vladTheInhaler

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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
The Grid was by reservation. Bourbon and Branch is still open (or was before COVID). It has a whole song and dance routine to get into its special rooms [1]. I've only been to the "regular" bar. [1] https://www.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
There are at least two that I can think of in SF. Bourbon and Branch has bookcases inside bookcases, and The Grid was hidden behind an arcade machine.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
As usual, it's difficult to take statements by Russian officials at face value. Russia has been demanding more funding for its continued participation, relief from sanctions etc. And meanwhile, their Nauka module threatened to spin t
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Well the ISS orbits at R_earth + 400 km. So it wouldn't be nearly as bad as that number makes it sound.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I give your argument a B-. Not for any particular reason. I just felt like it. Was that a good use of your time? Many different groups have mutually conflicting expectations about what grades are supposed to be for. But one thing I thin
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
To elaborate a bit on what another commenter said, the Republican party's whole premise is that government is bad, and we should have less of it. Since they are the government, it is easy to obstruct and oppose any attempt to actual
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
As another poster indicates, that's specifically not the case. Most possible arithmetic problems of reasonable size aren't anywhere in the dataset, but it can solve them with pretty good accuracy.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Are you maybe referring to the alternative formulation described in [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter#Information_filt...
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Here is a proposed high-speed rail system with a route across Nebraska: https://www.vox.com/2021/3/10/22303355/gen-z-high-speed-rail...
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
> All things that are not needed. > There is some need for that. I see. > Trains should never serve food or drink. Passengers can get off the train at a station. There aren't going to be stations all across Nebraska or what ha
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I'm going to need you to unpack that a bit. Isn't interacting with an environment and observing the result exactly what natural cognition does? What area of machine learning do you feel is closer to how natural cognition works?
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Over the very long term. But that's because people who get more deadly forms tend not to create as many new cases on account of them being dead. The long term trend isn't very comforting for those people, I imagine.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
If we had simulations that could tell us how contagious a disease would be just from its genome, that would be earth-shattering. But since we don't that's not really the sort of question a simulation can solve. But I think it sh
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
This raises a point that I have been pondering for a while. When we are living in a "state of nature" we have a very small circle of concern, mostly around things like finding enough food, avoiding predators, and creating shelter.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
There are a few issues here. 1) COVID-19 is not a static, singular disease. Now that it is circulating widely in the human population it has the potential to mutate, as it already has several times. SARS had a mortality rate on the order
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I wonder if there is a way to poison an oil well, so that it becomes un-economical to purify. Chemical separation is obviously what the whole petrochemical industry is about , so maybe something like injecting radioactive material. Then
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I was interested in a build like this a few years back, but I was put off by the price of the sensors. Seems like not much has changed, unfortunately.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
My understanding is that some systems, for instance in Germany, have a system like this. The employees have elected representatives on the board of directors, giving them a direct say in corporate policies.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
> There's no good (or even sub-par) reason(s) to remain in the ME any more. The United States never should have involved itself in Afghanistan. But we did. As far as I am concerned, we created a moral obligation to the people of A
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
The example you're thinking of is actually in gridworld [1]. As you allud to, one of the parameters of the model is the cost of simply being alive for an additional time-step. If the cost is negative (a reward), then the agent will j
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Okay, 50% worse or something I could maybe buy, but 1000%? You're giving a single bureaucrat way too much credit. People always seem to believe that there was some magical time when San Francisco was an artist's refuge, and the r
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I suspect that those riding without helmets might actually be cheaper to treat. If you survive an accident but get your foot degloved, and you need an amputation and a prosthetic and months of physical therapy, and then a hip replacement y
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
You might be interested in Peak, by Anders Ericson. The author mentions him briefly, but the book is well worth reading. He looks at the case of Benjamin Franklin, and some of the strategies he used. In brief, he found pieces of writing
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Because it makes the point that congress is completely paralyzed on most major issues, largely because of of the filibuster. They are leaving it to the executive branch and the courts to effectively write the laws. This is an enormous sys
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Except that Covid isn't just one disease, and immunity is a moving target. If you got the original variant back in February 2020, that may or may not protect you from a new variant with new mechanisms for evading/suppressing immu
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Yeah, not surprising at all. When I interned there, there was a whole onboarding segment about network security that constantly made reference to a huge hack that had apparently happened and IIRC slowed their internal email system to a cra
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I've seen both responses from people I know. One person has always been a bit of a workaholic, and used work as sort of a coping mechanism for anxiety. As one might imagine, they started working much much longer hours. Another perso
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
I mean there are a lot of questions that can be posed, but are computationally intractable to answer. Think of the traveling salesman problem. Or worse - the halting problem.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
Wow, that story was so much more depressing than the title let on. I was hoping for some sort of work on allocating resources for contact tracing or something.
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by vladTheInhaler 5y ago
DeSantis has definitely made things worse by playing chicken with the cruise lines over vaccines.

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