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by scribu 5y ago
Maybe you're interpreting the words "effort" and "manipulation" too strictly. During a meditation session, the brain could still be doing the activities from the definition, even though you might not feel like you
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by scribu 5y ago
Thanks for that. It's hard to make out acronyms like "SWAV" or "SEER" from the audio, if you're not already familiar with them.
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by scribu 5y ago
Sure, it's zero if you ignore all the development and maintenance costs. Plus, robots aren't necessarily better at making things. Tesla, for example, rolled back its fully automated production line because it wasn't as adapta
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by scribu 5y ago
> I was surprised at how large a difference getting paid every week vs every 2 weeks makes. In what way?
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by scribu 5y ago
> I could write a webapp that simulates the stock market, declare that it contains X "shares" of Apple at Y price, and people could speculate on them, much as they do in the real stock market, all without Apple knowing or carin
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by scribu 5y ago
It does have a section on continuous probabilities at the end.
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by scribu 5y ago
The Campfire meeting room seems interesting. Giving remote participants a proportionate physical presence should help equal the playing field. I think it hinges on how easy it is to set up the call, so that each face is on a separate screen
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by scribu 6y ago
> Judges make harsher rulings when they're hungry. Actually, that finding is highly improbable: https://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges
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by scribu 6y ago
Yeah, better to leave out the swear word completely from the HN entry, rather than write a confusing euphemism.
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by scribu 6y ago
> The scientists think the sea slugs are using the energy from the photosynthesis occurring in cells that they’ve gained from algae they’ve eaten. So they have enough active algae cells in their head to power the growth of a whole new bo
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by scribu 6y ago
It's called "hate bonding", apparently: https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/your...
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by scribu 6y ago
> Romanians are very proud of their [...] active Gypsy culture. As a Romanian, I regret to inform you that a lot of Romanians really don't like gipsies. This has always been the case, unfortunately.
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by scribu 6y ago
I don't see any "belittling" comments here, except perhaps yours. People enjoy talking about the stuff they read. Discussion is part of how one learns. If you don't find value in reading non-expert commentary, then don&#
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by scribu 6y ago
Is there any rhyme or reason to Square's moves in recent months? First doubling down on Bitcoin, now a music streaming service. What next?
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by scribu 6y ago
Perhaps iterating on the ML model allowed you to learn about the business domain faster or more systematically. When you're learning something new, you don't even know what questions to ask (unknown unknowns). And the domain exper
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by scribu 6y ago
One better-than-nothing way is to look at historical data: Looking at the closing price for each trading day, count how many times the stock ended higher and how many times it ended lower than the previous day. Then you have your odds.
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by scribu 6y ago
Ah, a lottery on a blockchain. Why not! Except, unlike a national lottery, you can't trust the issuer and the value of your prize fluctuates even after you win.
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by scribu 6y ago
I think this article on simple linking vs. previewing sums up the issue: https://theconversation.com/webs-inventor-says-news-media-ba...
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by scribu 6y ago
European settlers reached Alaska only in 1741, so the organic material around the beads - which is what was used for carbon dating - would have had to survive wear and tear for centuries. Not very likely.
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by scribu 6y ago
> You can indeed use backprop to train a separate learning rule superior to naïve backprop. I used to dismiss the idea of an impending singularity. Now I'm not so sure. Hopefully AGIs will reach hard physical limits to self-improvem
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by scribu 6y ago
The observation that regulation usually ends up helping the incumbents is not new. That said, I find the "meshed society" concept useful. It highlights the radical level of collaboration possible between individuals, enabled by th
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by scribu 6y ago
Interesting; they kinda look like condensed pitch decks. Are they ever used for anything besides pitching, i.e. after a project is completed?
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by scribu 6y ago
This is a really interesting project. It's a collection of utilities for constructing rule-based models, as opposed to statistical models (i.e. ML). I can see myself using it for exploratory analysis and constructing baseline models. A
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by scribu 6y ago
There doesn't seem to be much of a perceptual difference from Cobalt Blue. [1] The significance is mainly due to better durability [2]: > the increased UV absorbance and stability in outdoor weathering and heat buildup tests demonst
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by scribu 6y ago
I think that's an accurate summary. Even if someone starts out as a "one person dev shop", they eventually become a business person, out of necessity.
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by scribu 6y ago
What about "long covid"? It looks like 1 in 10 people infected experience symptomps for more than 12 weeks. [1] Just because you aren't likely to die doesn't mean you'd be fine. [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk
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by scribu 6y ago
Why do you call it a conspiracy?
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by scribu 6y ago
There are several projects like this, but they can only generate abstract shapes, i.e. they're much lower-level than a natural language caption.
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by scribu 6y ago
It seems like you're referring to the guilt-shame-fear spectrum. [1] Very interesting! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fe...
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by scribu 6y ago
Yes, apparently that absorbtion of light by intergalactic dust is a well-known phenomenon called interstellar extinction. There are various ways of accounting for it.

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