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by westoncb 6y ago
Maybe all the information you're actually basing this stance on is through hours of listening to podcasts and reading long-form blog posts—but the only things you're citing as evidence are tweets, and the group of them suffers fro
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But in the patient's complaint about X, wouldn't X just be another symptom? For instance, let's say a patient complains of a headache. The doctor uses whatever other knowledge they have of the patient to come up with some can
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by westoncb 6y ago
Hmm. So that looks like two separate issues to me, but maybe I'm missing something. I see: 1. Additional always-present criterion of distress 2. Knowledge of prior base rates as a means of estimating a proportion of false positives. Th
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by westoncb 6y ago
> That is not what eugenics is You are concluding that an accomplished scientist in evolutionary biology has a shallow understanding of evolution on the basis of a tiny linguistic sample, with an argument that hinges on the definition of
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> This is approximately the same phenomenon that causes medical students to self-diagnose themselves with every disease they learn about Could you say more about this? It seems pretty counter-intuitive that medical students could look at
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Unusually nursery rhyme-like for code :) impl<T: Nat, Mod3: Nat, Mod5: Nat, ShouldFizz: Bool, ShouldBuzz: Bool, ShouldFizzBuzz: Bool, DidBuzz: FizzBuzzType, DidFizz: FizzBuzzType, DidFizzBuzz: FizzBuzz
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by westoncb 6y ago
I've been building a minimal social CAD tool / platformer game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qBOXfzHybU (Built with three.js / react-three-fiber, and a simple Node backend.)
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Is it not possible to express these ideas in ordinary language? For instance, is anything lost by instead saying: Capitalist media companies powered by modern technology are incentivized by profit motive to distort their portrayal of realit
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----------------------------------- Location: Tucson, AZ (USA) Remote: yes (plenty of experience with this) Willing to relocate: maybe, esp. NYC or Chicago Technologies: javascript, React, three.js, webgl, Node, Electron, Java,
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by westoncb 6y ago
Hi espadrine. I appreciate your well-intentioned comment, but I believe the issue here is not about grasping the symmetry argument, rather it's that the symmetry argument is not an answer to the the actual question I've been posin
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by westoncb 6y ago
Okay, I'll try to be charitable with you here and assume you've just missed this. The problem with claims like: > Nock is not practical. He is certainly not maximizing practicality by making a combinatory logic that can only in
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by westoncb 6y ago
It seems like you jumped into the conversation part way. Here is my actual opening: > Just out of curiosity, have you verified in some way that your alternative is legitimate? The entire conversation has been me trying to to get the othe
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by westoncb 6y ago
I think you've got me wrong on this—the idea that I'm "relying" on "quick skims" and the POV of an "impartial reader," would imply that I'm somehow using these things against you. I literally am
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Hmm, I looked around on that post at all the parts referring to Nock and I still don't see anything that would convince an impartial reader of what you're saying. Are you taking issue with the style/language the post is writt
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> I would love to hear what aspects you think it has that could be relevant in whatever context. I wasn't taking issue with what you said, just trying to understand how well-grounded it was. I personally have little familiarity with
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Just out of curiosity, have you verified in some way that your alternative is legitimate? (Like maybe there are some contexts you haven't considered where other aspects of Nock are necessary.) If so, are you sure the Urbit folks just d
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by westoncb 6y ago
I couldn’t find them in SF or Cambridge. I mean if the threshold is “hosts an open mic” sure, there are plenty. But places that have a substantial / interacting community, where regular customers become friends and the atmosphere is ca
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by westoncb 6y ago
> Urbus Orbis, says Handley, "fits every criterion of a classic third place--it's large and a little dirty, it's supercasual and convenient. Interesting. The “Med” had all those features as well. I think they’re all import
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by westoncb 6y ago
The Cafe Mediterraneum[0] in Berkeley retained this kind of atmosphere until a few years ago (money issues from what I heard.) I hung out there on a daily basis for a year or so, and it was like I'd finally found the social environment
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It's already been pointed out elsewhere in the comments, but the quote about "those bar girls are all bitches" is badly taken out of context, since that was something he'd said in connection with a thought experiment he
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by westoncb 6y ago
> This is looking 2001-dot-com-crash bad, but much, much faster. Also probably much more transient, no? Is there a reason to think this trend would continue beyond say... six months? (or whenever quarantine measures are mostly relaxed).
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by westoncb 6y ago
I haven't had a chance to dig in too much, just watched most of the videos on the tutorial page so far. But this looks awesome—great work. Out of curiosity, what are your goals with the project? Is it just for fun and personal research
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by westoncb 7y ago
I think the invulnerable argument for it is even simpler than that: whatever apparently non-determined behavior we observe may only appear that way because we don’t yet know the rules underlying it. Any system will appear unsystematic unt
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by westoncb 7y ago
From Terry Tao's comment: > It seems bizarre to me that there would be an entire self-contained theory whose only external application is to prove the abc conjecture after 300+ pages of set up, with no smaller fragment of this setup
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by westoncb 7y ago
This looks great—thanks!
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I'm gonna take a look at Wadler's paper—but does anyone want to take a shot at a high-level description of how an algebra would be applicable to the problem of pretty printing? Any more general comments on applying algebras to sol
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by westoncb 7y ago
Just going to second this: PlayCanvas is the only top quality JS game engine I've come across that comes with a GUI editor for placing objects, lights, etc. I'm a big three.js fan, but if I was building something where I could get
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by westoncb 7y ago
That's awesome. I think what we want through these systems is very similar—I completely agree with your philosophy as you describe it. I think my emphasis is a little different since my primary interest is annotating/finding piece
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by westoncb 7y ago
A fully local, tag-based system for annotating/searching a number of different "data sources" (i.e. browser bookmarks, local files, twitter bookmarks) that all get unified under one interface. You set it up to monitor some da
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by westoncb 7y ago
> But the latter may be more related to your SC function Definitely seems related to me. It's an interesting angle on it I hadn't considered before. One idea is that it's due to something like compatibility of formats: in

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