moultano

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by moultano 10y ago
Isn't rail inherently more energy efficient due to the rigid wheels even without the economies of multipassenger vehicles?
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by moultano 10y ago
Deep learning isn't a buzzword, it has a fairly precise definition. It describes a particular class of algorithms that happens to be the state of the art for many problems.
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by moultano 10y ago
My wife and I aspirationally own half a dozen scented candles. We never actually use them.
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by moultano 10y ago
When you have kids and perhaps an hour per day alone with your spouse, saving a few minutes on setting the mood has real utility. Imagine the person saving a few minutes finding matches just spent the previous hour doing dishes, cleaning up
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by moultano 10y ago
This is one case where I feel like the graphics really held back the game despite being pretty. It was too hard to predict what the spirits were going to do.
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by moultano 10y ago
Unfortunately mine don't so much "wear down" as "fail catastrophically and suddenly."
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by moultano 10y ago
I seriously can't tell if this is a parody post or not. It seems like there's a consistent idea under all of that, but it's such a jumble of metaphors that I can't figure out a single sentence.
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by moultano 10y ago
That's reasonable, but hard to enact without inviting retaliation. I'm not sure if the resulting retaliation would make the overall policy a net win or loss.
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by moultano 10y ago
>externalizing the costs of ongoing industrialization to societies that can least afford the costs. We regulate pollution, China mostly doesn't. It's not clear to me what policy you think the West should adopt to fix this.
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by moultano 10y ago
Production produces pollution, people dont. Per capita pollution is mostly similar to per capita GDP.
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by moultano 10y ago
I saw that as the metaphor as well, but I wished he developed it more in that direction. Considering how amazing it could be as a political message, it feels incomplete that he didn't deal with that explicitly at all. It's almost
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by moultano 10y ago
Reminds me of "The City and the City" in which the two countries occupy the same space but are bound by law to pretend the other doesn't exist. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the
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by moultano 10y ago
>Many cities near Palo Alto have houses at a reasonable price LOL
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by moultano 10y ago
The original novel is terrible though. Everything that was interesting or moving in it was invented for the movie.
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by moultano 10y ago
Everything looks great except the rendering of the mountains.
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by moultano 10y ago
Hit back, then when it asks if you want to leave registration hit continue. (I'm stuck on a later screen though.)
707.
by moultano 10y ago
Looks like it is falling over from demand. I can't get past the set up profile screen.
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by moultano 10y ago
Some have criticized the IPCC report as too conservative/optimistic, but it is as close to a consensus document as exists.
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by moultano 10y ago
If you haven't read any Ursula K. LeGuin yet, she is amazing. Start with either The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, or The Wizard of Earthsea, depending on whether you are most interested in gender, societal systems, or wizard
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by moultano 10y ago
I'd like to make a crowd-sourced Bayes net of all evidence, hypotheses, and policy proposals. Let people vote on the connections between nodes and their influence, but then let the Bayes net decide what is consequentially true. Most pe
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by moultano 10y ago
> Asking a question such as, "what is it about the data that is causing the model to be fitted like this?" is very healthy and important, but is rarely what anyone means by 'interpretability.' What I see people mean b
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by moultano 10y ago
> they definitely don't actually believe it's a superior, nor even cost-effective, way of obtaining prediction accuracy. Prediction accuracy is not the only goal. There are only a handful of times in my life where I've se
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by moultano 10y ago
>I just recently tour managed a friend and would set up her mic sound every night, and each time I would need to play some sort of subtle trick with her so that she felt things were just right. No amount of 'rational tweaking'
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by moultano 10y ago
Fatal car crashes are common, and car crashes that would have been fatal without a seatbelt are extremely common.
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by moultano 10y ago
The amount of harm that a government can do to you is virtually unlimited. The amount of harm most companies can do to you is very small and effectively restricted by the law, even in the very unlikely event that they have some incentive to
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by moultano 10y ago
By "practical consequence" I mean "something that has actually happened to you or someone you are aware of," not the worst case scenario of a dystopian vision.
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by moultano 10y ago
Have you ever had more than a minor annoyance result from some company's use of your data? I understand the instinct and ick factor, but I've rarely seen an actual practical consequence.
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by moultano 10y ago
Do they break that down by type of crime? "Crime rate" is a pretty broad term.
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by moultano 10y ago
That isn't what I would list as one of its biggest problems. The biggest problem is that the strongest determiner of what makes it to the front-page is the rate of upvotes rather than the upvote to downvote ratio. This favors thin cont
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by moultano 10y ago
Hopefully they can use this to substantially improve their algorithm. (Voting without clicking, click to vote interval, click duration) Lots of reddit's problems are due to algorithmic flaws that they just didn't have the data to

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