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by missingrib 3y ago
Where do you get the money to fund repeated attempts? I'm confused at stories like this.
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by missingrib 3y ago
This all seems very obvious?
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by missingrib 3y ago
I incorporated logic for finding dominant colors into a program I had written, and from my research clustering algorithms were the best way to get the dominant color in a way that most users would expect. K-means clustering seems to have a
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by missingrib 3y ago
This is a pretty weird view of it I think. Ranking people in that way.
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by missingrib 3y ago
> My reply is that, if it acts as if it understands Chinese in every situation, then there’s no measurable way of distinguishing it from understanding. I'm not sure if you understood the argument. The argument isn't asserting t
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by missingrib 3y ago
How can it be deeply tangled up in his biology if it can be changed by taking a drug?
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by missingrib 4y ago
Do you think this happens often? What about people with "Reverse Imposter Syndrome" who eventually get into the elite company?
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by missingrib 4y ago
What's an example of a place without "zoning issues" with really expensive real estate?
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by missingrib 4y ago
Bread probably isn't very healthy anyway, so it's okay to cut it out of your diet.
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by missingrib 4y ago
Classic
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by missingrib 4y ago
I don't have much to add except that I've also experienced brief but seismic shifts in my perspective and my view on social interactions. It's been surreal to say the least, and in both of these different states I had a hard
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by missingrib 4y ago
> I also received an IQ test result which was strange to see, and I actually would have preferred not to see it. Why is that?
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by missingrib 4y ago
What if it is something that is impossible for you to improve?
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by missingrib 4y ago
It's most likely just climbing technique, keeping with it for a few more months would have yielded pretty good results I think.
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by missingrib 4y ago
>There are professional climbers who are 'heavy'. Who? The heaviest I can honestly think of would be Chris Scharma, Magnus Midtbo, Jimmy Webb and maybe Jan Hojer, but all of them would be considered pretty skinny by normal stan
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by missingrib 4y ago
They're horror shows because...they're boring/awkward/spend a lot of time online? I think you need a reality check.
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by missingrib 4y ago
He would not have committed the crime if the FBI hadn't set up the fake persona that was allegedly going to get caught and get Ulbright arrested and charged with a life sentence.
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Billionaires want to save civilization by having genetically superior kids(businessinsider.com)
14 points by missingrib 4y ago|8 comments
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by missingrib 4y ago
Nobody does this stuff to those kinds of scientists.
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by missingrib 4y ago
How did that happen?
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by missingrib 4y ago
>But there are still philosophers like Dennett who take an even harder position, saying that functional knowledge is identical to experiential knowledge. If you deny the existence of consciousness or qualia then you are making that claim
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by missingrib 4y ago
I think philosophers get a bit annoyed about this because they've spent literal years and years thinking about something that might be quite esoteric/tricky, and then someone comes along and just assumes the answer as if there has
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by missingrib 4y ago
He's literally one of the best selling music artists who single-handedly pioneered multiple substyles within hip-hop over a 20 year career. He's released some of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time. Strictly as a rapp
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by missingrib 4y ago
It directly responds to the comment even without the quoted sentence.
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by missingrib 4y ago
Well, that fact that the dairy industry is very inhumane and involves killing animals.
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by missingrib 4y ago
Dismissing academic philosophy as a whole with a link to a PG article is possibly the most HackerNews thing I've ever seen.
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by missingrib 4y ago
>He starts with a "Webster's dictionary defines" kind of premise We are talking about diversity in academia, so it's helpful to have some history of the word and how it started becoming used the way it's used tod
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by missingrib 4y ago
This tone is very common in academic philosophy. I would characterize it as being low in rhetoric and extremely blunt. I don't really see how it sounds like "a high school sophomore".
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by missingrib 4y ago
Thank god you can't bold.
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by missingrib 4y ago
Your last sentence is confusing, rather than starting what from scratch after age 30? An ML career or trying to become a great engineer/programmer/IT person?

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