daveFNbuck

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by daveFNbuck 8mo ago
The complaint here is about this being an insufficient amount of effort because the bibtex entry from Google Scholar is wrong sometimes.
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by daveFNbuck 8mo ago
You want the content of the paper to be carefully crafted. Bibtex entries are the sort of thing you want people to copy and paste from a trusted source, as they can be difficult to do consistently correctly.
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by daveFNbuck 9mo ago
steel-man means trying to interpret someone's argument in the most favorable light rather than arguing against a weaker interpretation. It does not mean making up a different argument for them that you like better.
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by daveFNbuck 1y ago
Spending money to ensure something is released online for free is not the opposite of thinking it should be released online for free though. If think the owner should give up its monetary value to satisfy your beliefs, you should be willing
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by daveFNbuck 1y ago
If you think this is more important than the money it can be sold for, you should be the one to buy it.
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by daveFNbuck 1y ago
That's not p hacking. That's just the nature of p values. P hacking is when you do things to make a particular experiment more likely to show as a success.
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by daveFNbuck 2y ago
Why do you think senior managers would replace themselves if they could? Given the choice between saving a company and giving a senior manager slightly more money or power, the senior manager will always win.
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by daveFNbuck 2y ago
Can you explain the difference?
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
If you do that, people outside the package can also do Username(x) conversions instead of calling NewUsername. Making value package private means that you can only set it from outside the package using provided functionality.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
We're at single digit gigahertz for an entire chip, not a single transistor.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
I don't think most people make a special trip just to get gas. It's usually a quick added stop along the way of another trip, which is less of a nuisance than having to make two small walks to move and plug/unplug your car.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
They happen more than once. You'd change your bid for the aggregate effect of paying for many wins, not for an individual auction.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
They show the DFA for it on the site, it's 3 states. There's a starting state for the first . and then two states that transition back and forth between whether z was the last character or not. I think what's actually happeni
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
Having a constant runtime means there's a constant bound on the runtime, not that the runtime is an exact constant value. 100 + 1/n would still be constant, as it's bounded above and below by constants. To have sub-constant t
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
An algorithm can't have that property for its expected runtime, as it can only look at a sub-constant amount of the input of it runs in sub-constant time. it's not possible for it to behave differently as n increases because it do
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
That's what I'm saying. The runtime will go down to a constant. It can't keep decreasing forever.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
I'm not sure what your big-O expression is supposed to mean, but if a sequence is decreasing and bounded below (which runtime is) then it has a limit. Since the sequence is discrete, it can't get arbitrarily close to the limit wit
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
> Running any (halting) algorithm on a human computer is constant time, because you're bound by the number of states you can fit into some terabytes, but nobody should actually try to use that as a final analysis. That's the so
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
"constant time" in complexity theory just means there's a constant bound on runtime. It doesn't have to actually have the exact same runtime down to the instruction for every input. Here, the bound would be a quadrillion
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
You can't have that because when N=K that's not a valid expression and when N>K you're putting a negative number in the big-O notation. You can't have negative runtime. All algorithms have a lower-bound on runtime of
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
With probabilistic algorithms, you still have the fundamental limitation that there's a lower-bound to how fast an algorithm can run. You can't keep getting faster indefinitely.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
> Edit: it is trivial to construct an algorithm with this property. It's actually impossible to construct an algorithm that has its runtime decrease as the input size grows. You can do this for finitely many examples, but we'r
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
With probability 1 as time goes to infinity.
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
I think the key thing you're missing here is that they were talking about behavior as the number of flips goes to infinity. That long improbable upper end becomes more and more improbable over time. As time goes to infinity, the proba
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by daveFNbuck 3y ago
39 here too, and not turning my neck all the time to look at multiple monitors anymore has helped save me a lot of pain.
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by daveFNbuck 4y ago
The first half is wrong too. GPS has nothing to do with satellites being able to see lots of things from high up. The whole thing is just nonsense that looks plausibly like an explanation until you try to decipher it.
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by daveFNbuck 5y ago
> Likewise if the free market is used as a way to reduce the availability of content, I can be against that while still supporting it as a guiding concept. Joe Rogan being on Spotify is entirely about limiting the availability of his pod
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by daveFNbuck 5y ago
You're misunderstanding the objection. They're saying that if you move 1L of wine to the water side, the side you poured into will have fewer than 11L and when you pour 1L back the two sides won't have equal volume.
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by daveFNbuck 5y ago
Sure, every time anything happens to you, your state of mind is different. My point is that the relevant part of your state of mind doesn't necessarily change. If you report a different number, that means some things in your mind chang
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by daveFNbuck 5y ago
They haven't even necessarily changed the state of their mind. It's hard to accurately report your own subjective experiences in a measurable way. Maybe you're not sure where your pain falls on a 1-10 scale. There's a ra

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