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by outlace 7y ago
But it also seems that the US produces new big tech companies in new sectors whereas Europe appears not to. Sure maybe there aren’t any viable Google or Facebook competitors, but the US produces Stripe, Airbnb, uber, etc.
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You mean like the NFTs are somehow protective against the Prion forms? That is a possible interpretation that this study does not directly disambiguate.
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Unpredictability is a major cause of economic dysfunction. If no one can reliably/predictably obtain housing even if it’s cheap, I’d be surprised if the economy didn’t go haywire and then those low income workers you speak of will be n
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by outlace 7y ago
The only way to get a surprising-if-true result that is not surprising is if the result is not true. Hence the joke is that most of these surprising findings are probably B.S.
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Taken out of context, the press release makes this finding look a lot more ground-breaking than it is after I quickly read through the actual study. Still a good piece of work though. It was already known, as pointed out in the actual paper
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by outlace 7y ago
The actual study is here: "Aβ and tau prion-like activities decline with longevity in the Alzheimer’s disease human brain" < https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/490/eaat8462 >
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The price of housing is only part of it. The rising prices reflect the rising demand and the relatively static supply. Even if prices were capped, it doesn’t mean more people would be able to get housing. There’s still fewer units than ther
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by outlace 8y ago
I never said I didn’t trust his explanation. As I recall it seemed like he had no intention of ever making it widely available so was just surprised to see it show up all of the sudden. This is sort of funny, I’m actually a big fan of his w
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by outlace 8y ago
Why did he give away his secret sauce? Edit: yes I know this tool isn’t his secret sauce, I was being facetious. His excellent explanations are his secret sauce. I just wanted to know why he open sourced this after so long of saying it was
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by outlace 8y ago
The course is based on this free book http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/teaching/sp18/7Sketches.pdf
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by outlace 8y ago
Yeah I often run into the need to develop basic UIs for data analysis for people with limited programming experience. Currently I have to settle for using Jupyter notebooks with embedded ipywidgets, but it's not still not very user-fri
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by outlace 8y ago
Can this be used to create a desktop application using Electron?
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by outlace 8y ago
Yeah only a billionaire like Dalio can afford to recommend massive top-down re-engineering of the economy. If it doesn’t work he’ll just have a few less billion and the rest of us may not have jobs.
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GitHub was blocked in the past but it was unblocked after much protest from Chinese developers
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I see where you’re coming from. I think a great deal of mental illness is social and environment. We did not evolve to live in the circumstances of developed societies. So absolutely if we could change environment and social factors that wo
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by outlace 8y ago
Well neural computations happen at the level of individual neurons up through complex multi-neuronal circuits, cognition and behavior are the result of neural computation, therefore if cognition is abnormal then computations at the level of
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by outlace 8y ago
Psychiatry indeed has a pretty bleak history, and it's fair to criticize that history. It is true that the DSM as it categorizes mental disorders is not biologically valid in general, however, most psychiatrists today recognize it just
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by outlace 8y ago
In some applications you may want to run a continual learning algorithm so it will continually train on new data as well as make inferences.
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by outlace 8y ago
Would it do better than a CPU for training? I do my dev on a MacBook Air and use AWS for training, if this cheap gpu will be a few times faster than my Air CPU than I’d be willing to get it. I usually work with medium sized models/data
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by outlace 8y ago
But if current dominant country A has GDP of 100 units and rival country B is poised to get to 150 units, then won't country B be able to wield more economic power than country A even though country B's GDP/person is lower? I
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by outlace 8y ago
There's a probability theory and associated software package that uses stochastic matrices for inference/conditioning/etc: https://efprob.cs.ru.nl/
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by outlace 8y ago
We can argue about which country has the worst spying record, but there's a fundamental difference between a country where you can be imprisoned for years for merely sharing a web post that is critical of the government and one where y
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by outlace 8y ago
Differential programming is not tied to functional programming. The Python library PyTorch enables differential programming since you can use almost arbitrary python code and differentiate it, including if-then control flow, allowing you to
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by outlace 8y ago
The numbers may not be super accurate but if you've ever been to a big city in China in the past decade you would have witnessed circa 10% GDP growth with your own eyes.
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by outlace 8y ago
With multiple dispatch, if a library has a function that just works on abstract array types, then you as the user could write your own sub-type of the abstract array and it will still work with the library function.
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by outlace 8y ago
Article summary: Many scientists (particularly social scientists) think they’re doing Popperian falsification of their hypotheses by using null hypothesis testing. That is, they posit a hypothesis that e.g. IQ is correlated with happiness a
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by outlace 8y ago
I don't think my position disagrees with you. I make a distinction between theories in theoryspace and parameters in parameter space (given a model we all agree on). I define theory as essentially a causal model and explanation of some
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It seems clear to me that Popperian falsification is indeed the only way to separate the wheat from the chaff in theoryspace, however, generating theories generally requires inductive reasoning. You observe data, you make an inference that
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by outlace 8y ago
So if this metaphysical 'force' is deciding your actions, that still is not free will. You can posit anything as the ultimate cause of your activity but that isn't free will, it's just a higher-level cause. Either things
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by outlace 8y ago
The idea that randomness gives rise to free will is ludicrous. If my brain randomly chooses to eat an apple on Monday and randomly chooses to eat a Pear on Tuesday how is that giving me more free will than if my brain was predetermined to c

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