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by richk449 5y ago
I just skimmed through that document. Based on your description I was expecting a polemic. But actually about 90% of what they recommend looks like really good ways to improve math instruction. The big problem to me is that teaching math is
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Nice comment. I’m not sure that having a Thomas Jefferson on staff would be enough to make a difference though. The real Jefferson had one goal: build a sustainable democratic country that respects the civil rights of its citizens. Your Fac
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I'm intrigued by the choice to conclude with this: "France is a decadent nation" How does one measure decadence? The Germans said, "Democracies are decadent".
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Sure, as long as we continue to keep restaurants and bars closed and wear masks and social distance, the risk will remain low. How long is it realistic to keep doing that?
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That’s a great analysis, but I think there is one more aspect which needs to be considered. The decision should not be purely individual, since there is a tragedy of the commons aspect. To any individual, the risks of Covid are relatively l
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For an incredibly enjoyable fictional take on this, read The Water Knife, which posits a climate change driven future in which ancient water rights basically determine the survival of people and are thus the cause of violent struggle.
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Seems weird to single Amazon out, since they are far from unique in their approach. The most interesting anecdote was the one about an Apple Sony collaboration, in which Apple wanted to do their usual careful design, and Sony said that was
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It has been covered in the popular tech press: https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/processors/cerebras... https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/processor...
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If we understand something, we can describe it with an algorithm. If algorithms for intelligence are by definition impossible, then understanding intelligence is by definition impossible. So if true intelligence is something beyond our curr
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Let’s say that you have the ability to know the state of every neuron, and the interconnect map between them, at all times. You watch a chess player make a move, determine what is going on, and define the process the brain follows as an alg
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> Let’s say you and I were going to race each other by walking. You start on the east side of Los Angeles and I’m in Santa Monica. Does your lead mean you’re in a much better position than me? What if the finish line is in Amsterdam? I c
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> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s. Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, co
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That explains a lot. I only buy fuyu persimmons now, because when I have tried the other kinds, they have been inedible - very astringent. Do people do anything with the astringent types? Do they get better if I wait?
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I’m also curious. Lots of other countries they ship to. With the US has some weird import laws, or they just figure Americans aren’t interested in these products.
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Sure, Facebook and the conventional media both compete for the same eyeballs and ad dollars. The conventional media is critical of the upstart Facebook in part because of legitimate complaints (spread of fake news, triviality, etc.) and in
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Agreed. And its use in discussions unfortunately adds no value. Imagine that two people are arguing about something. You walk up, interrupt them, and state that one of them is wrong but because the wrong person is stupid, they don't re
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To me, this is part of the problem. It should never be acceptable to drive aggressively towards bikers. Sharrows seem to imply that there are certain locations where it is necessary to accept bikers - which leaves the question: what about e
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> A sharrow indicates an acceptable lane position for a bike. But it doesn't. A biker has the right to take the lane on any city street, so any position on any road is an acceptable lane position for a bike. So what does a sharrows
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> I see sharrows as an excellent low cost solution. What problem do they solve?
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Got links to any info about space-x using e-band inter-satellite links? I hadn’t heard that before.
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Advertising absolutely can generate value. An advertisement might sell someone magic beans that clean your house if you leave them under your kitchen table. How do you know that advertising provides more value than it takes away?
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How does putting graphite in the frame "induce spin" if the ball is contacting the strings? Also - those sites are hilarious: > Graphene has been placed at strategic parts of the head and throat to optimize energy transfer into
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by richk449 6y ago
Classic collective action problem. For a while, China was paying people who tested positive as a solution.
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Pretty much everyone agrees that these models, no matter how good they are at writing, don’t understand what they are writing, and can’t develop new ideas, only combine existing ideas together. Given that, it’s seems that what you are doing
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Nicely done tool/site. Is there a play button to make the turtle start at the beginning and follow the path? Or pause and speed commands? I'm expecting that watching a turtle move is going to be key to getting my son into this.
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It is hard to imagine how google loses raw search superiority, but the more likely scenario is that they lose their dominance somehow: (1) social networks provide better basis on which to give answers/results to users, so FB “replaces”
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I think that you make an interesting point - that these transformer models can produce reasonable text only freed from context, and generally the useful thing is to produce reasonable text taking context into account. But how far are we rea
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> Keeping it under control but not eradicated means averaging exactly 1 over time, which seems like a much harder balancing act. Just put the control rods - I mean open restaurants - on a control loop driven by number of number of hospit
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> Otherwise how do you explain the value of for example a fine art painting? What do you think their ordained true intrinsic value is? Are all paintings permanently in a bubble? I think the answer is yes. Does that say more about fine ar
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> After several decades and a much-hyped last few years we have fake cleverness - impressively so in both cases - but nothing more. Why should I care if my fridge is fake clever or real clever?

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