> 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…
"The calculations put chance of the piracy having occured due to natural variability at 0.5%. “So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era,” said Best." We need to train children in school to…
> 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.
Lots of people visit links on the clear web showing illegal and horrific acts. If the full extent of a crime is filling out an http form with a fake email to see some pictures and video, it's still not clear that this…
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…
Now consider that in human history, about 40% of men were able to breed. So 30% of the population goes extinct every generation without passing on genes, assuming all women reproduce. So with a few hundred iterations of…
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.
We know that AlphaGo uses a Monte Carlo tree search, and presumably contains innovations and refinements to techniques applicable to turn based board games with perfect information and a clear binary win condition. We…
There's one huge incentive I can relate to: a product for the n percent of lonely men each generation who don't have the social skills, status, or otherwise cannot attract a mate. And afterwards, the men who would find…
> 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…
> a way of asserting that you think the probability of a technological civilization arising is vanishingly small I have no idea one way or another. I wonder why many scientists are confident that extraterrestrial…
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…
> If there are elements of consciousness that are completely separate from the physical world (in that they have no effect on it), we cannot talk about them, nor even think about them. Yet here we are, doing both,…
I wasn't clear, it's vitally important to predict behaviour in practice at a poetic naturalism level, but there seems to be no reason to adopt strong emergence: consciousness doesn't introduce any new explanatory power…
> 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…
"The calculations put chance of the piracy having occured due to natural variability at 0.5%. “So it’s 99.5% that it occurred due to warming over the industrial era,” said Best." We need to train children in school to…
> 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.
Lots of people visit links on the clear web showing illegal and horrific acts. If the full extent of a crime is filling out an http form with a fake email to see some pictures and video, it's still not clear that this…
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…
Now consider that in human history, about 40% of men were able to breed. So 30% of the population goes extinct every generation without passing on genes, assuming all women reproduce. So with a few hundred iterations of…
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.
We know that AlphaGo uses a Monte Carlo tree search, and presumably contains innovations and refinements to techniques applicable to turn based board games with perfect information and a clear binary win condition. We…
There's one huge incentive I can relate to: a product for the n percent of lonely men each generation who don't have the social skills, status, or otherwise cannot attract a mate. And afterwards, the men who would find…
> 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…
> a way of asserting that you think the probability of a technological civilization arising is vanishingly small I have no idea one way or another. I wonder why many scientists are confident that extraterrestrial…
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…
> If there are elements of consciousness that are completely separate from the physical world (in that they have no effect on it), we cannot talk about them, nor even think about them. Yet here we are, doing both,…
I wasn't clear, it's vitally important to predict behaviour in practice at a poetic naturalism level, but there seems to be no reason to adopt strong emergence: consciousness doesn't introduce any new explanatory power…