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by Hussell 2mo ago
"these agents" meaning the people who tried to solve the problem and failed?
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by Hussell 2mo ago
Because it isn't clear: There's one bird on this mural from each of the 243 taxonomic families. That's why there are a lot of unfamiliar species: because taxonomic categories are usually very unbalanced, with a lot which cont
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by Hussell 2mo ago
There's one bird per taxonomic family. Eagles, Hawks, and Kites are all in a single family, so there's just one: a Black-and-white Hawk-eagle, in Mexico.
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by Hussell 6mo ago
Decisions are made by people in the group, not by a notional single being "the corporation". It's individual people making decisions about whether to go for short-term profit or long-term sustainability. Hold them accountable
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by Hussell 6mo ago
"We" here likely refers to Tim and his current coworkers who were present to see this, not every current and future employee of Microsoft / Github. Try not to think of any organization or institution as a person, but as lots
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by Hussell 10mo ago
The maximum IQ score anyone can get depends on the total number of people who have taken IQ tests so far. Even if every single person alive today took an IQ test (which is absurd in itself), the maximum IQ achievable would be between 190-19
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by Hussell 2y ago
The statisticians have a bunch of tricks to transform the formulas into more-easily computable forms, e.g. calculate both the average and the standard deviation in a single pass through the data instead of one pass to calculate the average
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by Hussell 3y ago
The two species share a lot of glue genes, and the properties of their silks differ due to other genes affecting things like the ratios of glue proteins in the silk. Those other genes evolved faster than the glue genes themselves. The title
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by Hussell 3y ago
Nowhere in the paper does it say that individual spiders are varying their silk composition in response to conditions. The selective expression of proteins is a difference between the two species studied, not between individuals within one
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by Hussell 3y ago
The spiders haven't even been shown to change their silk in response to conditions. It's just two species of spiders each with their own silk recipe.
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by Hussell 3y ago
Since I happen to know these species: the spider pictured at the top of the article is an Argiope bruennichi (Wasp Spider), a European species which closely resembles A. trifasciata (Banded Garden Spider, one of the two species in the study
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by Hussell 5y ago
For those who haven't seen this before, the ones you should look at first are: Falsehoods about Names https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... Falsehoods about Time https:/&#
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by Hussell 5y ago
Is there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020) Partial list: Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-m
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by Hussell 7y ago
400 hours/minute is 24,000 minutes of video per minute, or 241,920,000 minutes of video per week. Assuming a human can review 8 hours of video per day, 5 days a week (too high, but not by much), and that YouTube engineers can create an
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by Hussell 8y ago
Here's another subpixel font called The Flea's Knees: http://www.typophile.com/node/61920 It's 3 pixels tall (not including ascenders and descenders, which are another two pixels each), and uses the full
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by Hussell 8y ago
> Real rivers go somewhere. They don't just stop in the middle of nowhere. Yeah? Have a look at the Morghab River in southern Turkmenistan. It flows from some mountains in Afghanistan out into a desert, where it splits up into a del
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by Hussell 8y ago
Basically: because it has a lot of characteristics in common with all the other, better preserved, asteroid craters we know of. So our hypothetical advanced civilization would have to have deliberately mimicked all the little details of an
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by Hussell 9y ago
Eliminating syntactic (not semantic) ambiguity is indeed a noble goal, but I was kind of horrified when I first realized how it's done in Lojban. Practically every type of phrase has both its start and its end marked by a unique word o
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by Hussell 9y ago
That's a problem we already deal with by having labels for the date inputs which explain the expected format. This is especially necessary in Canada, where until recently there was no recommended format, and the government recommendati
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by Hussell 9y ago
I want the content, number formats, date formats, map labels, etc. on my website to all use the same locale. Date input widgets are no exception. I can't afford to give full support to all locales (translation costs are ridiculous), so
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by Hussell 9y ago
Sounds like you're one of those people who use Linux.
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by Hussell 10y ago
Here's an example of a 2000s era page with a table about midway down with its own scrolling: http://www.ibacanada.com/site.jsp?siteID=ON001 Does this not work on some modern browsers out there?
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by Hussell 10y ago
There's a minesweeper solver which works out all the probabilities of uncertain squares. http://mrgris.com/projects/minesweepr/demo/player/ The creator wrote an explanation here: http://m
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by Hussell 10y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20160625124824/http://cacm.acm.or...
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by Hussell 12y ago
I've personally seen a building with a fractional street number, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I've also had to deal with irregular addresses in Canada. Working on a Canada-only program, I was expecting addresses to have the compo