alisonkisk

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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
He was 7 years old, so it was impossible for him to give consent for anything. His parents gave consent on his behalf.
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
I didn't see that in the document. What page is it on?
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
There are probably hundreds of people on this site who had the same enthusiasm for math and time dedication as Terence Tao, but lacked his extreme outlier fluid intelligence, processing speed, perfect memory, and even handwriting talent(!).
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
You are saying something interesting but too esoteric. Can you explain for beginners?
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
Title: "California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves" Actual fact: California’s New Bill Requires that 3D Printers Get DOJ Approval as Firearm-Blocking" (The "report on themselves&quo
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
Hmm, how many bits has the space of all positive integers? That's not what the (clumsily written) article is about. It's not about sampling the integers to choose an integer, it's about sampling the prime factors of an intege
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
Here's an intuitive description of the entropy, [log(log(n)) -sum(log(p_i) log(log(p_i)))]: The entropy of a random integer N is the volume of the gap between how much space N takes up and how much space its internal components take up
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by alisonkisk 7mo ago
This is a very unenlightening exposition that could discourage people from studying this beautiful problem. A much better way to analyze it geometrically. The 6D problem has 2D trivial symmetries, and is parameterized by 4 polar coordinates
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by alisonkisk 9mo ago
HN as a population skews heavily away from "real-world peer-scheduled activities"
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by alisonkisk 9mo ago
Submitted blog post is from Lichess user (rated ~2150 on Lichess), not Lichess organization itself.
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by alisonkisk 9mo ago
Typos could be automatically discovered and indexed one word at a time by watching users search the wrong word (wrong input method) and then search again with the correct input method.
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by alisonkisk 9mo ago
It's essentially impossible to deploy a non trivial NodeJS (including NextJS, Vercel, React, etc) project without critical vulnerabilities that npm will warn explicitly warn you about but be unable to avoid due to dependency hell of m
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by alisonkisk 1y ago
He appears to be a regretful atheist who yearns for a natural replacement for the power of the supernatural God some religious people believe in. See also the Singularity Rationalist / Roko's Basilisk people.
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by alisonkisk 1y ago
Avi Loeb's career is focused on the idea that it's not 100% possible for contactable alien intelligence to exist, and he dedicates his career to finding it, and bends all news to that end. He does not exist in the world of pragmat
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by alisonkisk 1y ago
The person you were replying to is not a native speaker either, and also is not knowledgeable about the core ideas of logical systems (as other commenters have already explained).
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by alisonkisk 1y ago
> Going fully circle I wonder what would happen if you got LLM's to define the ontology.... http://neal.fun/infinite-craft
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by alisonkisk 2y ago
> > Thank you to the Phillips Exeter Academy Science Department for supporting this project. This is what can happen when you live on a campus and don’t waste your life commuting.
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by alisonkisk 2y ago
It's not wrong. It's just casually presented and not perfectly precise. the Chapter is about applting geometry in the real world, not idealized mathematical models. It is standard in empirical science to focus on first order effe
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by alisonkisk 2y ago
It's not a complaint, it's a safety warning.
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by alisonkisk 2y ago
No, because the article is about sacrificing quality by using less energy. But the quality is already bad for non-toy purposes, so there is plenty of demand for higher-energy higher-quality systems.
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by alisonkisk 2y ago
Google respected rate limits. Reddit wanted the crawl.
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by alisonkisk 3y ago
I "could" make "up to" $1M/year.
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by alisonkisk 3y ago
Revenue isn't a meaningful measure. Margin is.
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by alisonkisk 3y ago
Spanner and Postgres both support both SQL and NoSQL
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
SA is an ally to the Western powers, not a threat. The US government's top priority on Sept 2001 (when a group of Saudi royal family members killed thousands of US people on territory) was protecting the (oil man) President's fr
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
The numbers get impossibly big almost immediately.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
That's not a product category. They have registered the trademark for computer networking.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
If you want intentionally misrender the page, that's your right. But it's not their job to debug your setup.
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
> They repeatedly cut the deck and then take a card each. I don't see how this works, unless the audience is picking five consecutive cards from the deck. If you are picking 5 random cards, their colors can't encode what the
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by alisonkisk 4y ago
In the US, we walk at traffic when there are cars on the road but the passing lane is the same (left) for driving roads and for pedestrian multi-lane "roads" like escalators.

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