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by rad88 4y ago
I'm financially illiterate. Where can I find a good high yield savings account?
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by rad88 4y ago
> Part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might decide that this place isn’t for you, and that self-selection is OK with me.
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by rad88 4y ago
> I'm not sure I buy the "sentience without self-awareness" concept. Honest question -- what do you think is going on inside of babies and children? Self-awareness as a developmental process is complex and relational, and
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by rad88 4y ago
Turing's tests involved 3 parties, and that was a key part of the test. If you design it as an acceptance test rather than a sort, real people are going to fail and computers are going to pass, with embarrassing results. To use one of
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by rad88 4y ago
No not really, at least when I attended. I checked and 1st period is at 9am now, which is better. There was a cluster of suicides in my grade and the grades after, which might have led to the change. I left after 10th grade to finish high s
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by rad88 4y ago
My school district in California also put us on a city bus. I can't remember now whether we got a discount or full vouchers, but the bus line/schedule had definitely been chosen to support the school. It worked great and also fami
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by rad88 4y ago
That is not what Occam's razor says and is a very complicated, explanation anyway.
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by rad88 4y ago
> the teaching of mathematics primarily as a language to describe everyday life more accurately What does this refer to? And how would it affect physical sciences and biology?
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by rad88 4y ago
It might be true but it is a shallow truth if so. 100% of engineers need to learn elementary algebra even if only 25% of engineers "use" it, for a variety of strong reasons. Programming is a more interesting issue. If this blog ha
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by rad88 4y ago
No, you can't actually figure out whether a cancer therapy worked by counting the number of articles published in a given year. You're focused on this "zero-knowledge" approach because you are completely ignorant about t
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by rad88 4y ago
This analysis is mindless and inappropriate. If you care about this at all do yourself a favor and just read the study. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445 Otherwise redo your napkin math and
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by rad88 4y ago
Not meaningfully. Physicists can roughly calculate how much energy will be liberated inside the reactor over its power, or a laser's efficiency, but not (for example) whether their grant money will be available in 2 years, whether oil
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by rad88 4y ago
Thank you. It's very easy to criticize mainstream media culture, many people make a career out of it now, but it's not in itself productive. To the degree that it's more than a cheap way for writers to gain influence, they&#x
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by rad88 4y ago
That culture has definitely taken root in some ways, but I wouldn't count on it during a downturn. The idea is what will the hiring/candidate pools look like in a tech recession, so a premise is that many people who can presently
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by rad88 4y ago
If fallacies worked then everyone would use them, but they don't, so nobody uses them!
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by rad88 4y ago
We were taught date structures by a Unix fundamentalist, entirely with C and makefiles. He absolutely despised "Micro$hit", and emails containing any format other than text/plain, but helpfully offered that he could receive e
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by rad88 4y ago
It sucks for these people, but as you say, they did something insane with their money. I agree with everyone else here who's recommended you speak to a lawyer and then back away. It might be uncomfortable because you (or they) seem fai
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by rad88 4y ago
I see, thanks. I hope you're wrong.
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by rad88 4y ago
Why would they? There are 8 million Russians living in the country, and close social ties besides. Putin consistently lies and says 80% of the population is Russian and that Ukraine is Russia. Plus the fact that Russian people are general
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by rad88 4y ago
I don't know whether MIRVs, each carrying a dozen or so atom bombs, compare to HGVs like the Amiga does to the iPhone. I'd like to say absolutely not but I can't. Either way calling ballistic missiles "obsolete" is
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by rad88 4y ago
SSSHHHHHHHH we need more atom bombs! Raytheon has what we need!
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by rad88 4y ago
Honest question, how would you describe MAD as being practical? Bearing in mind that the treaties to maintain it were abandoned, and both sides invest (and act) heavily in rocking the boat?
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by rad88 4y ago
> Russia is thought to have an HGV in its arsenal. > .. > But the Kinzhal, as a variant of the Iskander SRBM, is not an HGV
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by rad88 4y ago
A ballistic missile could be within a few hundred miles of any point near the coast and be there in less than 5 minutes. You're saying this is "trivial" to intercept, what does that mean?
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by rad88 4y ago
Planetary "carrying capacity" is not at all well defined. It depends on too many things like natural developments (think year 536), how the economy is organized, and powered, where and how many nukes have exploded, the quality of
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by rad88 4y ago
Sure, it's merely an idea that is believed, like the Greeks believed that the night stars were heros, or Galileo that Jupiter had satellites, or Newton that F=ma everywhere and that God had set up the solar system. Some of these theori
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by rad88 4y ago
If we could formalize "observe the result" we would, and it would require exchanging energy with the computer, breaking its conservation. The only way to avoid it is to say that we were always a part of the computation, but things
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by rad88 4y ago
I find that plausible, but I am a layman. At the very least there's no evidence that the scales can be separated, because despite all attempts a brain in an organism is the only thing recognized as showing "intelligence". Wha
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by rad88 4y ago
What did you mean by "computation" then? Honestly curious, because it seems you could also say a digital computer does it at all scales: semiconductor junctions, capacitors, clocks, their multipliers, transistors, up through logic
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by rad88 4y ago
I understand that. I was responding to the idea that hardware tokens like yubikey, in fact all alternatives to passwords, are too complicated for regular people to understand. And also saying that multiple options, to accommodate different

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