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by topynate 8y ago
Setting the racial aspect to one side, is there anything of value in "admissions readers" in a gargantuan administrative bureaucracy rating young kids on their "likability"?
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The Most Unreliable Technique in the World to Compute Pi (1998) [pdf](karczmarczuk.users.greyc.fr)
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by topynate 8y ago
Yes, but that was seven years ago, and Things Are Different Now. (Just leafed through their twitter. I'm seeing a lot of the same clique as were involved in the node.js brouhaha last year. Is this conference really worth the fuss?)
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by topynate 8y ago
Anyone can do it. The resulting cryptocurrencies do not have equal acceptance. Neither of these circumstances seem likely to change.
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by topynate 8y ago
Yes, WebMConverter. However, I gather the employee responsible is no longer with them.
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by topynate 9y ago
You can embed the graph of the Moser spindle into the Euclidean plane without its edges crossing, but not in such a way that each edge is straight and of unit length.
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by topynate 9y ago
And if LBJ was possessed of what is now the conventional wisdom about Vietnam (yours), you might have a point. But LBJ was an interventionist liberal anti-Soviet. That's why Prados has an article to write, after all – almost every post
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Leela Zero using volunteer computing to train a reimplementation of AlphaGo(reddit.com)
1 points by topynate 9y ago|0 comments
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by topynate 9y ago
Okay, but it sounds like this technique is targeting learning from a limited number of examples. How does it compare on CIFAR 10 when restricted to ten training images per class? That's the sort of thing that you don't even see in
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by topynate 9y ago
That's interesting, because it is quite improbable that someone would "know personally" several lottery winners at ~590000 to 1 odds, even if his acquaintances routinely bought two tickets a day. GP's post is just a sing
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by topynate 9y ago
The Attic Greeks prized debate – rhetoric – but seemed not to suffer from these problems to quite the same degree. (Their problems were different and retained their interest, I suspect, rather longer than those of North America will. Read P
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by topynate 9y ago
Your sigma is a bijection on rational functions of a, b, not on the evaluations of those functions at particular values of a and b. In lambda notation:* sigma f = \a b -> f (sigma a) (sigma b) = f b a That means sigma f = \a b -> b -
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by topynate 9y ago
>it sounds like they're afraid Gun's post may affect trading of their token. Yes, it works out quite nicely all round. They, by taking his ability to move the market so seriously, grant him social proof that can't be obtai
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by topynate 10y ago
> Unfortunately, I am not aware of any publicly available dataset of (mostly) grammatically correct English. How about books?
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by topynate 10y ago
True enough (I'm in Israel. Hi!) but despite a good measure of international interest, it's the Americans who are most likely to have a strong emotional reaction to this topic. It's their election, after all. I really dislike
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by topynate 10y ago
> Doesn't this just mean that IQ Scores don't measure what they're supposed to? The most cautious defensible position, in my opinion, is that "we can crudely measure a quantity that is related to the folk notion of in
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by topynate 10y ago
Which is one of the more practical reasons a rollback is very, very unlikely to happen. (It would have been fairly unlikely even in the case of ethereum/theDAO, had not the nature of that exploit effectively locked the funds for a mont
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by topynate 11y ago
Is the purpose of a government to do something about climate change in the same way that the purpose of a firefighter is to do something about a burning house? Why?
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by topynate 11y ago
Tolkien's "Black Speech" may have been inspired by Hurrian. I prefer the original in this case, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc
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by topynate 11y ago
Hm, I'd try timing the request so that it's the middle of the night wherever the thief lives. Try once assuming that he lives in America, once assuming Eastern Europe.
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by topynate 11y ago
KSP is really good for exploring gravity assists, actually – they work just the same way in the Keplerian 'patched conics' approximation as in real life. For Newtonian physics, there's Orbiter, which is much more of a simulat
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by topynate 11y ago
Cab drives to cleaners; some dude cleans cab. A few minutes work per day per cab. Maybe the other factors will be of more importance, but I don't see huge labour costs here. Oh, and bonus: hiring an autonomous account will likely invol
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by topynate 11y ago
You're getting bitten by preference falsification, as proposed by Timur Kuran. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
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by topynate 11y ago
(meta) Anything that gets more comments than votes is known to be penalised by the HN ranking algo. Any highly political post like this tends to get more comments than votes, so most of the time it sinks. But, this article is about Sweden,
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by topynate 11y ago
You may be referring to the result that exposing people to evidence contradicting their beliefs actually increases the strength of those beliefs (older than a few months, though). Pop-sci level article at http://youarenotsosmart.
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by topynate 11y ago
Moldbug's fundamental definition of Left and Right is that the most purely Left organisation makes everything political, because everything is effected by persuasion, and the most purely Right organisation makes nothing political, beca
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by topynate 11y ago
Certainly true as a matter of those states' fundamental hypocrisy, but I believe PopeOfNope was referring to the Left's deployment of those terms as offensive weapons - which also happened. For example, the USSR was very big on pa
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by topynate 11y ago
So I suppose there's a sort of intergenerational underground community of advantage players at MIT that these exploits come out of? Hard to imagine that MIT just happens to be the source of unrelated rings.
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by topynate 11y ago
The idea that the old thou/you distinction is finally dying out for good at the start of the 21st century genuinely upsets me.
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by topynate 11y ago
I flatly deny that the process as described is capable of discernment. What happened was: speaker announced, lots of people complain, conference organiser withdraws invitation to avoid focus on "inclusion and/or presence." No

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