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by olooney 7y ago
My impression is that we just don't have enough data to draw an accurate timeline, much less a tree, and are an order of magnitude away from being able to study second-order phenomenon like introgression. I think fewer than 10,000 ea
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by olooney 7y ago
why not use an animal model?
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by olooney 7y ago
I know that Apple got in trouble for storing and passing around unencrypted location data a while back.[1] I also remember a story about predator drones sending unencrypted video feeds, apparently because key management is hard and they tho
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by olooney 7y ago
I guess I knew GPS was passive but I would have guessed - naively, it turns out - that "airplane mode" turns off all interfaces to the outside world. Is there a way to toggle off the GPS on an android phone?
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by olooney 7y ago
Many of the youtube comments were people asking if he turned off location tracking... does anyone here know if that would be an effective countermeasure?
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by olooney 7y ago
Python?
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by olooney 7y ago
For clueless people like me who have no idea what this thing is; apparently it's going to be part of SpaceX's next big rocket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_(rocket_and_spacecraf...
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by olooney 7y ago
My experience on the "over-qualified" bit has been the opposite. More senior roles are more flexible about hours, get more leeway to define their job description, choose sane projects, and aren't treated as badly by middle ma
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by olooney 7y ago
Very odd study. The usual reason why people introduce sentiment analysis into a model is that they don't have enough data or aren't comfortable enough with NLP to train a classifier against their own labels. Instead they grab pre-
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Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future(waitbutwhy.com)
3 points by olooney 7y ago|0 comments
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by olooney 7y ago
Romans aren't the outlier here. Most ancient civilizations had a similar level of accomplishment; a one or two outstanding mathematicians every century, a few practical applications, some new rules of thumb. We did have a dark age, aft
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by olooney 7y ago
It's an allusion to a (not very serious) essay Russell wrote called "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish."[1] Like the much more famous "Why I am not a Christian," this is Russell at peak anti-theism. (Russell's
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by olooney 7y ago
The interplay between physicists and philosophers is particularly interesting here. Einstein himself mentions that reading Hume was helpful to him[1]: "Your exposition is also quite right that positivism suggested rel. theory, without
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by olooney 7y ago
> Restrict to words in a dictionary and you have a basic spelling suggestion algorithm. Yep. https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by olooney 7y ago
Bergson is pure woo: Nothing but completely subjective, baseless, pseudoscientific nonsense. Here is a sample of how he wrote: "The intellect always behaves as if it were fascinated by the contemplation of inert matter. It is life look
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Understanding LSTM Networks(colah.github.io)
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by olooney 7y ago
I like this. Here is a one-liner I wrote recently that calculates the 10th Fibonacci number: (lambda n: n(lambda x: x+1)(0))(((lambda f: (lambda x: x(x))(lambda y: f(lambda z: y(y)(z))))(lambda f: (lambda f: lambda n: (lambda f: lambd
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by olooney 7y ago
The point isn't to get a receipt that I personally voted. The receipt analogy isn't that exact. The point is create a verifiable paper trail for the event that some registered voter voted a certain way. Paper ballots do that. He
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by olooney 7y ago
"I bought a donut and they gave me a receipt for the the donut. I don't need a receipt for the donut. I give you money and you give me the donut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can'
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by olooney 7y ago
It seems likely that such truths (which are neither mathematical nor scientific) exist, as can be seen from the effort that philosophers of science have put in studying the so-called "demarcation problem." If they could have defin
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by olooney 7y ago
If you like this kind of thing, you might enjoy "WTF, JS?" https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs Or it's slightly older brother "WTF, Python?" https://github.com/satwikkansal&#x2
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by olooney 7y ago
According to the Wikipedia page[1], the brute force solution is O(n^3) for the one-dimensional case. They don't give an algorithm, but the obvious pseudo-code is: highest_total = 0 for all i from 0 to length-1: for al
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by olooney 7y ago
O(n). Faster than 75% of accepted solutions. :)
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by olooney 7y ago
Another data point: but I checked my LeetCode history and I actually solved this problem[1] a year ago. It's flagged as "easy" on LeetCode and I have one submission (which was accepted) but I don't even remember solving
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by olooney 7y ago
Todo apps are used as front-end examples for the same reason the factorial function is used to explain recursion: it's simple, it's intuitive, but it exercises what you need without dragging in a lot of incidental complexity. To d
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by olooney 7y ago
> You’re not going to teach your dog relativity with back propagation What do you mean? RNN's can be taught to do math using BP[1]. Heck, you can do a simple version yourself in less than an hour[2]. They can't do tensor calcul
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by olooney 7y ago
Eerily reminiscent of the replication crisis in psychology and the social sciences. My key takeaways: 1) Half the papers couldn't be reproduced on a technical level. Publish your code and your data, people! 2) Most of these papers us
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by olooney 7y ago
I know, right? I felt a lot of the "benefit of the doubt" I was extending this guy evaporate when I read that.
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by olooney 7y ago
“I figured it would be a good place to see intelligent arguments through. It didn’t really turn out how I expected.” When the urge gets irresistible, I post my "intelligent arguments" about politics to reddit, anonymously. Strange
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by olooney 7y ago
What is HKT?

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