JASchilz

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by JASchilz 3y ago
Romero recently released a book, _Doom Guy: Life in First Person_, if you'd like a long-form answer to that question. Other commenters give more substantial answers, but I can vouch for the book as having a lot of history, clearly bein
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Ask HN: Bad Metaphors You Encounter When Defending Your Design Decisions
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by JASchilz 7y ago
I'm going to give the advice here that saved my sanity in an open office: use headphones with "passive" noise canceling. I bought a pair of 3M WorkTunes with Bluetooth. They're just passive, sound deadening, hearing prot
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by JASchilz 8y ago
My comment was a rebuttal to the "single income earner" argument which suggests that in the post-war era we labored half as much as we do today. I've got no other points to defend. But I'm happy to look at any of your po
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by JASchilz 8y ago
There are fewer hours of work done at home now. The increase in leisure time reflects a decrease in total labor: income-earning labor, labor around the house, etc. Figures in [1] break it out a bit, although the years-reflected are a bit di
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by JASchilz 8y ago
That's probably one of the caveats and addenda. So, my counterargument doesn't prove that life has gotten better--maybe an additional kid is "better" than six hours of leisure time by some calculuses. But it does rebut a
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by JASchilz 8y ago
You make a few substantial points, but any use of the "single income earner" argument is incomplete if it doesn't acknowledge that _women were also working at home_ while their husbands were doing income-earning work. It&#x27
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by JASchilz 11y ago
I've found that an emphasis on a clear spec, decoupling, testing, and producing quality code significantly reduce the "spin up" time that gets ever more daunting in an infrequently-visited project. A clear spec means that I k
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by JASchilz 11y ago
In general, "machine learning" means that an algorithm did it, and that the algorithm engages in some analysis of the problem space or the solution space. Usually that analysis involves an iterative or repetitive element: making s
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by JASchilz 12y ago
Respectfully, I make no conjectures. When I say that psychedelics can cause us harm, I mean that psychedelics can cause the individual harm, and I generalize from my own (extremely mild) experience.
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by JASchilz 12y ago
> They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. In mathematical modeling, they say that every model is wrong, but some are useful. Insofar as psychedelics are dissociatives, they can cause harm by convincing us t
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by JASchilz 12y ago
It's nice in that it might let you get away with less oil day-to-day. My best answer is that you can get away with skipping oven-seasoning if you follow the daily practice, but not vice-versa.
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by JASchilz 12y ago
Yeah, they've definitely started out closer to smooth than ours. As you say, I don't know if mirror smoothness is terribly important, but it might let you get away with a bit less oil.
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by JASchilz 12y ago
When I first got into cast iron, I spent a lot of time on oven-seasoning. It turns out that your daily practice is much more important than that oven seasoning, and the two important steps are: 1. Get the oil hot before you add any foods. 2
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by JASchilz 12y ago
With a metal spatula, you're machining the pan smooth over the course of decades, and also constantly scraping off any good bits that are getting stuck.
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by JASchilz 12y ago
It would be excellent to have some better verbage for what the authors are trying to express. There are some components of white privilege that apply in this case, and some that don't. Obviously, Asian and Indian Americans don't g
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by JASchilz 12y ago
Rejected. Now my startup is gonna succeed...just a little more slowly.
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by JASchilz 12y ago
I had similar questions. You're saying that if, for example, the quality among the pool of women applicants were higher than the quality among the pool of men applicants, then you would expect women to have greater representation among
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by JASchilz 12y ago
Could you give a few examples of these transaction costs?
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by JASchilz 13y ago
Another solution would be to allow those interested in PhDs an informed decision as to whether or not to pursue the degree. Major media could make occasional reports on the status of the post-doctoral job market available to all interested
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by JASchilz 13y ago
The central limit theorem shows us that unimodal data with lots of independent sources of error tends towards a normal distribution. That description is a good first-pass, descriptive model for lots and lots of contexts, and standard deviat
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by JASchilz 13y ago
I apologize, my reply was aimed too low.
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by JASchilz 13y ago
Check out Bayesian Model Selection. It's the mathematical expression of Occam's Razor.
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by JASchilz 13y ago
Validation is a method to control for over-fitting, but over-fitting isn't a danger to all projects. Suppose we know that our dataset is iid normally distributed with known sigma. Using all available data to find the mean doesn't