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811.
by philh 12y ago
If someone asks, I say that I'm ITP. I deliberately forgot whether the last test I took showed me as slightly S or slightly N, and introspection doesn't reveal a preference between them.
812.
by philh 12y ago
I mean that it doesn't seem a safe upper bound - `time` will return, but there are situations where to get a useful result, you need to increase the limit; and it's easy to get in those situations even when neither bot is running
813.
by philh 12y ago
> The 1/100th of a second time limit used in this example is more than enough time for a bot that does not loop infinitely to terminate on any modern processor; simple bots like cooperateBot or titForTat will terminate in less than
814.
by philh 12y ago
> The tit-for-tat is very effective in the classical iterated prisoner's dilemma, but it is easily exploitable in the program equilibrium verion of the game. This is because the bot's decision is based entirely on the history o
815.
by philh 12y ago
That's not what's being discussed. Tyrannosaurs made a descriptive claim, mh_ questioned it. You're acting like mh_ made a normative claim. (And you're using the shitty rhetorical tactic of sarcasm, which allows you to t
816.
by philh 12y ago
"in the extremely artificial context of a job interview" is also true of every interview question. So giving it as a criticism of work-sample questions, when comparing those to other types of question, is meaningless.
817.
by philh 12y ago
> In fact, Ranter says it is more common for an accident to happen just one day after another crash than two, three or more days later. As written, a poisson distribution wouldn't explain this. If you have a crash on day 0, then a c
818.
by philh 12y ago
I downvoted for tone, not because ve's wrong. I'm reasonably confident that someone who can write this blog post, understands binary search. I wouldn't have downvoted a post that simply said, for example: > Binary search o
819.
by philh 12y ago
If junk DNA doesn't exist, the limit applies to the whole genome. (I lean towards thinking that some non-junk DNA has been previously mistakenly classified as junk, but that junk DNA still exists in a meaningful sense. But I'm a l
820.
by philh 12y ago
The size of our (non-junk) DNA is limited by its mutation rate. (Though I don't know how the limit grows as a function of mutation rate, and I don't know if we've hit that limit as a species.)
821.
by philh 12y ago
> the map is still useful for seeing the directional trend. Isn't that also true of the original map, though? It's not at all clear to me that your visualization is an improvement on the original. The center has moved from Scan
822.
by philh 12y ago
I believe Eli is coming from a position of: reality is made up of things that can be studied, and rules that are universal, and those things and rules are what gives rise to consciousness in me. If I understand the process that gives rise t
823.
by philh 12y ago
I don't think pure jokes automatically get downvoted, if they're funny enough, though I have no recent examples in mind. But this particular example is more condescending than funny.
824.
by philh 12y ago
Then you'd judge some smart people as not-smart, possibly to your detriment. Ignorance is not opposed to intelligence. Arrogance is a flaw that can reduce the benefits of being smart, but it doesn't make someone not-smart. (Unless
825.
by philh 12y ago
> Perhaps the biggest thing I gained from the experiment was the ability to take a power nap any time, any where. If this can be reliably learned, it actually seems really valuable. Now I wonder if there's a way to learn it that doe
826.
by philh 12y ago
> Then you don't understand why copyright was created. Just because someone disagrees with you, doesn't mean that they don't understand the issue. Your post would have worked just as well without this line.
827.
by philh 12y ago
I think many people are trying to make a distinction that is different from "this opinion is a political view, this opinion makes you part of a witch hunt". The distinction being made isn't between the different views, but be
828.
by philh 12y ago
> It turns out that their algorithm makes a successful prediction about 70 per cent of the time. That’s far from perfect but much better than random guessing which is right only half the time. From the graph, it looks like only about 27%
829.
by philh 12y ago
That email was from GiveForward, not WePay.
830.
by philh 12y ago
That campaign has received $1200 in four months. I don't expect it has a very large social media presence. It's easy to believe that they could miss it. Besides that, The violation seems to be that it's a radio show which has
831.
by philh 12y ago
It's sad what happened to Eden. But it would also be sad if WePay got in trouble with their back-end processor, because they'd have to pass on that cost to all their other clients. This is a shitty situation, but that doesn't
832.
Managing compatibility issues in ubiquitous code(esr.ibiblio.org)
2 points by philh 12y ago|0 comments
833.
Bsert – "better" asserts in Python(reasonableapproximation.net)
1 points by philh 12y ago|0 comments
834.
by philh 13y ago
I don't think translation is even a solved problem for a human fluent in both languages. The ideal is to write what the original author would have written, if they were writing fluently in the target language. Sometimes that means they
835.
by philh 13y ago
There was one of these a couple of years back, I got an interview out of it. Make another and see how it goes.
836.
by philh 13y ago
> I do care that you can do the work required well and that you'll be a pleasure to work with. Note that this is at a different level of abstraction from "I do/don't care if you have linkedin". Roughly speaking,
837.
by philh 13y ago
Sometimes there really is a better way to solve their problem. Sometimes, the problem they have can be guessed reasonably accurately, and solving it for them is useful. I've found such answers helpful in the past. I've replied to
838.
by philh 13y ago
There's a third party app ("Habit AndroRPG") which is considerably better.
839.
by philh 13y ago
One thing you could do is have your day roll over at, say, noon; and then you can check in the next day instead (at the cost of having to remember what you did before noon today, until afternoon). I agree, it's not perfect. Time travel
840.
by philh 13y ago
> he instead chose to lambast kyle publicly, which doesn't really help anybody It helps people who might have read the book and learned to do things the wrong way. We can model this as "Kyle has disseminated harmful material, a

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