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by voldacar 5y ago
> And at the end you seem to be proposing the fact that they haven't faked a zoonotic origin is evidence that it was lab-created? That sounds backwards. You actually sort of can make that argument, yeah. At this point, with the lab
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by voldacar 5y ago
I had a longer response but my browser crashed so I'll just try to summarize my thoughts. Our disagreement basically comes down to how we assign priors. I'm not really sure how productive a debate on priors can be because it'
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by voldacar 5y ago
I didn't add that because I don't think it's really all that compelling. People and biomass get moved around all the time. I don't think the geographical distance really affects the probability by much.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I am honored!
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by voldacar 5y ago
The tail risk of taking viruses and deliberately making them more dangerous is not even comparable to the tail risks of flying, driving, or (imo) operating nuclear power plants. This is either a profoundly ignorant statement or just disinge
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by voldacar 5y ago
Consider the following scenarios from a Bayesian perspective: - an outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city - an outbreak of a novel virus occurs in a city with a virus lab - an outbreak of a novel coronavirus occurs in a city with a viru
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by voldacar 5y ago
Here is a nice short video on how that works: youtube.com/watch?v=2iK3Hw2o_uo
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by voldacar 5y ago
I can set up my own mail server that is completely under my control. So no, it's not even remotely like forcing everyone to have an email address.
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by voldacar 5y ago
When can I get one that's several feet x several feet in dimensions, like an actual painting's canvas? Eink has been around for several years now but apparently they are unable to just make a big panel? That combined with their id
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by voldacar 5y ago
This is not even remotely schizoposting
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by voldacar 5y ago
That plus the inverted population pyramid. It's certainly plausible
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by voldacar 5y ago
When you create a sharp discontinuity in the marginal cost of hiring someone, expect companies to act accordingly. It would be irrational not to. Blame the system of shitty incentives
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by voldacar 5y ago
All three of those are on libgen just so you know
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by voldacar 5y ago
because they're a new account? or for some other reason
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by voldacar 5y ago
From github tos: >We do not allow anyone to use our platform in direct support of unlawful attacks that cause technical harms, such as using GitHub as a means to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure Why are they stil
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by voldacar 5y ago
or the 99.999...% of real numbers which are uncomputable
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by voldacar 5y ago
Yeah the shitty terminology can be blamed on Descartes. I think Gauss wanted to rename them "lateral numbers" but I guess that never stuck
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by voldacar 5y ago
>the underlying quantum states and governing equations involve imaginary numbers, and there’s no simple way to remove them Sure you can. Just replace any complex number a+bi with the 2x2 real matrix of the form [[a,-b],[b,a]]. It is easy
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by voldacar 5y ago
Elizondo is a very sus character. He talks and talks but has produced nothing of any substance
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by voldacar 5y ago
Beautiful imagery, reminds me of playing around with fractal software as a kid. You could probably get a wider variety of image by adding more nonlinearity to the mix - As far as I can tell, this system is just iterating rotation and scalin
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by voldacar 5y ago
How can a search engine know what is true?
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by voldacar 5y ago
>greater changes in markers of tissue damage in regions functionally-connected to the primary olfactory cortex >These mainly limbic brain imaging results may be the in vivo hallmarks of a degenerative spread of the disease via olfacto
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by voldacar 5y ago
I want my window into the internet to be completely unmediated. A search engine should just search the web for information that you type in, and then show you the results. It should be a pure function. The opinions or desires of any corpora
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by voldacar 5y ago
> There are a lot of radars tracking objects in low earth orbit. If there were objects the Nimitz radar could see in orbit "for centuries or more" we'd have seen them a very long time ago. I'm struggling to make sense
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by voldacar 5y ago
So as americans have been eating more and more Omega-6 & PUFAs over the last century or so, they've been getting healthier and healthier, right? Maybe you can share some more predictions of your model.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Those are good, I also really like Visual Complex Analysis
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by voldacar 5y ago
The EU couldn't sustain the level of proportional military spending that the USA does, maybe with the exception of Germany but they still spend around half as much as a share of gdp as the US does, so that would be an enormous shift. F
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by voldacar 5y ago
yes, that's my point
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by voldacar 5y ago
I guess I didn't see that. But he's still using continuous where the correct term would be differentiable
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by voldacar 5y ago
it's ugly and doesn't feel like a first class citizen of the language

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