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by routerl 4y ago
The data archaeologists of the future are, right now, acquiring and developing what will become the skills of their profession. Very cool to watch, indeed.
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by routerl 4y ago
There are certain expectations that come, for me, with open source games, especially regarding graphics and polish. This is exceeding all of my expectations so far. I had never heard of this game before, even though it has been in developme
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by routerl 4y ago
"Punishable by fine" means "legal if you can afford it". Until living, breathing, actual people face real consequences for this kind of thing, any enforcement actions are just theater.
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by routerl 4y ago
> Don't let the big words intimidate you. This... this article might be written for high schoolers.
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by routerl 4y ago
I've always thought of this as another perspective on Shakespeare's "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." To believe otherwise is to have lost the wonder of discover
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by routerl 4y ago
From Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens : > Crowley, a demon: [during Jesus's crucifixion] What has he said that made everyone so upset? > Aziraphale, an angel: Be kind to each other. > Crowley: Oh yeah. That&#
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by routerl 4y ago
> He was working in software at the time because it’s hard to make a living as a philosopher. Yeah, there are a lot of us. Spend a few years deeply studying logic and reasoning, and programming really just feels like a different version
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by routerl 4y ago
I like the analogy of math proofs. It isn't an account of the discovery process; no reader of a math journal is after an account of the author's inspiration and thought process, save that for your bio. The proof is the finished pr
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by routerl 4y ago
Love it. Gradient descent as socio-economic metaphor.
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Engineering corps always also have civil responsibilities. For instance, in the United States, the Army Corps of engineers is responsible for dredging canals. Providing drinking water to a population is one of the archetypal roles of milita
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by routerl 4y ago
To be clear, this is one of two ships. The first was built and unsold. The second is being scrapped before completion. The shipbuilder declared bankruptcy in January of this year. They used to say that whenever someone, somewhere, builds &q
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by routerl 4y ago
Oh hey, we're back in the 90's. > You know what, Stan, if you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair, like your pretty boy over there, Brian, why don't you just make the minimum 37 pieces of flair?
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by routerl 4y ago
This company opened an office in my city and proceeded to send some of the spammiest recruiting emails I've ever received. I spent all of 10 minutes reading up on them, and blocked future emails, since I did not expect them to survive
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by routerl 4y ago
This is a fascinating point and it really makes me think of the mechanical analogy: different mechanical engineers can provide different levels of tolerance (i.e. precision), depending on their training and experience. You wouldn't hir
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by routerl 4y ago
tl;dr: Dan Price, social-media celebrity and sex monster, hid his rapes and sexual assaults behind a facade of lefty-politics, via ghostwritten social media accounts. Let's take away the real lesson though: we should mistrust personal
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by routerl 4y ago
I remember when Netflix began to produce their own shows and movies, some C-suite exec saying something like "we're gonna become HBO before they realize they need to become Netflix". I.e. vertically integrated content product
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by routerl 4y ago
You don't. Go buy it and the price will be gone.
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by routerl 4y ago
Yeah, I think there are two approaches to any text a user sees in your app: is it copy, or is it data? The file/edit/etc menus are data. Concise, clear errors are data. "Gah. Your tab just crashed" is copy.
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by routerl 4y ago
A lot of what you've written resonates with how I used to think. While I don't find NASCAR very interesting, I no longer think of it as "turning left for a million laps", since track position (i.e. high, middle, low) is
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by routerl 4y ago
Attack mode I find really interesting, from a racecraft (and yeah, also from a game design) perspective, since it actually presents a choice with real tradeoffs: the driver has to completely sacrifice a corner, choosing to take the longest&
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by routerl 4y ago
No details. It is illegal for Canadian citizens to bribe workers of foreign governments. So, of course, I was able to do everything without ever exchanging money with a foreign official. But, if one were in a position to do so, I imagine th
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by routerl 4y ago
Yes, this is fantastic and accurate. It captures exactly the uncertainty that underpins this type of reasoning. Abductive reasoning is usually an evidence-gathering process, so that we can narrow down the set of inferences that still produc
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by routerl 4y ago
Here's another example that I ran into in Brazil, and ended up making and selling a business out of. Whey, the by-product of dairy manufacturing, is most cheaply disposed of by feeding to pigs. The excess the pigs can't eat is sup
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by routerl 4y ago
Personally, I'm gonna short myself, and then literally fail my way into great wealth.
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by routerl 4y ago
To save everyone the mystery: it's an article about Georgism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by routerl 4y ago
> Your usage of "premise" and "conclusion" as shorthands for "the state of the world at a time t" is somewhat confusing to me I agree, and the correct terms are "antecedent" and "consequent&qu
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by routerl 4y ago
IIRC the original English-language author who coined the term (C. S. Pearce) did use the verb form "adduce" as analogous to "deduce", so perhaps the original offending term, "abduction", is a poor back-formatio
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by routerl 4y ago
Yeah, I think you nailed the reason why they both use the same word: "mathematical induction" is deductive once the proof is finished , but coming up with the proof is absolutely an inductive process.
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by routerl 4y ago
> abduction commits us to nothing. It merely causes a hypothesis to be set down upon our docket of cases to be tried. This is the perfect phrasing. Consider the contrast with deduction: if I have a premise, P , there are many deductive
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by routerl 4y ago
That's wrong. Induction is the process of empirically producing natural laws. Our givens are the observed state of the experiment before (i.e. the antecedent, or "premise"), and after (i.e. the consequent, or "conclu

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