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Yeah, you could make the same complaints about jpeg compression.

One way to generate a sequence of heads and tails is to start with either heads or tails, then randomly choose how many of those to use before switching to the other. You're sampli…

>What cant there be more housing development on the edge of SF... Three of the edges of SF are water.

I was so bummed when I looked into this in college. Going for a physics degree, there was basically nowhere I could go in the spanish speaking world with classes that counted towar…

>The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they…

The definition of best is irrelevant. The point is the distinction between maximizing something for an individual versus maximizing that same thing for the group.

I think your hands probably have more bacteria than your junk.

I doubt Phelps was fucking with the interviewer. I was also a competitive swimmer and my experience matches what Phelps said.

It'll reward the companies with the best groups of people, but not the best groups of companies, which I think the other comment was getting at.

I'd bet that sample efficiency is a factor in translating they most hyped bits of RL into solving IRL problems. So many business problems translate to "Learn which of these things …

>The best argument might be that eventually no one will trust video. Obama talked about it this afternoon. He said "This is bad, blah blah oh no." Of course, you don't believe me b…

Thanks for the answer! Out of curiosity what about systems we can prove able to "do" basic arithmetic, ignoring whether they can talk about it? I'm imagining the difference between…

Neat work, but doesn't behavior require colluding to be considered collusive? Otherwise this is just another neat equilibrium.

I never understood the step about how a system that can do basic arithmetic can express the "I am not provable in F" sentence. Does anyone have an ELI30 version of that?

>Anything you post on Aether will be gone in about 6 months. This is nice, because no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep. This seems…

Of course I don't consider myself insulated from these platforms. > You do use them, even if you didn't sign up or agree to it, you do use their services. Your contact info is alre…

As someone who doesn't use Facebook, Twitter, or their subsidiaries, the debate is kinda laughable. Sure break them up for antitrust. Write privacy regulation. But regulating the c…

Hacker news does some parts of that better, like promoting new comments higher. On reddit, a new comment is unlikely to be visible enough to get traction.

Do you have a source for the claim that NYC has more devs than silicon valley? The only source I could find was about tech jobs, not just devs. It says >[NY's] tech work force, acc…

As languages with more interesting type systems come along, more powerful IDE tooling will be possible (e.g. idris 2/blodwen code completion https://twitter.com/edwinbrady/status/1…

My CEO is currently out on maternity. Other people are covering. It just kinda works.

I wouldn't say that makes games orthogonal to real world problems. That's what makes them good stepping stones. Risk free "cheap" testing makes for fast research. I totally agree a…

>what would that even mean? I gave an example at the top level comment. Apply the test (blind) to known innocent samples too, and see whether it implicates them.

The problem is that the expectation of being able to transfer this stuff over is more hype driven than anything else. People hear "AI beat the best person in the world at something…

I wonder if whoever is supplying evidence via tests should be forced to (blindly) apply the tests to people other than the defendant. If your test says some random sample is more l…