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by danblick 5y ago
The author presents the idea that "you may be born into a culture with social practices that you don't understand but that work for your benefit; they may work better if you don't understand them!" I find this idea a lit
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How to Live in a Simulation (2001)(mason.gmu.edu)
3 points by danblick 5y ago|0 comments
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by danblick 5y ago
I'd recommend thinking a little about the algorithms involved in efficiently assigning a nearby task to each dwarf and then planning a path for each dwarf to its destination. It gets interesting pretty fast and a PhD would not hurt. :)
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by danblick 6y ago
John McWhorter is a well-known linguist who talks about things like comparative linguistics. He's said in the past that (colloquial) Indonesian is one of the most streamlined languages around. (But really English is becoming the wor
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by danblick 6y ago
It seems like there's a lot in common here with the idea behind design patterns and pattern languages: giving names to "chunks" of expert knowledge in order to allow those chunks to be communicated, taught, and put in relatio
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by danblick 9y ago
It's obscure, honestly. But most cryptocurrency enthusiasts use the term to mean a blockchain (the data structure) together with a protocol for "consensus" (acceptance of a single instance of that data structure), commonly pr
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by danblick 9y ago
Ya know, Radia Perlman has decades of experience working on networking protocols, I'm willing to bet she understands blockchain as well as anybody. The statement "I cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain techno
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by danblick 9y ago
Eh. But inflation only affects nominal assets like bonds and bank account balances. Real assets like houses or stocks (to a degree) would be expected to rise along with inflation. That makes inflation distortionary, not some ideal tax on we
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by danblick 9y ago
Instead of arguing to go to Mars, let's get the military interested in kinetic bombardment systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment Clearly we need one because North Korea or terrorists or sharks
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by danblick 9y ago
I don't understand how the administration can support this change. Allowing carriers to discriminate against content providers seems like legalizing extortion. Is there an argument in favor of this change that would convince a reasonab
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by danblick 9y ago
Yeah, you could argue, "Prime is sufficiently expensive and video streaming is a sufficiently large part of Prime that it's not dumping". I can see that, it's possible. I mean, if Prime cost $1, it wouldn't be a goo
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by danblick 9y ago
Hadn't heard of that before, thanks! In this case, I understood the question to be "will deep learning do a good job predicting the function of/phenotype emerging from individual SNPs" and I don't think model interp
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Ask HN: Is Amazon “dumping” streaming video and should it be prevented?
18 points by danblick 9y ago|11 comments
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by danblick 9y ago
I'm skeptical. Machine learning algorithms are only as good as the training data you can provide them. There are lots of tools in genetic analysis you can use to try to understand function of some sequence (e.g. looking at conservation
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by danblick 9y ago
What is LIME?
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by danblick 9y ago
You're right. If I had a game like this, I would want people to think they could make a lot of money by playing. An easy way to create that impression and to generate hype would be to make some high-value self-trades. If the game found
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by danblick 9y ago
I'm kind of imagining a future waterworld scenario where Earth's ice caps have melted completely and humanity looks back at electronic cat breeding as one of the gross excesses of our civilization that ultimately led to its destru
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by danblick 9y ago
Okay. I'm not a zealot about these things, but I think the author underappreciates the nicer aspects of agile. My favorite book on agile looks at it from a mathematical / risk management / process model standpoint. https:&#x
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by danblick 9y ago
I used to think in terms of stories, but then I heard Tyler Cowen tell me a story about the dangers of stories, and now I don't think in terms of stories so much. (My story of personal growth.) https://www.ted.com/talks
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by danblick 9y ago
Yeah, "moving the web forward" sounds a lot like building barriers to entry. On the other hand, these browsers are open source software, so I'm not sure that's a great argument.
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by danblick 9y ago
Scheme is a wonderful and flexible language. There's a reason it was used as a teaching language and in books like SICP. I don't use it very much, but you really have to admire some of the power in the language, like the way var
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by danblick 9y ago
Check out their investor presentation which compares their idea of AV ride-sharing with existing ride sharing services: https://www.gm.com/content/dam/gm/events/docs/5265893-685163...
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by danblick 9y ago
My understanding is that "driverless testing" here means either (1) moving the safety driver to the back seat or (2) following the vehicle with a second vehicle with a remote kill switch. Thanks for posting that link though, I&#x2
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by danblick 9y ago
I like to imagine that maybe Uber and money-losing ventures like it will help bring some balance to the universe by taking away the billions accumulated by super-rich investors and redistributing that money to working-class drivers through
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GM to launch autonomous cars in big cities sometime in 2019(cnbc.com)
2 points by danblick 9y ago|1 comments
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GM and Cruise on track to field a self-driving ride hailing service by 2019(techcrunch.com)
3 points by danblick 9y ago|1 comments
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by danblick 9y ago
Nah - this happened yesterday (the day before your post). It's unusual for media to be allowed inside autonomous cars, and the conditions are usually controlled. The conditions in this demo were fairly loose (difficult public streets i
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by danblick 9y ago
Tim Wu's "The Master Switch". A history of communications industries in the United States with an emphasis on consolidation / industrial organization and its effects on free speech.
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by danblick 9y ago
If you get average gains/losses with below average costs your performance would be above average.
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by danblick 9y ago
When I was younger I enjoyed reading about finance and investing. The investment strategy I settled on was the three fund portfolio from: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio and I haven't seen an

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