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by staplung 5y ago
It's been a long time since I worked at Google but when I did (10 yrs ago), the search system for the intranet was notoriously awful. Part of the reason was that PageRank tends not to work so well in places where things aren't hea
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by staplung 5y ago
In fiction (and film particularly) these sorts of characters are often a narrative device so that things can be explained without needing an omniscient narrator.
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by staplung 5y ago
Interesting. I assume Tesla will never sell a car with lidar because it would be a tacit admission that the hardware associated with a bunch of Full Self-Driving sales was never going to be able to drive itself. I suppose there's nothi
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by staplung 5y ago
Burnout was an obvious cost to this mess. A less obvious cost must surely have been all the people that read about it and decided to never work for Uber. But then it's always been easy to ignore the costs that can't be measured.
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by staplung 5y ago
> 4. Safety: Idaho allows forests to be managed to prevent destruction of housing from huge wildfires. I just spent a month in central Oregon and there were proscribed burns going on all over the place. It was the most forest management
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by staplung 6y ago
I wonder how much of this is a deliberately cultivated form of eccentricity. To be clear, I am casting no aspersions here - use what you wanna use! But the perfidy of spell check and auto-correct seem like fairly easy problems to avoid if y
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by staplung 6y ago
It's not meta analysis. Also, the effect size is rather large. What basis do you see for doubting how well the study was done?
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by staplung 6y ago
Heh. Technically, there isn't even GATTACA in there since it's RNA and hence all the T's are actually U's. It's just convention to use the T's. GAUUACA doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by staplung 6y ago
Very cool. One feature that seems to be missing is an option to set various text bits to bold.
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by staplung 6y ago
Can you use Super (Cmd) as the modifier key yet? E.g. Cmd-c to copy?
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by staplung 6y ago
Legitimate question: how do they measure how much methane a cow produces?
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by staplung 6y ago
The "official" Swift LSP was begun in 2018 but there doesn't seem to be much going on there these days. The readme still says "SourceKit-LSP is still in early development, so you may run into rough edges with any of the
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by staplung 6y ago
Soooo...Heathrow during the pandemic?
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by staplung 6y ago
I used to encourage back-end web developers to write a web server from scratch as a learning exercise. With HTTP 1.1 it was actually pretty easy to write one in C (plus berkeley sockets); the idea being that you learn a lot about how things
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by staplung 6y ago
Probably not exactly the presentation you mention but Freakonomics explored the issue of advertising effectiveness in a 2 part series. Part 2 is about online ads. The picture it paints is pretty bad. https://freakonomics.com&#x2F
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by staplung 6y ago
Reminds me of _Snow Crash_'s FOQNEs: Franchise-Organized Quasi National Entities. Now all we need is Postmates but for skateboarders. Maybe the Deliverator is just an Uber Eats driver.
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by staplung 6y ago
Unfortunately, with nanopore the errors are biased so you tend to get errors in the same places. All sequencing techniques also have error rates but some are unbiased so running a single sample through (which will usually have many, many co
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by staplung 6y ago
I know that the programming language is only part of the story but I do wish more programming languages put a greater emphasis on readability and maintainability rather than writing. I find it particularly annoying when a language does not
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by staplung 6y ago
What about the database? https://wiert.me/2019/04/17/essential-drop-table-animals-now...
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by staplung 6y ago
I can't speak to how Tesla or Waymo work at that level but I suspect they don't use sound. Even for yourself, it seems as if sound helps you to be aware of something that you then look at. If a car can already "see" in 3
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by staplung 6y ago
The danger depends somewhat on the type of radioactive material used and how much of its radiation is alpha, beta or gamma, it's toxicity (independent of its radioactivity, plutonium is one of the most toxic substances in existence), h
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by staplung 6y ago
I've lost track of the number of "biggest engineering disaster" stories I've read that begin "so we decided to rewrite it..." The story arc is almost always the same: starts out very promising and moves quickl
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by staplung 6y ago
True, but for the purposes of the bet, you'd have to effectively _prove_ that it escaped from a lab, which seems virtually impossible. In any case, the linked articles talk about that possibility too. Then again one could make the argu
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by staplung 6y ago
That's funny in a way because it's literally Pinker's first argument against: "Cognitive biases inflate the subjective odds of disaster: If a scenario is imaginable, it seems probable."
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by staplung 6y ago
There is essentially zero evidence that SARS-CoV2 was engineered in a lab. In any case, the evidence that it's natural born doesn't have to be believed by everyone, only by Rees and Pinker. Then again, 2020 still has 21 days left
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by staplung 6y ago
It's basically ChickieNobs from Margaret Atwood's _Oryx and Crake_. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1559
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by staplung 6y ago
Really, there are two components to a modern spell checker. First, identify the words that are misspelled. Second, offering (good) corrections. This article is really talking about how hard even the first task was when memory was scarce. Of
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by staplung 6y ago
“I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.” ― W. H. Auden
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by staplung 6y ago
I don't know enough about Palmer Luckey to make any kind of statement about him or his decisions but as Upton Sinclair said: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his [possible billions] depends upon his not underst
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by staplung 6y ago
Reminds me of the Farside comic: https://imgur.com/r/TheFarSide/hQAT2Go

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