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by virissimo 23d ago
Does your hypothesis predict that Texas would be one of the most renewable-energy-heavy states in the U.S.?
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by virissimo 1mo ago
In practice, it doesn't seem to make much difference: > Propensity score matching and regression analyses of the National Inmate Survey are used to examine individuals’ experiences and perceptions of environmental quality in public
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by virissimo 1mo ago
Taking it to a logical extreme is good practice for thinking from first principles, but always pair it up with going to the logical extreme in the other direction. That might look something like: "would you really eat at a restaurant o
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The Gran Turismo Magazine Beyond the Apex(gran-turismo.com)
1 points by virissimo 2mo ago|1 comments
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by virissimo 2mo ago
Logicians are typically part of the philosophy department, at least in the US.
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by virissimo 3mo ago
It seems to me that LLM's could massively improve reproducibility issues if journals would require that the papers be reproducible by model X using a standardized prompt in < N minutes, etc...
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by virissimo 3mo ago
> MRIs are actually widely available in most cities at reasonable cost Typical wait time for an MRI in Canada is 2 months.
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by virissimo 3mo ago
Applying equally to all the industry is a characteristic of good regulation, not of regulation tout court .
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by virissimo 3mo ago
The U.S. Constitution is older than the current constitution of every EU member state and has remained continuously in force longer than any of them.
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by virissimo 3mo ago
Furthermore, even if the trade deficit was something to worry about, why should the food and drug safety bureaucracies be the ones to determine that kind of economic policy?
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Build Your Own ALU(virissimo.info)
3 points by virissimo 4mo ago|1 comments
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by virissimo 4mo ago
I've been working through Nand2Tetris with my 13-year-old son, but the official hardware simulator was pretty overwhelming. That's why I built a browser version that tests the first 2 chapters, is simpler, and has a tighter feedba
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by virissimo 5mo ago
It's not insane at all to return both in a lookup. The "reporting person" will often be wrong about slight variations when calling in a license plate and the downside of errors are asymmetric: it is much more dangerous for th
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by virissimo 5mo ago
People are worse at mental arithmetic than they were in the recent past, so it's not clear that they aren't "dumber" in the sense people meant at the time.
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by virissimo 5mo ago
US teacher pay is near the top for OECD countries: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/teachers-salaries.ht...
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by virissimo 5mo ago
Does this apply to other domains or just AI? For example, if you think gain-of-function research accidents put millions of lives at risk, is the logical next step to quit your job and become a terrorist?
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by virissimo 5mo ago
I'm beginning to homeschool my kids in computing, and we are pairing up chapters of The Elements of Computing System (the Nand2Tetris book) with games that teach similar skills/kinds of thinking (Human Resource Machine, Comet 64,
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by virissimo 6mo ago
The quote literally contains the string "Transportation Security Administration" in it.
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by virissimo 11mo ago
Some left-coded popular conspiracies: 1. The Iraq war was a plot to steal oil reserves 2. World Economic Forum / IMF intentionally impoverish nations 3. Police across America are systematically hunting and executing Black men (thousand
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by virissimo 11mo ago
There are ZIP codes that overlap a city and also an unincorporated area. Furthermore, there are zip codes that overlap different states. A data model that renders these unrepresentable may come back to bite you.
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by virissimo 1y ago
While it's true that CNN ran an article like that, the underlying claim has been formally rebutted by the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys Association, who clarified that: > Women who experience miscarriage are not required to no
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by virissimo 1y ago
Many European scholars did consider Troy fictional. For example, Jacob Bryant's "A Dissertation concerning the War of Troy" (1796) explicitly argued that Troy never existed as a real city and that the Trojan War was purely my
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by virissimo 2y ago
Perhaps it's more likely at an American airport, but I've been asked to remove shoes in both the UK and Portugal when flying to other European countries.
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Understanding the Tech Right(richardhanania.com)
5 points by virissimo 2y ago|1 comments
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by virissimo 2y ago
Your original claim was that "only European powers had the urge for colonization," but now you're citing Arab, Egyptian, and Phoenician examples. Do you see these as exceptions? If so, wouldn't that contradict your origi
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by virissimo 2y ago
> Only european powers had the urge for colonization, no other civilization in Americas, Africa or Asia really ever want to colonize, expand perhaps but not really colonize. * Inca Empire: Relocated entire communities (the mitmaqkuna) in
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by virissimo 2y ago
Prior convictions are evidence in the broad sense (because they provide information that could update one's belief about a defendant's character or likelihood of committing a crime), but not legally admissible evidence (in many ju
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by virissimo 2y ago
I did a year of computer science, but ended up going to App Academy with an ISA, because I couldn't really afford another couple of years. If ISAs are indentured servitude, but are still better than going to university, then what does
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by virissimo 2y ago
A series of ordinary evidences can collectively make an extraordinary claim more probable than its negation.
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by virissimo 2y ago
Perhaps we should have different words for voluntary (choosing to regain your hearing, etc...) and coercive (forced sterilization, etc...) "eugenics", since almost all of the negative connotations of the word are (rightly, IMO) at

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