soVeryTired

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by soVeryTired 11mo ago
A metre of sea-level rise is painful for a rural cottage by the sea. But if you're in a city - particularly a wealthy city - it's something that can be engineered around. An expensive liability? Definitely. A civilization or natio
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by soVeryTired 11mo ago
He's comparing AGW, which drives a trend , with weather-based events, which are noise around the trend. He conveniently cuts his analysis off at the year 2100, by which we'll all probably be dead. But he's probably right tha
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by soVeryTired 11mo ago
It confused me a lot - I cancelled the denominators in my head too. But then I realised they're just plotting y/(x^2+y^2) - (x+1)/(x^2+y^2) = c and colouring by c (i.e. a heatmap, as others have mentioned in the thread). That
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by soVeryTired 11mo ago
If it's a win / lose outcome and both win and lose have a probability of 1/100, I'll make 99x my stake by betting on both win and lose at the same time. If both outcomes have a probability of 0.999 (summing to almost 2),
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by soVeryTired 11mo ago
In one sense, winning bets. If you lose, you lose: your money is gone either way. If you win, the fact that the probabilities sum to about 1.05 means you win less than you would have in a fair game. The state just takes a cut of that extra
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Have you used PaddleOCR? I'm surprised they're claiming SOTA without comparing against Amazon Textract or Azure doc intelligence (LayoutLM v3 under the hood, as far as I know). I've played around with doc recognition quite a
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Siméon Denis Poisson would like a word with you. But in seriousness, I agree.
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
There's a very interesting video about the "1.5 language problem" in Julia [0]. The point being that when you write high-performance Julia it ends up looking nothing like "standard" Julia. It seems like it's ju
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
I have to say, I don't really understand this. Can anyone shed some light?
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
> I won't get into the history of why people take so much acetaminophen despite how crappy a drug it is. I'd love if you did. What's the story there?
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Computers can already do a lot of things that no human can though. They can reliably find the best chess or go move better than a human. It's conceivable (though not likely) that given training enough training in symbolic mathematics a
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Roaming a labyrinth and savaging young Athenians might seem like a positive change in the short term, but ultimately it’s probably just as unfulfilling as corporate IT.
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
IMO that's the fundamental difference between statistics and ML. The culture of stats is about fitting a model and interpreting the fit, while the culture of ML is to treat the model as a black box. That's one of the reasons that
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Simultaneously correct and devastating. Where I work, senior leadership don’t have a technical background and so don’t know when something is “good enough“. The result is that most of our products are dogshit and are force fed to users with
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
I’d say it’s more like a high-profile NRA member getting shot. Unfortunate but it’s hard to miss the irony.
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by soVeryTired 1y ago
Do you really believe in the comparative advantage argument though? Surely it’s only true if comparative advantage is fixed over time. And surely in order to leverage comparative advantage, an economy would need to know how good they would
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
FYI you’re using log(3) to the base 10 there. That’s less than one so your figures look artificially good.
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
I really enjoyed that read. Is it hinted that everyone has the experience though? There's a week where the jewel and the brain are still paired, but the jewel is in control. The hospitals monitor that the two are similar to within tole
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
Still pictures though, right? Not actual videos of someone making the full gesture twice in a row. What would it imply about him? He’s now a quasi-governmental figure aligning himself to the far right. He’s messaging to others on the far r
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
You say "wrong political party" as if he's involved in some mild political spat. The Financial Times just ran an article about how trump might defy the supreme court on his way to burning down the republic. Musk supported AFD
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
Or… Bob makes bread, Alice grows flowers. Alice needs bread; Bob likes flowers but can go without if he wants to. Who’s going to come off worse if they have an argument?
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
A lot of the field of macroeconomics, yes. Have you ever sat down and read that stuff?
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
But that’s under some weird, incorrect model of how money works. Presumably if we go down this route any further you’ll start talking about IS/LM and the money multiplier. All models are wrong, but there’s a better model that involves
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
The AI angle is weird, and a red herring. I’ll happily give 100 to 1 odds that something as abstract as topos theory isn’t useful to machine learning. As far as I know, the full weight of topos theory isn’t even needed for algebraic geometr
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
To add to your point - you definitely can make predictions about aspects of someone’s personality by looking at their face with the expectation that you’ll do better than chance. The paper calls out inferring political leanings as an exampl
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
Scientific writing is bad so much of the time. The bio sciences are particular offenders in my experience. Good writing should communicate a concept clearly. For some reason, science writers feel the need to swallow and partially regurgita
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
I finished my PhD thesis with a quote [0] from Hunter S. Thompson. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/293779-take-it-from-me-ther...
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
The pieces are fractal and exceptionally complex. It’s related to the idea that a point has zero length, but a line (an infinite collection of points) has nonzero length. It also highlights a discrepancy between our physical intuition of sp
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
Snap and crackle I couldn't tell you about. But jerk is definitely important.
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by soVeryTired 2y ago
I used to work at a self-driving car company, and all the vehicle's motion was planned around how much jerk to apply. Your muscles are pretty good at applying a constant force (or responding to a constant acceleration). Hold your arm o

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