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by starbeast 8y ago
Her appointment should also be discussed, given how much of Tesla's bad press has been HR related over the past year. She may prove to be the more important addition.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Given Tesla's current issues with how they have been reported to treat their workforce, while Larry might be useful in terms of finance and contacts, I'm more interested in discovering what Kathleen is bringing to the table and wh
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by starbeast 8y ago
Given the title includes her, I'd like to know what the thought was behind removing her name. I'd be very surprised if it was; 'Larry is bad, so lets not harm people by association'.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Not only can you not always distinguish them from each other, but they are very far from being mutually exclusive. Which is somewhere else that Hanlon's razor falls down. It sets them up as being options to choose between, which is obv
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by starbeast 8y ago
>If "conservation of complexity" were universally true then ANY compression would be impossible. No it wouldn't. The complexity of a pattern can usually be conserved while reducing its length, but for each pattern there is
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by starbeast 8y ago
Tomatoes flavour often gets killed by chilling them too far - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2109336-heres-why-putti... There are probably other things going on as well, but this seems to be one of the major fact
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by starbeast 8y ago
I have said this before, but Hanlon's razor is good for politeness, but not very good for assessing what people are actually up to, as people regularly disguise maliciousness as incompetence and find it fun to do so, especially in poli
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by starbeast 8y ago
If it was objectively not true, then you could have infinite compression and any program could be reduced to a single bit.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Isn't pseudo though as he is also a lawyer. He may be far too used to writing like that.
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by starbeast 8y ago
One thought, if this is combined with a freezer and there is a pumped heat exchanger between that and the fridge, you can effectively use the freezer as the battery.
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by starbeast 8y ago
On the other hand, if you know something is bad for false positives then unless it is so bad as to be unusable, you would expect that, on average, getting a few results is dubious, but lighting up like a christmas tree probably means someth
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by starbeast 8y ago
>The problem with this definition is that it is close to making every promotion decision meritocratic by definition. This is pretty close to what Michael Young was warning about when he coined the term in his 1958 satire, 'The Rise
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by starbeast 8y ago
Thanks for the advice. I think also some of it might just be that I have mainly had jobs for smaller companies which have a relatively small percentage of management positions available compared to larger organisations. So as they tend to o
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by starbeast 8y ago
Thanks for this. I guess there is a fine line to tread between being aggressive and assertive. I often see them used interchangeably though.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Not yet you aren't.
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by starbeast 8y ago
My mind went straight to Cold Lazarus, the sequel to Karaoke, by Dennis Potter. Reality Or Nothing! Poor fucking pig. I hope it stayed comatose and didn't dream. You can still feel pain from injuries in your dreams sometimes.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Maybe. Is very good at designing intelligence however.
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by starbeast 8y ago
I am light skinned and look much younger than my age. I have noticed over the years that I seem to not be allowed anywhere near any kind of management role. Although I will be trusted with great responsibility to actually research, develop,
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by starbeast 8y ago
>how did he come to the conclusion that these effects and psychological biases are undesirable and we should find mechanisms to avoid them Given your desire that others provide you with strong evidence for visual biases in hiring being a
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by starbeast 8y ago
Given this bit - >"Since this was a task more suited to Cylance Protect, they rolled out that tool in a free trial mode, and it "lit up like a Christmas tree." At this point, OPM began using Protect extensively in its diag
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by starbeast 8y ago
>AlphaZero is just a very refined and efficient form of brute force. As is evolution.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Fusion power has not yet reached ignition, without that it is not just uneconomic, it is not working period. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
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by starbeast 8y ago
I don't know where you get that idea. The current problem with fusion is not that it isn't economic, it is that it is not yet at the stage where it produces excess power that can be used. The electric cars 100 years ago were funct
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by starbeast 8y ago
No you don't. Rolling logs as a linear bearing for launching boats, with people carrying the logs to the front from the back as the boat passes over, almost certainly preceded the wheel.
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by starbeast 8y ago
>"One Friday afternoon in 1921, Steinmetz hopped in his electric car and headed off for a weekend at Camp Mohawk" I wonder what he would have made of the fact that people are arguing about whether electric cars are practical al
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by starbeast 8y ago
Mathematics has the recent case of having to reference an anonymous 4chan user for a paper 'A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern' - https://oeis.org/A180632/a180632.pdf
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by starbeast 8y ago
Alan Kay's take on Jobs and Pixar is pretty illuminating regarding this - >Steve wasn’t capable of being friends. That wasn’t his personality. Besides the Apple stuff, I had a lot to do with his Pixar thing. I was contacted by the p
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by starbeast 8y ago
I'm really interested in this, how far have you got?
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by starbeast 8y ago
I had forgotten the Dr Who reference, though I only dip into Dr Who now and again. I had always assumed that the title of the film 'The Matrix' was in homage to Neuromancer. I had never considered that Gibson might be doing a homa
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by starbeast 8y ago
Better plasma control doesn't do much to Lidsky's argument though, if you have a look through it.

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