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by nimithryn 4y ago
Here’s a link: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=w5s3sv43s3p98v45
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by nimithryn 4y ago
“Gostak” is a truly unique game. It’s like Zork, but many of the nouns and verbs are made up words.
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by nimithryn 4y ago
I think for most people rumination is involuntary
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by nimithryn 5y ago
The comparison with the Beats is interesting (I know next to nothing about the Beats). Thanks for sharing!
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by nimithryn 5y ago
To each his own, but I don’t think the length of the book has anything to do with the clarity of the narrative. And I’m definitely not arguing that Stephenson writes novels that are less confusing than Gibson in general (I liked Anathem!
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by nimithryn 5y ago
The writing is beautiful, but I think Neuromancer has failed to capture a modern audience due to some of the stylistic choices Gibson makes (I’m not necessarily arguing they are bad decisions - I personally enjoyed the style - although I
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Snow Crash was apparently originally envisioned as a graphic novel, hence the tone
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I mean, his ideas for replacing universities seem oriented at the elite institutions: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1505599701864701954 TBH I don't think it's clear what he's suggesting.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Some of these points are correct. College does seem to be providing less value in the US, etc. Maybe some third-tier universities could be in trouble if there's a decline in college attendance. But, "collapsing"? Universities
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Then what do you rely on for decision making? Gut instinct? That’s a model too, albeit unformalized.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
> This is why you never, ever take anyone seriously who thinks of society like a model. I’ve never understood these critiques. If you want to study society, what’s the alternative? No matter what, you have to make a model of some kind. Y
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by nimithryn 5y ago
As an actual ADV engineer, do you think this is a reasonable launch? What do you think the timeline actually looks like for driverless and why?
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Examples?
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I will say that while I think this article doesn’t give a good treatment of counterfactuals - the “I can offer infinite counterfactuals so counterfactuals aren’t useful” argument is a kind of intellectual nihilism I don’t really buy - I thi
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by nimithryn 5y ago
In the language of do-calculus, counterfactuals have a very specific meaning. Ferenc gives some great examples here: https://www.inference.vc/causal-inference-3-counterfactuals/ The main idea: Let Y be the set {y, not
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Because he was busy being CEO of Amazon, one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Now he will spend most of his time on Blue Origin.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Bezos can hire engineers to work for him. Amazon requires lots of engineers and that works fine. Bezos’s big contributions will be leadership, creating efficient processes, etc. He’s good at those things. You don’t need to be able to build
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I see these launches as early stepping stones to really profitable space industries. Asteroid mining, space manufacturing (like Varda: https://varda.com/ ), space hotels. You have to walk before you can run.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
The US was behind the USSR at the beginning of the last space race. Jeff Bezos is an extremely smart and talented guy, and is now focusing a lot more of his time on Blue Origin. I wouldn't count them out.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
“Grand conspiracy” seems a bit uncharitable IMO. He’s just saying that the incentives aren’t aligned, which legitimately seems like an issue in this space.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
You have to assume that they also a) levered up and b) were doing some kind of arbitrage, not just HODLing. Color me skeptical but wilder things have been known to happen.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
Under some models, there’s a non-negligible chance that humans are atypical. See this paper by Sanders, Drexler, and Ord, for instance. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I don’t see how “enhancing” and “conflict” are the same. As gkop pointed out, the two sensor types may have different ranges of view, or may agree about situations where just sensor A may be uncertain.
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by nimithryn 5y ago
As I’ve commented above, “conflicting sensors” doesn’t make much sense as an argument. If sensors A and B conflicted, you could just ignore sensor B and get performance at least as good as just having sensor A. Does sensor B have enough oth
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by nimithryn 5y ago
See my other comment. I’m making a counter argument to the specific claim that conflicting sensors is an issue. I have no idea if the added benefit of Lidar outweighs the costs, but it doesn’t seem logical that “conflicting signals” could b
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I’m arguing against the idea that conflicting sensors is an issue. Clearly you can do no worse with sensors A and B than with just sensor A. You might want to not have sensor B to lower the cost (as I suggested). Or you might want to have b
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by nimithryn 5y ago
I don't find this argument convincing at all. Just ignore the lidar in situations where lidar and vision conflict and you have the original decision. They probably started without lidar due to the cost (Tesla is one of few companies ac
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by nimithryn 6y ago
Curious why you think the worst ML scientists were the former engineers (as someone who does a bit of both).
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by nimithryn 6y ago
You’ll still need to compute the digits of Phi though, and then exponentiate that. My intuition is that using ints is still faster.
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by nimithryn 6y ago
Does this work in practice for large values of n? You will be limited by numerical error in phi.

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