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by rfrey 8y ago
>This is sad and a little surprising to me. I think dynamic programming is in fashion because of the rise of reinforcement learning among the buzzword savvy.
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by rfrey 8y ago
I went back through the entire conversation and I couldn't find anything even remotely suggesting the parent was in favour of banning anything. All I read was a claim that industrial-scale food production often leads to an inferior pro
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by rfrey 8y ago
It’s important to talk to people who actually had success summoning the airplanes and getting them to bring food. Otherwise you’ll just guessing. Amalgamating and synthesizing that advice will maximize your odds of a successful airplane sum
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by rfrey 8y ago
Would you consider a woodworking project DIY if they used a tablesaw? What about a router? Metalworking tools require skill and experience to use. DIY has never meant doing something with the absolute minimum tooling or expense, although th
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by rfrey 8y ago
A chilling effect on the likelihood of engineers to start new companies whose business model is the collection and monetization of user data, to be a bit more specific.
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by rfrey 8y ago
> what's up with everyone everywhere saying "my God, drivers in [where I am] are the absolute worst"? I think most of those people have not lived many places. My perception is that there are solid differences in driving cu
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by rfrey 8y ago
Let me introduce you to the song of the Emacs People.
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by rfrey 8y ago
You wrongly say the parent (which is a straight-ahead reminder of supply and demand, plus some interesting implications springing from tax policy), and then counter with an argument which is even closer to Marxism. (Although Marx would roll
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by rfrey 8y ago
Nobody disagrees with your Wikipedia article.
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by rfrey 8y ago
You can put all your workholding devices (vice, clamps, etc.) and toolholder into your CAM software and it will find some crashes during simulations. Most CAM will do good simulations. I usually run a new program without an actual cutter in
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The Ultimate (Clojure) Dev Setup(lambdaisland.com)
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by rfrey 8y ago
Orders of magnitude faster? 100 times faster? Gonna need to see some numbers before I believe that.
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by rfrey 8y ago
The most salient anecdote Taleb tells about himself is the one where he's going onstage to debate an opponent. He asks his publisher if punching the other guy in the face would be against his contract, and his publisher notes that it w
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by rfrey 8y ago
When I talk to people who claim race is not a significant issue (I'm in Canada, so it's usually about discussions about indigenous people - that's where Canada concentrates its systemic racism), I always ask them to consider
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by rfrey 8y ago
As a non-American outside view, my guess is that the socially-left view systemic racism as a big problem, so think about it, talk about it, and advocate policies to combat it. The socially-right believe America's meritocracy instincts
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by rfrey 8y ago
Yes, I’ve heard they’re prone to gross generalizations out there, and that’s pretty intolerable.
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by rfrey 8y ago
Government officials seemingly beholden to corporations.
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by rfrey 8y ago
Intent matters, but so does being aware of the effect of "punching down". Ontario, specifically Ottawa and Toronto, dominate so much in Canada, that people in repressed Quebec, impoverished PEI, or one of Ontario's western co
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by rfrey 8y ago
Translating poetry into not-poetry seems like a sad hobby.
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by rfrey 8y ago
To be clear, I do accept it - the common decency of referring to people the way they would like to be referred to is much more important than a minor linguistic inconvenience to me. I'd just have preferred one of those others had cau
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by rfrey 8y ago
I have no issues at all with creating gender neutral pronouns... most often, including gender information adds nothing to the value of what’s being conveyed. I am annoyed at losing “they” as a plural though, because number often does add us
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by rfrey 8y ago
>You encounter it daily here. I assume you’re referring to all the commenters with whom you disagree.
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by rfrey 8y ago
I don’t know, maybe lots? What I hear from my chosen news sources matches my experience (or feeds my confirmation bias), so I don’t recognize it as lies.
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by rfrey 8y ago
I've met a number of people (all American, so I infer it's due to some American news sources) that believe Canadians are arrested on a regular basis for flimsy and arbitrary claims of hate speech, and those arrests are political.
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by rfrey 8y ago
It's that last bit that needs justification - that being ignorant contributes to the problem. The claim is that your knowledge or ignorance, peace or anxiety, affect only you. Although even if you accept that claim, you could argue tha
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by rfrey 8y ago
Do you really think car travel has a 1/100 chance of death, or is this a whoosh moment for me?
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by rfrey 8y ago
I'd love to hear precisely which principle that is.
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by rfrey 8y ago
Make the bounty $10000 * sqrt(# patents owned by applicant)
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by rfrey 8y ago
I had to go back and re-read, your comment was so unexpected... but nowhere did I see anybody say Apple products had no utility.
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by rfrey 8y ago
Beds can stack.

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