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by mo_42 3y ago
Interesting, whenever the discussion comes up to rename things, I propose that we should do the reverse: name things after animals. Instead of "George H.W. Bush Library Center" we could call it "Albatross Library Center"
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by mo_42 3y ago
I also have difficulties with Gnuplot and Matplotlib. I like Vega [1] that allows me to create visualisations in a declarative way. If I really need something special I go with d3.js, which had a really steep learning curve but with ChatGPT
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by mo_42 3y ago
I have a different opinion about favourite Git commit messages. I think commits should be small steps that display the thought process of the author. Every individual commit should be self-explanatory. So the commit message should not descr
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by mo_42 3y ago
Some part of governmental debt is held by the central bank. So the interest that the government pays on this debt goes back to the government because the central bank somewhat belongs to the government too.
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm in a jurisdiction where lying in many cases is legal. I think the principle in general is that lying without bad intent is legal. > [...] Do not lie about your birthday to your doctor. Or your bank. Or when you’re trying to get
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by mo_42 3y ago
When I was studying CS, I had to take some courses outside of CS and I took law. It was pretty fascinating and I even thought once or twice of switching. I now have the very nerdy perspective that law is the operating system our socially ru
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by mo_42 3y ago
Only simple in what I call the first level of RSA. But all levels could be fun in an effortful sense. 1. Level: encrypting and decrypting a single number or a couple of characters using public and private keys in a couple of lines of code 2
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think you’re looking for an open source game that is small, can be built and run, and your son likes already. From there he can start tinkering with code and assets. That way your son directly sees the results of his work. Creating an ent
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by mo_42 3y ago
There's no periodicity in visualization. The design space of visualization is much more complex the atomic number. Also, this "periodic table" does not show the three main branches of visualization: Information Visualization,
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by mo_42 3y ago
I like that idea. I guess such an amplification effect can lead entire civilizations astray. But still in the long run BS will be ruled out. Here, I disagree with you in that "truth" is also a matter what works and what not. Simpl
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by mo_42 3y ago
Generally, I'm an optimistic about current approaches towards AI. I'm using ChatGPT daily for my work. I'm seeing the BS generated from it all the time but it provides many great ideas from which I create something useful (bo
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by mo_42 3y ago
We just have too many assumptions about names. There should only be one input field that asks for a name. Even systems that require a legal name should be like that as there are people whose legal name cannot be written in two forms.
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by mo_42 3y ago
In finance and investing, the value of something is computed using the net present value [1]. It's a, theoretically infinite, geometric series. Basically, all the future cash flows are accumulated today. If the interest rate is high, c
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm coming out as a Bayesian here. To me, "No Evidence" simply doesn't exist: > If Crazy Carl says that aliens abducted his prize turnip, ... Then, this is a piece of information like many other pieces. The question i
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by mo_42 3y ago
I had the same question when reading this. They use the light only at places where cancerous cells were found plus some safety margin I guess. In that sense it's an alternative to surgery.
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Another Meta employee, also on TikTok, posted that “Meta was hiring people so that other companies couldn’t have us, and then they were just kind of like hoarding us like Pokémon cards.” This might be true. An alternative explanation m
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Are you honestly trying to say humans living in a primitive society would be comparable to most other animals (not even "intelligent" ones such as chimps)? No, I'm not trying to say that. I'm trying to express my be
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by mo_42 3y ago
Your second description involves many aspects of human culture. No matter how smart cows are, they'll never think this way. Then, a big difference of humans compared to other animals is accumulation. We create stuff (buildings, languag
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think it helps to think how the balance sheet changes. If you deposit money, the bank has higher liabilities, they owe you that money, and higher assets as they actually have the money. So they might buy all sorts of assets with that mone
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by mo_42 3y ago
This is not correct. Banks don't use your deposits and loan money to someone else. However, I still think you should not support evil banks for many other reasons. When banks create a loan, they create new money. They put the loan on
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by mo_42 3y ago
> I always see references to free will when certain people start talking about > quantum mechanics. Why do people care if free will exists or not? > It doesn't seem to affect anything I can think of. Most of the time, we don&#
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by mo_42 3y ago
I tend to disagree with this writing. I think it's overly broad and imprecise. It doesn't consider that the current advances are rather specific to what we call knowledge work. I don't see hairdressers, carpenters or people w
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by mo_42 3y ago
As stated by the law. 90% of everything, including such laws, is crap.
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by mo_42 3y ago
The article could be more precise. It says France's stock market reaches new records. So I'm pretty sure they mean the CAC40, which is only part of France's entire stock market. Might be that France has quite some long tail o
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This study only draws samples only from the U.K. The U.K. went through quite a difficult time in the past decade. Could such macroeconomic factors influence the result of the study? I wouldn't apply these conclusions on other countries
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Why not? A paper is not necessarily scientific nor a breakthrough. In my view, a paper is written and documented communication that's usually approved by peers in the field. Also a blunt observation in nature can be noteworthy. However
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by mo_42 3y ago
I had the same question once and dug around the internet a bit. It seems like they don't verify your information. I'd recommend to use a fake name and not something like "Ano Nymous" as their rules don't allow that.
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by mo_42 3y ago
Alternative but similar explanation: because e * 0 = 0 cancels the information e. So when doing (e * 0) / 0 we don't get e back. I wasn't aware of this unique property of / in arithmetic.
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Why is Germany having a budget crisis and freezing spending?(euronews.com)
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by mo_42 3y ago
This might be good for society. If there are multiple entities that develop such AI technology, there's some kind of competition and a distribution of power. Of course I'd prefer if everyone could just train such a model on their

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