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by pjscott 9y ago
That's a problem. It's a better problem than being locked in the dungeons of the dragon tyrant for lonely years while you wait for it to consume you. Please let's address these things in order of priority.
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by pjscott 9y ago
The answer, for people who aren't going to die soon, is "live longer, and get the money to cover it as you go." In practice that'll mean fewer people on a retirement-and-death path and more people working in their 60s an
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by pjscott 9y ago
Carrying that glum logic to its natural conclusion, you might as well just throw yourself onto the nearest train tracks and wait for the next few tons of coal. You probably won't, though, so in the spirit of dialogue I ask you: why not
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by pjscott 9y ago
I had many teachers who insisted on cursive, and none of them were half as lucid as you were just now.
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by pjscott 9y ago
I was curious to see if he'd actually said that or if you were misrepresenting a more reasonable claim. I'm not familiar with Jordan Peterson but managed to find this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2yvI4I
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by pjscott 9y ago
If that's true then in my four years of college I never experienced those topics in the way that best conveys them.
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by pjscott 9y ago
Insurance companies actually have strong incentives to price things in a way that reflects the expected value of the money they'll have to pay out, and they have people who are paid to do those calculations. If some genetic variant mak
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by pjscott 9y ago
Okay, that is conclusive. (And I'm pleasantly surprised by how readable GCC's source code is.)
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by pjscott 9y ago
Cool showers can help. Even room-temperature water is great at transferring heat away from your body as long as the room is at less than human body temperature. Also, if you have a fan, this is a great time to point it directly at you. If y
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by pjscott 9y ago
Forgive me if I'm being dense here, but how is genocide a form of speech? Genocide is a form of killing.
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by pjscott 9y ago
> Does that kind of patronizing tone sound polite to the ears of a PR drone? Yes, it does. And they're not entirely wrong. Consider this video in which Uber CEO talks with someone like a real person instead of "respectfully&quo
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by pjscott 9y ago
That has been my experience too. There's a discontinuity along national borders, since green cards are a huge pain the in the regulatory ass, but when I've been interviewing for major tech companies nobody has mentioned within-US
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by pjscott 9y ago
Yes, they're a serious problem. What I'm saying is that they'd be a much bigger problem for GPS-based car navigation if there weren't logic in place to combine the GPS info with accelerometers and gyroscopes.
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by pjscott 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that car GPS navigation explicitly calculates how plausible each GPS reading is, based on a combination of other position signals and basic physics modeling, and discounts anything that sounds too crazy. If it did
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by pjscott 9y ago
You're right, of course, which is probably why he's tweeting about it: once the public is sufficiently hyped about the hyperloop happening, it becomes harder for those governments to say no.
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by pjscott 9y ago
If you just want to get the configuration file part of your program working so you can focus on other things, JSON is a fairly quick and easy option. You could make a more user-friendly format, but that might take longer.
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by pjscott 9y ago
I tried this a few times in the CS sections of a university library, and it was shocking just how ephemeral most of the topics were. There were books that got VERY EXCITED about systolic arrays. There was a small but persistent geologic s
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by pjscott 9y ago
Unicode can be encoded as UTF-8, and as long as you're okay with defining "whitespace" as code points less than 32, the algorithm here will handle it correctly.
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by pjscott 9y ago
The operating system will dutifully write back to disk whatever bytes your program left on those memory-mapped pages at the moment it terminated. If your data structures were in an inconsistent state -- pointers to nowhere, say -- then your
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by pjscott 9y ago
In case anybody was wondering, the x86 assembly is doing the multiply trick. The rather confusing "lea" instruction -- Load Effective Address -- is used as a space-efficient way of saying "take one register, multiply by 1, 2,
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by pjscott 9y ago
There's a simple reason for it: since people who don't go to college are considered failures, most everybody who has the test scores to get into college attends, and then some of them flake out and drop out, and the rest graduate.
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by pjscott 9y ago
They list the main ones on pages 3-4 of this paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4hafXDDq2EMzRNcy1vSUxtcEk... It's mainly moving memory around, matrix multiplication, convolution, and applying activatio
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by pjscott 9y ago
It's an approximation, of course, but a surprisingly good one: loads of predictive value, very strong correlations with things people care about, and so on. For some quality pondering on the epistemology here, see http://sla
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by pjscott 9y ago
I'm confused; what would it mean for that statement to be false? It sounds equivalent to "If everything non-genetic that can raise intelligence is present and everything non-genetic that can lower intelligence is absent, then the
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by pjscott 9y ago
They're looking through a huge number of genetic variants for genes that each have a small effect on expected intelligence scores. Two obvious problems that they run into: 1. When you test that many genetic variants, some correlations
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by pjscott 9y ago
The more genetic variants they test, the more they correct for multiple comparisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study#...
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by pjscott 9y ago
The induced demand argument applies to marginal increases in capacity on already-congested roads. If you make enough extra capacity, eventually you run into limits in how much demand can be created. For example, if you check out the city
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by pjscott 10y ago
The key problem with the TPU architecture for training is that its on-die buffer space is fairly limited and its memory bandwidth is currently nowhere near that of a GPU. This matters if you've got a lot of intermediate buffers that ne
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by pjscott 10y ago
I read that more as an allusion to public choice theory, but your interpretation of that paragraph is also plausible; conceded! It looks like this guy discusses the matter at greater length here, if anybody is curious: https://de
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by pjscott 10y ago
Did you actually read the article? Or even the paragraph? It's not arguing against civil rights for anybody.

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