thelamest

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by thelamest 10y ago
> the machine's intelligence exceeding ours strongly implies (to me, anyway) our inability to predict its behaviour Cognition and affect/motivation get conflated a lot in AI discussions. Motivations don't magically arise f
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by thelamest 10y ago
I don't know about pregnancies, but pareidolia and apophenia are terms in psychology for false positive pattern recognition.
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by thelamest 11y ago
You seem to be painting it as a choice between a libertarian free speech paradise and a totalitarian social justice hell, as if the problem was always and only in the offended.
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by thelamest 11y ago
They used to ruthlessly remove everything without an academic source, however interesting - these days I feel more and more fluff is getting through.
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by thelamest 11y ago
> The Victoria thing was a monumental cluster fuck in one of the most outward facing facets of the company. The main issue (no one to coordinate AMAs) was dealt with in a matter of hours without serious consequences. The "monumental
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by thelamest 11y ago
> the agenda used to rule the masses by fear and security > the wild west of the interwebs > clamp down on everything This is, joking or not, way out of proportion to what happened, which is, a single harassment-focused group was d
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by thelamest 11y ago
On IRC plenty of people who cry about getting a ban or K-line are ridiculed and told to go elsewhere. There is drama there as well, but it's a smaller and less exposed thing.
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by thelamest 11y ago
For some reason there is still lots of inequality in education, work and culture so some sort of change is still needed. And I really don't think you get seriously labeled a bigot just for any criticism of a minority member. > Both
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by thelamest 11y ago
But debt (and banking in general) just increases your available funds from x to, say, ax+b. How the funds are then spent - wastefully or wisely - and how the markets are regulated and react, are another questions. I mean, at least in theory
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by thelamest 11y ago
For that purpose of anonymization it provides encryption, but with significant exceptions (non-hidden, non-HTTPS services) (when you use Tor correctly and can trust the PKI) (if I understand correctly).
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by thelamest 12y ago
The study controlled for cognitive abilities, it's graphed on figure 8c. "Consistent with previous studies linking AFQT scores to racial differences in adult outcomes (for example, Neal and Johnson, 1996; Cameron and Heckman, 2001
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by thelamest 12y ago
I don't think we're talking about police beatings etc., the parallel regards how both women in tech and minority kids in top schools face in general a lot of stereotype specific harassment and threats even when they take large act
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by thelamest 12y ago
18959 units of 4 possible values (nucleotides) is equal to 37918 units of 2 possible values aka bits.
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by thelamest 12y ago
I too would be very interested to see your scripts!
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by thelamest 12y ago
Non-mining nodes just hold and relay validated blocks, they don't do anything that can be hijacked.
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by thelamest 13y ago
OK, so loans taken for purposes of speculation on scarce goods are a Bad Thing. But loans taken to build up real infrastructure and support innovation still seem to be a very valuable service that the financial industry provides.
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by thelamest 13y ago
1. Yes, there are differences between sexes/genders. 2. No, they are not of stereotypical delineation/clarity/scale. If anything, we now know more than ever that while people vary, there is no reason to generalize against any
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by thelamest 13y ago
For a multiplatform solution, I used a MusicBrainz Picard client for batch autoidentification and ID3 correction. However currently I feel that I wasted too many hours of my life hoarding and caring for a local mp3/soulseek library and
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by thelamest 13y ago
It's not like there is a conspiracy against Penrose, there is just a prevailing feeling (which I for one subscribe to) that: "computation via quantum mechanical processes is irrelevant to explaining how brains produce thought, con
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by thelamest 13y ago
If anyone wants to read up on this, the controversy is called Dodo bird verdict ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict ).
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by thelamest 13y ago
I get the sentiment, but attempts at experiments are what makes science a science. Psychology actually drove a lot of progress in statistics, because of the fuzzy character of data.
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by thelamest 13y ago
It's a very nice idea, if you have time, you could aim to incorporate other modern tools: robust statistics (trimmed means etc.), effect sizes, confidence intervals