indrax

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by indrax 4y ago
https://www.shadertoy.com/ * Low friction, nothing to install, near instant feedback. * Fun starting at simple shapes, gradients, distortions, all the way to absurdly good looking rendering. I did have that experience of gr
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by indrax 5y ago
For many cognitive processes, I don't see a clear survival value to conscious awareness of that process, so I don't expect that awareness to be a reliable feature. The survival relevant result of that cognition can still come th
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by indrax 5y ago
I look at this like Multimedia and the web in 1995. Yes some of this is a shadow of Microsoft Bob. We don't know what we're doing with VR yet but the technology has crossed over the line from being a toy or experiment. Skeuomorphi
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by indrax 5y ago
They're paying for credibility, but assigning the credibility to an organization instead of an open and understood process of vetting. This confuses me.
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by indrax 5y ago
I think this is a reference class problem. One could also say software replaced work done in offices with work still being done in offices. (until recently) Most of the work was still done on literal desktops. but significant changes have b
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by indrax 5y ago
Software is also part of the world, just a very different part.
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by indrax 5y ago
Do you think abundance requires the current system?
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by indrax 5y ago
Mirror: https://imgur.com/OPVQstH
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by indrax 5y ago
It's conceptually gridbeam. https://gridbeam.xyz/ General construction kit for real world applications. In theory you could take a machine apart and use the beams for some other machine. A smaller kit could build any o
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by indrax 5y ago
This is the relevant paper. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
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by indrax 5y ago
If someone is subsequently charged with fleeing, having a reasonable belief that someone was impersonating officers could be an easier defense than merely fearing danger, however founded those fears may be.
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by indrax 5y ago
Friendly suggestion to all that Bayes Theorem is the right way to deal with this kind of weak evidence. We should not adhere to arbitrary legal standards in our own thinking about the truth.
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by indrax 5y ago
I just signed up to prolific. Their onboarding tutorial/example survey references prescreening and eligibility. I'm guessing it was on researchers to filter the demographics to what was relevant to their study. I think this is act
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by indrax 5y ago
If 2x programmers are paid ~2x then the company is using some performance metric to influence pay, but then for pay to remain secret the performance metric also has to be secret.
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by indrax 5y ago
You have to weight the validity of the reasoning across all turtle observers through history. If you reject probabilistic reasoning because it sometimes tell you things that are wrong, then you have no way to reason about uncertainty.
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by indrax 5y ago
What's an alternate to that which would make sense in a different context?
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by indrax 5y ago
There is virtually no real diversity in experimentation on social decision making processes. (Governments, Economies, Science) So debates devolve into some form of e.g. capitalism vs. socialism, but both system are governed by similar varia
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by indrax 5y ago
I agree with incentivizing health in general. Doing so without providing healthcare seems wrong. Doing so through income tax rates is muddling the issues. The rich would hire dieticians and trainers just to save money. If public health is a
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by indrax 5y ago
It is unpopular among university and research institutions that get federal grants. Also development companies that win contracts to create government websites/backends. I agree with it, but it would disrupt a whole industry.
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by indrax 5y ago
MK here is a just a digraph, not an abbreviation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym
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by indrax 5y ago
>only when "ownership" is artificially enforced by some sufficiently mighty entity with the power to do so is there anything to trade in the first place. Every instance of funding open software and free content disproves this.
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by indrax 5y ago
We haven't had photography for thousands of years, and it's reasonable to think that we are still adjusting to the implications. It's quite normal for people to be embarrassed when their parents show baby pictures, especially
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by indrax 5y ago
I was never able to whistle well until I learned to do it while inhaling which came out much louder and helped me learn a better mouth shape for whistling while exhaling.
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by indrax 5y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/select...
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by indrax 5y ago
These forms of knowledge do grow the pie, they just haven't formed a monetization/product loop. The scarcity of jobs to fund their work (which we need vastly more of) is a market failure. -An unemployed STEM
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by indrax 5y ago
Emigration is not a realistic option for most people, and it becomes harder as the need becomes more obvious.
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by indrax 5y ago
I agree he probably shouldn't have had such power at 22 either. Why are we talking about her age? Who benefits?
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by indrax 5y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is 37. How are we deciding who has power? Is he the right person for that massive office?
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by indrax 5y ago
Inform7 has very educational error messages: (Each time Go or Replay is clicked, Inform tries to translate the source text into a working story, and updates this report.) Problem. The sentence 'This is a book' appears to say two
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by indrax 5y ago
Any sufficiently advanced game of monopoly is a violation of SEC rules.

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