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by philh 11y ago
My point is that 8:2 isn't much better. Not compared to the range of skills available. If someone beats me 8:2, that puts fairly strong bounds on their skill level, such that most players would either beat both of us or lose to both
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by philh 11y ago
> It never actually would make the winning move – however obvious – until it had no other options! I'm confused. Why would 'make the winning move' not be the way to maximise probability of winning?
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by philh 11y ago
> The fact that AlphaGo beats someone beaten by Ke Jie 8 times out of 10 doesn't say enough about AlphaGo vs. Ke Jie. 8:2 implies the difference between them isn't so large. (If someone only beat me 8:2, I'd expect a profe
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by philh 11y ago
(I didn't RTFA.) > "It doesn't matter what I do -- If I don't do some particular evil, someone else will do that evil in my place" aka "I'm just one person, my vote is irrelevant" These are differe
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by philh 11y ago
> If a number is printed on a computer display, it must look like 123456.78, not like "123 456,78"! Humans find thousands separators useful. You're asking humans to give up useful things because they're hard to progra
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by philh 11y ago
> If you don't have an informed vote, perhaps you should simply not vote at all ? This is an idea I've been toying with. Whenever an election rolls around, I keep hearing people say things like "I don't care who you v
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by philh 11y ago
> Yes, the font and web design is straight out of 1999. The objection wasn't to the site layout. It was "this site is clearly pushing an agenda, and I don't trust them to fairly represent their sources". Which I think
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by philh 11y ago
(Not at all confident about this.) AngrySkillzz aside, I think there's another reason this won't work. From the sound of pimterry's explanation, the timing effects happen in your own code, not OpenSSL's. It's not &q
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by philh 11y ago
See my other reply, also for why (apart from time commitment) I was reluctant to give evidence.
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by philh 11y ago
It's worth asking how much you already know about the subject? It's easy to make an article that looks convincing and devastating to someone with no prior knowledge, but laughably incomplete to to someone in the field. For example
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by philh 11y ago
I find it vaguely amusing and ironic that he cites rationalwiki on the gish gallop, given that my impression is they do this themselves a bunch. (Note that running a gish gallop doesn't mean you're wrong , it just means you'
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Political Polarization in the US House of Representatives(bl.ocks.org)
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by philh 11y ago
If you don't trust your evaluation function to be optimizing for your actual values.
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by philh 11y ago
"First world problems" is also unkind, you're dismissing someone else's feelings because you personally don't have the same problem. The guy started a company in 1998, I'm guessing he's not what you call y
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by philh 11y ago
That's not the point. If I want to do good, I can choose to do good. I don't want someone else choosing how I do good. If those things are positive, if I feel good about them, then I can do them, whether or not someone has given m
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by philh 11y ago
Do you mean blaming someone else's behaviour? If so, I disagree. If there was porn on the back of the seat, I think the guy could reasonably say "I don't want to look at that, I don't want to be tempted". That'
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by philh 11y ago
I don't like having obligations thrust upon me without my consent. A gift is an obligation: I need to find a use for it, or at least find somewhere out of the way to keep it until I can get rid of it. The way I read your comment, you&#
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by philh 11y ago
Over the next 20 years, how confident are you that you won't switch carriers and your carrier won't start to move any faster?
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by philh 11y ago
In a world where there are pressures on foo, bar and baz to be bad, and foo is fighting those pressures and bar and baz are not, it seems to me that foo should be praised for being less bad than bar and baz. (There are probably also situati
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by philh 11y ago
The person who clicked 'share' is the person who caused it to show up on my dash. If my dash gets too low signal-to-noise, I want to know who to unfollow. Also, the original author isn't necessarily the main 'artist&#x27
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by philh 11y ago
> You have one variable which stands for p (distributed according to some prior, like a Beta distribution perhaps) This prior sounds like the A_p distribution. The point is it's a distribution, not a number. You can't just say
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by philh 11y ago
I know that's what it means. I don't think they exist in the real world. See e.g. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice... - I don't remember if I've read that speci
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by philh 11y ago
I'm not at all qualified to talk about this. Without further ado: Bayesianism has the concept of an A_p distribution, which is roughly "the probability that the probability is p". My A_p distribution for this coin would be (a
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by philh 11y ago
> My ex before we broke up used to take days and days to respond but she was unemployed and had nothing going in her life Not to speak of your ex specifically. But this could just be a case of "shitty at replying to texts", whi
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by philh 11y ago
If you don't mind losing private messages (I get ~0 of those), presumably you could add the reddit mail icon to your adblocker or something? For me though, notifications are much more important on reddit than here. Here I can see repli
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by philh 11y ago
Does a tower like this only broadcast one radio station? That's not what I would have naively expected. But if not, why do they pick up that specific one?
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by philh 11y ago
Just tested, it handles that fine. (R 3.1.3)
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by philh 11y ago
> Would you be okay if your child married a neo-Nazi who believed strongly in the white nation's victory in the coming race-war? I would probably be unhappy about that. But - as you say, lesser degrees of disagreement are lesser deg
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by philh 11y ago
Socialism could still take root among the American populace, even if it's incompatible with the constitution.
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by philh 11y ago
Depends on the role. For example, I think a postman is a government employee? In that case, about the same as I'd think of an Amazon engineer who didn't know that. I have no idea how they don't know it, and I think a little

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