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by parpfish 2y ago
That’s shockingly high. As somebody that has been literate for decades, I can’t even fathom how you would survive. Or if that’s taken care of, how would you entertain yourself?
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by parpfish 2y ago
For my college math and physics exams, the profs would pick exercises at random and wouldnt know how hard the test was until after the grades came in. And having a super high ceiling where a 25% is passing allowed them to see if there were
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by parpfish 2y ago
If polling is as wrong as they think here, I wonder how much effect it’d have in places outside of politics. Basically any company that tries to do market research or any organization measuring public opinion is wrong in systematic ways. th
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by parpfish 2y ago
i thought about doing something similar when i tried to find a simple solitaire game in the apple app store. i want a simple game that i can use to kill 15 minutes while i'm waiting in line, but all the version in the app store have be
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by parpfish 2y ago
id rather see a table than have to enter a form. that way you don't just get "your" score, but you get to see the whole list of animals and learn about which ones have high/low body fat
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by parpfish 2y ago
I'm reminded of how our understanding of human object recognition was affected by computer vision research. For decades we knew that there were neurons with simple receptive fields in V1/V2 that extracted low-level visual features
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by parpfish 2y ago
I see lots of arguments that LLMs aren't really intelligent because they lack understanding and are "just doing autocomplete". But I never see any precise definitions of what "understanding" is, so it comes across
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by parpfish 2y ago
Oh, yeah. I didn’t mean all in one sitting. Definitely don’t work after hours.
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by parpfish 2y ago
in addition to not doing overtime/weekends, when you're doing work during the day you should monotask as much as possible. just focus on one thing at a time, preferrable until you're done with it. the cost of constantly shift
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by parpfish 2y ago
are you telling me that the rich kids never got to experience the excitement of an awesome robot transforming into... a rock? https://gbwiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Rock_Lords_(toyline)
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by parpfish 2y ago
Same. I also referred to all transforming robot toys as “gobots”
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by parpfish 2y ago
a couple years ago i needed a new dentist and the only place that I could get into was a big chain that has just expanded into the area (Aspen Dental). it had clean new office and lots of fancy tech that to scan my teeth that i hadn't
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by parpfish 2y ago
wait... so turbo made it slower ?
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by parpfish 2y ago
It might be nice to also have a non-psychedelic non-sari as well. Right now a patient could use whether they tripped or not to determine exactly which treatment they received. But if you had the full 2x2 design of {drug has trip, drug has n
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by parpfish 2y ago
I miss the scraping hard drive noises with a flickering “HDD” light and a mysterious “Turbo” indicator when my 90s PC had to work hard
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think that that issue leads to particularly intense 'folk psychology' because everybody has experience with a mind which will lead to everybody having their own litle set of folk psychology beliefs that the scientists need to
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think that before a science can be "a science" with powerful theories and universal laws, there needs to be a long period of existing as a proto-science where people aren't doing experiments and are just observing and descr
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by parpfish 2y ago
Yeah, grandparent post should just take a year long sabbatical and come back when they’re feeling it.
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by parpfish 2y ago
I think this is a curse that gets inflicted on far too many “gifted” children. While young they get lots of praise for their accomplishments and outcomes and it can drown out any intrinsic motivation to do things that make them happy.
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by parpfish 2y ago
There’s already a bunch of stats research on this problem. Some useful terms to look up are MCAR (missing completely at random) and MNAR (missing not at random)
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by parpfish 2y ago
Verifiability is part of it, but the other part is that calculators don’t provide a full end-to-end solution (unless you’re doing worksheets for homework). Each calculation is just one step, it’s up to the user to figure out which steps to
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by parpfish 2y ago
I feel like multiple imputation is fine when you have data missing at random. The problem is that data is never actually missing at random and there’s always some sort of interesting variable that confounds which pieces are missing
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by parpfish 2y ago
I’ve often heard the advice for on all to focus on triage and call in support for big problems. But… doesn’t that mean that everybody is technically on call? There the main person answering the pager, but if the expectation is that they c
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think the shift in expectations has a lot to do with a change in audience. it used to be that fancy new ML models would be discussed among ML practitioners that had enough background/context to understand why seemingly little improve
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by parpfish 2y ago
Not sure what your house is like, but my plumbing is already wireless
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by parpfish 2y ago
The article describes these elites as arrogant overachievers that expect the lions share of success. However, from the “elite” kids I’ve met I find it far more likely that they are suffering from imposter syndrome and will do anything to ch
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by parpfish 2y ago
I hate the ones that don’t have a single objective answer. Like “name of your best friend in 3rd grade” or “city where you first fell in love”.
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by parpfish 2y ago
Instead of regulations, I think this is the kind thing that should be driving a push to unionize tech. For the most part we don’t need to worry about dangerous job sites or low pay, but we do have to worry about unethical business practices
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by parpfish 2y ago
Absolutely. Having well sanded features doesn’t necessarily remove bugs directly drive conversion, but it gives the entire product an established professional “feel. Even though your customers feel it, they won’t explicitly articulate it
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by parpfish 2y ago
They don’t optimize for satisfying interfaces, they optimize for driving engagement. I find the aesthetics of free to play games very stressful and unsatisfying (lots of notifications and popular to distract you), but they ARE effective at

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