aterimperator

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by aterimperator 15y ago
> Investing is the science and art of placing money where it does the most good Err, no it isn't. It's the science and art of placing money where it will grow the most. That is neither equivalent nor synonymous with "does the most good"
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I like how this meshes with Cal Newport's ideas on procrastination. As I understand it, he views procrastination as the mind's natural tendency to avoid things it doesn't trust: that crappy plan you came up with for getting that project don
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I would argue that a portion of that is simply the way you view things. I would also argue that you could eek out control like the method by which you choose to meet your deadlines. Still... I have this work I should be doing...
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by aterimperator 15y ago
That link makes the unfounded assumption that the poor choose to be poor. If you assume that the poor choose to be poor, then it is easy to see that there are situations in which it's rational to choose to try to live off welfare. From that
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I disagree, I'd vastly prefer a good episode 3 than an early episode 3. Valve has always sacrificed time for quality, and it's the sacrifice that allows them to be great.
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Citation? Obviously healthcare works on some level, else life expectancy wouldn't be going up.
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by aterimperator 15y ago
But easily revised to "Do you want to come with us?" Not that I particularly think the rules are inviolable. I see them as guidelines: if you're using the passive voice then make sure that it won't be better in active. If you're ending with
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Knowledgable readers who care will likely know both standards; at that point it's a matter of consistency (or, at the very least, never do something that breaks both sets of rules).
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Or, more likely, coming from privileged families.
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by aterimperator 15y ago
"There are dozens of disciplines where virtually every single scientific consensus in the entire field has been overturned." You seem to be arguing that since mankind once thought the world was flat and was wrong, and then mankind thought t
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Are you really arguing that the marginal value of an extra dollar is more for a billionaire than for a college student who eats ramen?
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I agree with both of you. I'm not entirely sure where that leaves me. Conflicted. On the one hand I fully agree that these markets are kind of silly and incentivize dickish behavior. On the other hand, both the drug users and the time-waste
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by aterimperator 15y ago
To be fair... money has different value to different people. I doubt any billionaires would care to waste 10 minutes of other people's time to save much money, because money doesn't have that much value to them. On the other hand, college s
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by aterimperator 15y ago
So with a Full boeing 747 (probably a large overestimate), that's about 366 people (with wikipedia as source). At 10 minutes you're wasting 61 man hours (did I make a mistake? That seems way too large). Taking a low estimate on the value of
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I've always found the best way to keep good posture is to put my monitor high up so that I have to sit up straight to be at that perfect eye-level location. If my monitor is too low I slouch down to align my head with the center of my monit
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by aterimperator 15y ago
I don't know off the top of my head. However, I can think of two very simple reasons pretty quickly. Reason #1: future favors, tit-for-tat types of responses. If I help a friend out in a time of need, some day when I am in need the same fr
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by aterimperator 15y ago
"From Charles Darwin on, evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain self-sacrificing behavior." I had trouble reading beyond that line, since it's simply false. A quick reading of "The Selfish Gene" by Dawkins would correct that impr
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by aterimperator 15y ago
But isn't the purpose of cross-validation to avoid over-fitting and cherry-picking? Asked another way: how does you argument specifically single out Eureqa, instead of all of machine learning?
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Except that it does. I'm not too familiar with the application itself, however I know the original research worked by finding pareto optimums based on the predictive power and the simplicity of the equation. So for double pendulum it came b
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by aterimperator 15y ago
He was killed in Pakistan, if I heard correctly.
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by aterimperator 15y ago
Ok, I won't. :D
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by aterimperator 15y ago
"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it w
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by aterimperator 15y ago
This is also mentioned in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (which I haven't read in a while, so bear with me). When one of his English students complains she's stuck and can't figure out where to start her essay, he tells her to