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> All for a simple webserver that printed "cock", not useful but it proved the tunnels worked. That's what she said.

"So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era" There are at least a couple of statistical fallacies in this conclusion. And there isn't a lack of agreement…

I played a game of Monopoly where I started with a roll of 12. There was a 97% chance I correctly rejected the hypothesis that the dice were fair. Maybe this is true in some sense?…

The 0.5% quote is fine. It's turning it into a 99.5% that is not fine. It's essentially like saying that a pair of dice that rolled a 12 has a 97% chance of being loaded, because t…

> Why is it wrong? https://xkcd.com/882/ If you look at 200 rivers, it would not be surprising to find something that naturally occurs 0.5% of the time. It is not correct to say th…

"The calculations put chance of the piracy having occured due to natural variability at 0.5%. “So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era,” said Best." W…

> Also, is js really even the best tool for this? For visualizing the Mandelbrot set? No. For writing an article on the web about incrementally building it up? Yes.

Presumably "Machine Language" which is what we called Assembly, back when the translation between what you wrote and what the CPU actually did was pretty transparent.

Lots of people visit links on the clear web showing illegal and horrific acts. If the full extent of a crime is filling out an http form with a fake email to see some pictures and …

If the site mentioned in the article had 150,000 members as they say, that's a lot of people to lock up for years for pointing a browser at a url.

The problem is fundamental and serious, what to do when a growing number of people have literally nothing valuable to contribute to an economy. But horses aren't a good analogy to …

Horses haven't shown the same level of adaptation to different skill sets that humans have.

> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's famous "Teach yourself …

> whole grains Yet the glycemic index of whole wheat bread is higher than Coca Cola. (Look it up!) I.e. the same amount of calories of bread will spike your blood sugar more quickl…

Now consider that in human history, about 40% of men were able to breed. So 30% of the population goes extinct every generation without passing on genes, assuming all women reprodu…

Most of the smartest humans spend a significant part of their lives in learning and mastery of skills that go beyond survival.

If it has any general goal at all that it takes seriously, it will be better achieved with self-improvement.

We know that AlphaGo uses a Monte Carlo tree search, and presumably contains innovations and refinements to techniques applicable to turn based board games with perfect information…

There's one huge incentive I can relate to: a product for the n percent of lonely men each generation who don't have the social skills, status, or otherwise cannot attract a mate. …

> Evolution had billions of years, working in a massively parallel way to work this out after all. And it also got to work on it with a hundred billion stars with earth-like planet…

> If you think there's something else, that is by definition supernatural. First, how others perceive your words usually matters more than the precise definitions you have in mind.…

> If we re-distribute our wealth, population growth will subside. I don't get this argument. People want to fuck and reproduce, and the next generation will contain the genes of pr…

> a way of asserting that you think the probability of a technological civilization arising is vanishingly small I have no idea one way or another. I wonder why many scientists are…

Say a 1080p monitor display is completely randomized, until it shows a clear visible five-pointed star. Given I'm looking at a star, what is the likelihood there is another one on …