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by onos 5y ago
Thanks very much for that detailed explanation — it helps a lot!
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by onos 5y ago
Newbie here trying to follow. The prior post I link below suggests that what’s going on here is we are trying to find good points to sample an image. A challenge here is that the algorithms to generate the blue noise distributed sample poi
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by onos 5y ago
I found the discussion around ambiguity and required group consolidation around a shared understanding pretty interesting. One could imagine that the amount of ambiguity present in a problem could then set the scale of how many people shou
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by onos 5y ago
There is a lot of encouragement of guilt in the USA today. In general, shouldn’t we embrace a value system that encourages good behavior? Eg honor those who do relatively well in life, given the circumstances they are born into? The immed
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by onos 5y ago
This was fun and simpler than I was anticipating: After first reading the problem statement I assumed we’d need to do some sort of search to get the connected clusters, but we see here the line to draw at any point is determined completely
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by onos 5y ago
Interesting points I’ve read recently in this area: A national test creates cohesion in a society in that it defines what knowledge is valued and aligns people around it. Will we lose this benefit if the test is dropped? The tests and othe
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by onos 5y ago
I misunderstood and humbly retract my mean criticism. You’re right it does make sense.
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by onos 5y ago
The physics answer may be right but it sounds like nonsense. Any clearer discussions?
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by onos 5y ago
That’s a great, practical point. One anecdote about smart kids though: i knew a number of very smart boys growing up who got bored at school and checked out for that reason, and life didn’t work out great for them - nor did society benefi
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by onos 5y ago
It seems that the priority view may feel intuitive because humans fail to internalize that the diminishing returns are already baked into utility gained from some benefit and they are trying to insert it a second time.
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by onos 5y ago
Would like to “fix” the issue with the first few numbers after 10. They make it much harder to teach a young child the concept of base ten counting. Would be much easier if we would replace “ten” by “teny” then “eleven” -> “teny-one” e
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by onos 5y ago
The two phases of super cooled water dispute seems to have been due to a coding error. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.1.2018082...
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by onos 5y ago
I think your factor of five is on the “wrong side” of the equation here you’re thinking of. Ie if the crime rate were 5 x that of other cities AND the incarceration rate were 5 x lower, that would mean criminals were 25 x less likely to be
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by onos 5y ago
It is certainly a mix. Eg one of the demographic groups least likely to be vaccinated are blacks, who obviously lean democrat.
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by onos 5y ago
It seems the appropriate method to judge this approach is in comparison to the baseline referenced at the start: humans making “black box” judgement calls that are subject to the individual judge’s biases. If the computer programmed decisi
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by onos 5y ago
So has square through a different mechanism, “square capital”.
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by onos 5y ago
Unfortunately biophysics has turned out to be a field that largely does not interest either physicists or biologists. They’ve found some interesting results but this sub fields hey day is probably behind it.