ShannonAlther

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by ShannonAlther 6y ago
On his original blog the author once said that he was considering making the title of his new blog an anagram, and that the closest options were Slate Star Codex and Astral Codex Ten. We should be grateful he didn't go with Trans Latex
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Just realized I didn't know this: how are you supposed to comply with GDPR if your clients are partially anonymous?
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
This article leans too much on the current state of the art to extrapolate towards possible futures, and it shouldn't. AI is dangerous, sure, but the examples we're getting here are a DOTA2 team that lost to humans in a modified v
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
I bet the cat soon learns that sitting in front of the door magically summons a human to let it out.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
How many companies would this work at? Seems like more than a few might take exception to a potential employee trying to circumvent their normal hiring pipeline.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
https://www.gwern.net Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that b
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Magic: the Gathering is also Turing complete. https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Seconded.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
You are right, but my point is that general relativity gives us enough of a causal model for gravity that throwing up our hands and saying "It's a mystery" is unacceptable.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Teixobactin, I assume? Their new method of parallel testing promising proto-antibiotics is really neat, but given the ratio of successes to failures, I wouldn't hold out much hope for a second golden age.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
> The law of gravity is one example, since nobody knows where gravity actually comes from. Please stop this. While I agree with your overall point, we know what causes gravity (the uneven curvature of space due to the distribution of m
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Yes, it does. More or less every class of antibiotic was invented between 1940 and 1960. Discoveries since that period have been mostly incremental.
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
I'm also in the "everything is kind of okay in my workflow" boat. One of the major problems I hear about and encounter frequently is that biotech is a painful industry. Creating and selling new drugs takes decades and costs m
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by ShannonAlther 8y ago
Per the announcement on the linked page, NCEES will no longer be offering the Software Engineering exam after the final run in April 2019. It's been available for 5 years and looks like only 100 or so people are ever going to take it.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Amongst other things, the original publication of the memo by Gizmodo stripped it of all the charts, citations and references Damore included.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Not so. First off, we're speaking specifically about Google, which might generalize to the extent of 'high performance' software jobs. Google hiring is selective enough that they can take candidates with exactly the traits th
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The luaJIT compiler[0] is stupendously good. Bob Nystrom, one of the developers for Dart, once said "Mike Pall [the developer] is a robot from the future"[1]. [0] http://luajit.org/luajit.html [1] http:/&#x2
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Python has the libraries you're looking for: numpy, scikit-learn, Keras, TensorFlow, etc. But because everyone else is going to tell you to use Python, I'll say that R and MATLAB/Octave are both acceptable for prototyping alg
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
That makes calculating the final price far too hard. If the customer has to use a smartphone app to shop anyways, why not just have the app display the personalized price?
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Why would you allow users to change their display name? It's a forum, not social media.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Over what period did you have your investment in RealtyShares?
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
> Which makes it harder for households to hoard money. In other countries, we call this 'saving for retirement.'
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Meaningless insofar as that goes, but being fairly clever is necessary to become a physician.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Just to be clear, when people say "Communism" and specify "the Soviet Union", that's adequate for rhetorical purposes. You can clarify that the Soviets were merely extremely socialist if you want, but everyone else
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
A lot of states have heavy restrictions on transport of alcohol, a sort of state-mandated middleman that is either parasitic or fulfills an important regulatory purpose depending on who you ask. This seems like a natural extension of that.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Devil's advocate: maybe she's one of the designers and happened to volunteer because she likes being a face. I think it's unusual that they'd go this route, and maybe it would sell better if the model was a man in a suit
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
What we got here is a failure to communicate. An appeal to authority is a type of fallacious argument; in attributing the quote to Einstein, your subtext is that his endorsement is your argument. But, of course, context-free quotes from Ein
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
You're forgiven. <3 On a different note, Damore chose to include mention of "leftist protest" because Google's culture is left-leaning – he's explicitly saying that Google is very left, while not so left as these
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I don't know the answer but if I cared to guess, it might be because the talent pool for orchestra performers had significantly more gender parity than the talent pool competing for elite engineering jobs at Google. Edit: Google says t
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I think his dad was just trying to get his son to stop whining about how bored he was.

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