randcraw

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   by randcraw 4y ago

   I have a little experience trying to work with Google in the R&D space at a large pharma. Google and other external R&D agents consistently underestimated the difficulty in getting access to sufficient data from us to employ large
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." After being hit by a truck, surviving cancer, returning from a long war, or losing a child, experience (data) teaches you otherwise.
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   Google will succeed at healthcare only after medical decisions can be reduced to A/B tests. That is to say, never. After wasting many millions on failures like Calico, Google hasn't learned that healthcare is a service that'
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   I saw this first when Udacity began. I think all their initial courses were chopped up this way. As I recall, Andrew Ng claimed it made the instruction more interactive, since you couldn't just sit for a long stretch of time before c
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   "AI means we can literally brute-force any scientific mystery by trying out millions of algorithms..." This is exactly wrong. If true, then AI could readily solve any human-level problem we could throw at it. But AI still can&#x
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   Yeah, that's exactly what IBM claimed Watson would do -- learn biology, chemistry, and medicine on its own and then outperform human physicians. Instead, Watson Medicine was a catastrophe and revealed their AI marketeers to be hopeles
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   Anything by Bill Bryson, but especially “At Home” and “One Summer: America, 1927”. Both are brilliant. “John Adams” by David McCullough. Possibly the best historical bio ever. “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” by Richard Rhodes. The best r
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   Jeff Dunteman's book on Turbo Pascal was the best written book I've read on computing. His other books are likewise outstanding.
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   by randcraw 4y ago

   "Faraday cage" is my one-size-fits-all answer. It turns out I kinda have that already. My 1919 house has plastered walls, some of which have a wire mesh underlay. It blocks wifi signals between rooms beautifully.
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    I think every person entertains many ideas. Being receptive to possibilities does not define you, but it may incline you. 'Criticism' can play a valuable role in helping you see demerits in your inclinations before you misbehave
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Agreed. Criticism intended to effect positive change is akin to uninvited coaching or teaching. If no change is intended, or the recipient is unreceptive, then criticism is pointless and destructive. Probably the way to ensure positive ch
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Tesla's net income in 2021 was $5.5B, GM $8.8B, Ford $11.5B, Toyota $28B. Tesla's PE ratio is 99.6, GM 5.6, Ford 10.4, Toyota 8.25. Tesla's market cap is $1,061B, GM $85B, Ford's $83B, Toyota $254B. The state of Tesla&#x
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Yes, or perhaps the merger of pantheism and deism (pandeism), a century after Spinoza. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandeism
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Science can't answer 'why', only 'how'. I think a science-only-based culture (i.e. post-Enlightenment) respects only how some questions can be answered, those answers that can be known. But science disrespects t
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Or whether musical training was recent or long past. Or whether performance was solo vs ensemble. Or what level of performance was achieved (occasional vs regular, personal vs serious avocational vs professional). There are a great many
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    I suspect there's more cognitive ability needed to play a musical instrument than just memory. I imagine there would be a significant difference in mental engagement when playing different kinds of instruments. Drums vs monophonic ins
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    I know very few graduates of schools outside the "top few hundred" in the US who received thorough grounding in core skills unless they took the personal initiative to fill those gaps through self study. That's hardly a rous
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    The purpose of national college accreditation standards (as ABET does for engineering) is to avoid those gaps. This is accomplished publicly by their specifying core courses and syllabi that span the competencies expected from anyone earni
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    by randcraw 4y ago

    Bloomberg mentioned two loans to cover the shortfall in his equity swap (one external and one drawn on his Tesla stock), with annual interest payments in the ballpark of $1B each. So Twitter's take home pay just lost $2B of the $4B it
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    As a novice on DK, it seems to me that, for DK to be 'suprising' (in the parlance of the OP), four phenomena must hold: 1) an incompetent person is poorer than average at self assessment of their skill 2) as a person's compet
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    I can't read the article, but it's my impression that high sodium isn't as much a threat to general health as increased BP is. I'd like to know what sodium reduction did for BP, and how much the two groups then differed
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    What fraction of the day do you spend away from a networked electronic device of some kind? For me, it's not much. Even while I'm at work or reading a paper book, I usually listen to streamed music. Generally, I unplug only whe
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    50 years ago (1972) there were thousands of magazines, newspapers, and radio stations in the US -- the vast majority of which were independently owned and operated. Today the number of newspapers is down 10X what they were then, and indepe
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    Some specific numbers (2018): Who doesn’t read books in America? | The Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/21/who-doesnt-... And the NEA offers some insights on the downward
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    > Intelligence is in the properties of the data supplied to the kNN. Not in its distance function. If this were true, then all people who observe the same training samples would learn equally well and predict equally well. But we don&#x
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    This is a matter of ideology? You're saying the principles of young people in the US say it's OK to invade another country that did not attack first? Or because they found some news sources saying Putin is justified? I guess I j
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    I like the idea of establishing a persistent presence on the net that you manage yourself, where you plant your flag with a hand-built simple static web page, add a few essays, reading lists, pointers to other cool sites, etc, then invite o
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    Yes, I agree that the heavy reliance on algorithms by media sources today are a big part of the problem in finding new fare that's worthwhile. This is one of the major demerits of AI and machine learning -- pattern recognizers learn a
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    A "low cost of entry" for creating new content ignores the "high cost of entry" to distribute it. To actually get eyeballs/ears, new media must somehow get noticed. That used to be done through the sponsorship of
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    by randcraw 5y ago

    The state of moviemaking today shows how dead innovation has become. Unless the film can make upwards of $100 million across international distribution, it has no chance of being distributed, much less made. Trying to tell a script for ad