botexpert

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by botexpert 9y ago
Yes, because foods can easily be ranked by their scientifically measured healthiness. The only fruit I eat is strawberries because they are the healthiest.
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by botexpert 9y ago
There's more slaves today than then. I guess Romans win.
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by botexpert 10y ago
Cool, so by your definition of right, heterosexual supremacy, male dominance, slavery, racism, are all right because a majority guided by convenience and traditional beliefs thinks it's right.
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by botexpert 10y ago
> Citation needed. What kind of citation? This request is a little bit of a stretch. The majority of people on Earth identify as followers of abrahamic religions. Bunch of them accept the ideas of love, compassion and empathy as a founda
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by botexpert 10y ago
It's a pretty simple answer. Slavery was convenient yet it was abolished. Democracy brought Hitler, yet what he did people did not condone. If people decide what is right and yet due to convenience act inconsistently it is worthless. B
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by botexpert 10y ago
There's quite a clear time when not using or not abusing non-human animals was impossible. It's quite clear from all the data that the effort should go towards better biological models and away from wasteful random variable measur
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by botexpert 10y ago
Never claimed it wasn't reasonable. It's not as efficient as one might think. Having an 8% precision is ridiculously low. Given that all of vaccines and medical treatments are tested on animals it is quite obvious I should not wan
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by botexpert 10y ago
Good thing that utilitarianism is a well known concept. If I weren't aware of that I'd be living in an absolutist nightmare of a world where everything was made necessary for use and abuse of non-human animals. Do take in mind tha
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by botexpert 10y ago
https://www.animallaw.info/statute/ny-cruelty-consolidated-c... Imagine that, and yet here's French police training eagles to fetch drones. Each training session a risk of serious injury. If something happens it o
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by botexpert 10y ago
Of course not. I'm advocating for humans to stop using sentient feeling beings and risk their lives in their solutions to problems (from diet, clothes, companionship to catching drones). Aren't we more creative than that? Human an
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by botexpert 10y ago
Citation for what? Animals are by law treated as property. I just explained why someone would think of a solution as ridiculous as that. Parent points out that the solution is not practical but it's clearly demonstrated in the video th
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by botexpert 10y ago
Animals are, by law, treated as property, not sentient beings, so one dead bird is nothing in the realm of anthropocentric humanity. If it fulfills the purpose man has given it's enough of a justification not to take animal's wish
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by botexpert 10y ago
Similar to the lottery problem and other covering problems. Let's say lottery has N numbers. Tickets contain K numbers. What is the least amount of tickets M that you need to buy so you guarantee when the winning ticket is pulled that
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by botexpert 10y ago
Sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_hierarchies There was a paper by Microsoft Research where they find shortest path from one point to another in time equivalent to 5 memory reads + they sped u
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by botexpert 10y ago
It's not old. Has most needed background necessary. DL NLP is not necessary for most common tasks.
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by botexpert 10y ago
ADHD is a real thing. Maybe not the same as procrastination and lack of self-managment. I've known ADHD people with extreme self-control (amazing time planning), persistence and will to learn but when they tried concentrating it wouldn
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by botexpert 10y ago
Yes, I apologize, my statement refers to 90% of cut Amazon. Not that 90% of it is cut for USA. As for the beef and soy exports it's not enough to check just the exports number. The most important number is beef consumption. Per capita
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by botexpert 10y ago
Soy. I wrote soy exports. Not "beef production exports". Brazil (with Argentina) is main soy exporter for most of the worlds livestock. In the documents below you can find clear numbers of how much hectares is used for pasture, co
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by botexpert 10y ago
It still produces less CO2. This will of course not be a fact if fire rate increases. It's a feedback loop. The warmer it gets more CO2 gets produced, not just by humans but by nature. The melting of ice caps will produce about 100 yea
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by botexpert 10y ago
True, what you can do is plant trees and stop cutting trees. Plant trees that suck more CO2. Amazon rainforest is being cut enormously. About 90% of cut Amazon is solely for beef production and soy exports for USA beef production. Of course
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by botexpert 10y ago
ML does not include integer linear programming (nothing learnable there) and similar mathematical optimizations. ML can be a part of it but is not integral to it. Just like finding the shortest paths between two points does not include ML.
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by botexpert 10y ago
It is, but saying it's machine learning hides the combinatorial issues and combinatorial search that has to happen. Machine learning model can't replace the necessity for search. Scheduling problem (the general one) maps easily to
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by botexpert 10y ago
Not really machine learning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_scheduling_problem Above is a nice example. There has been some nice contests with the above problem and the ILP solvers work extremely fast and great an
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by botexpert 10y ago
Yes, but doing business as usual will never bring collective action. Why would politicians tax energy usage if no people demand it? Why would politicians tax meat if no one demands it? This kind of appeal to futility only brings change when
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by botexpert 10y ago
+ a huge percentage of people who think global warming is caused by humans and happening do nothing about it. the sales of cars are rising, the gas is being bought, the whole USA is under a 24/7 air conditioning, the gluttony is at its
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by botexpert 10y ago
Games, and social sciences. It's a branch of maths that formalized a bunch of things and allows lovely proofs for certain interesting settings that economists, sociologists and politologists observe and analyze. Other than that it curr
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by botexpert 10y ago
I'm assuming the source is Robert Lustig?
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by botexpert 10y ago
Paleo is a fad diet, it can be healthy, yes, and many people with unhealthy diets try it, make a success and then the circle of anecdotal evidence reinforces the fad. The easiest diet is a diet filled with starchy vegetables and fruits. It
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by botexpert 10y ago
51% of CO2 emissions is just a number that was repeated. there's also dead oceans by 2048 which is the most pessimistic estimate. but some numbers are fine. the amount of land that is used for livestock is incomparable. water pollution
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by botexpert 10y ago
True, it might not be the case, although they do have the exact same beam search shift-reduce parser that mcparseface has (without the neural net).

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