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by richk449 7y ago
They even stole the stuff we haven’t invented yet !!
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> But even if we assume radio waves, Shannon says that the you can send the most information when using a random code. As you approach the Shannon limit the signal becomes more noise-like as the encoding tends towards random. The wavefo
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> What is the alternative? Assuming here there is such a thing as a correct engineering strategy, who should define it? In companies where engineering strategy is done well, the person defining the strategy (a director or VP usually) kno
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> I have very little use for paperclips, actually, but if I needed one, I could easily 3D print it. Out of curiosity, how good would a 3D printed paperclip be compared to the metal ones I am used to? I suspect the performance would be si
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> Nobody flies between cities in one state The second most popular route in the US is LA to SF.
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Article misses the fallacy of the comparison. If I buy a cup of coffee, I get my end of the bargain immediately* and no further commitment on my part is needed. For most saas offerings though, I’m basically committing to a regular payment i
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Was curious if this was true. Looked at the front page of papers from day 1 after the election, and couldn’t find a single mention of Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/business/media/trumps-
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> As someone who had a seven year account banned from YC previously for debating against socialism... Did you win?
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I have often wondered how the mapping programs handle multiple lanes moving at different speeds. Sometimes my highway exit backs up for a mile, while there are four lanes next to it moving full speed. All of the maps programs show this as b
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> my kids can't get online and we can't do any connected household stuff like Alexa or Ring Any houses for sale nearby?
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> You can’t criticise just the margin in isolation like you’ve done. The article is specifically discussing all you can eat buffets. I don’t think they are selling jumbo jets at Old Country Buffet.
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Fair point. Maybe radio in general is a better model. Some people use it to have conversations with friends, and some people use it to listen to the emergency channel. It still means that cutting it out of your life won’t doom you to missin
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Seems perfectly reasonable. Here are some reasons: 1. The fraction of people on the world on Twitter is very small. Either most people in the world are missing important information, or not being on Twitter doesn’t cause one to miss importa
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Came here to recommend that book. It’s one of the best books I have read in years, and I’m not even that big of a classical music fan. Understanding the influences on him, including the Bavarian Illuminati, makes his music even more impress
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To be clear - I have absolutely no experience in this domain. I'm just speculating. In the example I gave, everyone agrees that if you had long enough and enough processing power, you could solve every possible configuration, and store
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Sure, there will be ups and downs like any industry. But a “winter” implies a decade at least without substantial industry or research, not just a bad year.
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It doesn’t need to generalize, just do sophisticated interpolation. Basing the results on a dense sampling of the input space is exactly what I was suggesting.
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I’m also skeptical, but after reading the explanation above, I am intrigued. Say I have a cube with 100 x 100 x 100 mesh cells inside, and ports on opposing faces. Given enough time, I can literally run through every possible combination of
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Why would there be an AI winter? Was there a car winter after cars became a growing product? Was there a processor winter after microprocessors became a growing product? ERP software? Didn’t the previous AI winter happen because the hardwar
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> These are not solutions, unless you explain how you are going to shift the behavior of billions of people to a point where it makes a real, sustainable difference. Nearly any other approach is more feasible to solving problems. If you
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Haven’t lots of drugs shown promise in mice, but then failed in humans? Why is this one different?
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What are sharrows for? I already have the right to the road without the sharrows. As far as I can tell, their only purpose is to let cities pretend that they have done something for bikers, while actually doing nothing . perhaps less than
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Oh, ha. The joke went completely over my head. Now that I get it, I’m having a good laugh. Sorry.
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It is easy in retrospect to see that going all in on the amyloid hypothesis was a mistake. But that is always true once a hypothesis has been proven false (or at least not completely true). Is it possible to look at this as a very large “fa
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Interested in why you consider liberal fascism one of the best books of the decade - it left me very disappointed. He had me going with how Wilson and FDR were fascists, but then he got to recent history, and used the same arguments to make
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That seems like an odd thing to believe is a truism. Sure, it’s occasionally correct, but always? You believe that MLK and Gandhi were really in it for the violence?
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> Just because someone loses weight when they start cardio does not imply the cardio led to weight loss. I think this is one instance where correlation is good enough for most people - who cares about causation?
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How do you know the MCAS issue is the only one the plane has? Given the hands off regulation, maybe there are other similar shortcuts taken?
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When someone says “it’s just semantics”, they mean that the argument is only over the definition of words, not over that actual meaning.
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The fact that everyone acts in their own self interest is well known. Typically this is countered by some combination of societal mores and laws. Think Moses and “thou shall not steal”. If you want to solve tradgedy of the commons type prob

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