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by t_mann 2y ago
There was no discussion. It was a knee-jerk decision by then-chancellor Merkel in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear incident, and constituted pretty much a 180 (relative to the maybe-phase-out-not-clear-when-definitely-not-now that was pret
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by t_mann 2y ago
I'm sure it'd be super quick to build it with the help of an LLM once I know what setup I want. I actually used ChatGPT once for ideation, I'd need look it up again, but what I remember none of the proposed solutions were con
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by t_mann 2y ago
Do you use any plug-ins for that? Obsidian tells me it only supports Obsidian Sync and iCloud out of the box.
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by t_mann 2y ago
Can relate to that sentiment. What I'm still looking for is a simple solution that lets me use simple local files (eg plaintext/markdown; csv or single-page HTML would also be fine) as a backend for a web app (with login, obviousl
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by t_mann 2y ago
> I've often considered trying to document it in some way, but I've no idea where to even start such an effort. LLMs could represent an interesting opportunity not just for linguistic preservation, but also to make smaller lang
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by t_mann 2y ago
> meetups about "how to node.js apolitically" are sidelining people who want "how to node.js pro-socially." This statement did turn me off a bit. "how to node.js apolitically" would in practice ofc just be &
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by t_mann 2y ago
I am curious, have you run into any of the issues with Julia discussed here [0] (also discussed on HN [1])? Those problems would seem particularly troubling at a hedge fund to me, if you have to question the accuracy of your results after c
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by t_mann 2y ago
The theory is making rounds, discussing tech-related news is what this site is about. I don't subscribe to that theory either, much of the evidence seems pretty far-fetched (father's birthday) to counterindicative (sailing trip).
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Jack Dorsey called out as Satoshi Nakamoto(twitter.com)
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by t_mann 2y ago
> He isn't saying that, he's saying he does understand the paper He literally says 'I can't really follow what it's doing', linking to a paper that discusses some issues with instrumental variable regression
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by t_mann 2y ago
Every statistical model makes assumptions. As a general rule, the more mathematically complex the model, the fewer (or weaker) assumptions are made. That's what the complexity is for. So the criticism 'it looks complex, so the a
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by t_mann 2y ago
We don't even need to go into the 2000's. The author openly dismisses Generalized Method of Moments (published in 1982 by Lars Hansen [0]) as a 'complex mathematical technique' that he's 'guessing there are a l
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by t_mann 2y ago
It's hard giving feedback without having seen the paper. I think you need to ask yourself how much you'd value having a peer-reviewed publication and how much effort/frustration tolerance you want to conjure up for this. Gett
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by t_mann 2y ago
Fyi, it's quite common to have a paper rejected on the first (couple of) submission(s). With feedback along the lines of "not interesting enough", it's usually worth it trying it again somewhere else. Sounds like that ve
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by t_mann 2y ago
Nicely said, but I think then we are in agreement that Newtownian mechanics has a bit of redundancy that can be removed by switching to a Lagrangian framework, no? I think that's a situation where Occam's razor can be applied very
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by t_mann 2y ago
Contrary take: "AI founders will learn the bitter lesson" (263 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42672790 the gist: "Better AI models will enable general purpose AI applications. At the same tim
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by t_mann 2y ago
> Epicureanism ... declares pleasure to be its sole intrinsic goal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicureanism What the OP actually says is 'fulfilment can be found through the pleasure of everyday things'
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by t_mann 2y ago
You seem to know more about this than me, but it seems to me that the first law does more than just induce a metric, I've always thought of it as positing inertia as an axiom. There's also more than one way to think about complexi
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by t_mann 2y ago
Newtownian and Lagrangian mechanics are equivalent only in their predictions, not in their complexity - one requires three assumptions, the other just one. Now you say the fact that they have the same predictions makes them equivalent, and
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by t_mann 2y ago
The thing is, Lagrangian mechanics makes exactly the same predictions as Newtownian, and it starts from a foundation of just one principle (least action) instead of three laws, so it's arguably a sparser theory. It just makes calculati
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by t_mann 2y ago
Finding minimum complexity explanations isn't what finding natural laws is about, I'd say. It's considered good practice (Occam's razor), but it's often not really clear what the minimal model is, especially when a
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by t_mann 2y ago
Windows 11 looks like the perfect reason to give UNIX-based systems another try. Literally the only thing that's kept me hooked to Windows are the Office apps. They're baked into so many of my workflows, from creating simple graph
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by t_mann 2y ago
+ keeping it in the front end with local storage
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by t_mann 2y ago
That's no reason to not discuss potentially cool ideas, unless you think their input is so indispensable that any debate is futile without them.
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by t_mann 2y ago
Ok, but what is a good pattern to leverage AI tools for coding (assuming that they have some value there, which I think most people would agree with now)? I could see two distinct approaches: - "App builders" that use some combina
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by t_mann 2y ago
Both are factual, the longer statement has more nuance, which is unsurprising. If the emphasis on the castle and SBF - out of all the things and people you could highlight about EA - concisely gives away that I have a negative opinion of it
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by t_mann 2y ago
Rationalism? The term has been used a lot of times since Pythagoras [0], but the combination of Bay Area, Oxford, existential risks, AI safety makes it sound like this particular movement could have formed in the same mold as Effective Altr
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by t_mann 2y ago
Tesla's investors voted again last year and 70% confirmed they still wanted to award the original package (the court still blocked it, though, btw). Does that change your view?
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by t_mann 2y ago
the post clearly implies that opting for independent hosting instead of creating a subreddit (the admittedly easier route, for community building as well as technologically) for a niche forum indicates a "sense of grandeur"
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by t_mann 2y ago
> For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur". it's a bit sad seeing such a derisive comment about self-hosting on HN

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