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by stillsut 5y ago
"With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Galesburg has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a
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by stillsut 5y ago
intriguing, thank you!
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by stillsut 5y ago
On January 1, 2028 how much bitcoin is there? You can predict the supply to within +/- 0.00001%, regardless of the companies who influence bitcoin. On January 1, 2028 how much M2 money supply is there? 10% more? 10% less? 100% more? 1,
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by stillsut 5y ago
I'm interested in this O(nlogn) argument, can you elaborate on it, or point to a source that does?
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by stillsut 5y ago
This is a good point - that we trade political risk for technical risk, e.g. will sha256 be broken, will quantum computing break ECC, or will a well funded actor launch a 51% attack or empty block attack on the network. These are the big kn
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by stillsut 5y ago
Agreed. Crypto is risky and volatile, and can go to zero and that makes it difficult for the average person to treat it as a savings vehicle. The distinction in predictability between the two system is kind of subtle: In bitcoin, the inter
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by stillsut 5y ago
But what's easy to value is public pensions. Do the existing reserves and projected inflows match the liabilities? Of course not, they are underwater by trillions of dollars. How will fifty very different state governments and the fede
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by stillsut 5y ago
NFT's represent a rather beautiful but whacky idea: that money supply is controlled by the critical reception of new artwork. Not the opinion of the snobby art world, but a completely democratic market for art populi - where the aesthe
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by stillsut 6y ago
Thanks for the help. I just want to point out this [detector orientation] is likely a big area where non-physics people might get tripped up: If you told me causally this detector which measures electrons/photons/whatever and vari
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by stillsut 6y ago
Your answer seems to focus on the key un-addressed subtlety. Why is the difference in orientation of the detector necessarily linear? What is the control aspect of this experiment where classical-system shows this linear pattern? Or can t
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by stillsut 6y ago
Is there not some local disturbances in the circulation of cell contents that not all interactions are i.i.d? Some kind of repelling force on a large molecule that would keep similarly charged molecules at arms length. And in some cases act
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by stillsut 6y ago
It's not academia but Kaggle that's really been on the forefront of building portable and reproducible computational pipelines. The real key is incentives and there are two that standout to me: - Incentive to get others to "s
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by stillsut 6y ago
The pile of problems in Robotics reminds me of the challenges faced by computer vision before modern methods were developed. To generalize the issue: humans learn and perform vision and navigational tasks "below" the level of lang
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by stillsut 6y ago
Agree. Even the murderdrones black mirror scenario posits a two-stage system: ~5 mile transport/breech-stage + 100-foot-range intercept unit. All to attack a stationary school building. So yeah, intercepting jets is going to need a ano
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by stillsut 6y ago
I largely agree at this point in the proposed capabilities. As you say these are just hand grenades that fly in cool looking formations. Independently guided aerial buck shot. But the game changer is when these cheap independent systems can
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by stillsut 6y ago
It's foolish for a state actor leave the remnant pieces of an advanced weapon (like an autonomous drone) at the scene of a crime during an assassination. First because the uniqueness of the technology makes the actor identifiable, seco
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by stillsut 6y ago
It is difficult to align worker-incentives in large off-shore contractors with the client's needs. Someone mentioned that contractors don't write tests unless you explicitly tell them which ones to write. Well, even if they did, a
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by stillsut 6y ago
The design idea is also similar to the the original stealth fighter design, the "hopeless diamond"[0], in that it's optimized to bounce all possible radar waves away from returning to their receiver. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing(medrxiv.org)
209 points by stillsut 6y ago|196 comments
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by stillsut 7y ago
Even in the case where the Urbit container and network are perfectly implemented and widely adopted, I'd imagine privacy as of the average user if not most users would continue to be compromised: The plebs would end up authorizing libe
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The messy secret reality behind OpenAI(technologyreview.com)
83 points by stillsut 7y ago|11 comments
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Tech rundown of Abbott Lab's 15 minute Covid-19 test [pdf](nmgroup.ca)
1 points by stillsut 7y ago|0 comments
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Discovering a Cheat: Kaggle Grandmaster(kaggle.com)
2 points by stillsut 7y ago|0 comments
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XQ Super School Voted Down by Somerville School Committee(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by stillsut 7y ago|0 comments
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by stillsut 7y ago
Me: I can't see how people can put money into a slot machine or a video game and take pleasure from that. Also me: gcp compute model.fit(epochs=20) watches error trend downwards
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by stillsut 7y ago
AGI is our generation's Nanotechnology. From first principles, it's reasoned, it could build anything - including itself! Despite this 100 Quadrillion dollar idea looming on the horizon for two decades, nobody ever makes material
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by stillsut 8y ago
The first half of Schultz's Pour Your Heart Into It . Even its title, similar to Kroc (his: Grind It Out ).
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by stillsut 8y ago
If you liked the story of Ray Kroc, you'll like the story of Howard Schultz scaling Starbucks; the similarities are spooky.
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by stillsut 8y ago
Really informative and inspiring comment. But I wanted to ask if you ever consider the counterfactual where instead of flying planes you're peeling potatoes for four years? Let's just say due to bad luck or a twist of fate - I di
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Alphazero crushes Stockfish in 1,000 game match(chess.com)
48 points by stillsut 8y ago|42 comments

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