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by ngriffiths 2y ago
And all this before you even get to "how much of an impact of X on Y should there be before it is even close to a bottleneck that's worth actually acting on, and do we think it reaches that threshold?"
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Thanks for sharing this - saving this paper too (from link in the github page): https://people.ee.ethz.ch/~loeliger/localpapers/FactorGraphs... I'm not familiar with these techniques at all but seems like the
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> And creating art is about more than just precision. It's about evoking emotion, telling stories, and sparking curiosity. It's about making people think and feel. For sure, the best artists are the ones who take their whole
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> First, you have to look at this in the context of the actual economic situation of the average American, which has been, more or less, getting steadily worse in a relative sense for roughly 40-50 years. I don't have a good grasp o
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I don't see it as subscribing to free-market ideology - more like "every bad thing has a certain prevalence, and that prevalence is a policy choice." The flu exists because we don't aggressively isolate/contact trac
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There are two major things missing: 1) No one actually likes this stuff , and it still exists everywhere , so it must be worth it. I feel like the article is a broad list of the author's least favorite aspects of today's informa
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I think there is a parallel way the user base evolves: at the beginning, users are selected for by their ability to recognize value , meaning only a small amount of knowledgeable, early adopers signs up; then (business) customers who are w
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This was my first reaction. Why? Trying to downplay the seriousness of the topic or something? Is it ever used in documents like this?
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In the future we will maybe need a physical ID (or other sufficiently costly proof) to post a video or file a complaint or do stuff other than consume. I don't know though, maybe that will prove to be too hard and the bot filled plat
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I still thought that passage was interesting. It is a totally reasonable prediction of how much of public health would read it. The post and your comment emphasize how the impact of science depends more on the public than the handful of s
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Makes me curious what state R was at the time, or whatever else could've been useful for deep learning, and the benefits of a new language vs adapting something that exists. Seems like it was a big investment
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The "role playing" aspect is treated as fake and inconsequential here, but for a doctor, doesn't it translate to "this patient is all set and will not call later saying the problem got worse"? In contrast, hearing f
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The lecture by Larry McEnerney was a great recommendation, I just watched. When I was in college I had a revelation reading Clarity: Toward Style and Grace by Williams. Really put into concrete terms why some ways of writing "sound wro