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by rytill 6y ago
Interesting. I believe much of CS is practical now, and much is forward-facing and not relevant yet.
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by rytill 6y ago
I think I know what you mean, but what do you mean by "sub-anecdote"? Pure curiosity.
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by rytill 6y ago
You can actually set up any of those strategies in a single trade with multi-option select if you know how how they are composed.
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by rytill 6y ago
It's definitely frustrating when advocates of this argument are those that benefit from the subject exerting effort keeping the system in-place. I feel it's an overreaction to broadly generalize "change the system from within
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by rytill 6y ago
Can you share a random sampling of 10 of these?
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by rytill 6y ago
> non-private markets can’t be used for manipulating elections, sponsoring assassinations, or incentivizing real-world action of any sort. (In any prediction market with a public order book, any attempted “action-incentivizing position”
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by rytill 6y ago
What part of it is illegal? What if they reverse engineered the model, and then understood the fundamentals of how it worked, and implemented and trained the same architecture with different data? Or trained their own architecture with data
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by rytill 6y ago
Thanks for the link! A useful ethical-social concept with examples.
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by rytill 7y ago
there could be no bottom ... there would also never be any way to prove that the proposed bottom is truly the bottom and not just an event horizon
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by rytill 7y ago
> POSIWID Can we either make a reasonable-sounding word or phrase that means the thing or just say the thing? Who is going around really saying “POSIWID”?
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by rytill 7y ago
It’s unlikely that the patent office part is critical.
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by rytill 7y ago
What a critical story that's not been propagated yet.
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by rytill 7y ago
Nailed it
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by rytill 7y ago
If you actually have a banking system proposal, I'm still curious.
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by rytill 7y ago
Are there any disadvantages you can think of?
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by rytill 7y ago
I don't see compression speed / performance / time mentioned anywhere in the article.
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by rytill 7y ago
What is the best way I can contribute to making dividends tax-advantaged vs. capital gains?
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by rytill 7y ago
Are you referring to the dynamical systems object and saying that this is a thought process that eventually ends up VC-like?
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by rytill 7y ago
What you're getting at, I think, is that the statement "guns are a tool to kill" is a little too simplistic to be helpful. You might event continue such a statement with something like "guns are a tool to kill, but it&#x
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by rytill 7y ago
Those are just results of its purpose and of human nature. It’s not a very compelling list. People assault for sport too. And people would make all kinds of illegal things for craftsmanship if they could. Store of value seems particularly l
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by rytill 7y ago
first I’ve heard the abbreviation TFA, which apparently means “this fine article.” Edit: or maybe “the featured article”, either way derived from “RTFA”, “the fucking article”, which I assume derived from RTFM, of which many more I’m sure a
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by rytill 7y ago
I don't know where my notes will be in 5 years.
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by rytill 7y ago
> made myself unhireable you mean because your answers weren't cookie-cutter enough?
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by rytill 7y ago
> Are big actors hurling resources at this now? I don’t think so. > How could the platform detect the emergent intelligence, if it did put in an appearance? Very interesting. I took this for granted. Divide and conquer anomaly detecti
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by rytill 7y ago
Deep within a simple cellular automaton, patterns begin to emerge. Almost all patterns are fleeting and whisk away as quickly as they arose. Others are more sticky, whirlpool-like, and tend to survive. Of these, some consistently emit patte
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by rytill 7y ago
When did the phrase “filter bubble” popularize?
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by rytill 7y ago
In Bayesian optimization, the next guess is chosen according to a non-brute force equation that takes all previous information into account. Does it appear more intelligent than repeated slight shifts more or less toward the first order gra
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by rytill 7y ago
What tool would seem to you as intelligent? Can you formalize that in some way?
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by rytill 7y ago
preamble: I think game theory is super useful and applicable. It's when people hear an analysis and remember experiences in their past where, had they applied that same analysis, they would have been completely wrong and maybe even ach
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by rytill 7y ago
This is a transferable pedagogy. Want to learn a complex system? Start at the sources of the system graph and make your way to the sinks.

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