okintheory

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by okintheory 7y ago
This is not a hypothetical question at all. Denmark is certainly asking this question, with the understanding that currently the US can tap anything they want in our communications infrastructure, and buying 5G from Huawei would instead giv
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by okintheory 7y ago
In a recent discussion of Bezos's Blue Origin, a commenter made the point that >>> [...] technology developed for space (1957-present) has made huge improvements in ground based life. At its absolute peak the Apollo program co
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How Much Is the Government Spending on Climate Change? No One Knows(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by okintheory 7y ago|1 comments
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by okintheory 7y ago
Anyone who spends more on escaping Earth than on saving it is saying f*ck you to most of our 7.7 bio. people.
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by okintheory 7y ago
I get worried when I see something like this. I'm inclined to believe a substantial number of researchers are currently being deliberately fuzzy about what "AI" can and cannot do. Why not call it algorithms and statistics? I
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by okintheory 8y ago
Also consider influencewatch.org's biases https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/influence-watch/
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by okintheory 8y ago
And yet there are countries with more government and much better outcomes along many axes, e.g. Denmark. So maybe there's a difference between a big government and corrupt one?
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by okintheory 8y ago
Yeah, what's all this hype with AI anyway?
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by okintheory 8y ago
An inconsistent theory can prove its own consistency, so in what sense does a system proving its own consistency provide evidence that it is consistent?
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by okintheory 8y ago
Could you elaborate on what the definition of free will you're going by is? And how it's possibly supported by quantum non-locality?
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by okintheory 8y ago
I think you're taking the wrong message away from the following simple idea: "Good decisions depend on taking the available information into account." If we take this for granted, then it's not clear why free will is a g
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by okintheory 8y ago
"So why did you move to Mars?" "I won the Mars Colony Prize, so it seemed like the logical next step."
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by okintheory 8y ago
On Mathoverflow, there is skepticism: "I'm voting to close this question as off-topic. It should be clear to everyone that Atiyah does not actually have a proof of RH." – Dan Petersen https://mathoverflow.net&#x2F
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by okintheory 8y ago
I'm surprised this is down-voted. Isn't this in fact the public perception? Last time I remember Yelp getting significant mainstream media attention, it was in relation to allegations of racket-like tactics [1]. [1] https:/&
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by okintheory 8y ago
Well, regulatory capture is the problem here [1]. The FCC crooks were appointed by elected crooks. If the US didn't elect crooks, we wouldn't have this FCC. Electing crooks, of course, is a very old tradition. When it's blunt
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by okintheory 9y ago
Isn't this very simplistic? In my (limited) understanding, the North was a Republican stronghold, controlled by manufacturing interests, and without a strong economic interest in maintaining slavery. This meant the abolitionist movemen
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by okintheory 9y ago
When an em dash is used to indicate a pause, it's most often used without spacing between words and the em dash—except in newspapers [1]. [1] http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html
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by okintheory 9y ago
As a colleague of mine observed: If Joe and I have 100 mutual friends on Facebook, but aren't friends, that might be evidence we don't like each other.
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by okintheory 9y ago
If we could just pay everyone to write think pieces with as many assertions and as little evidence as this one, then we'd have an easy way to guarantee full employment with no training or knowledge required. Essentially UBI, but with
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by okintheory 10y ago
"Obviate" does not mean "make obvious", as I think was intended here. "To obviate" means "to remove (a need or difficulty)".
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Columbia Graduate Students Vote Overwhelmingly to Unionize(nytimes.com)
4 points by okintheory 10y ago|1 comments
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by okintheory 10y ago
I'm going to repost a comment from citylab page: This piece is lying or deceptive, depending on your perspective. The Roman Empire may have built cities on grids, but most major European cities are generally not on grids, at least not
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by okintheory 11y ago
Yes, this can be made precise: For example, consider a uniform distribution on a d-dimensional cube with side length 1. Only a (1/2)^d fraction of the mass is within 0.25 distance of the average in every coordinate. In high dimensions
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by okintheory 11y ago
In model of social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds. Has the model been tested well?