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by sdenton4 3y ago
Fire trucks are far less than 2% of vehicles, though...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Seems like waymo is doing fine, though...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Freedom's just another word for massive infrastructure investments and subsidies which allow the personal control of inefficiently utilized capital goods.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
It's probably a question of who exactly holds that other 20% of shares... There's a decent chance it's mostly held by one or a few long-time investors/contributors/??? and the premium is the price of good-will.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
In summary, "Fucking magnets, how do they work?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Not having a kid cuts off a whole branch of human reproduction; it's undoubtedly the best thing you can do for the planet, on the personal scale. Everything else pales in comparison.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Spoiler: it's Parquet.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Is there a word for the situation where incumbents produced by a system try to maintain that system even though it's shite for everyone else? Politicians hate electoral reform.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Skiena is great. My usual learn-a-new-language routine is speed-running the first 25ish Project Euler problems. They cover a lot of three usual language basics. https://projecteuler.net/
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I'm very familiar with how mcts is used in alpha go and mu zero. I'm not sure how you can say it's hidden in the details: the name of the paper is "mastering go with deep neutral networks and tree search." It's
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by sdenton4 3y ago
People have been arguing over whether animals are intelligent for centuries. I estimate we'll never fully settle arguments of whether machines are intelligent.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The 'game playing' you lead with is clearly dominated by deep learning in this decade.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Well, the internet had a hype-cycle as well... It went from very exciting to a niche for weirdoes to completely ubiquitous.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The other innovation of cryptocurrencies is bootstrapping 'value' for scarce digital tokens; in this sense, UBI based on a cryptocurrency can be self-funding.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
OTOH, the impossibility of getting UBI on the government side is actually motivating adoption: sure, you've got a central identity repository, etc, but it will never happen in our lifetime (in the US) if you need 60 senators to vote fo
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by sdenton4 3y ago
What can I say, we've seen a piiiile of lazy dismissals of LLM work based on examples from arithmetic and string manipulation. They aren't novel or interesting.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Arithmetic problems have nothing to do with reasoning, and are a known weakness due to the tokenization schemes in these models. Secondly, finding failure modes doesn't mean that the model doesn't have any reasoning ability. Human
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Expanding the comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37037606 Cryptocurrency systems proposed ways to handle the creation and management of monetary systems without government involvement. The implementation of
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I wasn't starting from the assumption that UBI /has/ to be government-based, and was discussing a core problem (identifiability) that arises when a non-government entity tries to implement UBI. You've just got a differen
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I've got an unfinished 8-inch mirror that I spent a month of evenings grinding... Someday I'll get around to polishing and building out a cargo-bike-collapsable structure for it. A cool thing about DIY telescopes: You can get bett
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by sdenton4 3y ago
It's 'solved' in the sense that there's a lot of machinery to deal with and remediate fraud and abuse. It's definitely not solved in a technical sense. It might be helpful to stop and think for a moment about all th
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Crypto schemes allow a lot of experimentation with the structure of money that no sane government would ever try for fear of crashing their economy in one way or another. Meanwhile, we /should/ be experimenting a lot more with the
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Sadly, I liked the original idea behind this, and thought it was one of the few actually-interesting applications of crypto currency. If you can (somehow) solve the unique identity problem, you can design a Universal Basic Income using a cr
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Frogs provide a wide array of ecosystem services. https://youtu.be/KlJsVqc0ywM
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Neat! Hope it doesn't kill the surrounding cells, too... Sounds like it's meant to single out dividing cells with damaged DNA. But something broad-acting seems more likely to carry unintended consequences. (Eg, if it turns out all
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The solution is well understood: universal education and readily available birth control. It's already working in the more developed economies.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
/"(This is a shame, because the best way to prepare a burger is a topic worthy of introspection.)"/ The answer, of course, is to stop eating meat because the factory farm industry is morally indefensible. (he said with s
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I was careful to say fundamental physics - there's great stuff happening in materials science. We are in a world where exponentially growing amounts of energy are needed to confirm/deny an increasingly small slice of the standard
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by sdenton4 3y ago
If we are sufficiently expansive in our definition of what theory is, then sure, there is no experiment without theory, and experimentalists only discover things by being secretly theorists who occasionally stop thinking long enough to get
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Hope the air's good in the tower... Good science has often proceeded from 'weird' observations, leading to experiments trying to isolate the weirdness. The weird is necessarily outside the zone of existing theory, and require

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