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by slx26 6y ago
As I say with all these massive social networks: they have tons of users, and there is all kinds of people in the world, so it's bound to be a lot of interesting and useful and inspiring and enlightening content in them. That still doe
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by slx26 6y ago
Very good presentation, and very good analogies to get the general public attention. I think the key points are: - Data allows the projection of stereotypes on everything you might be involved. - Rating systems create unwanted incentives. I
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by slx26 6y ago
> public square in front of city hall is patrolled by police Yeah, I wrote this in a comment a couple days ago: "public spaces are treated like private spaces by local governments: "we don't want problems in our land"
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by slx26 6y ago
Look, memory synchronization is hard. Some operations might take a decade to achieve consistency.
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by slx26 6y ago
Which should also put us on alert that we might be doing social spaces wrong.
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, we have to account for the transition being forced, which in most cases caught companies completely unprepared.
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by slx26 6y ago
I am a big proponent of public spaces, and I definitely agree we should expand them, make them more accessible, and publicize and fund them better... so I agree with most of your comment. But still, I don't agree that "Without the
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by slx26 6y ago
Honestly, I believe don't specific individual skills matter that much, so whatever aligns with your happiness and curiosity. I think it's more important to focus on the skills that make everyone else's lives better, so: under
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by slx26 6y ago
See jdoliner's comment and replies on this thread for more context and information.
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by slx26 6y ago
There was a public doc talking about the golang linker that addressed this issue at the end. My comment at the time and the post can be found here [0]. I guess there's some hope, but I haven't looked into it again, so I don't
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by slx26 6y ago
I think there's a common missing perspective in this whole debate of social media. Sure, social media is addictive and is not easy to live in the modern world without it, but what if social media is not the only culprit today, and the
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, I think your comment adds some interesting ideas. Following the original chess comparisons, we could also say that new players will learn more and faster when given some models of what are good and bad moves, than if they need to lear
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by slx26 6y ago
I think an interesting compromise would be to have a collaborative project for the design of such a system. Even if it was never implemented, it could highlight many of the problems current architectures have, and provide some ideas going
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by slx26 6y ago
Yes, and the harsh part is that it's all the same problem. To "convince other people that your standard is correct" is the same as coordinating society, which is to repeatedly "convince other people that our solutions&#x
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, I think a better approach would be to state that a language popularity is determined by how much it makes you think that you can do useful things with it (even if it's a mistaken perception). Accessibility is pretty related, but
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by slx26 6y ago
Well, saying "Here's one question in each field which is better than any of theirs" will sound presumptuous to a lot of people, but I agree that there was some serious effort in it and many good questions, which should more t
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by slx26 6y ago
Yeah, it's the classic confusion of expertise vs wisdom. Wisdom, I'd say, shouldn't even be considered an individual trait, as it comes from the aggregation of different perspectives towards a more holistic understanding. Onl
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by slx26 6y ago
For any given individual, you want two things: 1) Minimize their suffering (satisfying basic needs). 2) Make sure they can develop their potential at their fullest (also quite close to a basic need). So I'd say that politics should be
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by slx26 6y ago
People with mental health problems will be negative and tricky to deal with. If you can't help, just stay away, but please refrain from criticising, don't make it even harder for them.
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by slx26 6y ago
Meaning is a human concept. Life has no meaning unless you define it yourself. For some people, having children and becoming part of something bigger, a family, is what gives meaning to their lives. Belonging and being part of a group, whet
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by slx26 6y ago
Sadly, I think the problem is not even a lack of compassion, but the fact that many people don't have anyone they trust, and there's a lack of shared spaces where they could belong and eventually connect with others that could hel
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by slx26 6y ago
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing!
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by slx26 6y ago
I don't think they understimate the non-linearity of real neurons. It's simply a trade-off. Accurate models were unpractical (too computationally expensive) the last time I checked. There's quite a bit of research on neuron m
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by slx26 6y ago
Yes, I often like to say: imagine if the general public instead of wikipedia only had the papers used as references. It's not about all the knowledge we have, it's about how accessible it is. And for humans to make sense of knowle
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by slx26 6y ago
write down the system requirements in paper, really study the problem before trying to solve it. like, for hard problems you really need to allocate 50% of your time to planning and system design. focus on modularity, and try to keep proces
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by slx26 6y ago
I'm making a site that's very light, minimal everything... except for a section that will contain some games. How do you handle those cases?
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by slx26 6y ago
> Why should non speakers of a certain language invest money and/or time on a language its own people don't even invest in? Because rational choices at an individual level do not necessarily align with rational choices at a soc
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by slx26 6y ago
But baby humans tend to associate phonetic symbols (spoken words) to what they are seeing, and the learning method is very different. Their context is much broader, helped by multiple senses. NLP is extremely contextless compared to what hu
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Also, it's obvious there's a lot of people using their time for more interesting things too, even despite the fact that we are pretty isolated and in a high stress situation. And I'd say that if that doesn't get so much
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by slx26 6y ago
that can easily get pretty tricky if you don't want to depend a lot on libraries, which the last time I checked weren't great for golang in this area. I have worked with ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture) a bit, implementing

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