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One of Aaronson's arguments in the article boils down to the idea that running a full universe simulation (without cheating) on a universe with the same physics as ours may just no…

I can't speak for FaceTime, but I've found much better success with all of these platforms if everyone in the meeting is wearing headphones. A lot of the latency is from echo cance…

Eh. I studied math at an elite university with a lot of people who ended up at these secretive quant hedge funds. They're undeniably brilliant, and as per GP also extremely motivat…

Not OP but in my experience it’s more likely to Just Work with fewer glitches and at a higher video resolution. I’d like to get away from Zoom but with consulting work it’s the onl…

Some of us do! Check out a whitepaper on that exact point: https://ai.objectives.institute/whitepaper It’s weird to have been working on a paper for almost a year and have it launc…

Higher interest rates mean that investors can earn money by buying bonds, which are lower risk. Riskier investments (stocks, real estate, cryptocurrencies) are less attractive to i…

I can't speak for the Japanese restaurants, but I had surprisingly delicious salmon nigiri just from a Seattle grocery store chain. Great flavor, and very inexpensive. I think it w…

It sounds like you have a good path on your technical skills, so I'm going to suggest something else: take some humanities classes. Pick topics outside of technology that interest …

If you liked this article, the book Lost in Thought[0] also references Bennet and goes into more depth on why spending some of your time learning for its own sake leads to a more f…

Yeah, and this is per week data, not per year too. So one year of being unvaccinated is equivalent to 17 years of car crash risk.

Table 1, in the linked XLS file for data through 24 September. You can see that it was originally closer to 0.1 (50x protection against death) but it's gone up to 1.1 over the last…

Look all the way over at "Second dose", the age-standardized mortality rate is 1.1 per 100,000 vs 5.4 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. 5x protection against death.

Douglas Coffin carves headstones? Score another win for nominative determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

Yes, they're both Cory Doctorow

Note that this explains _why_ Cory Doctorow gets a new laptop every year... which was one of the central mysteries of the article currently at #1 on HN, "The Framework is the most …

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I highly recommend anybody getting into R to skip the base language (which indeed is ancient and full of gotchas) and go straight for the Tidyverse[1]. You can always go back in an…

At least in California wildfires, houses often burn down from random hot embers landing on the roof, not necessarily a giant whoosh of flames engulfing everything. Could be the sam…

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Gold-backed currencies are, similarly, a historical aberration. They only came into being around the 1870s! States have picked all kinds of units for accounting and tax purposes fo…

Agreed that Docs, Drive, GSuite are all a real enterprise businesses YouTube though is video ads, and Maps is local ads. I think that reinforces the author's point. (Open source pr…

Don't try to time the market. Read a book like "All About Asset Allocation", recognize that every time feels unique but it's really not, and choose a mix of assets that reflect you…