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Bayes' Theorem Is Trivial(asemic-horizon.com)
3 points by prionassembly 4y ago|0 comments
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by prionassembly 4y ago
My wife and I have a tentative agreement where we'll try to cover for each other in work "crunch times". But it doesn't work. About 5-10% of care is stuff only dad can do (basically calm him down; I'll hold him to m
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by prionassembly 4y ago
In a closely similar situation, I went for counseling personally. It helped me understand where she's coming from and stick it out. You can never judge other people, but marriages have their lows and it's worth fighting for them -
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by prionassembly 4y ago
> Wittgenstein was insisting that a proposition and what it describes must have the same 'logical form', the same 'logical multiplicity'. Sraffa made a gesture, familiar to Neapolitans as meaning something like disgus
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by prionassembly 4y ago
> back tips of the fingers over the chin Yes, but the "no me importa" gesture sweeps over the chin.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I have a years old Twitter account with like 300 followers (many mutuals) but very low engagement on anything that isn't a reply to a higher-profile account. Should I create a fresh account to reset how the algorithm sees me, or should
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Oh, that's fancier than my ready-at-hand qute for these situations, which was 90s-girl-rocker Ani DiFranco: "so I'll walk the plank / and I'll jump with a smile / if I'm gonna go down / I'm gonna
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by prionassembly 4y ago
On one view, Morphy et al. picked low-hanging fruit, no longer available to Kasparov. On the other, Morphy and Capablanca etc. laid the foundations on which Carlsen and Kasparov walk.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
You have the benefit of suburbia, where you can let your kids bike around like in Stranger Things and maybe even have joint backyards. In other places houses are conspicuous and unsafe, whereas sets of apartment buildings can afford joint
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by prionassembly 4y ago
You can't easily discount culture and habit, nor can you easily account for it in studies. Cross-country comparisons are often surprising, but even then they blur within-country heterogeneity (is $country fatter on average/mode, o
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by prionassembly 4y ago
At one point my nihilistic consumeristic 20s got me in the hobby of "Lomography", which was basically using up ("shoot from the hip!) expensive film without care and seeing what kinds of random stuff turns up, if any at all.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Is Ghosts the one that has "Corona Radiata"? There's two pieces of music I can't. One is Tchaikovsky's Cappricio Italiano, the other is "Corona Radiata". I'll break down sobbing and eventually wailing
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Everyone likes to shirk away from their jobs; engineers and programmers have ways of making their fun (I'm teaching myself how to write parsers by giving each project a DSL) look like work. Lingerie designers or eyebrow barbers have no
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by prionassembly 4y ago
The thing about this kind of take is that there isn't really one bus hurtling towards one cliff. Climate, biodiversity, water pollutants, sustainable agriculture and extractivism... these are not orthogonal, but often run in different
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Stranger Things. ST is generally awful and I was compelled to watch up to S3. I'd probably be watching S4 if I had the time. The thing is impressively optimized.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Matlab has OO concepts that make for much cleaner concepts. Also: Matlab OO is hellishly slow, like having to go on a 5-hour plane trip and mistaking the Ambien you planned to take for a Ritalin.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I taught myself this exact algorithm at 8 or 10 by sorting playing cards (we established an order for the kind, diamond < leaf < spades < heart) in a very very very long plane trip where I had neglected to bring comic books or some
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Baby had a starting preference for things we put with headphones over the mom's belly. This might sound insane, but I was in the OR for the C-section and once the baby was put on the mother's arm I started to play one of these mus
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by prionassembly 4y ago
What was the child like when younger? I have no idea what his interests are. I have a one-and-a-halfer and I keep him busy when I want to kick back at the end of the day by putting some really challenging music on the TV (initially jazz and
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I did this for nearly five years until the birth of a child took the remaining free time I had. I highly recommend it.
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Ask HN: Tools for tracking self-directed remote teams?
1 points by prionassembly 4y ago|0 comments
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I'm philosophically pro-life but agree with your general stance. This is a "wrong" opinion, but I think laws should reflect our best standards for society and then we should be very casuistic and lenient when thinking about s
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Modern Fortran is easy to learn if you have Matlab muscles; there's a few additional concepts to learn because it's a "static" language, but much much easier than, say, Rust.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Human brains have high degrees of plasticity -- our brain is much more generic than its usual functional organization would suggest. I don't think we'd be able to upload brains ("state vectors" was the sci-fi buzzword) b
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I use basically variations of copy-pasted code from tutorials and (I think) pymonad. I keep reimplementing things because the last API had warts. Maybe one day I'll have a library.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
Parallel question: what would be better to learn job market wise right now, Cobol, C# or Java?
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I started using monads in Python as sort of a gimmick / something to add flavor to a boring project (I was guessing in a final form we'd keep Result types and throw away most other things) but by now they're a boon to product
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I'm a pro-lifer. This isn't a hypothetical.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
> If you decide a fetus is trespassing in your body, I think I remember the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child stating that (1) children are not the property of their parents and (2) parents have a responsibility for its well-being.
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by prionassembly 4y ago
I don't think the reasonable pro-lifers were in a protest that culminated in a bombing. Go to crazy places, meet crazy people. Most pro-lifers in the upper echelons of intellectual and professional life are probably silent, fearing rep

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