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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Regarding general change in music in the US over time, this study looked at ~50 years of US pop songs and found changes. I wonder about the rate of other countries pop song subject change is? See link: https://journals.sagepub.c
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
Say you are trying to distinguish between a placebo and a cyanide pill; test subjects are young rats (base rate of death extremely low). How large of a sample size do you need? I think one control, one test subject is enough to be certain
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by monkeypizza 6y ago
yeah, I use "longreach" and don't feel guilty about it at all. You can also build ghost items from the map view, which bots will fill in. For really remote areas I still do have to find the right train to ride, but this main
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by monkeypizza 7y ago
What would you have him do, though? Voluntarily posting about it to try to improve seems like the best choice. If he hadn't posted at all and just continued being a narcissist, that'd also have been wrong. It's not right to s
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by monkeypizza 7y ago
Open source research is continuing. There are a few open source implementations of the alphago algorithm and some new work being done to improve it for go. Check out lizzie, which is a nice front end to leela zero. https://lifei
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by monkeypizza 7y ago
Huh, I imagine that internally nobody notices this type of problem because they all use keyboard shortcuts and hit 'f' to forward.
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by monkeypizza 7y ago
Zenni, eyebuydirect, goggle4u are all in this space and provide cheaper glasses. It seems like new ones keep starting, then slowly raise prices, leaving a gap for a new minimum cost provider. Eyeglasses are an interesting example of a mark
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by monkeypizza 7y ago
A feature I want on goodreads is "for me and a friend, show me the rarest book we have read in common". It would be great to find connections between people that would be hard to discover otherwise. Same thing for groups - it&#x2
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
Gwern has a discussion of Nicotine, and basically concludes it's safe: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
The newlines are baked into the rss feed too, which breaks my newsreader. I've talked to the maintainer but they didn't want to change the stack they use to produce it.
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
I love this newsletter but they switched to sending out content wrapped in pre tags with baked-in newlines a few years ago and the value of fighting through wasn't worth it.
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
The book "How to Change your Mind" by Michael Pollan has a good profile of him (and several other people and groups mentioned in this thread).
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
If you don't give him credit for that, what would you give him credit for? If he stopped Carreyrou, you'd obviously blame him. Therefore in order for your judgement to be meaningful, you have to admit that him allowing Carreyrou
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by monkeypizza 8y ago
"it's" ALWAYS means "it is" or "it has". Therefore, the title should be "its", which surprisingly is a word.
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
There's also a similar problem in this case: When we start in this state: rich pay 10% on the margin poor pay 2% And then cut all tax brackets by 1% absolute (to 9% and 1%) This can be portrayed as both "most gains from the cuts g
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
I don't feel that he has guaranteed that all readers of the article will come to the conclusion you have reached. Here is how I could interpret his brief quote: 1. more in absolute terms (which they already pay due to higher income) 2
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Not distinguishing between additive and multiplicative "more" makes this an unclear message. People constantly mix up rates (*) with absolutes (+), and reinterpret statements made referring to one as referring to the other. &quot
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
The people at promethease monitor new studies for information on new variants & results of studies. You upload your dna from 23andme to them and they give you a full report without government interference. https://promethease
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Check out this video explaining why you can buy new detached homes in Tokyo for about 300k usd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbC5j4pG9w * Land owners have an absolute right to develop their own land - neighbors can&#x27
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
To evaluate that I'd look at the effect on the kids of the 99%. If it enables their parents to drink a bunch more than they would have otherwise, it might not be a net positive, even including the 1% who use the money wisely. I'm
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Yes, all "X is less than Y" statistics are meaningless unless there the convention you mention is strongly held by journalists when they interpret studies - which is unlikely. i.e. it'd be very easy for a study to say "w
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Numbers like 0.5% or 0.01% qualify as "Less than 1%", so this thread is invalid.
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Sorry, it actually covers Hokkaido.
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Spike Japan is another well-written blog covering poverty & decay in Japan, specifically Tokyo. It also has nice photos of things rusting. https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
This is the same topic of Eliezer Yudkowsky's recent book "Inadequate Equilibria" [0], reviewed by Scott Aaronson here [1]. That book does a good job explaining why not every inefficiency can be eliminated - because getting
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
I wish they'd take Craigslist's path - simple, small, and providing amazing value.
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Generally, doing business of any kind requires a license. At small scale, the rules aren't enforced very much, but when you get big or someone doesn't like you, they are. Since everything you do can be interpreted as illegal in
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by monkeypizza 9y ago
Roblox | San Mateo CA | Onsite, Full Time We're building what I'd have loved at 12 when I wanted to automate my Legos and Construx. It's a scriptable, distributed physics engine with networking support and a social network ov
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by monkeypizza 10y ago
Roblox | San Mateo CA | Onsite, Full Time We're building what I'd have loved at 12 when I wanted to automate my Legos and Construx. It's a scriptable, distributed physics engine, which expands to support games of any size on
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by monkeypizza 10y ago
There is tons of research on this. Higher IQ at young ages, independent of social class, strongly predicts health outcomes. Since it also predicts income, and since a big part of IQ can be predicted before birth, IQ seems to be the real d

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