wespiser_2018

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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
There's as similar vibro-tactile device, which is a belt you wear and always vibrates strongest in the direction of north, and over time the user would learn or improve their internal navigation. A quick search reveals a company, feelS
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
This exact thing happened to me while I was in self checkout at my local grocery store, and I found myself having the most awkward conversation about my life, goals, and this vague concept of "mentorship". I kept explaining that t
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> People hating on Web3 appear to do so because they aren't makers. That statement is false.
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I'd say it was "hard" all along. The question of computability is challenging in that it requires a good deal of formalism and theory to get anywhere near problems we deal with every day. Take NP-Complete for instance. We kno
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Agreed: even with room scans, you could defeat it by unrolling a giant cheatsheet on timer/remote control, and just stealing glances. Still, ProctorU it's a major deterrence to cheating, I'm just not sure it's worth the
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I'm another reluctant ProctorU user, and using it thrust upon me if I wanted to complete my online master in CS. It's spyware, and it really is that awful. At least for my tests, it's required that you buy an external camera,
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I cannot trust Uber Eats to deliver food that has fries without the driver dipping into them. Twice in the last few months I've gotten a hand off from a greasy fingered driver and a short order of fries. I give myself a break from cook
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
This is sad, but true. One thing I've heard about is flex scheduling, where you don't know your schedule until the last possible minute. Sure, great a project for a guy in IT like me and the VP who manages him back at HQ to get so
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
You don't need to prove statistical properties in deep learning models, but if that was something important, that's something you'd be able to do for any classifier that has positive predictive ability. If a classifier is goo
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Science is inconsistent with astrology: the former is the systematic study of phenomena using reproducible and logical methods, and the later is basically sophistry with no practical value (or hypothetical mechanism) sold to people who eith
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I don't disagree with your most of your assessment, except that I do think we should abolish the the DEA. The war on drugs has been going on for 50 years. At some point, we have to admit that drugs won, and address the crisis in the mo
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Sure, maybe one Jack isn't a big deal, but what about 1000 Jacks? How much economic output would 58,000 thousand early deaths be in a year where we have a labour shortage and a supply chain crisis on our hands? Jack might not be the be
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
What's so fascinating to me, is that the current opiate epidemic is largely centered in the US, as we bear the majority of the deaths. That attitude of Drs. over-prescribing, it definitely happened in the US, to various degrees in diff
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I'm not so sure about this. The most recent, and best, evidence we have on getting folks addicted to substances better is to put them on a coordinated treatment overseen by doctors and implemented by a variety of different healthcare p
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
That's a pretty rudimentary analysis, and the "law of love" doesn't really hold much weight when you start looking at the prognosis for various treatment groups for people with opiate dependency. It's really the abs
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
That's right! in 2011 they switched the formulation of OxyContin. The opiate crisis didn't start then, but it got a whole lot worse! The Sackler decision had a pretty big effect on me. It's hard not to grow up when I did, los
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Pareto law effects on the consumption of drugs, and network effects that result from the fact that the majority of street level dealers are doing it for the sole purpose of supporting their habit? No life ruining class A felony is worth the
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Yes, I was a bit surprised someone thought I was thinking of a free-for-all drug park. Have they not seen The Wire?
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
That's fair: I've been to Zurich in 2019 a few times, and I was amazed by how clean it was. Remarkable. Even compared to a US, east coast city, it was much more cleaner than anything I've seen. However that doesn't mean
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Yes, I'm attributing the later successes to the early efforts. I did a quick google search when I posted the original comment and got the dates for the start of the program, which started as a mess, not much later when they finally int
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Good write up. The US is really grappling with diseases of despair, and heroin/fentanyl addition is on of the biggest ones impacting the wellbeing of our society. A massive slice of talent and raw human resource is just dying every yea
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
This guy was my TA in a GT for a course on Educational Technology. He totally blew off giving me any feedback until the last possible moment, super frustrating experience. I guess now I know where his time went?
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
I don't think it's a question of "saving" soldiers, sadly, but rather, "how much more efficient will they be, especially on the attack. I don't think it's a 0% solution right now: the infantry has a lot of
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Agreed. We've been to space, understand the risks, and have a decent understanding that X dollars pays for Y in LEO. This is an almost entirely greenfield project, so who knows if the deliverables will even be useful.
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
The one piece of this that might end up costing a ton of money is the testing using live soldiers. Each of those deployments, along with all the heavy equipment is a lot of money. I saw they already have 80k hours of soldier feedback, so in
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
A maze or requirement, bureaucracy, and interoperability with existing and TBD systems? Software is expensive to build. Reliable software all that much more. If you consider an alternative, just make an app and stick phone on a rifle, sure,
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Not all evil looks that way to outside observers, unfortunately. I believe that the assumptions of FB that allowed it to get so big, "optimize engagement above all else", built a system that in many ways is at odds with the values
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
What? Chickens understand Positive Punishment, same with Negative Reinforcement. If it has a brain and acts in the real world, learning theory applies, and these are the fundamental by which we learn from our interaction with the world. Not
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There are a lot of DS folks using it for Bayesian Statistics
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by wespiser_2018 5y ago
Excellent write up, great to see some attention paid towards libraries built on top of STAN, and answering questions of uncertainty via Bayesian stats.

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