nyeah

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by nyeah 5d ago
It's not a joke. It's natural fallout from holding AA meetings in a liquor store.
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by nyeah 10d ago
Maybe. On the other hand it's common for genuine medical problems to 'make no sense' to a layperson. That tradition goes back thousands of years.
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by nyeah 12d ago
Force the clankers to support rss!
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by nyeah 12d ago
They tend not to overfit ... when there are way more data points than parameters.
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by nyeah 16d ago
This approach is really worth pointing out and recommending. Not everyone is allowed / encouraged to realize how powerful it is.
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by nyeah 22d ago
MIT gonna MIT. That's a known issue. But HN users are still upvoting articles that are literally MIT press releases.
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by nyeah 24d ago
I think Snow himself was reasonable. I can't promise that the article makes sense.
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by nyeah 25d ago
Are you saying this may be a bad investment?
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by nyeah 25d ago
So you get a lot more than one point for your money, you get a semi-infinite line. EDIT: Is really cone, see below.
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by nyeah 26d ago
>Snow's view appears to lean toward the scientistic, and scientism is [...] incoherent Snow seems like a deep thinker to me. I think it's a mistake to attribute scientism to him. (Fair disclosure, I'm a bit of a CP Snow fa
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by nyeah 29d ago
The article relates that this isn't about the state of the art. It's about insight gained while taking a calculus class.
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by nyeah 29d ago
Yeah, agreed. But words are cheap. It's one thing to say we don't need vector calculus, and another to develop that claim through the actual vector calculus, step by step.
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by nyeah 1mo ago
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Warren Buffett
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by nyeah 1mo ago
I interpret this article, and all related discussion, as an invitation to talk about my personal finance habits.
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by nyeah 1mo ago
I think teachers did tell us exactly this. But we were 15 and we didn't believe them or didn't listen.
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by nyeah 1mo ago
He didn't quite say "widespread." He said "rewarded."
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by nyeah 2mo ago
>That quote is the article, and it's a little surprising that it's buried so far into the content Is it really surprising in 2026? Today's online writing style is not primarily designed to communicate. It's designed t
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Oh, good point, thanks.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
>That quote is the article, and it's a little surprising that it's buried so far into the content Is it really surprising in 2026? Today's online writing style is not primarily designed to communicate. It's designed t
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Thank goodness unemployment is down.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
It's definitely not just you :)
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Yeah it's as if the publishers are somehow strapped for cash compared to AI companies.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
>Ethics as opposed to morality is about codified rules That's not accurate. See e.g. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-theory/ section 1.2.1 "Morality and Ethics"
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Not by just feeding in a lot of old time series.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Yeah I don't understand the kvetching about someone making a movie. What's the downside? * The movie might suck. * Millions of people might watch a movie I don't like * Family or friends might force me to watch it. Two word
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by nyeah 2mo ago
The Odyssey? Or the review?
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Sure. If it really is hate, then that's the right word.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Sure, of course. I'm trying to draw a distinction between disagreement and hate. I'm not trying to eliminate either one.
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Can I ask for more info? Is it the perfect word for how some people feel about the tech industry? The perfect word to describe disagreement?
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by nyeah 2mo ago
Ok fair.

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