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by pure-awesome 6y ago
"Apps like Instagram have a standard carousel for photo albums" Yeah, but that only applies to users who are used to Instagram. It's definitely not an INTUITIVE feature. I've had friends and family link me to Instagram p
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by pure-awesome 6y ago
Scott Alexander recently gave a good summary & review of that book here. A _very_ interesting hypothesis: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...
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by pure-awesome 6y ago
Object orientation is not really about making use of structs - many (most?) functional languages also use structs; it's just a grouping of related data. Object-orientation is about grouping together functionality and data. I.e., an obj
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by pure-awesome 6y ago
For those wondering what I mean: To support backwards-compatibility, Java could not simply introduce functions as first-class objects. Instead, it works like follows: Syntax for a function `foo` which itself takes in a function called `intC
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by pure-awesome 6y ago
Luckily Java 8 introduced streams and functional interfaces - the latter of which is admittedly very object-oriented way of passing around functions.
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by pure-awesome 6y ago
In addition to this, mark them clearly as out-of-stock - fade out the preview image and prepend [out of stock] to the item description.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I wasn't only thinking of computer simulations. The word "simulation" is very vague. It could potentially mean one of: - Computer Simulation - Pen & Paper Mathematical models - Pen & Paper narrative modelling (i.e., w
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I was confused what they meant by "simulation". But they basically mean like a role-playing game. Like, they acted out how they would respond in that particular situation. This site has more info: http://www.upmc-biosec
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Yes. A better name for "the speed of light" might actually be "the speed of time" or "the speed of information transfer". It's a mathematical limit and you can derive it using pretty much anything, not jus
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
It sounds like they're using: - "severity" as level of importance the tester assigned it when they found the bug and - "priority" as level of importance a developer assigned to it after triage. That first piece of
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
That's example 6 on the list.
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
The previous commenter was not saying that machine learning didn't exist 10 years ago. They were saying that "many of the TOP CONTRIBUTORS TO THAT FIELD were not doing machine learning research 10 years ago." There are also p
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Yes. Taking into account gut feelings has been a part of the rationalist community's strategy for as long as I can recall. The rationalist community's "Rationality" is not about using cold calculation for everything. It&
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I think it could potentially work! Consider someone with little to no experience with programming trying to build a single app and planning it out and refactoring and refining it continuously, compared to constantly creating and archiving m
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Do they start them at $1'000 and let them bid down from there?
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there! I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate price range for the NEW hardcovers (the actual li
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
This point is made in the book "The Soul of the White Ant" by Eugène Marais, and is perhaps the primary thesis of the book. It is a fascinating book, and I can recommend reading it, though having been published in 1925, it is poss
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I used to think that if something is done twice, it should be abstracted. Now, I'm a bit more careful. There's a pretty famous quote by Sandi Mentz: "Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction." https:/&
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Ah! I understand your comment now, by > obsession with 9-5 and whatever else it takes You mean an obsession with "working 9-5 ALONG WITH whatever else it takes", not an obsession with "9-5" and a separate obsession wi
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but aren't "9-5" and "doing what it takes to get the job done" contradictory? The one is having fixed working hours and, as in the parent comment, compensating with extra leave if
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
People may call it "stupid" but as a meta-strategy or species strategy or whatever, it's actually pretty effective. There are actually plenty of adversarial situations in which it's beneficial to give yourself a handicap
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Oh, okay... are you referring to fuzzy logic where statements have a partial truth value? I'm (mostly) referring to the case where the truth value is either true or false, but where you aren't sure, so you can say "80% probab
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Yeah, love this! I hate when I can't figure out what a software or service does from their homepage. Looking at oxide.computer... man... what DO they do? Do they sell servers? My other pet peeve for these kind of websites is when the l
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Indeed! I was speaking somewhat imprecisely - I was referring to logic in the sense of Bertrand Russel's work. I should rather say the major shortcoming of CLASSICAL logic is its inability to express uncertainty. That being said, there
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I'm all for using types, and pre- and post-conditions where applicable, but I don't see how they would be a useful replacement to the situations in which probabilities would apply. Could you elaborate? To give an example where I t
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
> Handling uncertainty is difficult regardless; attaching probabilities to judgements did not ensure the social sciences avoided the replication crisis. Indeed! I'd say that using probabilities is necessary (or at least very useful
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
I'd say the major shortcoming of logic is its inability to express uncertainty. It's well-suited for mathematical proof as practiced, where axioms and definitions are precisely defined, and there is no reliance on empirical observ
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Sorry, I don't completely follow. What was mentioned? That there are no simpler solutions to blinding headlights? The article is very positive about these complex headlights - the only negative mentioned is the price. I, on the other h
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
This seems so much more complex than it needs to be. Basic solutions are consistent, predictable, reliable, cheap, repairable, replaceable. Surely there are simpler solutions to the "blinding headlights" problem?
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by pure-awesome 7y ago
Humans exceed our current computers in the same way that a large asteroid impact exceeds our current nuclear weaponry. It's a matter of scale, not of kind. If we track the capability of computation machines from binary adders through o

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