Thermostats are made with way more granurality than needed, like body scales with 100 gram/quarter pound precision or battery testers with millivolt sensitivity. Most people have single zone HVAC with one controlling…
Empirically, my wife can perceive a 0° change on a bad day. The same temperature can be too hot and too cold at the same time. That said, I have never encountered a situation where 1°F makes any difference. If somebody…
In theory you can automate finding interesting research directions by identifying conjectures with many dependencies. And notation has never been mathematicians' forte, with them trying to cram the entirety of universe…
> Changing the name of a variable or block for example, could create “holes” in the calling sites WTF. Isn't the whole point of visual programming that you are NOT bound by the limitations of text as a medium? A block…
Almost every "normal" job has regular performance reviews where individual contributions, not collective outcomes, are reviewed and used as a sole input for raises, promotions, and firings. If you can't sufficiently…
We had it (or one of the clones) in middle school, but it was a demo version that had saving disabled. Half of each class was messing with the turtle. The other half was writing down the code with pen and paper so that…
Counterpoint: most Open Source projects are (or started off as) programs people built for themselves, and anyone else ending up using them was a happy side-effect.
Got it. But why?
As far as I can tell, literally every single benefit of Fahrenheits I've ever heard of boils down to being used to dealing with numbers around 100 but not around -30. I have yet to hear about any such benefit that isn't…
I regularly see people going over 110 MPH on European highways. And no, I don't consider it reasonable to arrest people just because they reached middle RPMs on the top gear of their cheap SUV.
You can make pretty much the same chart for Celsius and it makes as much sense. 40 - scorching hot 35 - super hot 30 - sunny summer day 25 - nice warm weather 20 - nice breezy weather 15 - a little chilly 10 - bring a…
If it makes you feel better, in Poland we still use millimeters of mercury.
The problem with "0F is fricking cold" is that so is 5F, and 10F, and even 15F to many people; and the difference between, say, -10F and +10F is pretty much none for practical purposes. Whereas knowing whether it was…
I really don't get this argument. Why does more extreme temperature mean that F makes more sense than C?
Must be an Anglosphere thing. Every non-English computer and office software I've ever used correctly defaulted to A4.
Parents used to offload parenting to streets, fields and forests for decades. I don't think the offloading is the cause. But switching the offloading provider to SOCIAL MEDIA (of which Youtube is one) might've been.
Note that even "plain" JavaScript is very high-level with tons of abstractions. Most website features are one-liners that call into browser APIs where the actual implementation lives.
Maybe not all AIs, but LLMs benefit immensely from abstraction. They are trained on human code, and human code usually uses very high abstraction - so high abstraction is overrepresented in training data compared to low…
> The goal of this site is to educate users about how people lived, not educate them about stats. IMO. And IMO, a website that's 95% stats by volume very clearly is about stats. If the goal is teaching anything, it's…
Don't get me wrong. Planning is essential in getting anything done. But in my humble experience, 80% of planning documents are entirely useless, and the last 20% could be shortened by 80% without loss of quality. For…
It's not a design flaw, it's a feature - a built-in scapegoat for everything that goes wrong!
With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth. The only thing that changed recently is that…
But "is far more likely to fall near the present" = "is far more likely to fall near the present". The author makes the claim about probability distribution themselves, then does the opposite.
Traditionally, AGI means being capable of learning everything (not necessarily at once) that can be learned by the same AI agent. It differs from the commercially meaningful definition in that a standard…
Obviously it is. Just like when you give a monkey a camera and it takes a selfie, the photo is obviously yours. But the legal system doesn't care about obviousness.
Thermostats are made with way more granurality than needed, like body scales with 100 gram/quarter pound precision or battery testers with millivolt sensitivity. Most people have single zone HVAC with one controlling…
Empirically, my wife can perceive a 0° change on a bad day. The same temperature can be too hot and too cold at the same time. That said, I have never encountered a situation where 1°F makes any difference. If somebody…
In theory you can automate finding interesting research directions by identifying conjectures with many dependencies. And notation has never been mathematicians' forte, with them trying to cram the entirety of universe…
> Changing the name of a variable or block for example, could create “holes” in the calling sites WTF. Isn't the whole point of visual programming that you are NOT bound by the limitations of text as a medium? A block…
Almost every "normal" job has regular performance reviews where individual contributions, not collective outcomes, are reviewed and used as a sole input for raises, promotions, and firings. If you can't sufficiently…
We had it (or one of the clones) in middle school, but it was a demo version that had saving disabled. Half of each class was messing with the turtle. The other half was writing down the code with pen and paper so that…
Counterpoint: most Open Source projects are (or started off as) programs people built for themselves, and anyone else ending up using them was a happy side-effect.
Got it. But why?
As far as I can tell, literally every single benefit of Fahrenheits I've ever heard of boils down to being used to dealing with numbers around 100 but not around -30. I have yet to hear about any such benefit that isn't…
I regularly see people going over 110 MPH on European highways. And no, I don't consider it reasonable to arrest people just because they reached middle RPMs on the top gear of their cheap SUV.
You can make pretty much the same chart for Celsius and it makes as much sense. 40 - scorching hot 35 - super hot 30 - sunny summer day 25 - nice warm weather 20 - nice breezy weather 15 - a little chilly 10 - bring a…
If it makes you feel better, in Poland we still use millimeters of mercury.
The problem with "0F is fricking cold" is that so is 5F, and 10F, and even 15F to many people; and the difference between, say, -10F and +10F is pretty much none for practical purposes. Whereas knowing whether it was…
I really don't get this argument. Why does more extreme temperature mean that F makes more sense than C?
Must be an Anglosphere thing. Every non-English computer and office software I've ever used correctly defaulted to A4.
Parents used to offload parenting to streets, fields and forests for decades. I don't think the offloading is the cause. But switching the offloading provider to SOCIAL MEDIA (of which Youtube is one) might've been.
Note that even "plain" JavaScript is very high-level with tons of abstractions. Most website features are one-liners that call into browser APIs where the actual implementation lives.
Maybe not all AIs, but LLMs benefit immensely from abstraction. They are trained on human code, and human code usually uses very high abstraction - so high abstraction is overrepresented in training data compared to low…
> The goal of this site is to educate users about how people lived, not educate them about stats. IMO. And IMO, a website that's 95% stats by volume very clearly is about stats. If the goal is teaching anything, it's…
Don't get me wrong. Planning is essential in getting anything done. But in my humble experience, 80% of planning documents are entirely useless, and the last 20% could be shortened by 80% without loss of quality. For…
It's not a design flaw, it's a feature - a built-in scapegoat for everything that goes wrong!
With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth. The only thing that changed recently is that…
But "is far more likely to fall near the present" = "is far more likely to fall near the present". The author makes the claim about probability distribution themselves, then does the opposite.
Traditionally, AGI means being capable of learning everything (not necessarily at once) that can be learned by the same AI agent. It differs from the commercially meaningful definition in that a standard…
Obviously it is. Just like when you give a monkey a camera and it takes a selfie, the photo is obviously yours. But the legal system doesn't care about obviousness.