darkkindness

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by darkkindness 6y ago
Thanks for the link, I was wondering if Scott touched on this. Seems to be an adjacent topic but it's relevant nonetheless. my tldr of that post: in the context of ideological/political theory, mistake theorists are engineers who
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by darkkindness 6y ago
I like this. Polarization is a pretty good characterization. People are just not treating neutral views as neutral anymore. Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as fake news is an unfortunate adverse effect of all the messag
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by darkkindness 6y ago
Thanks for your viewpoint. As far as I understand, outrage culture is about shunning popular folks for their imperfect human morality. Could you (or someone else) elaborate on how this is related to this, well, let's call it erosion of
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by darkkindness 6y ago
meta: Over these past four years I've seen a growing number of people interpreting the most nuanced, neutral statements as 'apologist', 'biased', 'lobbying', 'spam', 'politically motivated&#
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by darkkindness 7y ago
If this was interesting, check out Eugene McDonnell's "1000 K idioms" (in k2): https://web.archive.org/web/20071230205056/http://kx.com/tec...
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Just for fun and to make a point, I threw your reply into Talk to Transformer. > This is something so many people miss when trying test the limitations of GPT-2. It just doesn't make sense to test it on strings of text that nobody
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by darkkindness 7y ago
I use Firefox on Android with NoScript and an adblocker. Yet I'm uniquely identifiable. One culprit is screen size putting me at <0.01%. Does that make defeating fingerprinting on mobile hopeless for the casual user? Edit: more info
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Just to support your argument further, here is a related snippet from another comment[0] by knzhou: > Students can all recite Newton's third law, but immediately afterward claim that when a truck hits a car, the truck exerts a bigge
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by darkkindness 7y ago
It's really weird to evaluate GPT-2 based on its ability to say things no reasonable person would ever say. If I were born in Cleveland I wouldn't be jumping to proclaim my fluency in English. If I told you I left my keys out at t
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by darkkindness 7y ago
This is insightful. It also massively calls into question if economic models on prices (CPI?) could ever keep up with reality, if trends like shrinkflation didn't make that impossible already.
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by darkkindness 7y ago
After tetrominos, purely mathematical games with pentomino tiling at its core are definitely discovered games. It's doable but not always simple to build a given shape of size 5n with n pentominos. Ever seen the "fill an n by m re
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by darkkindness 7y ago
The conversation Bill's touching on -- the tradeoffs between different notations -- is really valuable but I think it misses something a lot of us desire in a syntax: compositionality . Take the provided "onion" notation, lo
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Agreed, I think the syntax used is not that common. (This is a problem, I think, with math notation -- everyone's notation means different things, google "substitution notation history" for the worst.) They definitely meant t
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by darkkindness 7y ago
I think each one of us has a different idea what a "bullshit job" is. My favorite definition is this: > When it comes to garbage collectors, though, it’s different. Any way you look at it, they do a job we can’t do without. And
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Mangband also has a public server, so it doesn't take much to setup a game with a friend. (though the server does go down at times)
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by darkkindness 7y ago
The article definitely a little confusing. It starts with an edit that gives new info about how to remove "Android/Trojan.HiddenAds.WRACT" which is auto-installed by the Settings app replacement they call "Android/T
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by darkkindness 7y ago
That's incredible, thanks for sharing! Here's the links for the lazy: https://nerves-project.org/ https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves
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by darkkindness 7y ago
An immediate solution is to enable NoScript on all news sites. Disabling JS speeds up load times to instant and hides most of the cruft. It's working great so far for me (using Firefox on Android).
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by darkkindness 7y ago
In other words, "our social networks" tend to have mostly like-minded people influence us, so increasing the diversity of these incoming opinions can counter bias. I'm a fan of this particular explanation: https://
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by darkkindness 7y ago
This might interest you (and anyone reading this thread): AnyDSL is a language framework that separates the concerns for both viewpoints (designing for expressivity, designing for abstracting 'complex ideas') but also that of the
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Nice! Isn't this exactly assert in C++? (the following is from https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/assert ) #ifdef NDEBUG #define assert(condition) ((void)0) #else #define assert(con
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by darkkindness 7y ago
This view might be conflating IP theft and plagiarism -- plagiarism has always had a strong regulatory regime in the form of peer review. Regulation of IP theft is a different story. By the way, did I spot a Tom Lehrer reference?
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Key insight IMO: > You can talk the talk like a champ, and be up with the latest buzz, but in some corner of your mind you may recognize that your basic skills are fundamentally lacking. Learning for learning's sake is admirable, an
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Thanks for the links! Those fully specified frankentypes are indeed atrocious, and no sane person should ever need to read them. That being said, isn't "Any" meant to act as a wildcard, used precisely for ignoring the unimpor
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by darkkindness 7y ago
If I understand what you're suggesting, lipopolysaccharide doesn't make cells immortal. It just does the equivalent of making it not work when you hold down the power button to power cycle and force-shutdown your laptop. It lets y
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by darkkindness 7y ago
There really is a cost, in the form of having to rerun code a dozen more times to catch unresolved type errors. But AFAIK, that's it. Can I ask what I'm missing? What cost of this (optional) static typing are folks talking about?
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by darkkindness 7y ago
The rest of the site might be nonsense to you and me, but I think this page did very well in displaying how much thought was put into ensuring reliability in the design of pocket watch mechanisms in the 1900s.
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by darkkindness 7y ago
Do you believe the piece linked in the first paragraph[0] describes an outlier in terms of data collection? It shows how location data from a single low-lying location tracking company had enough pings to reliably pinpoint home and work loc
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by darkkindness 7y ago
My take: I don't think this is an issue. "What it is" is a sandbox for graphical K programs, which is already provided in the title. Given that K is already rather niche, and sandboxes are meant for playing with rather than g

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