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by throw149102 4y ago
Made me think of Markov chains, and the PageRank algorithm. We should construct causal graphs, then give each of them 1/n weight and iterate over the casual weight splitting out, until the Markov chain reaches a steady state. Then you
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by throw149102 4y ago
One of the major problems of modern-day life is that we are constantly bombarded with indicators of our status - in particular how low it is compared to the elites. You might think that you could merely escape this by getting of social me
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by throw149102 4y ago
Anyone have any recommendations (books, courses, videos, etc.) on learning LISP? I've been intrigued by it and want to integrate it into a game I'm building as a development tool but not sure where to start on learning the languag
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by throw149102 4y ago
Reading this on mobile, I feel really lost about what the article is trying to say. The problem is all the sources are in between the essay-bits. I would prefer it if the author just used footnotes like Wikipedia when citing a claim and stu
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by throw149102 4y ago
One time I had a conversation with a coworker who was asking me what they thought was a simple question. I tried to explain over and over again that I didn't think the question was very simple, that there could be at least 3 different
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by throw149102 4y ago
I fit in that classic category of "built a website to blog on" and then never wrote a single post. Not really sure why I never posted anything.
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by throw149102 4y ago
To my ear, they all sound about okay for 4 seconds, until my brain recognizes that there's no tension being built or story being told. It's like every track is 4 seconds of music followed by 4 seconds of music followed by 4 second
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by throw149102 4y ago
A short list of things worth thinking about trying, listed in no specific order: 1. Find a project at work that you are interested in, and move over to that. 2. Join a completely different team/org at work. 3. Join a completely differe
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by throw149102 4y ago
Changing jobs is (likely) necessary but not sufficient. For example, if OP works a front-end job at Meta and switches to a front-end job at Google, that's unlikely to make them motivated. I don't think you're "missing th
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by throw149102 4y ago
I feel like we are - I can run Minecraft RTX at 4k with acceptable framerate using DLSS 2.0 on a 3090. Minecraft is using pure raytracing (no rasterization). It also isn't using A-SVGF or ReSTIR, so there are 2 pretty big improvements
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by throw149102 4y ago
Quantum computing is more worthy of funding than the Metaverse, cryptocurrency, and all of Web3 combined - yet every single thread about quantum computing has to turn into naysaying about how it might not be possible. Bitcoin alone has a ma
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by throw149102 4y ago
My version of the statement reads more like: If an entity manages to obtain a massive amount of wealth, far surpassing its own needs, and there is a definite need for that money elsewhere, then that is a policy failure. The obvious example
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by throw149102 4y ago
To me, caring about life means I must care about fairness. It's not even social or political either - there is something metaphysical or strictly logical about it. Suppose you lived in a universe where there was no fairness, ever. It
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by throw149102 4y ago
Also re: the comparisons to AWS or Google Cloud - it's still totally different. This is more like your car being unable to start because it can't connect to the cloud. I don't expect that driving my car needs internet access,
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by throw149102 4y ago
Lots of people are mentioning that you can host these types of things yourself, I want to say that that is not a solution at all. The entire point of these hosted password services is that they are a turnkey solution - I could give them to
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by throw149102 4y ago
It sounds as if you only were able to access the password because you had a second device that happened to already be logged in. My guess is that if BW's login servers were having a temporary outage, had you not been logged in you woul
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by throw149102 4y ago
I've been following this paper to implement materials in a raytracer I'm building. As well as https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2015-shading-cours... and this homework assignment https://cs
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by throw149102 4y ago
One point of interest was the paper on quantum computing applied to quantum chemistry[1]. In that paper, they did not find generic exponential speedup for a list of chemistry problems with current quantum algorithms. There are 3 problems wi
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by throw149102 4y ago
I'm confused by what you wrote, because when I worked there during the pandemic, or even a year into it, almost no one was in the office. The first plan was to bring people back by Jan 2022, but then it was decided that individual dire
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by throw149102 4y ago
How is this relevant to the current discussion whatsoever?
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by throw149102 4y ago
According to the PIAAC, 54% of Americans are illiterate. That is, they are able to read simple things like menus, but they are not capable of synthesizing new information from multiple texts, or understanding the nuance of an authors argume
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by throw149102 4y ago
Finding KiwiFarms posts that currently dox a user are going to be hard, because now that the site is under increased scrutiny from the public there is likely to be an attempt from moderators to remove posts. We can clearly find posts howeve
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by throw149102 4y ago
A more charitable version of this argument would build in a series of degrees as to how likely those denigrations are to make stochastic terrorism occur. For example, vague insults directed at a group of people are less likely to cause terr
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by throw149102 4y ago
The homeless probably have struggles getting a card.
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by throw149102 4y ago
First of all, I have to say I hate how the author not only mentions their book, but puts a huge ad cutting into the text telling us we can buy it at "Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Target". This makes it clear to me (regardless i
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by throw149102 4y ago
I don't have anything to add except fuck Web3, fuck NFTs, fuck play-to-earn, fuck the blockchain, and fuck anyone supporting this garbage. Gamers despise the cryptocurrency craze that bought up their graphics cards to generate random n
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by throw149102 4y ago
I think we might just have different definitions of productive. To me, writing code or reading a paper can be productive, but so can a conversation with my dad or a nice meal out. Basically I see "Productivity" and replace it with
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by throw149102 4y ago
I mean this is funny but this isn't at all what the post is about. What it means by "productivity porn" is only tangentially related with the hustle sigma male trillionaire grindset stuff.
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by throw149102 4y ago
It's not possible to do uniquely, i.e. producing the unique scene that produced the image, but it's possible to produce some scene that would produce that image.
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by throw149102 4y ago
I don't think anyone can create the metaverse. The technology that needs to be built is a brain-computer interface, but humanity is currently incapable of anything even close to that. No amount of money or political power can make it h

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