckirk 6y ago
I see PoW more as a stepping stone to bootstrap a crypto currency, and I think it might just go away over time. Ethereum has done it this way: First you build a stable blockchain, secured through tremendous amounts of power. Then, once your
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by mckirk 6y ago
But why are people willing to exchange something of value for it? Because they can trust in it serving as a secure way to transfer tokens of ownership. And that is only possible thanks to the PoW computations, which have to be expensive eno
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> And then what? And then, I suppose, the expectation was to sell most shares to desperate hedge funds and maybe keep one or two because you actually like GameStop. The idealistic and completely unrealistic narrative being that it would
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by mckirk 6y ago
Hmmm, I've thought about that as well since writing my above comment. You are correct in that the scenario has many similar elements to a pump and dump, in the sense that you also had to play it smart and set your expectations realisti

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