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Game engines are different. It's a tiny market relative to web, and really the only people in the market for an engine other than Unity or Unreal are indies, who have near zero rev…

That's a great ideal, and I understand the arguments in favor, but the reality is that sometimes in order to test all of the internal code paths, you have to go to extremes when on…

Never fund yourself what someone with 100x the money will fund for you.

If you can point to something about the situation that has changed since the shelter-in-place was initiated that would indicate it's not needed anymore, I'd love to hear it. The vi…

Totally agree with pretty much all of this; I'm just arguing that "don't subsidize, ever" is a very extreme vision of capitalism, and doing a one year or less intervention is nowhe…

I'm 100% in favor of capitalism, but that's not what you're standing up for. Capitalism doesn't mean you never intervene when disaster strikes, it just means that markets are the e…

This looks like an actual log-log plot, but of new cases vs existing cases. Not a super useful view except to point out that yes, growth rate tends to be proportional to infection …

So do most of the major cities in the world. That's a hell of a confounding variable.

Not GP, but also a test prep teacher in a previous life. I always scored well on the SAT and test well in general, so I can't speak to personal improvement there, but a few points:…

That's a fair criticism of the general SAT - I used to teach those classes, and the test is very gameable in the sense that there really are "A FEW SIMPLE TRICKS!" to learn that ha…

Acceleration does not equal velocity squared...

Claiming that some mysterious and hard to define property that we can't measure even in principle "exists" in some meaningful way strikes me as the stronger claim than the skeptica…

He's also famous for the Chinese Box thought experiment, widely derided by everyone apart from his own students as the most high profile, idiotic, uninformative, trivially debunked…

And I imagine many more machine learning tools will take the same name in the years to come, since it's about the most obvious one you could think of other than "brain". Whatever i…

ImageNet Roulette deliberately uses a terrible categorization scheme that has long been acknowledged as so poor as to not admit meaningful results in order to make the highly polit…

I'm saying that the inputs to the brain are data, and the outputs are data. The brain transforms that data in some way, and we have mathematical theorems that say yep, most of the …

There is absolutely no reason to think the brain is non-algorithmic in any way, to the extent that you can even define such a nonsense statement without waving your hands about qua…

Processing was the closest thing that I found. That was my first and simplest post-QBasic programming, and it served as a great jumping-off point into a real career in the industry…

> A typical piano doesn't have a way to bend the pitches on a whim. There are a few keyboard-ish instruments that allow this, and they're super fun and expressive: - Roli Seaboard …

I think you're covered by the parent's "besides learning to code" caveat. That's a real smooth career transition, I did it as well as a ton of friends who had the same background. …

If the drivers made less than it cost them to maintain their vehicles, they wouldn't be doing it. I know that a lot of people think the drivers generally are that stupid, but I'm s…

I agree with all of this, but I'd warn that unless you really know what you're doing and what can go wrong, jumping from weekly billing to project billing can be super dangerous an…

There is almost no situation where it makes more sense to bill hourly instead of daily, unless you're really junior. And frankly, if they want you at all, they should be willing to…

"Only" 20-40% of the operating cost saved would be enough to completely obliterate the human trucking industry. Amazon didn't have to beat the prices of other stores by anywhere ne…

Am I the only one that when I click on anything, the image just zooms and there's no link?