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Self-driving in ports is a vastly simpler problem though because the environment can be closed and controlled and devoid of any UX concerns, making it basically a simple robotics p…

Not really impressed with your undamaged brain's potential.

Why is everything "real" about writing code, when one of the standards is making users happy? Users presumably are not simply enthralled by your GitHub repos and might like to have…

arXiv is for researchers in different science and mathematics subcommunities to post pre-prints, surveys, reviews, lecture notes, manuscripts, documentation, etc... but also histor…

I'm an engineer and I find some of his stuff useful, particularly when it comes to thinking through how to think about how to use large p, small n data. But I also don't have a str…

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To be fair, I did intentionally write them in a style to mimic propositional logical statements (which are tautologies) but you are correct that they're not in a formal system so t…

Of course they're tautologies in a logic sense, and I deliberately wrote them that way (whether they are pejorative tautologies is not really a material point.) They're statements …

The Stove essay (in truth it's a prolonged rant) supposedly extols the virtues of empirical thinking, and you invoked it to back up the sense you had that the description of Deleuz…

The model is the instance because the instance is what is being used at inference time. The training simply produces some set of weights. Open source would mean someone could see a…

What is human-level intelligence is a normative and philosophical question, which means it will not be resolved in some objective manner. There's no requirements for us to know, th…

If you write "I saw an analysis recently..." it's best to link to or at least describe the source of the analysis, otherwise the rest of us are just left with completely unsourced …

Sure, same with heat index. They are tools for communicating the impact of additional axes (wind speed for cold and humidity for heat) on subjective perception. I won't wander out …

Yeah, it's not like Fahrenheit or any temperature scale is literally calibrated to human perception (they're all now defined as transformations from kelvin anyways), that's just a …

This is not true, and it's why we developed separate scales for wind chill (which factors in wind) and heat index (which factors humidity). Looking at the wind chill chart[0] for f…

Yeah, I'm not saying all the genres operate the same with BPMs. Compared to most house and techno events I go to, I do feel that psytrance events are a bit more "unrelenting" in bp…

Because it's how DJs connect tracks together. That's the target audience for purchasing psytrance, and most electronic dance music, tracks.

Acyclic structure on variables is a very strong pre-supposition that, honestly, is not how many systems in engineering are well-described by, so I don't like this idea of boiling c…

Yeah, it's a civil case, not criminal. Only criminal trials should have standards as high as criminal trials do because only criminal trials punish you by taking away your personal…

The standard for civil cases is literally "a preponderance of the evidence"...

Yeah, my wife is Ethiopian and she was shocked to see in TV news coverage how "Ethiopian" a lot of the Houthi rebels in Yemen looked, but this is actually not surprising once you k…

Yeah I definitely have experienced more delays with them than with Ryanair. I rarely experience any meaningful delays in arrival time with Ryanair, so I'd say they are the best dea…

Another thing I like with the discount airlines like Ryanair and Wizzair is that, because they are dirt cheap and point-to-point, I end up visiting places on a whim. For example, a…

There are times when booking through Ryanair over their app gives €X price, but through some 3rd party like Kiwi I might find e.g. €(X*0.5). However, even though I almost always fl…

I mean, theoretical physics models are still physics models. Functional analysis is still a valid mathematical tool for physics modeling even if it doesn't (usually) produce finite…