bermanoid

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by bermanoid 6y ago
Game engines are different. It's a tiny market relative to web, and really the only people in the market for an engine other than Unity or Unreal are indies, who have near zero revenue and even less willingness to spend it. Those two
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by bermanoid 6y ago
That's a great ideal, and I understand the arguments in favor, but the reality is that sometimes in order to test all of the internal code paths, you have to go to extremes when only interacting via the public interface. If I'd ha
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by bermanoid 6y ago
Never fund yourself what someone with 100x the money will fund for you.
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by bermanoid 6y ago
If you can point to something about the situation that has changed since the shelter-in-place was initiated that would indicate it's not needed anymore, I'd love to hear it. The virus hasn't gone away, we don't have any
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by bermanoid 6y ago
Totally agree with pretty much all of this; I'm just arguing that "don't subsidize, ever" is a very extreme vision of capitalism, and doing a one year or less intervention is nowhere close to throwing away the whole syst
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by bermanoid 6y ago
I'm 100% in favor of capitalism, but that's not what you're standing up for. Capitalism doesn't mean you never intervene when disaster strikes, it just means that markets are the engine that drive the economy and you mos
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by bermanoid 6y ago
This looks like an actual log-log plot, but of new cases vs existing cases. Not a super useful view except to point out that yes, growth rate tends to be proportional to infection count (pure exponential growth) until something majorly chan
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by bermanoid 6y ago
So do most of the major cities in the world. That's a hell of a confounding variable.
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by bermanoid 6y ago
Not GP, but also a test prep teacher in a previous life. I always scored well on the SAT and test well in general, so I can't speak to personal improvement there, but a few points: First, the test prep companies heavily encourage (and
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by bermanoid 6y ago
That's a fair criticism of the general SAT - I used to teach those classes, and the test is very gameable in the sense that there really are "A FEW SIMPLE TRICKS!" to learn that have nothing to do with actually knowing the ma
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by bermanoid 7y ago
Acceleration does not equal velocity squared...
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by bermanoid 7y ago
Claiming that some mysterious and hard to define property that we can't measure even in principle "exists" in some meaningful way strikes me as the stronger claim than the skeptical take does. Why do you think the burden of p
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by bermanoid 7y ago
He's also famous for the Chinese Box thought experiment, widely derided by everyone apart from his own students as the most high profile, idiotic, uninformative, trivially debunked thought experiment of all time, which teaches us negat
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by bermanoid 7y ago
And I imagine many more machine learning tools will take the same name in the years to come, since it's about the most obvious one you could think of other than "brain". Whatever is popular will survive...
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by bermanoid 7y ago
ImageNet Roulette deliberately uses a terrible categorization scheme that has long been acknowledged as so poor as to not admit meaningful results in order to make the highly political point that ML should never be applied to people. Ther
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by bermanoid 7y ago
I'm saying that the inputs to the brain are data, and the outputs are data. The brain transforms that data in some way, and we have mathematical theorems that say yep, most of the ways data can be transformed can be expressed as an alg
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by bermanoid 7y ago
There is absolutely no reason to think the brain is non-algorithmic in any way, to the extent that you can even define such a nonsense statement without waving your hands about quantum idiocy like Penrose in his senility. The default assump
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by bermanoid 7y ago
Processing was the closest thing that I found. That was my first and simplest post-QBasic programming, and it served as a great jumping-off point into a real career in the industry. I still reach for p5.js when I need to throw up a quick vi
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by bermanoid 7y ago
> A typical piano doesn't have a way to bend the pitches on a whim. There are a few keyboard-ish instruments that allow this, and they're super fun and expressive: - Roli Seaboard ( https://roli.com/products&#x2F
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by bermanoid 7y ago
I think you're covered by the parent's "besides learning to code" caveat. That's a real smooth career transition, I did it as well as a ton of friends who had the same background. ML is a particularly good fit becau
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by bermanoid 8y ago
If the drivers made less than it cost them to maintain their vehicles, they wouldn't be doing it. I know that a lot of people think the drivers generally are that stupid, but I'm skeptical.
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by bermanoid 8y ago
I agree with all of this, but I'd warn that unless you really know what you're doing and what can go wrong, jumping from weekly billing to project billing can be super dangerous and you're taking on a lot of risk. Most people
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by bermanoid 8y ago
There is almost no situation where it makes more sense to bill hourly instead of daily, unless you're really junior. And frankly, if they want you at all, they should be willing to go in for a week.
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by bermanoid 8y ago
"Only" 20-40% of the operating cost saved would be enough to completely obliterate the human trucking industry. Amazon didn't have to beat the prices of other stores by anywhere near that much to become 10x or 100x bigger, th
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by bermanoid 9y ago
Am I the only one that when I click on anything, the image just zooms and there's no link?
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by bermanoid 9y ago
Ok, but given the starting premise, "what's a pledge that we can coerce companies into signing?", what would you shoot for, instead? To me, the bit where companies would need to agree to not implement backdoors into encryptio
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by bermanoid 9y ago
Do you really think any company could or should publicly commit to refuse to comply with valid court orders? I'm all for strengthening the language and adding teeth to these demands, but we've got to be realistic here. A US corp
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by bermanoid 9y ago
I wouldn't get too comfortable with the "easier to build" bit, either - Seattle has a strong far-left presence, and as we've seen in SF it's very easy for homeowners to convince them (against all reason) that more h
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by bermanoid 9y ago
Taking this down to an even more basic level that doesn't require much knowledge of this stuff - the basic strategy of this program is to find a quantum system that they can prove (rigorously) has energy levels that map directly to the
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by bermanoid 9y ago
Many people's estimate of the probability-weighted impact OpenAI will have is much greater than anything that I'd ever call a Pascal's Wager. You may disagree, but a lot of us actually have our expectations somewhat quantif

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