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by topaz0 4y ago
I've had mine for 5.5 years. Still working great.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Fixing eval is almost exactly what the OP does. It's not that hard. Everyone who has written a toy lisp can do it.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Aside from the universe, there's a very practical point related to this, which is that the instrument has other resonances besides those of the strings. E.g. I have read that the frames of harpsichords are tuned to particular resonance
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by topaz0 4y ago
I think the key difference is that playing go is about winning (at least, presumably that's what the AI is optimized for). Music is not. (I also agree with others in this thread that the popular commitment to equal temperament is exagg
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by topaz0 4y ago
Some old style organs that are not "well-tempered" have split keys for some notes, so that you can choose D# vs Eb (for example), depending what else is going on.
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by topaz0 4y ago
That's what I'm talking about (though I guess the "thousand years" estimate was slightly high). Why did it take hundreds of years after the introduction of zero to get "the zeroth element of a sequence", which
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by topaz0 4y ago
And even if it was an instruction for every access, memory access is much more expensive than and add (at least nowadays -- I don't know if that's always been true).
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by topaz0 4y ago
The romans weren't the only people who knew how to count back then... And how many of the other (presumably arbitrary) choices for smallest number were zero? And why did it take over one thousand years to come up with ordinal "zer
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by topaz0 4y ago
The programming languages that I use most often can all represent empty arrays just fine. Of course, indexing into them is an error. But defining them is commonplace, and not being able to define them would make a lot of my code a lot more
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by topaz0 4y ago
Rulers, clocks, and speedometers measure continuous quantities, i.e. ℝ. The natural numbers are irrelevant there.
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by topaz0 4y ago
If there were any justice in the world, they'd start at 2, as a handicap. They might even make it out of the bottom of the NL east if that was the case.
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by topaz0 4y ago
Speak for yourself. I brag about driving a 2013 transit connect.
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by topaz0 4y ago
This is my interpretation as well. Also weird to think about publication bias in this way: "these studies about the effectiveness of snake oil as a drug weren't published, so we must be overestimating how effective drugs are"
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by topaz0 4y ago
I understand (and understood) what you are getting at. But if you don't stop and think about what that same (substantial) money might mean to a person in a different position in society, that is pretty solipsistic.
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by topaz0 4y ago
The money is just as substantial, you just don't feel it as much.
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by topaz0 4y ago
What they should really do is take those productivity gains and use them to allow the same number of workers to do less work each, for the same pay.
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by topaz0 4y ago
The article claims the writers are Indian.
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by topaz0 4y ago
People in this thread have extremely optimistic expectations of the police. In this country at least, the police don't protect poor people, kids or no. It's not what they're spending their time doing.
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think the most egregious thing about the original presentation is that it leads you to believe that people with a given skill level all self-assessed similarly. If you plotted the scores and self-assessments of each individual you would s
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think the other piece that has been glossed over a bit is that DK are using quantiles (for both the test and the self-assessment). That means everything is bounded by 0 and 1, and you can't underestimate your performance if it was po
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by topaz0 5y ago
For what it's worth, the rest of the thread is a good read.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Thanks for the context. My comment was not intended as an indictment of the post. It's an interesting problem and the missing physics is clearly not trivial. All I mean to say here is that I think saying "no one knows" trivia
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by topaz0 5y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying the gaps are not interesting or economically important, and I am not belittling the work that the tweeter does. I'm willing to entertain the possibility that my rephrase is too extreme. But I'd sti
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by topaz0 5y ago
"No one knows why this device works" --> "There are still some small gaps in our understanding of the details of this device's performance"
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by topaz0 5y ago
The irony is that Windows is literally all about Bill Gates trying to microchip you.
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by topaz0 5y ago
While it's not particularly widespread, there are places in the US where grad students have been unionized for decades. The Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin are two of the oldest, dating from the 70s iirc. As a grad student falli
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think GP was amazed by the sheer number of dependencies, not by the how many of them are duplicated. It also amazes me. People talking above about having 10s of GB of dependencies. Crazy to me.
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by topaz0 5y ago
Note that the article is not about denigrating the algorithms, and is instead entirely about the license restrictions.
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by topaz0 5y ago
I think that just means it has tendrils into the Ubuntu ecosystem stuff like package management. People have ported equivalent things to other distros though, e.g.: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/regolith-full
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by topaz0 5y ago
I'm not sure... you can run it with a -nojvm flag, which turns off the ui but still gives you an interpreter, but I'm not sure if that means "no java at all" or something more specific.

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