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by outlace 7y ago
He's speaking on behalf of his brother Brett Weinstein, who is qualified to say such things.
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by outlace 7y ago
I don't think the price is the problem. I couldn't get toilet paper for a week, not because some enterprising con-man had purchased it all and was selling it for 10x as much outside my door, but because ordinary folk at the tail o
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by outlace 7y ago
I’ve tried learning Haskell once or twice and it didn’t really click. However, I’m know knee deep in learning Lean, which is a dependently typed functional language that is also a theorem prover and it’s been a much easier ride. It’s not an
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by outlace 7y ago
That wouldn’t be p hacking, it would just be false positives from multiple tests. But yeah that seems a possibility
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by outlace 7y ago
My guess: because speculators are speculating that the recent severe dips in the stock market are undervaluing the economy and therefore are buying when it goes low, propping up the price. Speculators speculate that the pandemic has not act
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by outlace 7y ago
I think its still better to have some competition between a few private airlines (even if de facto subsidized by gov't) as opposed to one behemoth national airline that faces no competition and therefore has no incentive to innovate.
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by outlace 7y ago
It is my understanding that Lean can formalize essentially all of mathematics, whether it's an epsilon-delta proof or otherwise. Not all proofs are computations, which is why some constructs must be labeled `noncomputable` but nonethel
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by outlace 7y ago
Yes I've played with Agda before Lean. I found documentation for Agda to be sparse, maybe it's improved since then. Also, it was kind of a pain to get it setup. Lean was extremely easy to get running, works beautifully with VSCode
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by outlace 7y ago
For those on the fence about learning Lean or some other theorem prover: I highly recommend it if you want to self-learn math. Learning math from a textbook is rather dry and often doesn’t come with solutions. Lean essentially gamifies lear
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by outlace 7y ago
I just started learning Lean today - what a coincidence. I have found learning lean difficult but gratifying. The post serves as further motivation.
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by outlace 7y ago
Is it the seasonal changes in UV that make flu and similar viruses less transmissible during the summer months? Maybe it has nothing to do with temperature as some have suggested.
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by outlace 7y ago
I think the courses mostly help with discipline in studying for the test. There’s nothing magical about them. I’ve taken many standardized exams with and without prep courses and it’s quite possible to do very well with inexpensive self stu
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by outlace 7y ago
A lot of CCP members are trained in STEM fields. Possibly a much higher proportion of people in China’s government understood and foresaw exponential growth.
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by outlace 7y ago
Oh there's definitely a supply chain issue now; we're not going to be able to re-stock anytime soon is my understanding. So there was absolutely a high degree of unpreparedness at many levels. However, we already nearly depleted
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by outlace 7y ago
There is reason to believe that the hospital mask shortage is due in no small part to employee (and patient/family) theft of masks and not necessarily due to dramatically increased need at hospitals (at least not yet). I say this as a
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by outlace 7y ago
Agreed. I think hand hygiene in the west is probably better (I’ve never seen anyone use hand sanitizer in China, and saw more people leaving the restroom without washing their hands - anecdotal) but China is definitely better about respirat
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by outlace 7y ago
Assuming this result holds... Perhaps anti-A antibodies that may be produced by non-A blood types have some cross-reactivity with the virus?
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by outlace 7y ago
At the very least food handlers should have been wearing masks since the beginning of this. Before all the restaurants closed I didn't see any food handlers wearing masks.
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by outlace 7y ago
I regret making this original comment at all. It was stupid. I apologize to all.
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by outlace 7y ago
Ok China has a supposedly communist regime but it is effectively not a communist economy.
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by outlace 7y ago
As long as there is some, even small, cost to posting a review it makes review fraud much less scalable compared to zero-cost reviewing.
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by outlace 7y ago
Shameless self-promotion. We have a book on deep reinforcement learning that is completely project based in Python: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-reinforcement-learning-in...
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by outlace 7y ago
Has there ever been a price control experiment that hasn't resulted in even worse problems?
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by outlace 7y ago
While Lex gets interesting people on his podcast, he seems to focus so much on "beauty" in his interviews that nothing substantive ever gets said. He's constantly asking "what do you find to be the most beautiful about X
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by outlace 7y ago
I don't believe so
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by outlace 7y ago
It's just as valid as evolutionary biology in general. You can say there are a lot of bad evo psych studies out there but that doesn't mean it's impossible to make scientific inferences about evo psych. You can run experiment
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by outlace 7y ago
Are books worth it? Absolutely. I avoid anything superficial (e.g. tweets, facebook posts, brief journalistic articles). I enjoy long (2+ hr) podcasts and books because a good book can give a complex subject its due nuance and depth. I most
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by outlace 7y ago
There is already a UBI in place for veterans who suffered one of a number of qualifying disabling conditions during as a result of military service. Veterans can receive nearly $4000/mo if they are 100% service connected. Some veterans
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by outlace 7y ago
This is just an endless cycle. Any language is going to need a word that roughly corresponds to "supremacy." If the word supremacy didn't exist, white supremacists would have used some other word like "white dominance&qu
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by outlace 7y ago
It's my understanding from reading some of Gerard t'hooft's work on superdeterminism that a superdeterministic theory underlying quantum mechanics would mean that quantum computers would be predicted to not have any advantage

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