nmca

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   by nmca 5y ago

   Most models forecast a 10bn max pop due to decades long trend of richer countries having lower birth rates.
2. 272.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   This idea features in Greg Egan's novel "Distress" as one of the dystopian elements. It's a great novel; but this idea is pretty horrifying.
3. 273.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   One proposal I like for this is "cost" from the book radical markets - owners have to state a price for their property quarterly, are taxed according to that price, and must accept offers to purchase at that price.
4. 274.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   (disclaimer: work on RL, have trained models for simulated tasks) I'm fairly sure that people work on control because general algorithms for control would be very useful (e.g., robot that can skin a cat and drive a car by holding the s
5. 275.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   NP completeness tells you about the hardest cases, not the most useful cases.
6. 276.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   You, and not OP, are mistaken. Literate here means C+ grade in English language, not literature.
7. 277.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   Could you outline why you think CFD is a scam?
8. 278.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   Lee Jussim has written some well-cited books on this topic, and makes some effort to handle it with care: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jussim
9. 279.▲
   by nmca 5y ago

   Did any of your grad school work make it into the real world at all? Typically I'd suggest that such ideas are simple in theory and difficult in practice.
10. 280.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    I wonder if it's possible to arbitrage this
11. 281.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    Where are you getting a 30yr fix from? London, 15yr fixes like 4.5% or something equally silly, 10yr also expensive, 5r common. 30, unheard of for retail mortgage?
12. 282.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    Entertainingly, the technology to real-time impersonate someone over zoom photorealistically is also rapidly approaching - the window of irrelevant travel might be small.
13. 283.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    Can anyone point me to a clear description of what we should expect UBI to do to prices? I definitely worry that it will simply increase rent & other necessities, but I of course don't know.
14. 284.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    So I love this, but I imagine that all those VC funded subscription-for-x do not... (dollar shave, etc etc)
15. 285.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    I've seen this claim bandied about, but if you look at Sweden and its neighbors the no-lockdown case has 1000s more deaths. There are perhaps subtle arguments, but "no obvious benefit" seems extremely tenuous.
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    by nmca 5y ago

    ( I avoided it in the headline comment so as not to seem to shill, but if you're interested in what cause areas come out ahead, I broadly endorse, but am not affiliated with, the analysis here: https://animalcharityevaluator
17. 287.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    Pretty much everyone - if you work for neuralink there's some chance of cheap interventions here, but outside of that it seems unlikely. The latter point (galvanised to support other welfare causes) is roughly what inspired the origina
18. 288.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    You only have a finite amount of time and resources, the way in which you choose to spend them can have enormous influence on the resulting impact. Given this, you have to prioritize. If you are not prioritizing, then somebody or something
19. 289.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    I suspect he means Ocaml, sml and bucklescript.
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    by nmca 5y ago

    Now seems as good a moment as any to raise a proposal for the UK's adoption of constitutional necro-monarchy. We ought to declare, as a matter of principle and beyond all dispute, that Queen Elizabeth is alive and well, if unfortunatel
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    by nmca 5y ago

    I'd encourage anyone worried about the ethics of animal experiments in research like this to come up with prioritisation metrics over a number of animal welfare cause areas as an exercise. Surely a small number of well-cared for anim
22. 292.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    Interesting discussion on the ICLR openreview, resulting in a reject: https://openreview.net/forum?id=PdauS7wZBfC
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    Waymo CEO Steps Down(blog.waymo.com)

    2 points by nmca 5y ago|0 comments
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    by nmca 5y ago

    Thanks, that's excellent!
25. 295.▲
    by nmca 5y ago

    galaxy-brain: a great deal of resources are wasted in the university signalling game, by devaluing university these cheaters are contributing to societal progress in the long run.
26. 296.▲
    by nmca 6y ago

    Lots of issues with long-term consistency in these, but I expect now the dataset is out those shouldn't take too long to resolve.
27. 297.▲
    by nmca 6y ago

    3x seems significant?
28. 298.▲
    by nmca 6y ago

    You have the opportunity to make the following improvment that I've always wished for in a recipe book: Repeat quantities both in the ingredients list and the instructions. Thus, when following along, you don't need to cross refer
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    by nmca 6y ago

    This feels a little bit like where ML is at the moment. A lot of very excited people, not too much evidence for concrete value right now, and airplanes over the horizon. (less than 100 years though, I would have guessed. Wrights flew 1903,
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    by nmca 6y ago

    He has many, many BTC and if they move the market will shit the bed.