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by sago 11y ago
The current fashion for BT really bugs me. BT inverts conditional probabilities. If you can estimate P(E), P(H) and P(E|H) better than P(H|E) it will give you a better result. It is one of many probability identities. But someone it has bec
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by sago 11y ago
The problem is that advocates do treat it as a magical thing. They extrapolate from the fact it is proven to the claim that all knowledge is Bayesian, to the implication that all Bayesian reasoning is knowledge. This fashion is why, for exa
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by sago 11y ago
You'd like it if companies used their economic muscle to effect national security laws? I agree in this case, the law isn't a good one, the snoopers charter generally is a problem. But I don't want companies throwing their we
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by sago 11y ago
"No, not like that. Why are you doing that? What on earth is causing that? What can I do to change it? I'll throw away the ones that don't work - oh, there are none left. Has it stopped working? Why is it eating 100% CPU and
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by sago 11y ago
> at odds with the way that human beings actually think I don't doubt that, but that is no reason to suggest we let our base instincts dictate policy. The way that human beings tend to think about lots of things is problematic. We c
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by sago 11y ago
> By that reasoning, we should just let murderers go free Perhaps you should read what I said, because I specifically said what I feel should be done. But if you want the facile analogy, then at least stay with the question being address
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by sago 11y ago
> thereby accepting the risk of us or our loved ones getting blown up or shot going while we go about our daily routine A risk which is orders of magnitude smaller than the risk that you or your loved one will perish in your car. Smaller
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by sago 11y ago
> Straw-manning is necessary Well, if you're going to advocate that everybody just believe whatever they want without facts or reason, don't be surprised if people tl;dr your comment and ignore you.
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by sago 11y ago
I think the world would be better if, before you're allowed to respond to someone being wrong, you have to first be able to express their position in a way that they agree represents their view. Because 'political correctness&#x27
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by sago 11y ago
There's a difference between somewhere that is undemocratic, and somewhere with a democratic government you don't agree with. You may be right about Sweden having a poorly democratic system, but the fact that you find the tone of
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by sago 11y ago
Quite. Ultimately lots of disagreements have this cyclic structure. Like people accusing those who call for tolerance of being intolerant of intolerance. Or those who oppose science by accusing scientists of not doing science right. Or thos
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by sago 11y ago
I think it is utterly disgusting what the media do to manufacture outrage. They ought to apologise unreservedly. But what can we do about it? A lot! We, as consumers with power, ought to boycott any of them that don't get the message.
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by sago 11y ago
PiHut has the board for £4, with various add-on packages (cables, sd-card) up to £18 (all cables + 16 Gb SD). S+H is £2.50
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by sago 11y ago
> how much total programmer time was wasted re-learning I don't see it that way. I think once you've used a few frameworks and languages, you 'learn' the concepts, the patterns and the ideas. I've programmed prof
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by sago 11y ago
It's libraries rather than porting. Funnily, though, I just thought 'yeah there's that library I use, they never ported that', for one of my codebases. Just looked it up and they now have ported it. So I guess it's
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by sago 11y ago
> Disagree with their tactics all you want, but they have stopped some bombings Genuine question, because I have a casual interest here, but don't claim exhaustive knowledge - can you cite examples? Kevin Brown in 2008 was arrested
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by sago 11y ago
I agree, I don't see the logic in removing progressive taxation. Progressive taxation is a recognition that there is a disproportionate benefit in living in an ordered and lawful society for those with high income (and assets, though w
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by sago 11y ago
If you met the two guys who'd produced this, would you consider buying them a coffee? If so, the $1.99 to support some researchers and technology is hardly a big ask. You don't have to think of everything as 'paying for a goo
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by sago 11y ago
I was one of the people lampooning Nintendo for the Wii. "Wee" being a very common britishism for "pee". (e.g. "I want a wii in the corner of my living room!" fnar fnar.) I figured they'd change it before
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by sago 11y ago
'Good lord' is a bit strong. Chicken little isn't needed, I agree, but the concern is real. In a real application, using ecosystem packages, it is fine to decide on a fixed target. But, if the core system is moving quickly, c
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Ask HN: What novels feature realistic computing?
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by sago 11y ago
Also most of the American studies on NFP were conducted by the program’s own developer
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by sago 11y ago
Suggests to me that form-input is being used unescaped at some point in their software. I wonder what the password "foo'; drop table users;" would do.
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by sago 11y ago
I had a bunch of games that I made in collaboration with a friend. When that collab finished, the itunes account expired. I just never got round to going through that again to put it back up. It never made enough money for me to really care
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by sago 11y ago
I'll respond to your email.
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by sago 11y ago
I'm not sure if it is a genre, or just something I tried. Each 'level' is a figure consisting of nodes and connecting arcs. You start by placing your finger at any node, and you move your finger until all arcs have been trace
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by sago 11y ago
I wrote a meditative slow game called Calmer (was iOS, sold terribly, no longer available). I was contacted by a US psychiatrist who said he prescribed it for anxiety patients. It never occurred to me to try to raise tens of millions of do
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by sago 11y ago
Are you sexist for wanting only partners of one gender? Are you agist for wanting a partner of a similar age to yourself? Seems a very dubious argument. All preferences are prejudices in one sense, but it cheapens the politics by grouping i
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by sago 11y ago
What a weird article. On one hand it seems to complain that platforms give people tools to be prejudiced (going as far as saying, because it is profitable), then on the other hand saying that matching people with prejudiced people would be
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by sago 11y ago
Thanks for the interest, but it is just a kind of personal hack thing. Just feed pages through markdown and jinja templates.

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