mockingbirdy

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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
Cynical 4chan users and people without integrity, especially. Only the latter are able to write about success and corporate holidays in the same paragraph they write about how they fired many people only a few months before.
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> I can't even explain how foreign it is to think that people raise and exhaust millions of dollars without finding product market fit. I agree. It feels strange. Whatever people say, it was pretty uncommon for most of the time in h
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Agree. And "good enough" depends on your use case.
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It depends on the severity of a bug. If it's very severe, you'll favor the complex but more-correct solution. Otherwise, you'll favor the simple but more-often-wrong solution - because it's easier to fix and get progress
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
> try to define something that both is a function of the system it exists in, and also something that could potentially break the whole system That is what's so damn hard about shaping societies (and the market). The recursive feedb
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
If you watch videos of AIs learning to run [1] or playing Mario [2], you see that there's definitely "try random shit until your reward function gives you positive feedback" as a method for training AIs. The difficult part is
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
In the comments of the Q&A you've linked they say it's not plasma, it's just normal flames with ions.
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
You can definitely improve your learning ability with meditation and a better environment. This "hack" is what most upper-class families use to get ahead.
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
> If I could flip a switch to put myself in "Learning Mode" on the fly, that would be amazing. You definitely pay a price for a certain amount of learning ability - see people like Kim Peek ("rain man") and others. Th
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
> New research detects brain cell that improves learning when impaired Way more fun. Instead of improving the cells it could be that we will impair them in some way to improve our learning ability. I see some similarities with autistic
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
studies like this: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160120201224.h... They essentially say the brain can hold approx. 2.5 petabytes. I don't think this can be measured accurately (or that it
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
I think I'll use this exactly to avoid duplication in while loops: bytes = next() while bytes: # do something ... bytes = next() It's possible to use while True and break, but that isn't very ele
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Winning the game but losing the meta-game.
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I like the egalitarian nature of the community which discourages people from talking about aspects which are only there to fuel their feeling of self-entitlement (like IQ). If I didn't say that I think that my potential is there bas
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
I'm 20 years old and have a web and design agency with a co-founder and currently two employees (+ flexible workers). I can relate. When I was younger (I know how this sounds) I read "The Lean Startup" and drank the Koolaid.
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by mockingbirdy 8y ago
Agreed that this advice is not very old. Always reminds me of the Story of Mel http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
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by mockingbirdy 9y ago
I would love to hear your practical tips on how to find your passion. I also play some instruments and want to solve challenging problems (that don't have to be technological) and I'm interested in politics, business development a
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Ask HN: How to find your passion?
3 points by mockingbirdy 9y ago|2 comments