> All for a simple webserver that printed "cock", not useful but it proved the tunnels worked. That's what she said.
"So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era" There are at least a couple of statistical fallacies in this conclusion. And there isn't a lack of agreement about that. One problem with p-value…
I played a game of Monopoly where I started with a roll of 12. There was a 97% chance I correctly rejected the hypothesis that the dice were fair. Maybe this is true in some sense? But it's still somewhere between…
The 0.5% quote is fine. It's turning it into a 99.5% that is not fine. It's essentially like saying that a pair of dice that rolled a 12 has a 97% chance of being loaded, because there's only a 1 in 36 chance of rolling…
> Also, is js really even the best tool for this? For visualizing the Mandelbrot set? No. For writing an article on the web about incrementally building it up? Yes.
Presumably "Machine Language" which is what we called Assembly, back when the translation between what you wrote and what the CPU actually did was pretty transparent.
If the site mentioned in the article had 150,000 members as they say, that's a lot of people to lock up for years for pointing a browser at a url.
The problem is fundamental and serious, what to do when a growing number of people have literally nothing valuable to contribute to an economy. But horses aren't a good analogy to shed light on it. Horses are more…
Horses haven't shown the same level of adaptation to different skill sets that humans have.
> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's famous "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" article. The…
> whole grains Yet the glycemic index of whole wheat bread is higher than Coca Cola. (Look it up!) I.e. the same amount of calories of bread will spike your blood sugar more quickly than Coke. Metabolically, starchy…
Most of the smartest humans spend a significant part of their lives in learning and mastery of skills that go beyond survival.
If it has any general goal at all that it takes seriously, it will be better achieved with self-improvement.
> Evolution had billions of years, working in a massively parallel way to work this out after all. And it also got to work on it with a hundred billion stars with earth-like planets, in each of a hundred billion…
I think words are very powerful, in particular "microservices" vs "monolith". By accepting those words, we imply the conclusion: microservices sound sexy and lean and elegant - who can argue with separation of concerns?…
Do the test run quickly, are they clear and readable, do they help find regression problems, is it reasonably easy to tell what went wrong when they fail, does the time and effort and peace of mind saved exceed that…
People seem to have a lot of faith that a drive or urge to reproduce is not something that can be selected for and transmitted through generations, either genetically or culturally, in human beings. If it can be…
Rationally I feel like we have to accept a Daniel Dennett view: with what we know about the brain, all human behaviour is consistent with the laws of physics, and changing the brain very much changes "what it's like" to…
That's not a good comparison. Red and blue have very objective definitions given that we have three types of light receptors in our eyes, and a given kind of light can be measured to activate the "blue" or "red" kind…
Life is distressful to a degree. That's a meaningless criterion devoid of all content which invites arbitrary judgement.
I can tell an amateur programmer because they aren't getting paid. Flippancy aside though: While I don't think it's what you're arguing for, I'd fear some would use an argument like this to defend a workflow and culture…
> The Rubik’s cube almost as a sex toy of those paranoid for dataveillance I'm glad I'm not the only one who drilled a hole in it.
> AI problems are always mysterious until they're solved. There's truth there but this line is over-used. Playing chess better than a human was never deemed impossible and the ultimate solution doesn't seem to have any…
Refuting crazy ideas is something extremely important, imo, especially if they are widely held. But you have to refute the best possible version of the argument (if there is one), not a straw man weakened version. The…
Obviously accomplishments like this are interesting for their own sake. But the really interesting question for me is, is there anything here, that is new, that can be used outside of tree-based games of complete…
> All for a simple webserver that printed "cock", not useful but it proved the tunnels worked. That's what she said.
"So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era" There are at least a couple of statistical fallacies in this conclusion. And there isn't a lack of agreement about that. One problem with p-value…
I played a game of Monopoly where I started with a roll of 12. There was a 97% chance I correctly rejected the hypothesis that the dice were fair. Maybe this is true in some sense? But it's still somewhere between…
The 0.5% quote is fine. It's turning it into a 99.5% that is not fine. It's essentially like saying that a pair of dice that rolled a 12 has a 97% chance of being loaded, because there's only a 1 in 36 chance of rolling…
> Also, is js really even the best tool for this? For visualizing the Mandelbrot set? No. For writing an article on the web about incrementally building it up? Yes.
Presumably "Machine Language" which is what we called Assembly, back when the translation between what you wrote and what the CPU actually did was pretty transparent.
If the site mentioned in the article had 150,000 members as they say, that's a lot of people to lock up for years for pointing a browser at a url.
The problem is fundamental and serious, what to do when a growing number of people have literally nothing valuable to contribute to an economy. But horses aren't a good analogy to shed light on it. Horses are more…
Horses haven't shown the same level of adaptation to different skill sets that humans have.
> you cannot pick this up in any meaningful way in a "few months" of after hours/weekend study You can't pick up coding like this either. See Peter Norvig's famous "Teach yourself programming in 10 years" article. The…
> whole grains Yet the glycemic index of whole wheat bread is higher than Coca Cola. (Look it up!) I.e. the same amount of calories of bread will spike your blood sugar more quickly than Coke. Metabolically, starchy…
Most of the smartest humans spend a significant part of their lives in learning and mastery of skills that go beyond survival.
If it has any general goal at all that it takes seriously, it will be better achieved with self-improvement.
> Evolution had billions of years, working in a massively parallel way to work this out after all. And it also got to work on it with a hundred billion stars with earth-like planets, in each of a hundred billion…
I think words are very powerful, in particular "microservices" vs "monolith". By accepting those words, we imply the conclusion: microservices sound sexy and lean and elegant - who can argue with separation of concerns?…
Do the test run quickly, are they clear and readable, do they help find regression problems, is it reasonably easy to tell what went wrong when they fail, does the time and effort and peace of mind saved exceed that…
People seem to have a lot of faith that a drive or urge to reproduce is not something that can be selected for and transmitted through generations, either genetically or culturally, in human beings. If it can be…
Rationally I feel like we have to accept a Daniel Dennett view: with what we know about the brain, all human behaviour is consistent with the laws of physics, and changing the brain very much changes "what it's like" to…
That's not a good comparison. Red and blue have very objective definitions given that we have three types of light receptors in our eyes, and a given kind of light can be measured to activate the "blue" or "red" kind…
Life is distressful to a degree. That's a meaningless criterion devoid of all content which invites arbitrary judgement.
I can tell an amateur programmer because they aren't getting paid. Flippancy aside though: While I don't think it's what you're arguing for, I'd fear some would use an argument like this to defend a workflow and culture…
> The Rubik’s cube almost as a sex toy of those paranoid for dataveillance I'm glad I'm not the only one who drilled a hole in it.
> AI problems are always mysterious until they're solved. There's truth there but this line is over-used. Playing chess better than a human was never deemed impossible and the ultimate solution doesn't seem to have any…
Refuting crazy ideas is something extremely important, imo, especially if they are widely held. But you have to refute the best possible version of the argument (if there is one), not a straw man weakened version. The…
Obviously accomplishments like this are interesting for their own sake. But the really interesting question for me is, is there anything here, that is new, that can be used outside of tree-based games of complete…