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by murbard2 11y ago
That's the thing about the Universal Basic Income, the "controversy" is always phrased in terms of: "Oh but will this really help people?" or "Oh, but people will just sit and do nothing and that's not goo
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This has existed for at least a decade http://cricket.csail.mit.edu/
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From the abstract: "We evaluate our algorithm using a “colorization Turing test”, asking human subjects to choose between a generated and ground truth color image." And later in the article: "However, the results from these a
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The case against supersonic plane travel..
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You need to to reason abstractly about your moves rather than enumerate through every possible combinations. If you pick a general course of action and then implement the details, the branching factor becomes less of an issue. One way to do
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by murbard2 11y ago
As much as Taleb's attitude and lack of manners are annoying, he does have a point and the article quoted by Pinker fails to get it. For instance: "To a normal person, the statement ‘terrorism kills far fewer people than falls fro
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by murbard2 11y ago
The problem isn't HFT per se it's adverse selection. Large trades are more likely to happen if the exchange discriminates in who participates in the exchange, not how they participate. Regulation NMS destroyed upstairs trading
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"Operator error lies at the root of most crane collapses." " Crane manufacturers are now trying to build in new automatic features to keep disaster from striking their eqiupment. " Maybe skip through the features and mak
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by murbard2 11y ago
Many people react with horror to the idea of policing homelessness. Yet, when given a choice to live between two identical cities, one permissive towards homelessness and the other not, I bet the vast majority would choose the latter. Many
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Drinking the urine of pregnant animals for fertility isn't as crazy as it sounds. The drug premarin is made from the urine of pregnant mare and is sometimes prescribe to help with conception.
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This type of workarounds would make sense if we were dealing with a product built by a few makers and released as a set of blueprints online... This is produced by a company that Google, the most valuable company in the world, bought for $3
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by murbard2 11y ago
I bought a Nest thermostat and I've been extremely unimpressed with it. It's not just the bugs that will have you wake up in the middle of the night in a freezing home. Even when it works as intended, the product is poorly thought
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Does anything rolled in flour and deep fried actually taste bad?
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I've heard it, then did a safari in Bostwana, tested my ability to count zebras, and I can attest it is very difficult. I haven't performed the control experiment of counting horses, but I did notice that the stripes were seriousl
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by murbard2 11y ago
Once again, the discussion about the basic income is framed as "would people work or sit on their ass". This is a red herring. People receive free stuff all the time, from nature, from technology. In general, free things do not ma
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Yes, but that didn't have quite the same ring to it...
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> No, neuron systems are the only substrate on which we can currently confirm that consciousness arises from-- Who's "we", you p-zombie?
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Vitalism for the 21st century...
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If I include things like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Education, etc... all social welfare programs add up to maybe $1.5T a year. There are about 320M people in the US. Let's leave out anyone under 18 (23%) that leaves us with
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Blockchains can count, and thus handle mutations. That's the key difference: https://medium.com/@arthurb/what-do-blockchains-accomplish-e...
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I wasn't trying to make a point about the disruptive effect of technology. My point is that people getting free money is functionally equivalent to them having access to more goods and services, which is something technology does (in t
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by murbard2 11y ago
No, even then they really don't, do the math. 300M people, $2T total federal budget. Everyone is so obsessed with discussing whether or not this would create disincentives to work that the gigantic cost is barely mentionned. The moral
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by murbard2 11y ago
> The crux of your argument — that “Ending economic inequality would mean ending startups” — is both a straw man (no one’s advocating eliminating income inequality completely) and untrue (people can still pursue whatever they want — they
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by murbard2 11y ago
I've given some thought on what a safe browser for tor would be like. Since it's hard to come up with the list of all possible information leaks, I suggest not attempting to do so. The system goes like this: 1) You open a new tab
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Tim's a wonderful guy all around and is quite smart, but he is, in fact, not a programmer.
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Yes, that's absolutely natural. That's like saying 50 to 70 of Internet traffic went through an ISP.
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It's not a large problem and that's exactly why the high frequency trading industry is tiny. You only think it's big because it gets disproportionate attention in the media.
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A dramatization http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/15/it-was-you-who-made-my-...
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It's not just a way to write them, it's a way to do inference. Probabilistic programming is extremely powerful in terms of representation but inference is, in general, intractable. Yes, you can express all those ML models as proba
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Aerogel is lighter than feathers and more insulating. There was a kickstarter this year for a jacket using aerogel as an insulator. http://www.orosapparel.com/pages/technology

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