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by mxkopy 4y ago
Expected to see some sort of botnet scam; surprised instead by an actually pretty cool feature TM from Apple.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Game theory says otherwise. If there's a substantive distinction between the rich and the poor, then the interests that align them need to be greater than their own individual interests for any sort of peace to work. As it stands, the
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> Most of the cutting edge papers are trained on several $100k worth of GPU time You can scale some things down. VGG 16 is basically a stack of CNNs, there's no reason you need 16 of them with an input size of 224x224x3; you can jus
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Imagine writing something like this unironically and not immediately wanting to die of embarrassment Excuse me, 'growth story'? For Facebook ?? Time proves the shareholders vs. rest of society stereotype to be true, I guess
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The way I learn new languages nowadays is 1. Look at example 'Hello world' code 2. Attempt a problem on Project Euler 3. Look at docs/source code to get what I'm missing 4. Repeat Julia docs are good for step 3. I don&#x
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by mxkopy 4y ago
CS looks so much like biology sometimes Sometimes the relevant phenomenon lies at the scale of cache-lines, of which there is a whole zoo of possible specifications
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Let's not conflate people being clean because the government is notoriously lethal and is tracking your social standing with people being clean because they've been taught from a young age to be respectful to the environment. Auth
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by mxkopy 4y ago
GEB explores a similar idea in investigating where a program is written It's implied that the distinctions are somewhat arbitrary. For example, a song is "written" on a record with a bunch of grooves, and the record-player is
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Forgo awareness; return to subconscious
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That is their argument, aside from > This is embarrassing.
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I agree, but ADHD has a purported biological mechanism that justifies its treatment. And ADHD meds aren't without effects
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> "people not meshing with society" is a new thing you've just discovered? > Rather than like, that's approximately half of what mental healthcare is > That needs more awareness? So you're saying mental hea
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by mxkopy 4y ago
The idea that an ADHD diagnosis can be a band-aid over a deeper personal or societal problem isn't a very unhelpful one, considering that it can reveal, you know, deeper issues. I'm not saying all ADHD diagnoses are false. My pres
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by mxkopy 4y ago
ADHD is relatively known, and the solutions for it are institutionalized. In the U.S. at least, people not meshing with society isn't a problem that's super well documented and no institutional solutions exist.
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I don't have any sources other than anecdotal, but I'm under the impression many are diagnosed with ADHD as a result of behavior shown in school. It's almost like, ADHD is the disease you have when you're "unable to
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by mxkopy 4y ago
ADHD is much more complicated than a broken leg. This analogy is very liable to fall apart. If, for example, you've been taught to walk without your leg (or if you have three legs, all left feet, whatever), using a crutch doesn't
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I think if our representatives started trying to solve this problem, they'd find themselves concerned with the general well-being of people. I.e. it's probably not going to happen
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I also had this thought. Something I read about semiotics gave me (or spelled out) the idea that the brain communicates to itself using language, however abstract. https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2019/05/02/ask-the-b
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I'd agree. Pedantically, though, this wouldn't be GDP by definition. I do think you can substitute "sum of numerical value" for GDP in most non-technical contexts and have them make sense. In this case it could be that a
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> A self-sufficient community would not have a GDP of 0 because they would still have transactions among themselves. Perfect self-sufficiency would actually generate a very high GDP number because of how diverse and specialized the commu
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> why can't GDP measure the amount I rolled my eyes while reading this speech? Because nobody cares about how many times you rolled your eyes. Presumably some people care about the other things, which - I think the speech was pointi
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by mxkopy 4y ago
To the first part, knowledge as a collection of facts is subjective, so the statement "the most subjective academic fields" is already false. The humanities long ago realized that the meaning of statements like "line A inters
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by mxkopy 4y ago
> Linking to company websites so people looking to buy stuff that company makes can find it is a scam, because company websites are biased in favour of that company This isn't a faithful interpretation of the argument. Most people d
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by mxkopy 4y ago
In a post-Google world the purpose of advertising is to influence the internal associations someone has with a product or brand
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Sure, if there's an issue that's actively harmful or prevents stuff getting done, it would make no sense to let it go unaddressed. But having managers trying to optimize culture leads to open plan desks and mandatory office partie
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> If the bottom line is that you hate being an employee, then it seems that being suspicious of your resume would be the correct call. The other day I was reading a post about what specialized tooling, if any, ADHD devs used. Someone rep
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At some point you have to question the effects you have as an individual on the rest of society. The implicit axiom that "doing what's in your own best interest is not unethical" clashes with the fact that this often means se
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by mxkopy 4y ago
I thought it was really funny when I tried to update some stuff with the snap gui, and it threw the error - "Can't update snap-store, the application is running" or something like that
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by mxkopy 4y ago
Biology is really weird. I could imagine it leveraging some fundamental property of space and matter to get, like ~7ms better latency. Or be able to guess north like 3.4% better than chance. Glue ? Nonono, you gotta use fractally dense nano

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