rando_dfad

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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Huh. I thought the camel/needle's eye thing was about a small narrow gate into Jerusalem. You can get a camel through it, but it needs to get down on its knees and crawl. Apparently, camels don't like to do that. But I'v
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Yes, a quick google turned up these: Antibiotic Resistance from the Farm to the Table. September 11, 2014. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/from-farm-to-table.html . Accessed September 14, 2015. https:/
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Traffic flows better if played as a collective game, where the objective is to help the others get through it along with helping yourself. This strategy, if followed by enough people, massively reduces traffic stress. It may also reduce tra
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
> I doubt that the state will be more efficient in building houses than private enterprises can if allowed to do so Depends. If the profit is in more expensive housing, than private enterprise will bias towards that and ergo be less effi
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
and cross-referenced with your location at all times, all of your shopping habits, your viewing and reading habits, and every person you communicate with? In an easily searchable database? Sooo tempted to go Goodwin here and mention a nice
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Excuse prior rant. New rant beginning here: The real public school horror story is that today, in America, a "good school" is defined as one where your child won't get shot. I leave the rest of the rant as an exercise to the
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
The biggest US public school horror story is how we have taken a great instrument of social progress and decimated it. Public schools in countries where schools are treated well have phenomenal success. US schooling has been taken over (at
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
> Yes there is, it's crime. Street lights deter crime. > Also simply driving safety. Driving with just headlights causes more accidents than on a well-lit street, since visibility is so much worse. Accepting your points for conve
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
> Sure, they didn't have to pay with money, past a certain point they didn't even use money, but they paid with (much) shorter lives. Money is just the cost of self-determination. the cost of a clear night sky does not have to
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
They thought about it a lot, that's the origin of astronomy and math.
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Original to Jeff or not, "A Thousand Brains" does a decent job presenting an interesting and highly plausible model of how the neocortext may function. Your comment would be very valuable to me if it included pointers to better so
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
and more specifically, between chemical-based information processing systems and Von Neumann architectures for binary information processing. Agreed, a widespread fallacy of category. But computers still do some pretty cool things. Powerful
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
>The US government loves outsourcing technical problems and hates developing that stuff in-house. No, no they don't. They would love to build in-house, but are constrained in what salary ranges they can offer. The other challenge US
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
How many of these are police officers (in non-emergency situations)
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
>the sand from the Sahara Desert Most people forget that the Sahara Desert is man-made. Back during the Cathigenian period, the southern Mediterranian was the breadbasket of Rome, and the land was verdant plains, antelope, hippos, rivers
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
> the government Agree with your general sentiment; the article headline may be a bit of clickbait. The challenge is what arm of the government has jurisdiction for what cause of harm?
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
everything dies, it is part of nature's way. If, however, someone were to massively accelerate a specific individual's death, we would typically consider that a crime. I would like to think that I will leave this world better than
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
So as I understand Fischer's stance on using stats, you are supposed to start with a hypothesis. As in, you have a mechanism which could cause the effect. The stats are there to provide supporting evidence, to limit BS causal chains. D
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Linear regression. Right away! https://twitter.com/i/status/1349453230762196992
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Thank KYC/AML for that. Money is not data, it is a complex social construct. Moving money requires interacting with that social construct, i.e. government regulations. Yes, crypto was supposed to get around that. No, government didn&#x
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
or a private data vendor if you live in the US
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Even better if you use it to control your smart-home. GaaS-lights!
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
and pilots have a lot more training
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
not sure the safety argument has factual support; the sound would need to project forward from the motorcycle, wouldn't it?
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Hard as gold, perhaps? That creates other issues. Volatility, for one.
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
There is an interesting and economically well-motivated argument that income tax should be eliminated everywhere. The argument agrees (as do I) that it is right for the government to collect taxes, and that many individuals (including mysel
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
The theory of "revolutions" suggests that at a certain level, we can view human progress as trancending certain boundaries. Prior to ~100K years ago, humans didn't innovate. The toolkit was unchanged for > 1M years (at lea
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
Seeing some comments which align with but misunderstand what I suspect the point is. Generative AI outputs the median of the probability distribution. Yes, that's an issue with the training data (as people comment), but it is more than
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
I wonder where you would put that in the prompt? I wonder how you would generalize this? The issue is the command "draw a judge" shows a white guy 100% of the time. if you automate prompt generation to be "draw a {gender} jud
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by rando_dfad 3y ago
> And the annual variation in temperature of ~50 degrees C many places on earth does not really support it. Ummm, hello? so "most anomalously hot month ever" does not suggest a change in the underlying system?? Would you predic

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