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Researching Psilocybin's Effects on Depression – Dr. Rosalind Watts(youtube.com)
1 points by ronald_raygun 9y ago|0 comments
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I never thought about that. I realized math class kills lots of people learning about math, art class makes a lot of people dislike art. I guess its only natural PE makes people hate exercise.
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Oh wow, I was a noogler there 4ish years ago, and they still tell that story as an example of "its okay to break things, we care about fixing them after so they dont break in the future"
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
In the AC/DC wars Edison fought with Tesla, he'd electrocute animals to show how dangerous AC was. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thomas-edison-histo...
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Statistics/Probability theory is really deeply tied to calculus/real analysis . Basically any quantity you can think about in statistics or probability is really an integral. The trick is that they aren't Riemann integrals, b
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I had a very similar experience when I took a processor design class in college. At first in the class we started learning the binary codes for each instruction, which bits were the registers, instruction bits etc. It seemed so pointless at
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
He provides a ton of value for them. Some estimates put his value to twitter in the billions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-17/what-is-t...
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Another example where they 3d printed a turtle to fool classifiers https://twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/925541876484231168
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The Utah Raptor Project(utahraptors.utahpaleo.org)
1 points by ronald_raygun 9y ago|0 comments
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I'd say everything in this list is good to know http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~tdw/files/cookbook-en.pdf
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I'm not sure about DOTA, but in LOL there is also champion select which happens before the game starts, where you try to pick/ban/steal champions to get a good team comp and get the other team to have a bad team comp. It&#x27
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I don't want to be "that guy", but I used to play a lot of LOL, and I feel like 5v5 is in a different ballpark in terms of difficulty than a 1v1. Even champion select is strategically intensive. TSM (one of the best US teams)
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Renewables solve a different problem though. There aren't great ways of storing energy on a large scale. So you end up needed two components to a grid - a baseline that you can scale up whenever (coal, natural gas, nuclear), and a rene
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Yes! It actually has a bunch of really deep math hiding in plan sight (they have a chapter where they reinvent RL but call it dynamic portfolio optimization, and when they axiomize risk they are really talking about special measures)
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I'm reading a few. The Power Broker (really good, but really long). The dictators handbook (good, but repetitive). Deep thinking (easy and enjoyable if you're interested in AI). Investment Science (very good if you're interes
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Interestingly enough - you don't need random variables to be independent or identically distributed for a CLT to apply. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem#CLT_unde... and https://en
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Yeah, I got that problem because I knew who Piet Mondrian was, so I took an educated guess.
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
I'd highly recommend this book. The math is decently sophisticated, but it has a lot of cool insights. https://www.amazon.com/Auction-Theory-Second-Vijay-Krishna/d...
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
Hey - I am one of the authors on that paper. One of the ideas behind relating bidding behavior to real life performance was that you don't want to be super aggressively, because if you overbid, that actually is worse for you. But obvio
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
Wow, this is a really nice sheet. I did a stats master's and this seems like it covers 90%+ of what I learned. A++
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
So I never understood - it seems like it would cost you 200k to buy something worth a million. Arent there people/institutions out there that would cover the 200k cost in exchange for maybe 300k worth of stock?
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
I think that if you hide how much they are actually spending it is very unethical. But if there is a clear price on what you do, then by all means. Back when I used to play LOL alot (3-4 games/day), I spend probably 200-300$ on skins.
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
Reminds me of a good essay - "You are what you measure"
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
I think there are generational technical toys. For example, I think snap circuits are a ridiculously awesome toy for kids.
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
A good blog post on what youre talking about https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
I agree. I work in AI and I feel like it gets a lot of the brunt of the "game changing" tech hype, but to be honest if someone solved fusion that would be an absolute societal game changer.
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Weird pupils let octopuses see their colorful gardens(news.berkeley.edu)
122 points by ronald_raygun 10y ago|31 comments
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
But then you won't find the high paying ones starting with $2!
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
That's not 100% true. There are lots of different theorems that are "central limit theorems", and that work across different cases. You can have CLT's with non-iid variables (either the aren't identically distribute
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by ronald_raygun 10y ago
Is that true though? I thought the point of protocols like Tor was that it makes gathering the metadata very very expensive.

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