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by wrsh07 10y ago
One of my friends failed an interview out of college where they asked him fizz buzz, and [using python] he created an array [list(range(1,101))] and then overwrote multiples of 3 with "fizz" multiples of 5 with "buzz" an
902.
by wrsh07 10y ago
Of course this all works on a MacBook, too. But it's a little sad that my high powered, sleek computer is only being used for SSH...
903.
by wrsh07 10y ago
I'm afraid I don't understand the nuances between when an ecosystem has healthy competition vs when it is fractured. Certainly if different systems support different amounts of a standard (eg browsers and the web standard), fractu
904.
by wrsh07 10y ago
The argument here is essentially this: Microsoft started to lose when they (a company building computers, operating systems, and essential productivity software) were not best positioned to create mobile phones, despite being the biggest pl
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by wrsh07 10y ago
As opposed to a company with top of the line machine learning systems.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Right, over the whole year not so substantial. Assuming an even distribution of tourism per month (false, but I lack a better model), that's about 500,000 per month. This is essentially doubling the tourism during the events. As the ar
907.
by wrsh07 10y ago
Your explanation seems flawed. Why do people play games with microtransactions? Why are casino games mind-numbingly bland? Companies do things that generate profit. Profit is generated by manipulating consumer behavior. Consumers aren'
908.
by wrsh07 10y ago
Not that this is a good excuse, but for some Americans, their primary contact with immigrants is news about those coming up from the southern border. I learned a lot more about immigration law after starting at a bigger tech company where a
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by wrsh07 10y ago
This is a case of badly screwed-up incentives. No individual has incentives to fix the system, so they keep optimizing for how they're actually rewarded [academics --> tenure / prestige, journals --> make money, govt -->
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Earthquakes are serious. But we're no good at predicting when they'll happen: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-still-cant-predict-ea... This means there is elevated risk, but we can't say much more
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by wrsh07 11y ago
With self-driving cars on the horizon [hopefully!?], this will hopefully become false. [ie everywhere that currently has shitty mass transit will get a system with no single point of failure which is hopefully cheap] Who knows, though?
912.
by wrsh07 11y ago
I don't know why it took me this long to realize, but this could be a sort of new-age journal. Published research [on github], reviewed by peers, and reproduced by others. -- gdb@ was that in your mind as you built this? I really hop
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by wrsh07 11y ago
It looks like this system allows easy comparison of reinforcement learning techniques [those techniques can be implemented using any major ML framework]. So it isn't a competitor to Tensorflow, it sort of allows you to measure techniqu
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by wrsh07 11y ago
How often will environment versions change? Does a more sophisticated versioning scheme make sense? [like Semantic Versioning?] I don't really know what it means to have a backward compatible change in an environment, but you know.
915.
by wrsh07 11y ago
People like building new things. Maybe not all people, but there's a type. Besides, Musk can offer free trips back trivially. [see WaitButWhy's extraordinarily long post about SpaceX]
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by wrsh07 11y ago
Of course. If I were told by a reasonable threshold of people that promoting my causes [whatever they are] is bothersome, I would certainly stop around those people. [depending on how important they are, I might stop altogether] To be hones
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by wrsh07 11y ago
Of course it's not the only facet that matters. And I think that minorities want white males to be a part of the discussion about race. However, oftentimes white males say the same exact things. You can kind of enumerate them, "No
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by wrsh07 11y ago
It only applies to buildings with 10 or fewer floors. Do you think this will just encourage new ~10 story buildings to instead be >= 11 stories?
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by wrsh07 11y ago
You just have to sell it properly -- the boat has a silly name because voters were thumbing their noses at the science authority.
920.
by wrsh07 11y ago
It's a bit more than just advertising, though. Facebook and Google both run ad networks. Both publishers [other websites] and advertisers can turn to either [or both] for their advertising needs. This is also why Snapchat has a billion
921.
by wrsh07 11y ago
It would make for an interesting network to analyze, though. Because you could essentially decrease the weight of successive "similar" votes [eg if two people who are fans of the same celebrities vote, their votes could be discoun
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by wrsh07 11y ago
You can't reject one form of power [as worse than existing power] because of externalities if you aren't considering the negative externalities of the existing power. It's not out of fairness, it's out of minimizing futu
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by wrsh07 11y ago
If it's truly misaligned incentives [ie universities are more likely to promote researchers who publish in "top" journals], then it seems like a high-powered university needs to change their criteria for promotion. Instead of
924.
by wrsh07 11y ago
The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 30km radius. That's the exclusion zone for the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history. Indian Point is >60km away. This is needless fear-mongering.
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by wrsh07 11y ago
Yeah, it'll make sense to do that when you start insuring other power plants for the environmental damage they cause. We're not charging a carbon tax on coal plants. We're not charging drivers for the air pollution they cause
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by wrsh07 11y ago
Your point would have been better made with a link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160310-fukushima-... I'd love to have numbers, like is it 100km^2? I looked but couldn't find any sources ba
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by wrsh07 11y ago
That's not how this works. We're not dealing in absolutes because this is real life. We're dealing with probabilities and expected values. If nuclear power provides a net good, we should consider using it, not blindly reject
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by wrsh07 11y ago
How expensive is air pollution? You can't tacitly accept the costs of our current means of power while criticizing the costs of nuclear. We need to make this decision explicitly, not implicitly. When you ask about the costs of nuclear
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by wrsh07 11y ago
Do you take issue with this sentence? "...the reality is that five years later, radiobiological consequences of Fukushima are practically negligible - no one has died from the event, and is it extraordinarily unlikely that anyone will
930.
by wrsh07 11y ago
> for whole regions to become uninhabitable Chernobyl has a 30km exclusion zone, and that's unnecessarily large. > Same with Fukushima Literally nobody died in Fukushima. It was just a memorable piece of destruction caused by a n

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