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by symplee 7y ago
Agreed, this is an excellent talk. Main takeaway is to view the problem as debt which has to be paid off. Simply stopping new purchases will not pay off the debt. Above point summarized here, timestamp 22:15 - https://youtu.be&#x
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by symplee 7y ago
The first generation of automated software engineers will write one bug per 100 lines of code. This will allow them to blend in while working remotely and provide job security for existing human developers. The second gen senior automated s
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by symplee 7y ago
Last page says "Page 212 of 330" Pages 213+ are probably where they discuss cardinality.
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Where's the option for if Google goes under? Does the highest bidder get all-access? Will a corporate re-structure void any existing check-box preferences? Will "deleted" information be reincarnated?
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by symplee 7y ago
Pretty soon there will be a company delivering on regular, reusable plates. There will be a refund given if the plate is returned to the driver on the next delivery. (Thus encouraging a second delivery...) Higher refund if the plate is wash
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by symplee 7y ago
Official website: http://lczero.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/LeelaChessZero/ Still a very active community project. Didn't see the link posted here in the comments yet, definitely worth checkin
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> [H]e dresses in a suit, pulls out a Bible and urges viewers to pledge a very specific amount of money. "Don't delay, don't delay," he urges, calmly but emphatically ... drawing in viewers who ... are desperate for c
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by symplee 7y ago
Have you graphed elo to number of roll-outs? Where do the diminishing returns kick in? How many elo points do you guess you'd gain if you improved to 10M games per sec? 10B?
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by symplee 7y ago
[--] to collapse as currently implemented (widened) [^^] to collapse all comments within top most parent. Thus making the next top level comment visible. ^ username 2 hours ago [--] [^^] --________--___________---____---____ Mobile cou
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by symplee 7y ago
Can anyone explain movement 38? [1] Two identical gears start moving at the same speed. Suddenly, one gear slows down, then lurches forward at a much faster speed, and then returns to its starting speed. While the other, identically shaped
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by symplee 8y ago
Interactive version: https://pudding.cool/2018/10/city_3d/ Hold Ctrl while clicking/dragging to change 3D z-axis and rotation.
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by symplee 8y ago
Nice, thanks. Do you know if any math textbooks have been translated into code notation?
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by symplee 8y ago
First impression was that it's not immediately clear or intuitive where I was supposed to type my note. "Everything you type here will save automatically." Where is here? The cursor does not default to the text area. So you w
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by symplee 8y ago
Excellent visual explanation by Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA
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by symplee 8y ago
And the Replication crisis continues... [1] Seems like the big secret is small initial sample sizes. For example, the original three Macbeth studies: 60, 27, 32. Later tried with N=153, 148, 266, 210, etc. and surprise surprise... Another e
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by symplee 8y ago
The number of articles about the demise Moore's law doubles every two years.
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by symplee 8y ago
From the article: It came into the solar system, inside 1,000 AU, around 1837. It wasn’t spotted until last year because it was too far from the Sun to reflect enough light for astronomers to pick it up. It's expected to reach the
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by symplee 8y ago
And the remarkable rise of pets.[1] Pets outnumber children 4 to 1 in the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet#Pet_popularity
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by symplee 8y ago
As if humans haven't also hit the barrier of meaning? And yet we've still made unimaginable discoveries. I almost added the word "progress" but I guess that depends on what you find meaningful. The article states: "
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by symplee 8y ago
I wonder how they factored in that red-green color blindness affects up to 8% of males. Should color really be the most important? Would be interesting to see what percentage of accidents are attributed to misreading a symbol vs a color vs
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by symplee 8y ago
Do you need to have the remote job first? If so, the remote salary would probably have already been calibrated. Still interesting though.
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by symplee 8y ago
How can we avoid the disproportionate influence of late information? What if we allowed people to voluntarily "lock in" their votes anytime after the party candidates are chosen? These early votes could only be changed at some cos
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by symplee 8y ago
From the article: Until the product is actually built and tested at commercial scale, it’s too early to say how well or affordably it will really work. Moreover, merely producing a green version of a product for around the same price won
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by symplee 8y ago
Exactly.
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by symplee 8y ago
Who's going to subsidize that?
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by symplee 8y ago
These liquid Norbornadiene Photoswitches have an energy storage density of up to .559 MJ/kg.[1] For comparison: Mechanical Flywheel- 0.36–0.5 Lithium-ion battery- 0.36–0.875 etc...[2] [1] https://www.nature.com/artic
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by symplee 8y ago
Perhaps I'm just not finding the button, but is there a way to run the code? 35 different color themes for the editor is really nice. I got to try a bunch that would be too cumbersome to install in my working environment. Font size cou
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by symplee 8y ago
For markings of such importance, you'd think they would have a standardized stencil. The video of the worker spray painting seems a little too nonchalant, potentially opening the door to misreading. And if standardized, there could eve
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by symplee 8y ago
As if humans haven't also hit the barrier of meaning? And yet we've still made unimaginable discoveries. I almost added the word "progress" but I guess that depends on what you find meaningful. The article states: "
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by symplee 8y ago
The video[1] in the article of the kick defense is pretty crazy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8XoT2-qwQ edit: remove all but the reference to the article's video

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