tw1010

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by tw1010 9y ago
To dismiss something because there is a lack of scientific research about it is just as irrational as believing in something despite strong evidence against it.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Could anyone explain to me a scenario where bitcoin and/or blockchain does not make a huge impact on the world within 5-10 years? There seems to be so much excitement and real action moving in its direction that I have a hard time im
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by tw1010 9y ago
How does the fact that banks hold a fraction of their assets in a central bank put pressure on companies to grow exponentially? I'm curious, I don't understand the connection.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Hence, since there's a whole lot of Vs in the wikipedia graph, he's probably going to be satisfied with an approximate solution, unless he has a lot of CPU hours to spare.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Does anyone know what the "diameter" of the wikipedia graph is? In other words, what is the longest shortest path between two wikipedia articles?
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by tw1010 9y ago
I doubt being pissy against the recruiter is a good strategy for actually getting hired. It might score you a few bro points on HN though.
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by tw1010 9y ago
This makes a good case for not learning machine learning three years ago. If you wait long enough for new paradigms to coagulate, you can use your energy more wisely during the chaotic transient period (e.g. by spending your effort on time-
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by tw1010 9y ago
The author can't really be totally certain if they lost money though, since it's entirely possible the ad will make an effect on people long-term. Maybe they'll break even in a few months, who knows.
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by tw1010 9y ago
That's amazing. Grey hat hacking for social good. Sometimes you need to exploit the inefficiencies you're bothered by to illustrate their weakness, which hopefully makes society patch it up.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Triplebyte doesn't support applicants from outside the US.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Mark Cuban says a lot of things
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by tw1010 9y ago
Well, it made a lot more sense why the original article was exciting. The updated article, with all due respect, is hard to parse for a non-expert.
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by tw1010 9y ago
"Temporarily" could be added to the headline.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I used to be just as sceptical as you. (And I still am about traditional game theory.) But then I stumbled into evolutionary game theory, which seems much more robust. Have you read anything about it? What's your take? Apparently ESS h
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by tw1010 9y ago
Isn't the (only) problem with game theory that the actor optimization function is inappropriate? Rationality as an assumption is the problem. But everything else, all the derived higher order structure above that seems, in my eyes, to
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by tw1010 9y ago
Ctrl-f
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by tw1010 9y ago
> Posting multiple updates [...] to a trending or popular topic [...] with an intent to subvert or manipulate the topic [...] is never allowed. Good thing intent is super easy to infer without ambiguity.
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by tw1010 9y ago
It would be interesting if beyond the free access to services we get from companies selling our data, we also actually got payed. Maybe that could act as a bootstrapped first approximation of basic income. Get money by doing nothing, just s
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by tw1010 9y ago
"Struggle" would imply they're actually trying. People do what is incentivized, and as long as reliability is placed towards the bottom of the priority latter, it won't improve.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Just learn to emulate his mannerisms. Fake it till you make it.
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by tw1010 9y ago
So how close are we to applying this to our own brains and making the "I know Kung fu" scene from the matrix a reality?
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“Brain” in a Dish Acts as Autopilot Living Computer (2005)(research.ufl.edu)
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by tw1010 9y ago
Naive/silly question: are we getting anywhere near actually being able to exploit all these "natural computers" that exist in the wild? Are we getting close to being able to use the brain of a moth to compute things with high
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by tw1010 9y ago
To anyone who has a good feel for this space. Where do you think all this is heading in a 3-5 year time period? What is the medium-term vision like? I'm just curious.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Maybe a better question is if it increases or decreases the aggregate wellness of the individuals in our society. (Using a sort of utilitarian metric to motivate our actions.) Maximizing GDP does not necessarily correlate with what we actua
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by tw1010 9y ago
I love when facts contradict socially propagated truth, and we actually change our minds as a consequence. That update mechanism is one of the biggest sources of faith in humanity I can think of.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I would say that's a problem with video (or a live lecture), not with a book. Books give you all the time in the world to pause and reflect.
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by tw1010 9y ago
You could ask the same question about all people from a long time ago. Why are William S. Burroughs or William F. Buckley so weird (in our modern eyes)? They're not really weird. They were perfectly normal in their historical context a
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by tw1010 9y ago
That would mean we had a perfect understanding of our biology and how chemicals effect the brain. It would mean having perfect predictive power about the future. That's when the fun starts.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Naive question: are entities allowed to film you on private property without any kind of warning or sign that they are doing so?

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