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In the absence of other evidence, isn't it the case that any given trait is 50% heritable and 50% environmental?

Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses this topic at length in his recent-ish book Metazoa and uses observations of insects and other invertebrates to argue, compellingly in my opinion, tha…

See also: Marzullo, Rantze, and Gage. Stock Market Behavior Predicted by Rat Neurons. Annals of Improbable Research. Vol 12, No 4. July-August 2006. https://improbable.com/airchive…

The US put a fission reactor in space too. They did it first, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A Edit: it’s apparently still there and will be for a long time (!) albe…

The other pro is cost: cameras are much, much cheaper than LiDAR. Tesla is making the bet that they can close the performance gap between cameras and LiDAR faster than the cost of …

> Iteration itself isn’t inherently bad. It’s just that the objective > function usually isn’t what we want from a scientific perspective. I think this is exactly right and touches…

Off-topic: in the photo lede at the top of the article, are the rescued merchant mariners wearing standard eye/ear protection or is something else going on? Based on how they are h…

I think language acquisition provides a pretty compelling example of learning affecting the experience of qualia. When someone is learning to speak a foreign language, there is oft…

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David MacKay discusses this in Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air . He concludes that, while it's on first glance appealing to want to use waste heat from power generation, hea…

Louis de Broglie's dissertation [1] is mindblowing and quite cogent (at least in the English translation, but presumably in French too ...) 1. https://fondationlouisdebroglie.org/L…

Max Welling's Kalman Filter tutorial [1] derives the smoother equations using pretty clear and easy to follow notation (and is a great resource generally). Briefly: you first run t…

The Ottomans were also not originally from Anatolia ...

That doesn't pose an issue: the "observation model" of a Kalman filer allows for affine transformations (e.g. scale, rotation, and offset) between the sensor data and the "true" la…

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

What about something like Lua?

There are many ways to think about the Kalman filter. Here are a few that I like: * You can think of it as a Bayesian update process for linear Gaussian systems. That is: given a p…

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Elon cares.

Your reputation only matters if you wish to have relationships with other humans.

That's a bit of a tautology because the population exchange was done on the basis of religion, not language. There were plenty of Greek speaking muslims and Turkish speaking orthod…

> For example, we don’t call it “Constantinople” any more Not to detract from the rest of your point, but "Istanbul" actually comes from a Greek nickname meaning "to the city", and…

The ground stations tie the satellite network into the internet. Once they have the inter-satellite laser links operational, they will be able to get by with many fewer ground stat…

Could not agree more. I throw in underscore and backslash for good measure too: bind-key | split-window -h bind-key \ split-window -h bind-key - split-window -v bind-key _ split-wi…

People are hacking together some interesting things in this space: https://fridge0.branchable.com