jlgray

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by jlgray 3y ago
Who among us hasn't suddenly, in the middle of some mundane task, broken down and started spewing pages of surreal, stream-of-consciousness nonsense?
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by jlgray 5y ago
This is the thing for me. If your company has a fully-stocked kitchen, quality chairs, monitors, adjustable desk, and noise cancelling headphones, it might be a comparable to a good home office setup in terms of comfort. What kills me thoug
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by jlgray 7y ago
An under-represented argument for a carbon tax is the fact that it would encourage companies to innovate, both with respect to efficiency as well as using renewable energy. I predict that industries in countries that adopt a carbon tax earl
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by jlgray 7y ago
I don't think the comparison to cigarette taxes is completely fair. Cigarettes are relatively inelastic w.r.t. price as they are addictive, and have no real competing product. Electricity and power generated from carbon emitting sourc
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by jlgray 7y ago
Science and technology are generally agnostic to their usage, and will be used to both positive and negative ends whose magnitude is proportional to the power of the underlying technology.* AI has the potential for massive positive effects
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by jlgray 8y ago
I had a number theory professor who said there are a number of deceptively promising avenues of attack using simpler methods than Wiles, but that end up being dead ends. He said mathematicians are now mostly of the opinion that Fermat was p
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by jlgray 8y ago
I'm ever so slightly optimistic in this regard. As soon as we see a few GDPR-related penalties assessed, the risk-reward calculation will change drastically. According to their 2017 annual report [1], Marriot had $22.9bn in worldwide r
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by jlgray 8y ago
$50bn/year would be more revenue than fb had in 2017, though of course the majority of their 2.23bn monthly users would disappear if asked for $.01/mo. It is an interesting thought experiment, though, to consider what facebook wou
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by jlgray 8y ago
Looks like a summer school program at University of Waterloo: "The Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students (QCSYS) is a unique, eight-day enrichment program for students hosted by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the
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by jlgray 8y ago
I think an important aspect not mentioned in this article is the environment in which the computer and internet wunderkind founders got their starts. You had a perfect storm of brand new, super powerful tools (the internet providing dirt-ch
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by jlgray 8y ago
Zoning requirements and permits for operating hotels are not unreasonable. Some people rent out a spare room now and again for extra cash, and some people have multiple properties that are occupied exclusively by Airbnb renters, essentially
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by jlgray 9y ago
I always feel like the right solution would be to have a significantly shorter copyright duration, but make it extendable for a large and increasing annual fee. I don't care if Disney gets to keep the rights to Mickey Mouse. The real p
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by jlgray 9y ago
Since they're talking about small publishers having trouble keeping up with google SEO updates, is there a reasonable way to actually break up google search?
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by jlgray 9y ago
I used MiniZinc on the capacitated vehicle routing problem in a combinatorial optimization project course a couple of years ago, and really enjoyed it. The sweet spot for MiniZinc is in investigating a problem and prototyping a solution. I
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by jlgray 9y ago
Some of that has a "you get what you pay for" component. My parents have a Frigidaire Flair double oven from the early 1960s. The thing is amazing, and still works perfectly. I think it cost something like $400 originally, which w
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by jlgray 9y ago
Interesting that you bring up autonomy and the military. I wonder if this has anything to do with the US naval piloting incidents of late. Previous HN commentary suggested that the Navy has become a highly bureaucratic organization where al
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by jlgray 9y ago
> What do we imagine will happen when everybody thinks of themselves as being victimised? On an individual level, self-pity, even when justified, is not very helpful, and though the two are not exactly the same, one leads to the other pr
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by jlgray 9y ago
Someone benefits, but it is not "we"
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by jlgray 10y ago
Libertarians did this in New Hampshire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project
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by jlgray 10y ago
As you said, this is slowly happening to me. I love being able to prototype systems in languages like python and matlab, but at the same time it feels like building on sand, especially when other developers get involved. Recently while writ
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by jlgray 10y ago
You would think that, but I did study abroad years ago in japan, and some guys got deported for shoplifting. Another guy I knew there also had a very liberal attitude toward property ownership (as in, if it wasn't locked up, the origin
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by jlgray 10y ago
As T-A suggested, arXiv is a great source, especially with the frustration over the profiteering of the publishing industry, although you always have to be aware that arXiv papers are not peer-reviewed. There is also http://gitxi
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by jlgray 10y ago
This is downright friendly. TL;DR: Here are basic norms, laws, and some common scams, please be aware.
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by jlgray 10y ago
If you have mastered the basics (e.g. Norvig's AIMA , Hastie and Tibshirani's Elements of Statistical Learning , Koller's PGM ), then I would suggest that the only place to really get a view of the state of the art is by r
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by jlgray 10y ago
There's been a lot of research lately on the connection between lead, brain impairment, and violence. One quick example, claiming cities in the 1920s that switched to lead pipes saw ~25% increase in homicides vs those that didn't.
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by jlgray 10y ago
I agree completely about learning math faster, or maybe easier. My thinking has been that now we have a much better scaffold to construct knowledge on. Calculus, linear algebra, proofs, thinking in arbitrary numbers of dimensions, etc. are
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by jlgray 10y ago
To quote wikipedia's article on statistics: Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. Isn't that more or less what human brains do? A neural network is just a cu
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by jlgray 11y ago
To quote wikipedia: Germany has several styles of timber framing, but probably the greatest number of half-timbered buildings in the world are to be found in Germany and in Alsace (France) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by jlgray 13y ago
Authors in Fitzgerald's time made their money off of short stories. He was apparently making $4,000 per story. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/fitzstories.html I've also heard that all the 19th century novels were so long because orig
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by jlgray 14y ago
Step 1: Build totally awesome Google reader replacement. Step 2: ???? Step 3: Get acquired by Google.

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