programjames

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by programjames 1y ago
You misinterpreted my comment.
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by programjames 1y ago
Bracing for tariffs starting two years ago?
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by programjames 1y ago
They're used as a small regularization term in image/audio decoders. But GANs have a different learning dynamic (Z6 rather than Z1 or Z2) which makes them pretty unstable to train unless you're using something like Bayesian n
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by programjames 1y ago
Is the point of the warning to avoid liability or to actually inform the users? If you tell people everything causes cancer (instead of only saying when you've verified it doesn't), soon enough they're going to stop caring wh
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by programjames 1y ago
But then you get situations like, "THIS PRODUCT MAY CAUSE CANCER," being cautioned everywhere, with no distinction between, "this is certainly harmful," and "we just haven't verified it isn't harmful&quo
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by programjames 1y ago
I think more realistically, they'll argue if the prison didn't succeed in rehabilitating them, they obviously just need a longer sentence.
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by programjames 1y ago
There is one issue where fences can arise naturally (via evolution), and no one knows why it's there. If your society doesn't even understand evolution yet, are you supposed to just stagnate forever? It's an exploration vs. e
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by programjames 1y ago
As in, write a Scheme interpreter in Python?
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by programjames 1y ago
I think the Thiel index is more theoretically grounded (essentially measures entropy). Not sure if data gets collected on it though.
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by programjames 1y ago
I disagree. It feels like something you would say when you finally come across the "obviously right" solution, that's easier to implement and simpler to describe. As Kolmogorov said, the simplest solution is exponentially mor
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by programjames 1y ago
Reply to your edit: 1. Keyword: "your". Your version of empathy is not scalable. It's literally, "my way or the highway," and a bunch of grandstanding on things pretty much everyone agrees on, but you must be evil a
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by programjames 1y ago
I feel like you're quoting me, but not reading what I said. > > I think the left has also really shot themselves in the foot by talking about UBI as "helping struggling people get by" or accusing opposers of being unemp
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by programjames 1y ago
I think the issue is there are a lot of welfare programs that haven't seen the same success. If you subscribe to the "taxes are to solve public goods problems" model, then welfare that doesn't come back around to help yo
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by programjames 1y ago
Well, your previous comment brought up the issue that 50 points on the SAT doesn't really predict anything universities care about. I was just trying to show how we could fix this problem by making the tests harder. I'm not claimi
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by programjames 1y ago
I think the issue is that the (American) standardized tests don't differentiate well enough. About 10,000 American high school graduates earn a 36 on the ACT or 1580+ on the SAT each year. That's because the problems are much too
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by programjames 1y ago
> and fundamentally, we don't want a hierarchy of classes, even if we claim the higher rankings/elites have merited it. What do you mean by this? What creates a hierarchy of classes? Different social groups? Differing amounts o
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by programjames 1y ago
> Directly select candidates at random for positions from an eligibility pool. Set and maintain the eligibility standard (such as an exam) by randomly selected oversight board to keep it updated and prevent the standard from being manipu
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by programjames 1y ago
This looks pretty similar to interaction combinators: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_nets#Interaction_c... 2. https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/Bend
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by programjames 1y ago
I mean, everyone is still using variational autoencoders for their latent flow models instead of the information bottleneck. It's because it's cheaper (in founder time) to raise 10(0)x more money instead of having to design your o
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by programjames 1y ago
Maybe for an Australian billion? But in American English it would be $100 million.
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by programjames 1y ago
I find it pretty plausible they got an 80% speedup just by making optimized kernels for everything. Even when GPUs say they're being 100% utilized, there are so many improvements to be made, like: - Carefully interleaving shared memory
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by programjames 1y ago
(Note: this is Risk). I recently played a game with higher-level players. One player was incredibly passive; their bonus would get broken every turn, and rather than doing anything to defend it (and they had enough troops to defend it), the
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by programjames 1y ago
Just from the title I knew Keenan Crane was the advisor. He has some really good YouTube video explanations for most of the concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbuKOxH71o This work is one of those things that feels l
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by programjames 1y ago
I've seen people with a great deal of natural ability. I'm certainly one of them. But most never got as good at maths as me, because my father began teaching me before an age I can remember. I also never got as good as some others
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by programjames 1y ago
By "unable to take advantage of it", do you mean: - Unable to demonstrate prequisite knowledge, or - Unable to go to a school further away? I can get the latter one, which is why I think we shouldn't just have magnet schools,
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by programjames 1y ago
And, in most places, your public school has the legal obligation to provide an education for all ability levels, including people who show up to their first year with the ability to read. Even in the United States of America, where the cu
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by programjames 1y ago
This is the same reason people don't take calculus in ninth grade, or organic chemistry in tenth. "What will you do if you run out of classes?" I don't know, learn on your own? And once you run out of learning, do your o
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by programjames 1y ago
That isn't a fair ranking. Some people are more idealist than you, and a priori want to believe others will play well. If you stick them in a lobby full of smashy noobs, they may not live long enough to update on those beliefs (within
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by programjames 1y ago
If you've ever played Risk online, this becomes obvious, very quickly. The worst players to have around are not your enemies, but the stupid ones. They'll randomly block your troops from attacking mutual enemies, accidentally bait
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by programjames 1y ago
> That means that you can't pipe these things into each other, unless you can build an equivalently fast and efficient light->charge transducer (i.e. a photodetector). These exist: https://ultrafast.mit.edu/

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