medstrom

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by medstrom 3y ago
Another victim of deletionism. You might like https://gwern.net/inclusionism#no-club-that-would-have-me
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by medstrom 3y ago
I don't mind the funding, but inclusion in a journal dresses it up with the blessing of a Scientific Result if the news ever cite it. We could have a separate kind of journal for not-yet-reproduced results, and somehow ensure that the
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by medstrom 3y ago
Nitpick but "a few meetings with the original team" is what we have today, ya?
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by medstrom 3y ago
Except it's not a service that costs much money to run, so much as it is a giant silo exploiting the fact that lots of video is uploaded there. Don't you remember YouTube in 2005 before Google's purchase? It made ends meet
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by medstrom 3y ago
Right?! That'd be the first thing on my agenda if I wanted to write an article with that title. I'll choose to believe the writers didn't especially have an interest, they were just paid to write.
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by medstrom 3y ago
If you expect perfect factual accuracy from your teachers, yeah. On the flip side, they don't have the curse of knowledge yet i.e. it's still fresh in their mind what was difficult in the beginning, so they can probably explain v
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by medstrom 3y ago
You misunderstand AGI. AGI won't be controllable, it'd be like ants building a fence around a human thinking it'll keep him in.
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by medstrom 3y ago
Thank you. Good data, that people read fastest at a text size of 0.3 arc. And I'm taking away that it might be fine for paragraph text to be slightly larger than menu bar text. But a couple of factors jump out at me: 1 As they said,
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by medstrom 3y ago
Will candles set off the fire alarm where you live too? I'll wager that burning one sheet of paper at a time would be on par with a continuously burning candle.
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by medstrom 3y ago
Yes of course, but sub in any other kind of punishment then.
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by medstrom 3y ago
It's possible I sit closer to the monitor than necessary to read most websites, but that's just the thing: I'll place the monitor as close as necessary to read the smallest elements in my OS, such as menu bars. Think of it
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by medstrom 3y ago
My opinion is the exact opposite. I experience 18px as a good font size on the phone, and 12px on the desktop. I'm sure analyses such as the one you quote are missing some important criterion, but I can't put my finger on what.
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by medstrom 3y ago
This effect is driven by the trend in CSS frameworks to increase the base font size for wider windows. I.e. you might have a base font size at 16px, which applies on your "phone" breakpoint, but your "desktop" breakpoint
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by medstrom 3y ago
Maybe you can have a friend stick his head into the attic at the destination, while you stick your head up at the origin, then you just tie the cable end to a basketball and throw it through the attic for your friend to catch.
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by medstrom 3y ago
Where has someone asked you to turn it off? IME, cinemas/theaters would at most ask you to enable airplane mode or silent mode and to not use the phone, but turning it off is an unnecessary step. To save battery on a long trip, I comb
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by medstrom 3y ago
Love that story! Parental controls: for controlling your parent. I guess in that mode, it would additionally have to disguise itself or just pretend network errors, so the child does not get a beating.
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by medstrom 3y ago
Consumers have a limited wallet anyway, and you know how most people are: they will spend most of their income anyway. So the ad business is more about shifting where the money goes, than about conferring any extra value.
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by medstrom 3y ago
I have trouble believing that's real. Why would these workers bother?
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by medstrom 3y ago
Can you not remove it from your own resume?
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by medstrom 3y ago
S/he probably means you should be able to point out weaknesses. But that's another thing from doing it in a scoring-points way.
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by medstrom 3y ago
What was the initial reason then? I'm not following you. Is there a problem? TBF, he's analyzing a 2021 dataset, and that will of course not be affected.
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by medstrom 3y ago
You probably meant to write that differently. Denying that something "isn't a myth" is affirming that it is a myth.
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by medstrom 3y ago
But you are human. Even when you try to care for what non-humans value, you're still doing that because of your human values. You literally can't step outside yourself. It's fair to say that FredPret is evaluating "bes
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by medstrom 3y ago
You still have to figure out when it did. If there's a tree with 800 rings, but it died 100,000 years ago, then there's 100,000 years you have to date by some other method, and add 800 on top.
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by medstrom 3y ago
That's... their point. If you think it counters their point, can you unpack how?
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by medstrom 3y ago
The oldest living tree has seen 9,565 birthdays ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko ), but it doesn't have 9,565 rings. Even if it did, there's a gap of at least a few thousand years ;-) I'm impres
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by medstrom 3y ago
Unless it signs a social contract that legally binds it to dissolve upon turning evil -- but that would take some extremely principled owners.
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by medstrom 3y ago
You know, automated versioned backups are actually modern. Many of Apple's programs do it, just in an "invisible" way. That's the goal. But yes, remote backups... Happily, they are now controlled by tramp-backup-direc
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by medstrom 3y ago
Mate, if raw HTML worked, HN comments would be a terrible place.
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by medstrom 3y ago
I can only conclude that they didn't know that. It's such a bad name; we won't even be able to google "catala lang" because ... Catala is also a "lang"! Imagine someone creates a programming language cal

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