tmoertel

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by tmoertel 3mo ago
Why do we have legislated cliffs instead of gradients? Because approximately nobody understands lerp. And linear interpolation is the simplest (nontrivial) gradient scheme. Consequently, we get cliffs or, if we're lucky, lookup tables
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
> You can't unit test for taste if you haven't written down what you mean by taste. If you can externalize it, then you can. I'm not so sure. For instance, you can write down what it means for a program to be free of XSS a
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Nifty! What motivated you to create these tools?
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Yes, you are technically correct (the best kind), but when s is much smaller than g , then s /( s + g ) and s / g are approximately equal.
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Yeah, this is a promising solution to scalping. Previously, if you had only small numbers of consoles available at launch, scalpers and their bots would claim a large share of them. With Valve's new policy, that share is reduced to s&
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Startup to trial drug to prevent cancer therapy side-effect 'cytokine storm'(theguardian.com)
4 points by tmoertel 4mo ago|0 comments
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Publisher reviewing 2 more papers on glyphosate safety over ghostwriting claims(retractionwatch.com)
4 points by tmoertel 4mo ago|2 comments
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Okay, here's what I still don't understand. Were the things he was “making a huge stink about in every training” true or false? Reports at the time claimed that he was ”perpetuating harmful stereotypes,” but other reporting claime
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
> James Damore was a poorly educated person. He didn't understand how to use statistics and decided to use them in a hateful way. What statistical argument did Damore make?
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
What other things did he do to make you believe he was “kind of unhinged”? I know about the memo thing, but I think it was covered in an inflammatory way because the press loves to play up a controversy. What else besides the memo incident
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
> It is only a true value if you are willing to do the right thing when you cannot get away with doing the right thing. In reality, neither corporate nor personal values are binary, all-or-none propositions. They are more like springs th
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Do they still have the "Stump The Experts" event at WWDC? You know, where you ask Apple engineers a technical question about their work and, if they can't answer it, you win a t-shirt with tree stumps on it.
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
I made a quick web app that lets me easily perform Bayesian evidence updates for a set of competing hypotheses. You drop your hypotheses into rows. Then for each piece of evidence, you add a column and fill its values with the odds of obser
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
Our mission is to cure or prevent all disease Okay, now you have my attention. What's the deal on the company behind it? “Biohub is a 501(c)(3) biomedical research organization...” Nonprofit. Nifty! This all sounds great, but as we h
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
I suspect that someone at Google has read economist Albert O. Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice, and Loyalty [1]. The central idea is that when people are unhappy with a relationship between themselves and, say, a firm, they have b
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
On top of what you wrote, Memegen is not representative of opinions among Googlers. Memegen, like most social media, focuses on the extremes. You'll see a lot of spicy takes, but that's not what the typical Googler thinks. For a m
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Building Bauble(ianthehenry.com)
2 points by tmoertel 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 4mo ago
And, as always, flagging will be abused to downrank content that people/bots/spammers/scummy-businesses/etc. would prefer you not to see.
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Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit(newsletter.semianalysis.com)
41 points by tmoertel 4mo ago|9 comments
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
I'm curious. What specifically about my comment made you believe it was a test and that I would be assigning grades to responses, as opposed to an idea for which I invited criticism?
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> Would you advocate for a 0% capital gains tax? Or a capital gains tax-break? How would you calculate the ideal number? (I would place capital gains tax included in income tax.) I wouldn't advocate for any particular tax rate for c
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
For context, here is the first paragraph of the book's preface: How best to perform construction work and what it will cost for materials, labor, plant and general expenses are matters of vital interest to engineers and contractors. T
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
For anyone wondering what the "OTP" part is in Erlang/OTP, it is a set of libraries and associated principles that, in effect, standardize the creation of highly reliable, fault-tolerant applications, originally for the telec
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> What are the incentives for corrupt people to fix potholes under a purely capitalist economy? Well, in a purely capitalist economy, the answer would be property rights, competition, and liability. For example, a road would be owned by
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
First, thanks for continuing this interesting conversation! > Let me try and repeat it back. Resource allocation is a zero-sum game within any given year, resource production increases yearly as technology increases, technology increases
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
If that's what you think is happening – tests and grades – when people come to a site whose purpose is to foster thoughtful and substantive discussions, and then on that site they share ideas and invite criticism of them, you might con
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> I think enshittification, cost externalization, and rent-seeking behavior cancel [general societal benefits] out. While I agree that the factors you cited are drags on the economy, I think historical evidence suggests strongly that the
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
I didn't ignore that part. I interpreted it as your way of saying that you intended to state your opinion without offering supporting argument.
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> Low capital gains tax incentivizes investment and venture capital, so the rich can grow their wealth faster than the poor, while creating a job market. You forgot the most important part. Let me add it for you: "Low capital gains
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by tmoertel 5mo ago
> Not gp, but if the investment is made in either a non-productive asset, or in the secondary market toi buy share in a company that is downsizing/stabilizing their investments..., then the wealth does not benefit society in gener

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