tw1010

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by tw1010 9y ago
Does anything have an evolutionary "purpose"? I mean really. Why, really, is the human tailbone less "purposeful" than our hair?
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by tw1010 9y ago
But would it work on a spacecraft? (Without gravity?)
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by tw1010 9y ago
"Never"?
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think you underestimate how adaptable humanity is, and how much desire it has to survive. If it turns out that there are huge negative effects a few generations down the line, I really doubt that humanity (which is naive on an individual
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by tw1010 9y ago
I would be careful taking that stuff too seriously. It's ok as entertainment though.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Sure, but at least that's a choice. When I was a kid and heard "enjoy it while it lasts" I imagined being an adult as being chained under some big rock called "responsibility". But it really isn't. If you'
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by tw1010 9y ago
Manipulation is the game they're playing, that is the whole market. Fuzz your eyes to abstract the details of the art pieces and only look at the social structure around it, and that's all the information you need to predict dem
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by tw1010 9y ago
Meh, you can be plenty reckless when you're old as well. There's always parties. I wish I had realized this when I was younger. It would have made me feel a lot less angsty about "wasting the best years on my life" on co
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by tw1010 9y ago
Government shutdown fatigue
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by tw1010 9y ago
Yes, it's a lot. But imagine the opposite. Imagine nothing new came out, and everything just stagnated. Evolution, experimentation, testing things out, this is a good thing.
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by tw1010 9y ago
You're confusing linear regression and least squares. (They're connected but not identical in that way.) Least squares gives the closest orthagonal (perpendicular) projection onto the range of the matrix. The slide is correct.
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by tw1010 9y ago
It's way more fun to know how to derive least squares than to memorize some formula: https://see.stanford.edu/materials/lsoeldsee263/05-ls.pdf (page 4)
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by tw1010 9y ago
"Company: Thing we have sunk massive amounts of cost into is a bigger deal than sliced bread."
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by tw1010 9y ago
Is there a name for the fact that articles that start with "Why are ...?", that promise to explain some curiosity, tend to almost never give a satisfying answer? (Usually because it just reports on some small incremental research
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by tw1010 9y ago
I don't see how a jobless steady state is compatible with the zero-sum game that is the natural desire, in all of us, for power and sex.
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by tw1010 9y ago
People are surprisingly unimaginative about the richness of reality.
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by tw1010 9y ago
"No-one wants to sit in front of a computer screen for 12 hours per day." "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
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by tw1010 9y ago
Oh, I definitely have.
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is obviously a response to an earlier post. This seems to happen a lot. Posts inspiring links, inspiring even more branches. It'd be interesting to apply one of those bioinformatics algorithms for computing the phylogenetic tree o
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by tw1010 9y ago
Just curious, if he loses this, in what range would the monetary costs that he'd have to shoulder lie?
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by tw1010 9y ago
The "math genius" Jason Padgett mentioned in the article has drawn a bunch of pretty pictures, but has authored zero research papers. Unless you define genius by how capable you are of impressing non-experts outside the field, how
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by tw1010 9y ago
Sure, but you'd think we would shift our focus to using models explicitly tailored with that aim in mind. Using something that explicitly approximates a desired, precise, foundation. Perhaps parameterized by model accuracy. I would thi
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is such a fun observation. Physicists originally used differential equations to describe large scale, yet fundamentally atomistic, behaviour because, I assume, that was easier to work with using pen and paper than by using some more di
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by tw1010 9y ago
I had a real hard time reading this post without being disoriented by the lack of capitalization.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I take all my investment lessons from movies.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Attention-grabbing headlines and bad research has conditioned me to not update my beliefs based on anything that I only briefly stumble upon like this. There might have been a time when reading an article like this would blow my mind, and m
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is true almost everywhere. What's truly astonishing is that there actually exists a place on earth with cultural norms that encourage disruption rather than try to suppress it. I don't think people really appreciate how histo
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by tw1010 9y ago
Your heart doesn't seem to be in it. Don't fall for sunk-cost. Cut your losses and go for something where polish and quick iteration is the highest priority (removing all fluff like configuration files and clean and structured cod
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by tw1010 9y ago
It sounds like a cool game, on paper. But listen, you can't have both (1) a desire for the game to become popular (which, even if you say you don't, is implicit in your behaviour since the reason you seem to be burned out is becau
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by tw1010 9y ago
That article is about CES. It mentions her name once in the first paragraph and then never again.

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