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Made me think of Markov chains, and the PageRank algorithm. We should construct causal graphs, then give each of them 1/n weight and iterate over the casual weight splitting out, u…

One of the major problems of modern-day life is that we are constantly bombarded with indicators of our status - in particular how low it is compared to the elites. You might think…

Anyone have any recommendations (books, courses, videos, etc.) on learning LISP? I've been intrigued by it and want to integrate it into a game I'm building as a development tool b…

Reading this on mobile, I feel really lost about what the article is trying to say. The problem is all the sources are in between the essay-bits. I would prefer it if the author ju…

One time I had a conversation with a coworker who was asking me what they thought was a simple question. I tried to explain over and over again that I didn't think the question was…

I fit in that classic category of "built a website to blog on" and then never wrote a single post. Not really sure why I never posted anything.

To my ear, they all sound about okay for 4 seconds, until my brain recognizes that there's no tension being built or story being told. It's like every track is 4 seconds of music f…

A short list of things worth thinking about trying, listed in no specific order: 1. Find a project at work that you are interested in, and move over to that. 2. Join a completely d…

Changing jobs is (likely) necessary but not sufficient. For example, if OP works a front-end job at Meta and switches to a front-end job at Google, that's unlikely to make them mot…

I feel like we are - I can run Minecraft RTX at 4k with acceptable framerate using DLSS 2.0 on a 3090. Minecraft is using pure raytracing (no rasterization). It also isn't using A-…

Quantum computing is more worthy of funding than the Metaverse, cryptocurrency, and all of Web3 combined - yet every single thread about quantum computing has to turn into naysayin…

My version of the statement reads more like: If an entity manages to obtain a massive amount of wealth, far surpassing its own needs, and there is a definite need for that money el…

To me, caring about life means I must care about fairness. It's not even social or political either - there is something metaphysical or strictly logical about it. Suppose you live…

Also re: the comparisons to AWS or Google Cloud - it's still totally different. This is more like your car being unable to start because it can't connect to the cloud. I don't expe…

Lots of people are mentioning that you can host these types of things yourself, I want to say that that is not a solution at all. The entire point of these hosted password services…

It sounds as if you only were able to access the password because you had a second device that happened to already be logged in. My guess is that if BW's login servers were having …

I've been following this paper to implement materials in a raytracer I'm building. As well as https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2015-shading-cours... and this homework assi…

One point of interest was the paper on quantum computing applied to quantum chemistry[1]. In that paper, they did not find generic exponential speedup for a list of chemistry probl…

I'm confused by what you wrote, because when I worked there during the pandemic, or even a year into it, almost no one was in the office. The first plan was to bring people back by…

How is this relevant to the current discussion whatsoever?

According to the PIAAC, 54% of Americans are illiterate. That is, they are able to read simple things like menus, but they are not capable of synthesizing new information from mult…

Finding KiwiFarms posts that currently dox a user are going to be hard, because now that the site is under increased scrutiny from the public there is likely to be an attempt from …

A more charitable version of this argument would build in a series of degrees as to how likely those denigrations are to make stochastic terrorism occur. For example, vague insults…

The homeless probably have struggles getting a card.

First of all, I have to say I hate how the author not only mentions their book, but puts a huge ad cutting into the text telling us we can buy it at "Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Ta…