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by yters 7y ago
The way I think of entropy like the capacity of the channel. The channel can be filled with less information than the capacity, but not more.
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by yters 7y ago
To be a truly scientific study, we need to look at more than two instances of scientists leading and not leading.
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by yters 7y ago
Reminds me of a clever exploit. The code for the OS is backdoor free, but the running OS has a backdoor. Once the running OS compiles a new OS from code it installs the backdoor. This way, no matter how much the code is inspected, backdo
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by yters 7y ago
This is exactly why I still use R. Throw data in a file, suck it into R, start playing with slicing and visualization with a few commands. Once I get something interesting, a few more tweaks and I have a nice, descriptive graph.
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by yters 7y ago
Ah, you're right. The break up never happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
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by yters 7y ago
Or a market solution will be decisive if it gets to that point. The courts broke up Microsoft, and it's not like that hurt them at all.
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by yters 7y ago
There should be a competition for most useful software with most offensive name. Then we can make all the software stacks of top companies likely to result in jail time when discussed in public. That would be funny.
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by yters 7y ago
I graphed death rate by absolute latitude for countries with more than 1000 cases, and there is a clear trend. There is a bulge in the middle latitudes, and dips toward the lower and higher latitudes. My guess is the virus doesn't do
729.
by yters 7y ago
I met peoplw working un financial jobs with last names like Cash and Price.
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by yters 7y ago
Intelligent design theory is a giant unexplored pool of ideas. I am currently looking into bioinformatics applications and there are just so many! Ask me questions if interested!
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by yters 7y ago
If we took computers away from software developers, maybe we'd get much more well thought out solutions. Probably much simpler, too, if they have to write out everything by hand :)
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by yters 7y ago
Perhaps that's the end goal for all the hot tech buzzwords: - cloud - internet of things - artificial intelligence
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by yters 7y ago
So I guess the best position in a communist country is to be extremely useful and extremely obscure.
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by yters 7y ago
Wouldn't having an omnibenevolent AI providing for everyone's needs free everyone from having to be a laborer, so anyone can choose to be one thing one day and another thing another day? I see my passage and yours working togethe
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by yters 7y ago
Here's the cite: http://thenewobjectivity.com/pdf/marx.pdf "once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the machine, o
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by yters 7y ago
At least the engineers were too useful to the state to get purged frequently.
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by yters 7y ago
I think it comes down to communism. According to Marx's book "The Machine" the end game of communism is essentially an omnibenevolent AI. Marx thought eventually all forms of labor would be mechanised into a colossal machin
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by yters 7y ago
How do you succeed as top dog in this era?
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Why your computer will never talk to you(mindmatters.ai)
1 points by yters 7y ago|0 comments
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by yters 7y ago
On other posts I see the "off topic" argument met with the "anything hn readers like is on topic". Not sure why it is different in this case. 178 likes indicates a decent amount of the HN readership.
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by yters 7y ago
Yes, I don't think HN leadership is pro-CCP. However, I do think there is some kind of CCP influence at work. Whether it is normal HN participants that are more understanding of CCP, and dislike the blanket dismissal they get, or the
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by yters 7y ago
I would say even poverty and chaos is preferable to the collective farms and gulags that killed over 100 million during the Soviet regime. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" for context, even just the first chapter of h
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by yters 7y ago
I have received more downvotes than normal for crticising the CCP. Whether that is due to a pro CCP bias or not is up for debate. I talked with dang (mod), and he says it is due to the thread being high profile and contentious, not due to
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by yters 7y ago
Human level NLP is the halting problem, so unsurprising that AI cannot do simple expressions.
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Benefits of cold showers (fights depression)(healthline.com)
1 points by yters 7y ago|0 comments
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by yters 7y ago
It is interesting to think about how long the exponential trend will continue before becoming a sigmoid.
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by yters 7y ago
There is no such thing as an 'exponential curve' in our finite world. And the derivative of the sigmoid is a bell curveish thing.
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by yters 7y ago
How many covid-19 deaths are due to the disease vs treatment?
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by yters 7y ago
I appreciate your carefully argued counter points.
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by yters 7y ago
But it is an invisible, beneath the skin imprint, and for a good reason to help with large scale vaccination. And without such vaccination, especially in the case of covid-19, millions could die. Who would argue with such a beneficial and

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