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by sfink 3y ago
I see. So anyone flipping burgers at McDonald's must have a passionate interest in and life goal to be flipping burgers. Otherwise, why would they spend so much time on it? If I understand your argument correctly, you're saying th
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by sfink 3y ago
> [Younger profs] think they can teach every student. Very few (none?) of the older ones. I buy that argument, but I would ask: if they can only teach some of the students, then are they teaching the right ones? Bess's example in th
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by sfink 3y ago
Just as a data point that ultimately reinforces your main point, one of the reasons I am disillusioned with the higher education corporate complex is that as someone on the political left, I dislike it for being too left. It's not the
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by sfink 3y ago
The asteroid is coming at the Earth fast. To have enough of an effect, you have to do your thing while it's quite a ways away. That means you have to go pretty fast to get out to it before it gets too close to you. You can blow up a bo
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by sfink 3y ago
Nice take-down, and I appreciate the points you raise, but isn't > if you're not willing to engage with your doubts, then you have no business putting your thoughts into an essay under the pretense of intellectual honesty. kind
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by sfink 3y ago
At least for FF on Android, long press the back button to bring up a history list.
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by sfink 3y ago
Heh. I was not prepared for the punchline that this "only" goes from 4^k to 3.993^k. I mean, they're creating a whole new form of proof that will almost certainly allow further decreases, and they generously aren't holdi
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by sfink 3y ago
It does suggest that an "(updated)" marker would not go amiss. I won't explain my justification, since I'm supposed to be working right now. ;-)
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by sfink 3y ago
The only relevant line in there is: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. I would argue that "editorialize" is the wrong word here. W4 Games (Godot) annou
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by sfink 3y ago
I'm not in the space at all, but from my naive reading it seems like for bigger outfits the success monkey—er, manager—would be a great deal at borrowing an engineer with deep technical knowledge of the platform to do your bidding and
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by sfink 3y ago
I very much appreciated the wording and tone of: > We trust in the honesty of our clients and that they will abide by the contract. We also trust they properly recognize their staff in the game credits.
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by sfink 3y ago
Perhaps an LLM could produce a plausible-looking proof that is completely and utterly incorrect. As a party trick.
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by sfink 3y ago
Are you claiming China and Japan are individualistic, or that people are hiding all the babies somewhere? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fer... does not show eastern countries as having partic
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by sfink 3y ago
> 5. I don't have to deal with wait staff interrupting my meal every 5 minutes to ask if everything is ok I'm sure you know this, but they're actually interrupting your meal every 5 minutes to minimize any possible delay i
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by sfink 3y ago
Sorry, but no. The null hypothesis is that there is no relation between two variables. You have to do experiments to estimate the probabilities of the null and alternative hypotheses. You don't get to label the one with the higher prio
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by sfink 3y ago
Next time this happens, I recommend just letting people use a different browser. Firefox in particular has gotten much better at importing bookmarks, passwords, etc. from Chrome. It was a Sign from the universe that it was time to make the
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by sfink 3y ago
more like a murder weapon
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by sfink 3y ago
That is the definition of null hypothesis, yes. Not to be blunt, but you might get a closer shave with Occam's Razor.
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by sfink 3y ago
My robot can open drawers at near 100%, but it takes the form of a stick of dynamite. Still working on closing the drawers afterwards, though...
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by sfink 3y ago
"Given sufficient time and compute" covers up a lot, though. The ultimate God AGI that would be created through that sort of process would take the form of a large room filled with a whole lot of monkeys and typewriters.
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by sfink 3y ago
"This shit's broke." Seriously, though, I'm with you on "It needs to be repaired." Then again, I went to school in the land of the yinzers, so "it needs repaired" doesn't even sound all that off
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by sfink 3y ago
I'm a native English speaker from the US, and a pedant who hates "ask" as a noun, "workshop" as a verb, and "performant" as a word. But I don't get the hate for "learnings" here. What's
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by sfink 3y ago
The article directly agrees with you (though your thickness is even better than they propose): > This means that for hive walls to be effective, they have to be substantially insulating, such as 30mm of polystyrene.
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by sfink 3y ago
privateers
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by sfink 3y ago
The lesson is that hiring "ZZZ Lawn Care" is a really bad idea.
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by sfink 3y ago
My guesses: (1) bad for safety no matter what happens. This will cement the idea that caring about safety and being competitive are incompatible. (I don't know if the idea is right or wrong.) (2) good for competition, in different ways
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by sfink 3y ago
Isn't that like saying that the Manhattan Project should have only been overseen by people with a solid physics background? Because they're the best judges of whether it's a good idea to build something that could wipe out al
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by sfink 3y ago
Why are people calling this already? There was a coup. The people on the losing end, which includes some large investors, counterattacked. That's where we are now (or were when the article was published). Of course they counterattacked
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by sfink 3y ago
Unless "proper corporate governance" is exactly what makes the company dangerous to society, in which case you will need to have some external people in charge. You might want to set things up as a non-profit, though you'll n
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by sfink 3y ago
In that case, use DEBUG-only asserts. They're not foolproof (they're only as good as your test suite), but they're pretty damn good.

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