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Active Inference is kinda "a joint learning of the state representation with the search algorithm"...or at least, related to the idea. I like framing it as a joint learning problem…

Everything old is new again (FoxPro says hi https://www.altap.cz/images/salamander/features/database-vie... )

I can’t quite reconcile this article with what I’ve seen before like this below…the methodology in the OP seems pretty questionable, so I trust this other article more. https://www…

Safeway seems to be run pretty well, after being taken private by PE in the 80s. Warren Buffet runs Berkshire Hathaway which is acts as a PE firm. Here's a list of everything they …

Practicing gratitude for what you have is of course wise, and there are techniques that are helpful...gratitude journals, meditation, etc can be helpful. However when I read your p…

That's not what the SAFE says. It's only on subsequent securities, not prior ones. "If the Company issues any Subsequent Convertible Securities with terms more favorable than those…

It may “seem” like that to you, but YC publishes actual stats… https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2021-batch-stats/ * 50% are based outside the US * 70% are not B2B/Enterprise …

Do you even know what the Thiel Fellowships are? Whatever you think of his politics, he literally gives away money to promising young people to help them realize their dreams...in …

Come on...before you post complaints about how someone else is literally giving away millions of dollars to the wrong promising young people, maybe actually read the list of projec…

This is silly. An investment is an expenditure of resources today, which pays off down the line. Dinner at a restaurant? Not an investment (unless you believe in investing in memor…

For any given atomic “skill” you can learn in the body of knowledge: Watch one, do one, teach one.

I enable it on purpose. I like having more relevant ads, why would I want them to show me crappy untargeted ads instead?

It's obvious that there is some upper limit of companies per batch, past which it will be impossible for YC to source quality companies and advisors for batches. But why should we …

That's not perfectly parallel as a belief. The parallel statement would be "If you believe that flat-Earth advocates don't actually care about whether the Earth is flat or not, the…

That quote is NOT Scott saying that pro-life advocates are right about abortion or wrong about abortion. That quote is Scott saying that once you start to believe that "the enemy" …

Paul doesn’t seem to have gotten in any trouble for saying it. What makes you think that someone else would? The problem only comes up when you start trying to label other people’s…

I’m not enough of an astrophysicist to do this math myself, but what would this kind of burst look like from Earth? Observable w a telescope? W the naked eye? Enter a bomb shelter …

If you could really start the company for $10k, I'd recommend self-funding out of savings. Save up $25k working (to give yourself a cushion) and give it a shot. If you have the ski…

You don't think a city supervisor should be able to support a family of 4 without being classified as low income?

This blogger, 8 years ago, wrote an excellent blog post detailing his method for improving his English: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/koreans-english-acqui... Warning: it’…

What do you call "the thing that produces results that surprise you because it wasn't what your model predicted"? I think of that thing as "reality"...not sure how you can coherent…

Sorry, but do you think Google (prior to turning on AdWords) was a ponzi scheme?

Correlation is not causation! This article says, very high IQ is anti-correlated with perception of effectiveness. That might be because having a high IQ causes people to perceive …

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