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by guygurari 7mo ago
Programming brings me joy in two different ways. 1. Crafting something beautiful. Figuring out correct abstractions and mapping them naturally to language constructs. Nailing just the right amount of flexibility, scalability and robustness.
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by guygurari 3y ago
Achieve a significant scientific or mathematical breakthrough without human supervision. Domain experts should agree that the new result is truly groundbreaking, and achieving it required fundamentally new ideas — not merely interpolating e
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by guygurari 6y ago
For recipes I use the Paprika app [1]. I point it at one of these terrible websites and it will scrape out the ingredients and instructions and present them in a useful way. It doesn’t address the bigger problem but it solves this problem w
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by guygurari 6y ago
Here are examples of people who were cancelled without even saying anything [1]. One was due to a misunderstanding. Another was due to something a family member said. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2
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by guygurari 6y ago
I’m rooting for you. Here’s a thought about a possible trade off between radicalization and engagement. When social media platforms optimize for growth, it makes sense for them to make it as easy as possible for users to share/retweet.
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by guygurari 6y ago
It’s certainly possible my intuition is wrong. Run-flat tires can support the whole car, but it is possible this support only kicks in at very low pressure.
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by guygurari 6y ago
I agree that higher tire pressure results in smaller surface area, but it's not clear to me that the tire itself does not support the car, skewing the result. So I'm not convinced this sanity check is sufficient. For example, as a
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by guygurari 6y ago
The suggestion is to use F=PA to measure the car weight, where P is the tire pressure, A is the area the tires in contact with the ground, and F is the unknown: the weight of the car (measured in terms of gravitational force). I don't
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by guygurari 6y ago
> “do what the experts say we should, while maintaining a diversity of expert views.” I don’t think this is an actual strategy. If there is a diversity of views, which experts do you listen to? Also, experts in which field? Epidemiologis
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by guygurari 6y ago
If Sweden has a significantly higher percentage of the population infected (as they claim) then it doesn’t make sense to compare death rates at this point, because it may be that these other countries will reach the same numbers (infection
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by guygurari 6y ago
I am sorry to hear you’ve lost your source of income. > But financial hardship is solvable -- food, housing, etc. can be handed out. That depends on the size of the handout. At the scale we’re talking about, I’ll just say that I don’t th
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by guygurari 6y ago
> In 100 years, the only footnote for 2020 will be all the deaths and suffering that this caused. No one will care that you were sad because you couldn't see your friends or go do sports. It's weird. Why do you empathize with v
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by guygurari 6y ago
> At 2% a day cases double every 5 weeks. Would anyone apply this reasoning to any other disease? I don't know but maybe the flu [1]? I don't think focusing just on the infection rate is useful. > Classic psychological denia
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by guygurari 6y ago
To be clear, by “This is hysteria” I meant the gp’s claim that every healthcare system is overwhelmed. I was not referring to the general response. However, see Sweden for a clear counter-example to your claim that the services are holding
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by guygurari 6y ago
My theory is that it’s because they stayed open. The numbers are higher, yes, but it has not been a catastrophic disaster like many predicted. Crucially, the health care systems are not overwhelmed. So that is an important starting point fo
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by guygurari 6y ago
I have —- comparing with additional European countries, Sweden deaths per capita are lower than France, the U.K. and Italy, and is followed closely by Spain. Therefore, as I said, Sweden is not an outlier. At least the U.K. and Italy enacte
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by guygurari 6y ago
None of what you said here takes away from the fact that your original claim is false. Again, you wrote: “ completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world.” That is not true, not even close. Now, you write: > Sweden has be
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by guygurari 6y ago
You are making several false claims, most notably: > We're talking about a "flu" that has, in a matter of weeks, completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world. Many health care systems have been well below
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by guygurari 6y ago
To be clear, I am not arguing for or against the validity of the claims regarding covid-sim. I am only saying that this is not a good example of the effect where people feel entitled to get open source code that fits their needs.
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by guygurari 6y ago
I don’t doubt it, but covid-sim is not the best example of this effect. In this case, people are worried that poorly written simulation code is informing policy decisions that affect billions of people. They are not demanding that it should
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by guygurari 6y ago
Many people die in traffic accidents every day, but we don’t ban cars. Everything we do involves some risk. There needs to be a rational discussion on how much lock down is appropriate. We need to look at other countries like Sweden and Aus
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by guygurari 6y ago
We don’t know enough so let’s stop the economy while we find out? That is not typically how we do things, because it’s not a rational response. For example, we didn’t know whether holding a mobile phone close to our ear for extended periods
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by guygurari 7y ago
It is hard to overstate how important the resolution of this question is to physics, and in particular to theoretical physics. The “cosmological constant problem”, that is the problem explaining the cosmological acceleration (if it exists),
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by guygurari 7y ago
In my experience, the reason to “follow the math” is that it is the best and perhaps only way to truly understand a physical theory, especially one as strange as quantum mechanics. One can understand the math first, and then develop an unde
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by guygurari 8y ago
The article makes some fair points for performing end-to-end tests. There is however a benefit of unit tests over end-to-end tests that is not mentioned: code locality. The cost of fixing a discovered bug seems to grow exponentially with th
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by guygurari 9y ago
I’ve long had this dream of building a system that would allow for symbolic algebra manipulations, where the representation knows about the semantics. The idea is to replace long and tedious pen-and-paper symbolic calculations, while still
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by guygurari 9y ago
As far as I know, string theory is the only complete theory that incorporates these two observations: 1. Nature includes the force of gravity, described at low energies by Einstein's theory with a gravitational field. 2. Matter in Natu
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by guygurari 9y ago
That is the point of the paper: making deep fully-connected networks work.
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by guygurari 10y ago
> iOS has a defacto 100% monopoly on devices compatible with Apple's Ax series chips Sure, and equivalently Apple has a 100% monopoly on Apple devices. How does that make sense? One problem with anti-trust laws is that the market is
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by guygurari 10y ago
> Then these scientists should be devoted to producing textbooks and courses ... Textbooks and courses exist for everything but the most cutting edge stuff (which are still in flux anyway), but they are a very inefficient way of transfer

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