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by karpierz 1y ago
Here's an analogy that might make it clearer: Alice is in a wheelchair. Bob has a broken leg. Charlie is unfit, but otherwise a healthy adult. Alice, Bob, and Charlie would all say "I find getting up the hills of San Francisco dif
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by karpierz 1y ago
Except part of the job involves lifting things in places where forklifts can't fit.
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by karpierz 2y ago
> Message me if anyone's still interested in "dumb" AI like that. :-) Not sure how to reach out, but I'm definitely interested in reading about procedural methods in music synthesis. Any links describing your approach
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by karpierz 2y ago
Ito calculus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4_calculus
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by karpierz 2y ago
The question on my mind: how do you figure out what the functions do without reverse engineering? If I were to guess, you're saying that you reverse engineer the API boundary without reverse engineering the implementation. But then fig
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by karpierz 2y ago
Light travels in a straight line - black holes don't "pull" light in, they change what a straight line looks like in the space around it. The event horizon is the distance where all straight lines lead to the black hole.
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by karpierz 2y ago
The author of the technique has a video of it in 3d: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua-h1pg6yM
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by karpierz 2y ago
But then I can't spend my money for several weeks - the feature that crypto can't implement is having the reversal window be wider than the lockout window.
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How I Made "What" in Geometry Dash(youtube.com)
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by karpierz 3y ago
> I should be able to state that two species have a different lifespan based on a difference in mean age of death - without needing to provide any specific biological mechanism in my study. You need to control for confounders. For exampl
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by karpierz 3y ago
I think that you have a specific lens with which you view the world, and you're contorting the world to fit that lens. What would it take to convince you that people don't do everything to attract a high-status mate?
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by karpierz 3y ago
> How does someone find his game before really really good games like baldur gates etc.? They don't. There have been really good AAA games before Jeff started making games. His business model does not revolve around getting people t
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by karpierz 3y ago
> You're paid what you're known to be worth. You're paid somewhere between the minimum amount you'll accept and the maximum that the company is willing to give you (which in the case of some VC funded companies, may e
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by karpierz 3y ago
I'd recommend starting here: http://minisat.se/
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by karpierz 3y ago
Apple made them the default because they are the best at monetization of large volumes of search queries from iOS devices. If another company was better at it, they'd put in a higher bid and rake in the profits.
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by karpierz 3y ago
They're saying it's scarier that ad companies can figure out these things without the data because it means that you can't protect yourself by withholding your data.
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by karpierz 3y ago
You start by saying that wealthy people can pretty freely manipulate the amount of income they show for tax purposes. The follow-up is that based on the manipulated income data, wealthy people pay disproportionately more taxes?
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by karpierz 3y ago
tl;dr: The author starts with the assumption that the Industrial Revolution is inevitable, and uses that to conclude that the Industrial Revolution would've inevitably happened, while dismissing a bunch of other authors who put a lot m
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by karpierz 3y ago
I'm not talking about code. The goal of the transaction is for the Spanish bank to have access to USD. In the example given, the Spanish bank would then have to take the crypto it got and trust an exchange to give it USD in exchange fo
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by karpierz 3y ago
How exactly does the Spanish bank get the USD that the American bank sent without trusting a third party?
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by karpierz 3y ago
There's the bonus problem of: even if you magically have correct priors, you still need to assume that Drake's Equation is a good model for the generation process of civilizations. If the equation is missing terms or has extra ter
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by karpierz 3y ago
> And yet nobody seems to be aware of it, and both the popular and scientific press continue with the “where are they?” Fermi paradox headlines. A reasonable explanation here is that the paper is not correct because it relies on unfounde
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by karpierz 3y ago
To add to this, I'd say that when people say "deep conversation", they generally mean "comfortable conversation". A lot of conversations that I've heard described as "deep" are superficial discussions
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by karpierz 3y ago
> That’s not how this works, anywhere: the burden of proof, of presenting facts, is on those who say “yes”. What? Why? If this were true, you could: 1. Take the claim you want to assert 2. Claim the negation of the claim is false (the &q
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by karpierz 3y ago
I don't think the RTS genre died; I think it evolved. Two of the most popular games in the world, League of Legends and DotA2, are RTS games. The Total War franchise keeps on kicking. Auto-battlers like Teamfight Tactics and Mechabellu
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by karpierz 3y ago
> The majority of modern scholars avoid the term [Dark Ages] altogether due to its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate. Despite this, Petrarch's pejorative meaning remains in use, particularly in popular cult
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by karpierz 3y ago
It's worth reading in a little more detail. One of the core points is that "Feudalism" as used outside of academic discussion loses its semantic meaning beyond being a synonym for "oppressive". And so trying to disc
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by karpierz 3y ago
Given that society has relied on fractional reserve banking since the 1600s, what is the alternative banking process you had in mind?
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by karpierz 3y ago
If you want to make a game, it's never been easier! Download Unity, download a bunch of free sounds/textures/models/etc, and then write some simple code to your things around. If you want to make a movie, it's never
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by karpierz 3y ago
Can you point to some great movies that didn't see any success this year?

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