Viewing profile — rhyn00

If you took time to read it you would find that meat packing and hazardous chemicals are still illegal under the new bill.

The bill explicitly states packing plants are not allowed.

Is AI the problem here, or is this story a symptom of a bigger problem? This is a somewhat long comment, but just thought I would share my thoughts. The concern is that someone who…

Wow, I'd never heard of StarBook, but it does indeed look like a wonderful machine.

I would add that the linux-ready boutique vendors like system76, tuxedo computers, framework are also options if you don't want to fuss with drivers and what not, but still want to…

Nice, that's pretty cool!

Adding a few results: Using OP's code for following php 1.8mb/sec python 3.8 Mb/sec node 1.0 Mb/sec Java print 1.3 Mb/sec echo 'class Code {public static void main(String[] args) {…

Spectral decomposition is pretty cool. Application 1 - spectral clustering - an alternative to k-means for nonlinear clusters. Get a Distance matrix of your data, spectral decomp, …

Interesting, as they mention, it looks like the main advantage to an approach like this is that it can make use of "special events" (e.g. stop/starts, bumps, turning) which can nul…

I've been getting into his later work with Chiara Carletto: Constructor theory of information. It's an interesting way of looking at the world. Rather than using dynamical equation…

Marc Lewis, a neuroscientist has a nice book on the topic, which to me makes complete sense (and is grounded in sound science). His view on the topic is that addiction is nothing s…

This article does a horrible job of explaining Turchin's ideas. It's not too many "brainy" people that are the problem. It's that if upward mobility becomes limited to those that h…

Does anyone recommend a book about Solomonoff induction?

This sort of reminds me of the book "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg. In this book the author starts a series of thought experiments by cons…

That would actually be a pretty difficult ask, you would have to cover the order of thousands of acers of land, spotty uplink service, supplying power or developing low power solut…