thedragonline

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by thedragonline 2y ago
What are you talking about? I spent years munging climate datasets from various research institutes around the world. The upshot: it doesn't look good for humanity. I seriously don't understand how a neutral third party can walk a
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by thedragonline 2y ago
Yeah it did. I'm just sad that it took down ActionScript with it. IMO this is the language Javascript should have been.
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by thedragonline 2y ago
From the mouth of John Roberts himself: "courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority." This is not going to end well.
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by thedragonline 2y ago
As an aside, I've always wondered how society will drive the response to climate change into a ditch - it'll be at the hands of lawyers (because, you know, they are policy experts).
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by thedragonline 3y ago
>People who have worked in the second type of environment (deadlines are real and have consequences) become quite good at estimating and managing progress toward deadlines without crunch mode at the end.< I don't know. In my expe
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by thedragonline 3y ago
There is work to do in this world that offers no remuneration or very difficult paths to said remuneration.
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by thedragonline 3y ago
Work must always revolve around a pecuniary interest at all times?
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by thedragonline 3y ago
Anecdata: I tell a relative that climate is going to get hotter and more variable and that said relative should be concerned that an unaffordable electricity bill may be in the cards (Houston anyone?). Relative's response: the governin
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by thedragonline 3y ago
I spent half a decade working with climate data from institutions around the world. There are dragons in those datasets and it is really frustrating to watch denialism at large and have to deal with it personally.
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by thedragonline 3y ago
I'm actually not as opposed to belt tightening as you might think. I just get aggravated seeing narratives without a whiff of empirical evidence to support them. (I've informally studied economics and probably know enough to be da
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by thedragonline 3y ago
Let's set the rhetoric aside. What debt to gdp ratio would be reasonable? Do you have any sources to support said ratio?
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by thedragonline 3y ago
OK. Let's take the U.S. out of the equation and look at Japan's inflation - https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi . Hmmm... you'd expect with the 'unsustainable' government spending i
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by thedragonline 3y ago
>It’s so clear this isn’t sustainable. Maybe. Having that much debt is problematic in a household budget. However, governments are a different animal - just look at Japan's debt to gdp ratio ( https://www.imf.org/exte
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by thedragonline 3y ago
FWIW, I don't have kids. And given what I've seen in the data, don't intend to.
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by thedragonline 3y ago
IMO, it seems these people exist to muddy the waters. I spent half a decade munging temperature and precip data from multiple institutions around the world (MPI, fer instance). These datasets suggest an unpleasant future, particularly by mi
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by thedragonline 3y ago
Let me contextualize that "some" for you: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=17rEg Real wages have effectively flat-lined over the past 50+ years.
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by thedragonline 3y ago
I'm not sure removing options from the desperate and dying is a good idea. Those with means will just ignore your concerns and the rest will have _nothing to lose_.
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by thedragonline 4y ago
I miss AS. I used it to build a gis engine that packed 5D into what superficially looked like 2D - item renderers helped make that happen. It is aggravating to no end to watch people pile on Flash for its faults - they either don't und
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by thedragonline 4y ago
I wonder if gpt3 has a use case here?
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by thedragonline 4y ago
Uh, then don't use it? Problem solved methinks.
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by thedragonline 4y ago
Definitely. There is a weird elision on the author's part that other forms of artistic creativity exist. FWIW there is plenty of room at the bottom for those artists that can pull together the tenuous threads between seemingly incompat
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Baby formula supply shortage and oligopolistic interests(mattstoller.substack.com)
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by thedragonline 5y ago
Ex: A down arrow button attached directly to the right side of the year input field. Make it a deeper blue and then wrap a 1 or 2 pixel wide rectangle around the field itself of that same color.
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by thedragonline 5y ago
>I think this is obviously false and hurts the credibility of the rest of this comment. What you think of this graph? https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ Because by my reading, it looks like the average Americ
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by thedragonline 5y ago
Yeah you should have. I was about to comment on how toxic this kind of worldview is, but held back. At any rate, this kind of thinking ensures a world where opportunity is increasingly siloed such that even the best and brightest wind up l
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by thedragonline 5y ago
Interesting. Do you have a concrete example that would illuminate the connection?
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by thedragonline 6y ago
This quote strikes me as something quite apropos to your Father's difficulties: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." Anatole Fra
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by thedragonline 6y ago
I've already built a working model (at least it appears that way). I'm looking for any research involving non-representational, low resolution imagery (3x3) - I haven't seen anything that rules out working with this kind of d
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by thedragonline 6y ago
I personally suspect that there are surprises in store for me by rooting around in this space. I have a .caffemodel that appears to correctly label better than chance, so my next step is to create a test dataset that's independent of o
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by thedragonline 6y ago
The pooling layers are gone along with the first RELU. I've also reduced the number of outputs in each convolution layer.

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