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by saeranv 5y ago
Random question: how does that "book bench" work in the first image of the blog? I can't figure out why the suspended books on the "bench seat" aren't just sliding down, given the lack of lateral force pushing
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Yeah, it kind of blows my mind at how ergonomic it is. It's also recursive, if you hover over a link within a pop-over box, it'll open up another pop-over box, you can just keep going deeper into the rabbit-hole without ever leavi
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by saeranv 5y ago
I think it's important to avoid overly simplistic, binary interpretations about politics or action from dominating the conversation. I think it's a form of bike-shedding, it's very easy, and accessible to vaguely blame "
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by saeranv 5y ago
>> You are downplaying reporting of +5% unemployment in 3 months Maybe it is significant, but even if it was the author's data provides no context to evaluate the 3.9, 3.9, 4.3 million sequence. >> the difference between n
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by saeranv 5y ago
This is a really good critique. I would not have thought to read this article as critically as you did, and likely would have accepted it at face value. But now that you mention it, there's more issues I see: "This is the highest
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by saeranv 5y ago
Yes, and I would argue this is one of the goals of asking basic questions. Specifically, when asking foundational questions, one of the objectives I keep in mind is to figure out the scope and my ability to understand the scope of the probl
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by saeranv 5y ago
Yeah I feel the same way. I never understood the "This may be a stupid question..." framing. Asking fundamental questions in order to build up to a more complex understanding is the most effective way to learn, I have no hesitatio
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by saeranv 5y ago
Whats your strategy for finding interesting things not on google maps?
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But most people don't just go out and randomly walk around. And with the exception of high-density cosmopolitan cities, even if you did, you'd just end up in somewhere extremely boring. One of the more effective ways of knowing wh
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by saeranv 5y ago
Just to be clear, he was also offered $285 million 6 months later from Microsoft, so whatever he's doing seems to have worked out pretty well for him. Perhaps his tolerance, and aptitude for risk-taking, which seems crazy to us (talkin
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by saeranv 5y ago
Fascinating (and kind of depressing) that the "attention deconcentration" technique she used to become a world-class athlete was originally developed in Russia for people who held very boring jobs. > Molchanova’s technique for
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by saeranv 5y ago
> In practice, if you improve your productivity at work, it's going to be mostly for your employer's benefit (other than bragging rights and some personal satisfaction). This is true if you're bagging groceries, but certai
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by saeranv 5y ago
He literally discusses all your points in the first paragraph: > The top reasons I see people say that productivity doesn't matter (or is actually bad) fall into one of three buckets: 1. Working on the right thing is more important
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by saeranv 5y ago
I actually have no idea what SCP is and I loved the Antimemetics division.
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by saeranv 5y ago
My experience with Echopraxia is that it's significantly more confusing and complex then Blindsight. There are chunks of Blindsight that go over my head, but in general you can get the gist of it from context (and was rewarded on rerea
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John Carpenter’s “Planaria”: Or, the New Individualism(rifters.com)
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by saeranv 5y ago
>> Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe said "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man",[19] and later Bethe wrote that "[von Neumann's] brain indic
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by saeranv 5y ago
This is exactly correct. And once you think of it as the variable, you can then make the leap to thinking about it as dimensions, which has some nice properties in physics i.e. vector addition/subtraction leads to tuples of dimensions,
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by saeranv 5y ago
That makes sense. I think the author would argue that the model is never needed, just go back to the actual population, and make inferences based on random sampling. From another prior blog post[1], he states: "So what is the remedy he
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by saeranv 5y ago
The author has an earlier post where he cites a particular study as an example of the overreliance on probalistic models: http://www.argmin.net/2021/09/13/effect-size/ . The author seems to think this ki
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by saeranv 5y ago
So I've read this article a couple of times and I still don't quite understand it. Can anyone summarize the key argument for a layperson? Here's my best interpretation thus far: This particular post is a continuation of his t
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by saeranv 5y ago
I'm a little confused at how you think the previous comment somehow is shifting blames from corporations to people. While true that rising energy costs will effect consumers, it's also one of the ways we can change the incentive s
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by saeranv 5y ago
> And given how weaponized pretty much all information is these days, it is perfectly reasonable to adopt the stance that if you can't objectively judge the accuracy yourself, you simply won't take the information on board. How
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by saeranv 5y ago
Exactly. I've never interpreted that quote other than encouragement to continue writing "clever" code in order to get better at coding, despite the fact it's typically used to suggest the opposite.
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by saeranv 5y ago
Tangent: While I've listened to him on podcasts, and am reading his Deep Learning textbook, this is the first time I've seen Goodfellow in person. I'm crushed to see that he is not, as I assumed, some 60 year old professor wh
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by saeranv 5y ago
I'm curious, if his claim is correct, (and it seems like, from domain experts in this thread and others, he is), why has he seemingly not been recognized for his work, so consistently? Also, assuming he is correct, what other alternati
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by saeranv 5y ago
Very cool project. I'm curious, does anyone know how the ray tracing works in this project? I've never heard of a ray tracer in Python, and am wondering if this is trying to use methods like raymarching with signed distance functi
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by saeranv 5y ago
I love it because it loads quickly and isn't more complicated then it needs to be.
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by saeranv 5y ago
This is one of those goldmines, like engineeringtoolbox.com that I refer to all the time.
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by saeranv 5y ago
Woah, I didn't realize I do this, but this really resonates. It seems to me that one "hack" to break out of the tool development cycle is to iterate chairs. If it's iteration itself that is intrinsically pleasurable and

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