ronald_raygun

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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Just because it’s quantitatively accurate doesn’t mean it’s “true”. Like a fun fact I like is the geocentrism was extremely accurate in terms of astronomical predictions when heliocentricism came about (it was actually more accurate for a w
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
The proton is the most complicated thing I could ever imagine? Pshhhh whatever. I can easily imagine two protons.
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Two points on this. 1. I'd say about half my romantic partners have come from apps, and the other half from in person (meeting at parties, through friends, etc). TBH I'm not sure one has been consistently better than another. Sure
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
oh good for you, I hope it's helped you live a happier life!
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
I think these blog series is illuminating for most companies https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Really? Is it a walled garden when like 90%+ of recruiters are on there? Would you say “a good resume is a red flag, nobody producing value has time to tend that”. The big irony is making things look nice, be readable, be sellable is creati
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
It is shocking to me how many people miss the fact that the big prediction machines trained on lots of data, are fundamentally historical and based on that data?
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
> Your questions are irrelvant. It didn't ask "is this a vehicle". It asked "is this a vehicle in the park". To be a vehicle in the park, it must first be a vehicle. But your definition is bad. It basically hinge
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
“A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist’s office says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?” The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestl
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
"Veterans die by suicide at a higher rate than non-Veterans. In 2020, the age- and sex- adjusted suicide rate among Veterans was 57.3% higher than the age- and sex-adjusted rate among non-Veteran U.S. adults." https://w
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Yeah but you're doing a different problem where instead of defining the threshold too low, you're defining the threshold too high. Like should our bar for trauma be really be "you were drafting against your will to go to a ju
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Yeah I mean its not great. Obviously, having CPTSD stresses the body out and can cause chronic issues. So there a big problem of the intersection of (people with chronic pain) and (people with CPTSD), is non-empty. But also a lot of chronic
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
> Break ups, failing a class, or even getting yelled at by someone I agree a lot of people overblow trauma. However it is worth mentioning, all the things that you mention can be traumatizing, though. Like imagine breaking up with a part
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
> In a public park? There is a reasonable expectation of privacy. So if you went around with a big TV camera and just started sticking it in people's face, that would get the cops called on you real quick.
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
So when you're gone they can swear to their hearts content? (ie there are no laws if a cop isn't looking?)
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Okay so if we have tank with no motor is not a vehicle, and a tank with a motor is a vehicle then I have some follow up questions for you. - Is a tank with a motor that doesn't function a vehicle? - Is a tank with a functioning motor,
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
This is why the tank example is the most interesting one. Because clearly by any standard it is a vehicle in the park, but clearly its function in the park is completely out of scope of what the rule is trying to achieve.
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
So no RC-cars? It is a car-like thing (in fact it is just a very-small-car thing)
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
> least harm while allowing maximum freedom is the true According to who? Is your quadcopter allowed to videotape and infringe on my right to privacy? Is the added noise of someone having a BBQ party in the park a harm or not? What about
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
What are you talking about? If you have the set {A, B, C} and {A, B, not C}, those are two different sets. And the difference is going to matter precisely when C or not C comes into effect. Like imagine two parks - you have Central Park in
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
> I believe the primary issue with drugs is their ability to alter perceptions of reality. This aspect makes them inherently dangerous to political and societal systems, regardless of their health impacts. Perhaps with the crazy amount o
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
In mathematics, this is just called a clique!
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
You can easily get into territory that is harder than undergrad. Like it’s completely possible you’d need something like rejection sampling, functional time series, Jeffrey’s priors, etc
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
Yeah, but ML is extremely math heavy, and the fact that it is done in software doesn’t mean that any software engineer should be able to pick it up readily. I think it is much easier to train up a person with deep understanding of math the
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by ronald_raygun 3y ago
https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTa...
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
I think we already found that ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
Oh they fractal features are definitely infinite. I worked on a genetic algo a to breed fractals together a number of years ago, and one thing I noticed was that the highest non-zero poly power would determine the shape of the fractal - so
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
Mmm. I don't think that's a super useful way to think about it. The way I've always conceptualized it was that if you look at fractals, they are determined by some complex polynomial. So you could look at the space of polynom
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
yeah, but people can just steal people's digital art and mint fake nfts
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
Well, let me start by reflecting a few things back at you that I've noticed you said. - it sounds like you have no problem doing self work (therapy, meditation, working out, etc) - it sounds like you have no problem trying new strategi

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