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by travisjungroth 1y ago
The things that make sense in a 1,000 person company don’t really make sense for 1 person’s hobby. At the same time, the imitation is sometimes the point. It’s like building a model railroad and realizing this isn’t the most efficient way t
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
I don’t want to derail the conversation, but I do want to make an analogy. I’m vegan, and I mostly go to non-vegan restaurants. I’m giving my money to businesses that mostly do something I don’t support. The way I resolve this is “What if e
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
The point is to not be so tight, leaning on the correspondence. The fact that you’re coming at the problem differently (even that it’s a different problem, “for some” versus “for all”) is actually helpful. You’re less likely to make the sam
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
I came here to quote that entire section as well I’m glad I checked the comments first. I’ve never seen a more succinct explanation of the value of coding up scripts to demonstrate proofs. I think I’ll tighten it up to “proofs have bugs” in
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
This article is a criticism of reasoning, not health advice or suggestions for cancer screening. Maybe he should put a big warning at the top, rather than explain it throughout. A lot of people seem to be missing it. We're so used to a
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> For colon cancer, the rates from the SEER data are are 91%, 74%, and 16%. This is the only claim the article makes directly about colon cancer. Otherwise, it's saying that early detection being beneficial isn't supported by s
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
The strengthening of the jaw during childhood leads to a larger jaw, and more room for teeth. Our jaws are too small. "Straightening" (like I said earlier) isn't exactly correct. This whole topic is debated.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> All corporations are devoid of inherent nature. > There is no inherent nature whatsoever. > What is inherently existing is empty. > What is empty is inherently existing. Nāgārjuna vs Delaware
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
Harder diets were more common in ancient humans, and straighten teeth in childhood. I don’t know what the diet was like in 1800.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
Shorts and full length videos have similar attributes. Both have good, life enriching stuff (tutorials, performances) and both have the downside of being addictive and often hollow (or downright empty). The difference is the Shorts format t
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> However, name any major policy initiative that he's undertaken that is bad for the "country". As a whole. This is a ridiculous standard. Each of his policies (individually) only hurting some Americans is not a flex.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
You have the causality mixed up. It’s not bad because they’re doing it. They’re doing it and it’s bad.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
I think open source software took off because it’s more standalone than the other things you listed and this makes the rewards much higher. If I write some code, it needs a computer and environment to run. If I’m writing for what’s popular,
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
This is called the curse of knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
I love this. I think you could simplify it by generalizing. Something like immutability. These keys can’t be changed, only an object destroyed and another created. A case of that is a primary key (maybe that’s the only case). You can always
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
Can confirm, about to board an airplane with an air stair in Peru. An A320, actually.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
Based on the article, this seems like a recipe for overcooking pasta.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
There’s an American fear of “not enough”. I think the overboiled pasta is informed by a fear of undercooked food, but also just this general not-enoughness. It’s the same fear that makes someone buy a truck that can hold the biggest load th
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> The amount of both matter and labor per quantity of computing power is dropping exponentially. Right? Right. The problem is the demand is increasing exponentially. It’s not like when computers got 1000x more powerful we were able to ge
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
They still depend on physical resources and labor. They’re made by people and machines. There’s never been more resources going into information systems than right now, and AI accelerated that greatly. Think of all the server farms being bu
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> Progress in information systems cannot be compared to progress in physical systems. > For starters, physical systems compete for limited resources and labor. > Finally, the underlying substrate of software is digital hardware… Se
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
They’re not confused. It’s an analogy.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
My point is more like Australia is normally considered part of the West, even though it shares longitudes with China and Japan. “The West” and “Western longitudes” really breaks down in the Southern hemisphere. It also breaks down in other
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
It’s because to make it work you split just half the equator. Think of the prime meridian and the antimeridian (by the date line). They make a circle that goes all the way around like the equator, but you only split on half.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
The West only makes sense in the Northern Hemisphere. I’m in Peru right now, and people talk about the local cultures in comparison to Western culture and I find it kind of confusing. They’re certainly not Eastern here. It gets unconfusin
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> What would you like to see? A model that shows the optimal move for a fighter at any point in time. You don’t actually have this. It can maybe be theoretically done, but not in practice.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> You can literally model this. Show me.
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
> If you have a big effect you’ll see it even with small data. That’s in line with what I was saying so I’m not sure where I missed the point. P-value a function of effect size, variance and sample size. Bigger wins would be those that h
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
Completely agree. The sign up flow for your startup does not need the same rigor as medical research. You don’t need transportation engineering standards for your product packaging, either. They’re just totally different levels of risk. I c
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by travisjungroth 1y ago
There are multi armed bandit algorithms for this. I don’t know the names of the public tools. This is especially useful for something where the value of the choice is front loaded, like headlines.

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