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by quocanh 5y ago
It would be falsified if the title was "the C language will let you make every mistake" when the article is actually about a real-world example about a mistake that the C language could very easily stop you from making but will no
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How to think: think longer.
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System software research sounds like it could benefit from focusing more on the systems than the software. No one is going to be building the next Linux. But they could build the ecosystem, architecture, and incentives for the next Linux to
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I want to know how much Bitcoin this guy has.
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What if we could have free public transportation in exchange for an advertisement bombardment? That actually sounds like a great idea (to me). Sure getting on a metro train would make you dizzy and overwhelmed. But we would actually have a
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The tricky thing is how do you tell someone this? It's like being unable to do a pullup. You can try but if you can't even get one rep in then it just feels like wasted effort. The way that the author figured out on her own is a g
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by quocanh 5y ago
Sure and that's one thing. But to say that Russia and China are "ahead of the curve" is sort of implying that the future of my internet is only government-approved information and that's simply not true. You need to ac
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This is overstated in my opinion. The internet will remain relatively free in true democratic states unless there's a population of people out there who are just begging for their government to lie to them and manipulate them.
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by quocanh 5y ago
A bit off topic. I think it's fascinating when people say that meditation doesn't work for them but then discover the benefits of meditative states all on their own. That's what Quiet is anyway.
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China is famously very accepting of all ideas and would never ban or ostracize members of its own society for perspectives that disagree with the majority's belief. Yep. Definitely a western thing.
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Wow. I actually just saw [a video from Sabine Hossenfelder]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI ) about exactly this. Long story short, we don't know if quantum nonlocality is real. Bell's Theoreom doesn&#x
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I 100% can believe this. Especially the insects that form colonies are capable of some sort of rudimentary communication based on body language, can form bonds, can be annoyed instead of just threatened, and can differentiate humans from ob
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If Elizabeth Holmes did actually follow this schedule, then she wouldn't have to write it down. This is a wishlist. I actually do practice a similar schedule to this but I have never written it down anywhere. Writing it down and hoping
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by quocanh 5y ago
Absolutely. You can spot the logical leap when the author goes from "music COULD BE a superstimulus for speech" to "music IS a superstimulus for speech" with absolutely no evidence or argument in between.
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by quocanh 5y ago
THANK GOD. This convention has always annoyed me especially in cases where I was told to shorten variable names (sacrificing readability) or where a line of code was clearly more legible even up to 120 characters. Finally, I can point out t
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by quocanh 5y ago
Completely irrelevant to the main discussion, but this got me wondering. Why is equating poverty to bad/meager/lacking considered distasteful? Wouldn't anybody in poverty agree that it's a pretty accurate comparison? Are
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by quocanh 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "they don't." But you don't need guns for compliance. If can make it so that people will lose money if they don't follow the deal, then no you don't need guns. People will com
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by quocanh 5y ago
A bank could theoretically rewrite your account balance with terminal command. Now this example is contrived because banks are under strong government regulations, but what about similar deals you make with your peers? When there are an inf
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Nice. Eyes that turn black when the robot dies. Now I'll know when I've finally killed it.
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I guess there's a tradeoff between amount of information being shared and time taken. So I guess if you're also communicating as much information as a 5-page doc beforehand and then talking about it, then you're being way mor
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by quocanh 5y ago
Can someone explain to me in plain English what this is? I looked up Cantor Sets so I have a vague understanding... but there are many things I don't understand. Like what does it mean to have a sequence with a bit appended to a Cantor
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by quocanh 5y ago
Sensationalist. We put humans into cages when they race Formula 1 (for the same reason as this - protection) and we don't call that dehumanizing.
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You can get around the paywall with incognito. Pretty lax security here.
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This might enable simulation but forecasting is a chaotic problem isn't it? It's essentially like trying to predict a stream of random numbers - even if they follow a certain attractor, it's still impossible to know exactly w
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The problem is actually how good those recommendations are. They're designed to keep your eyes glued to the site as long as possible. It's a personal choice, but removing recommendations is one of the best things for your mental h
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Ok so according to your theory, we could make this hypothesis: if we applied a neural network to an unseen example (for example, a validation dataset), then we would get accuracy that is equivalent to randomly picking a random label. Well s
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Okay but that would only work for examples with which you already have. All interesting cases of neural networks are applying it to unseen inputs. How does your technique work with unseen inputs? And while we interpret the result of a class
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Err.. hash functions like MD5 and SHA256 are "cryptographic". That just means one with a random distribution of outputs as opposed to maybe Apple's "neural" hash function which has outputs that do the "augmenta
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Of course they have! Take a look at ARM. Or Apple's M1 chip. It's crazy what mobile CPUs can do nowadays.
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by quocanh 5y ago
When you say hash function, do you mean a cryptographic hash function? How on earth could the performance of that be anywhere near the simplest probabilistic algorithm on unseen examples?

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