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by ssivark 6y ago
This idea is very similar to Solomnoff induction, which is fine, but... what stops a more “powerful” entity designing a simulation from “counting backwards from infinity”? The crux of your argument seems to be that we can’t (currently) thin
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by ssivark 6y ago
I’m familiar with ARUCOs, but in my experience they tend to be somewhat finicky (Eg: mid-identified with a little bit of noise or unfavorable lighting), and accurate poses tend to require a lot more fiducial markers than might be considered
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by ssivark 6y ago
Are there such fiducials+libraries available today?
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by ssivark 6y ago
Noticed the same in Firefox+iOS. Clearing the cookies/cache fixed the problem. I presume Wired tries to limit readers to a few free articles per period.
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by ssivark 6y ago
See SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas’ comments on why this such an alarming problem. (Was on HN front page recently) https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/thomas-scotus-twitter-tru... and https://assets.documentc
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by ssivark 6y ago
Cannot, because here we’re talking about “unknown unknowns”.
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by ssivark 6y ago
That’s a good (and profound) question, not deserving of downvotes. It turns out that the simplified paradigmatic “scientific method” is a very bad caricature of what actually happens on the cutting edge when we’re pushing the boundaries of
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by ssivark 6y ago
No, the essence of my point is that the number of sigmas is meaningless when you have a systematic error — in either the experiment or the theoretical estimate — all that the sigmas tell you is that the two are mismatched. If a mistake coul
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by ssivark 6y ago
To clarify, for those not familiar with this topic, this experiment is making measurements at such exquisite precision that even the calculations for the theoretical prediction are extremely non-trivial and require careful estimation of man
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by ssivark 6y ago
From what I hear, it’s all pretty nicely containerized/turnkey already. There are even several “meta apps” (Eg: Homelab OS, YUNoHost, etc) which are like the base layer on which many of these services are available as “applications” wh
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by ssivark 6y ago
Well, but “independent contractors” totally have that right! OTOH, if their behavior is regulated “for the overall health of the platform” that is starting to sound a lot like being employed with the company operating the platform. I wonder
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by ssivark 6y ago
That’s a good point — even in the more limited sense of security today , the null hypothesis to be compared against is a regularly updated system. I wonder if there are any viruses/exploits which are known (so that antivirus softwar
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by ssivark 6y ago
Here’s the essence of non-ergodicity: the “typical” result (technically the mode, but practically the median is acceptable) is very different from the “mean” result. The language of “time” -vs- “ensemble” averages is simply about whether to
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by ssivark 6y ago
Precisely; a multi-tree has a unique path between two nodes. On the same note, I wonder what is the relation between dags/multitrees and semilattices. They seem to be very similar concepts afaict.
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by ssivark 6y ago
The bureaucratic thicket of financialization helps fuzz out the underlying reality that there are significant costs to participating in society today (access to housing, energy, transport, internet/communications, education... most of
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks for setting me off on a wonderful trail tonight! After a couple of hours of reading, I finally appreciate how useful, simple and coherent the capabilities+actors part of the story is! I particularly enjoyed the analogy/applicati
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by ssivark 6y ago
Assuming this is neither sarcasm nor GPT3, WTF does it even mean?
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by ssivark 6y ago
For an interesting take on this, see the book Ambition, by Gilbert Brim. It’s been posted to HN before, and led to interesting discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10967206
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by ssivark 6y ago
Probably stems from the foundational misnomer of “artificial intelligence” (which glamorizes the algorithm) compared with, say “data-driven algorithms” which emphasizes both aspects suitably. AI might have been a passable term in the era of
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by ssivark 6y ago
I was under the naive impression that the acoustic impedance mismatch across the skull/cranial-fluid/brain means that not enough ultrasound would go through for useful imaging. Is that not as big a deal, or is the problems somehow
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by ssivark 6y ago
Slick tool! Follow-up question: What limits a tool like this to VSCode? Is theming (across editors) standardized/similar enough that the same color variables could be exported to get the same theme in different editors?
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by ssivark 6y ago
That list is flag planting of the first order — like a dog claiming territory as a kingdom after a few stray golden showers here and there. Yes, ML has been applied to all those topics, but to narrow/superficial applications & with
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by ssivark 6y ago
HN seems to stop deeper comments, so I'll make one last comment. We've managed to get to the heart of the point, and say everything that needs to be said :-) > I’m sorry. That is the probability distribution. EE doesn’t change
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by ssivark 6y ago
> The distribution is not something that you choose arbitrarily. It's given. It's a part of the problem statement. Starting with $1 the distribution of outcomes after 4 doubles-or-halves flips is P($0.0625) = 1/16, P($0.25
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by ssivark 6y ago
Sure, no qualms with vNM. But how does an application of EUT decide what distribution to use? (That's where the subtlety/assumption lies) Example situation: 1 million tosses of a fair coin, with multiplicative payoff -- wealth dou
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by ssivark 6y ago
There's a proverbial slip between the cup and the lip. vNM does not (technically) assume a probability distribution, but EUT as commonly applied add one extra piece on top of vNM -- implicitly ignoring dynamics and assuming a distribut
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by ssivark 6y ago
My comment on EE and von Neumann-Morgenstern utility turned out longer than expected, so I wrote a blog post here: http://sivark.me/blog/ergodicity-economics-and-von-neumann-m... (I'd also like to hold on to a cop
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Ergodicity Economics and von Neumann-Morgenstern utility(sivark.me)
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by ssivark 6y ago
That Twitter thread is tautological trash, to put it politely. It seems more interested in protecting turf than directly critiquing (or even understanding) Ole Peters’ central point. It is absolutely silly, bordering shitposting, to respond
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by ssivark 6y ago
That Conal Elliot paper is being my current level, and I don’t see the relation to the comment about composability in Forth. Is there a simplified explanation somewhere? (Preferable less mathematical and more verbal, but I’ll take what I ca

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