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by psandersen 4y ago
Is it really that easy for religious folks to dismiss though? If someone believes consciousness arises from a non-physical spirit through an unknown mechanism; then it seems difficult to argue that this can only happen in the specific arran
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by psandersen 4y ago
Sorry for the off topic reply, but I saw your post "Ask HN: Variable naming guide of matching length?" when looking for the same thing and couldn't find a way to contact you on your profile; is this what you were looking for?
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by psandersen 5y ago
Not an American but similar view of GWB. However... I feel leaders should be judged by the direction they tried to move things; and the Bush Administration did not move the USA in a more lawful, democratic and humanistic direction to say th
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by psandersen 5y ago
Wow, this is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks so much for developing it. I'm going to give it a shot over the holidays, have a pretty big home assistant install I'd love to control via voice. I'd primarily like to be
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by psandersen 5y ago
I also find moving hand to mouse is a really frustrating context switch, so I ended up getting a roller mouse ( https://www.contourdesign.com/product/rollermouse-red/ ) to use along with my main mouse. The idea is f
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by psandersen 5y ago
Thanks for sharing the story, that's an interesting window into their personality. Do you think they were completely serious, some a long running joke or a bit of both? Also if you wouldn't mind elaborating on surprising ways reac
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by psandersen 5y ago
Could you give a one sentence summary makes them awesome?
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by psandersen 5y ago
Agree with everything you said, especially on the challenge of recommendations and feel this is where those designing the recommendation engines have at least the same moral responsibility as a bio-engineer doing gain of function research o
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by psandersen 5y ago
You can get a referral to a psychiatrist from a doctor who will get you to fill a number of multi choice forms and look at your past school reports to form a diagnosis. This may be more or less involved depending on which country you live i
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by psandersen 5y ago
Outside of speculation and hype; is there currently much demand for bitcoin as a currency outside of industries that operate in a legal grey area?
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by psandersen 5y ago
Get tested for ADHD if you haven't already. Most people think ADHD means hyperactive children but its more an attention disorder where it can be very difficult to get things done if they don't actually interest you or there aren&#
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by psandersen 6y ago
There is the "whole food plant based" diet, see Dr Greger's "How Not to Die" and "daily dozen". I found it compelling and switched, feeling healthier and lost around 20kg in 6 months without thinking about
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by psandersen 6y ago
Interesting idea! I'm not an expert, but if I'm reading you right and the decompressor is Turing complete; you're searching for the smallest Turing machine capable of generating the input sequence? That would indeed be an opt
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by psandersen 6y ago
I'd totally take that, assuming reasonable convenience and cost.
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by psandersen 6y ago
I'd be keen for a service that made a nice pdf for reading on an e-reader, but a physical book just feels wasteful. Exploring a pocket to pdf to kindle pipeline is on my todolist using either https://www.printfriendly.com o
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by psandersen 6y ago
I've been looking to get my feet wet with SAT and/or SMT solvers; can anyone recommend any short courses that I could start with to get a practical feel where where & how to use them? Python would be preferred. Maybe this htt
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by psandersen 6y ago
Thanks for the reference, from a quick read it seems LogitBoost is a booster for ensembling models under a logistic loss. I meant that the splitting point in a node in the decision trees that make up a random forest is itself a random varia
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by psandersen 6y ago
This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! I've been thinking about extensions to decision tree models that could get the benefits of NNs and it seems like there are a few ideas floating around. For example; Probabilistic Random F
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by psandersen 6y ago
I wish there were more options to control tab priority and UI latency in firefox. I have a respectable (2x8 core xeon, 164gb ram) workstation running linux and I have many tabs/windows open with various references spread across virtual
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by psandersen 6y ago
Yeah definitely, I'd stick a few around the house if it was easy to create a nice dashboard from multiple data sources. Current top tasks on to-do list, habbitrpg overview, last nights sleep quality, exercise amount/progress, weig
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by psandersen 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! Its hard for us with a very mixed tech stack to realise something like this. I've started thinking about using VNC to share Autodesk Sketchbook from my Surface Pro to do presentations and splicing it together wi
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by psandersen 6y ago
This looks really good, I've been going down the rabbit hole of optimising focus and killing distractions... Is there any chance we could get it to make a rest API call on certain actions? I'd like to change my lights in home assi
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by psandersen 6y ago
I suspect we'll see causal techniques start merging with more traditional AI/ML tools over the coming years. Causal forests are an example that extends random forests, but I imagine a lot of the value in current pipelines would be
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by psandersen 6y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say never is a big word in tech, VR/AR might be good enough in 1-2 decades to provide 99% of the benefit of a shared office environment. That said, I can really relate to the challenge of keeping personal an
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by psandersen 6y ago
On a related note, I've been looking for a way of transparently tunnelling all internet traffic through a vps using KCP to improve an unreliable 4G connection and would appreciate any guidance. To add additional detail, I'm curren
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by psandersen 6y ago
So people who choose not to have kids can have immortality? ;) It would be pretty unethical to prevent people from getting the best available medical treatment just so there are more children, on the other hand giving people a choice would
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by psandersen 6y ago
Ignoring the implementation issues, my issue is when the vendor profits of limited supply in a crisis. If the supplier is only passing on their own increased costs then that's at least fair in principle. Similarly, marginal increases i
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by psandersen 6y ago
What would it take to use this on a complete linux distro like ubuntu? Seems like it would be a respectable improvement.
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by psandersen 7y ago
Its interesting seeing how arbitary all points are along the 'Overton window'; I'm not from the US so CNN strikes me as center right wing, low regulation, anti-union and moderately pro war etc. This illustrates the danger of
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by psandersen 7y ago
The feature engineering is probably where most of the performance comes from so there is likely a lot of code that turns the raw data into features. Features likely include more than just the single users history, so they need to be updated

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