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Here's an analogy that might make it clearer: Alice is in a wheelchair. Bob has a broken leg. Charlie is unfit, but otherwise a healthy adult. Alice, Bob, and Charlie would all say…

Except part of the job involves lifting things in places where forklifts can't fit.

> Message me if anyone's still interested in "dumb" AI like that. :-) Not sure how to reach out, but I'm definitely interested in reading about procedural methods in music synthesi…

Ito calculus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4_calculus

The question on my mind: how do you figure out what the functions do without reverse engineering? If I were to guess, you're saying that you reverse engineer the API boundary witho…

Light travels in a straight line - black holes don't "pull" light in, they change what a straight line looks like in the space around it. The event horizon is the distance where al…

The author of the technique has a video of it in 3d: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ua-h1pg6yM

But then I can't spend my money for several weeks - the feature that crypto can't implement is having the reversal window be wider than the lockout window.

> I should be able to state that two species have a different lifespan based on a difference in mean age of death - without needing to provide any specific biological mechanism in …

I think that you have a specific lens with which you view the world, and you're contorting the world to fit that lens. What would it take to convince you that people don't do every…

> How does someone find his game before really really good games like baldur gates etc.? They don't. There have been really good AAA games before Jeff started making games. His bus…

> You're paid what you're known to be worth. You're paid somewhere between the minimum amount you'll accept and the maximum that the company is willing to give you (which in the ca…

I'd recommend starting here: http://minisat.se/

Apple made them the default because they are the best at monetization of large volumes of search queries from iOS devices. If another company was better at it, they'd put in a high…

They're saying it's scarier that ad companies can figure out these things without the data because it means that you can't protect yourself by withholding your data.

You start by saying that wealthy people can pretty freely manipulate the amount of income they show for tax purposes. The follow-up is that based on the manipulated income data, we…

tl;dr: The author starts with the assumption that the Industrial Revolution is inevitable, and uses that to conclude that the Industrial Revolution would've inevitably happened, wh…

I'm not talking about code. The goal of the transaction is for the Spanish bank to have access to USD. In the example given, the Spanish bank would then have to take the crypto it …

How exactly does the Spanish bank get the USD that the American bank sent without trusting a third party?

There's the bonus problem of: even if you magically have correct priors, you still need to assume that Drake's Equation is a good model for the generation process of civilizations.…

> And yet nobody seems to be aware of it, and both the popular and scientific press continue with the “where are they?” Fermi paradox headlines. A reasonable explanation here is th…

To add to this, I'd say that when people say "deep conversation", they generally mean "comfortable conversation". A lot of conversations that I've heard described as "deep" are sup…

> That’s not how this works, anywhere: the burden of proof, of presenting facts, is on those who say “yes”. What? Why? If this were true, you could: 1. Take the claim you want to a…

I don't think the RTS genre died; I think it evolved. Two of the most popular games in the world, League of Legends and DotA2, are RTS games. The Total War franchise keeps on kicki…