I think what you described is what they already have with the "including results for [similar wording]" version of the results page. They also have a link to see the exact results. However, as of right now they only…
As described in this other thread [1], there are already people doing it freelance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324723
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/767/
I think it's because you are going to cross through New Mexico or Utah first (unless we represent "you" as a point, line, or other zero-width object, and have it traverse a 45° line through the infinitely small point of…
I've heard the exact opposite, that the online community is toxic and one of the main downsides. I assume both are true in different cases, and you just have to be careful what part of the community you get involved in.
At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad minotaur girl lies in street in Italy…
It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing…
How much fine-tuning and repeated-running did you do to get these? Some of them are just ridiculously awesome.
This might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hair off the map of the kind of taste you…
I think Trello and Atlassian went well (massively different scale, though). I think the rep is that Atlassian mainly does well by leaving the companies alone as independent organizations, more like investment positions…
One of the definitive examples has to be Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely [1]. 2 or 3 great frisson moments in there. The big one is toward the end, when the strings decay and smudge into atonal textures (very…
Just FYI, John Lennon actually was a popular poet! [1] Mostly nonsense verse, influenced by Lewis Carroll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Own_Write
A lot of this is way over my head both mathematically and philosophically, but could we get away with saying that the reals exist in some slightly weaker sense, more like how a function exists? I.e., reals are…
I think what they're saying is that by making devs use a less familiar language, you're going to end up with at least as many security bugs, just ones not related to memory safety. (Not weighing in either way, just…
Is the idea that the product (once it's caught up) will be as good or better (and/or at least reach more people) than the original? Or is he OK with people being worse off than if your company never existed and the…
The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corporations automatically generate long…
> supposedly obscurantist, sophistic style of various disciplines of the liberal arts. Would you say there is absolutely no kernel of truth to this? Check out, say, the abstract to this paper [1]. Is there nothing…
gwern is an amazing resource and has great articles on a range of topics, including productivity stuff; his posts on nicotine [1], modafinil [2], and melatonin [3] would be 3 highlights. [1]…
This. There's also Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, and others. More here: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Some of this highlights an issue that I think about a lot (and it's obviously not just me): the duty of corporations to maximize profit of shareholders (as represented by the majority vote of the board, as I understand…
> But if you must, start with something like Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Don't just pull out the Goetia and start summoning demons. Reality may or may not be mutable, but our perception of it certainly is.…
Interesting take. It's analogous to religious arguments defending the idea of miracles. I don't say that in principle the world must be causally closed and bound by natural laws; only that it seems very likely, as it…
Yeah, to be honest, parts of this message I'm having trouble even parsing as information. If you've had/seen interactions like this where the other person just seemed too literal-minded, I'd ask you to think about…
Fair enough. Then would you say the spiritual plane that can be accessed or interacted with via these rituals, couldn't be fully described under the laws of physics as we currently know them? (Obviously almost any…
> I can't recommend doing any of these things, but if someone wants to, I highly suggest not naively following the directions of a satirical blogpost. Very interesting stuff. Regarding this part, are you saying that…
I think what you described is what they already have with the "including results for [similar wording]" version of the results page. They also have a link to see the exact results. However, as of right now they only…
As described in this other thread [1], there are already people doing it freelance. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32324723
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/767/
I think it's because you are going to cross through New Mexico or Utah first (unless we represent "you" as a point, line, or other zero-width object, and have it traverse a 45° line through the infinitely small point of…
I've heard the exact opposite, that the online community is toxic and one of the main downsides. I assume both are true in different cases, and you just have to be careful what part of the community you get involved in.
At first I thought this was going to be fantasy or some kind of conceptual piece and the front page photo was faked with Photoshop or something like DALL-E 2 with a prompt like sad minotaur girl lies in street in Italy…
It sounds like they're raking in a lot from this, so you'd kinda think they'd be best off actually giving away a car like, once every 5 years. To literally never give out the thing they're advertising seems like playing…
How much fine-tuning and repeated-running did you do to get these? Some of them are just ridiculously awesome.
This might be a case where people genetically taste things differently, because pistachio ice cream wasn't an acquired taste for me at all. Just seems delicious, though maybe a hair off the map of the kind of taste you…
I think Trello and Atlassian went well (massively different scale, though). I think the rep is that Atlassian mainly does well by leaving the companies alone as independent organizations, more like investment positions…
One of the definitive examples has to be Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely [1]. 2 or 3 great frisson moments in there. The big one is toward the end, when the strings decay and smudge into atonal textures (very…
Just FYI, John Lennon actually was a popular poet! [1] Mostly nonsense verse, influenced by Lewis Carroll. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_His_Own_Write
A lot of this is way over my head both mathematically and philosophically, but could we get away with saying that the reals exist in some slightly weaker sense, more like how a function exists? I.e., reals are…
I think what they're saying is that by making devs use a less familiar language, you're going to end up with at least as many security bugs, just ones not related to memory safety. (Not weighing in either way, just…
Is the idea that the product (once it's caught up) will be as good or better (and/or at least reach more people) than the original? Or is he OK with people being worse off than if your company never existed and the…
The author of this blog, Scott Alexander, has an online novel called Unsong [1] based on this idea. In the book's universe, Kaballah is real and (among many other wild things) corporations automatically generate long…
> supposedly obscurantist, sophistic style of various disciplines of the liberal arts. Would you say there is absolutely no kernel of truth to this? Check out, say, the abstract to this paper [1]. Is there nothing…
gwern is an amazing resource and has great articles on a range of topics, including productivity stuff; his posts on nicotine [1], modafinil [2], and melatonin [3] would be 3 highlights. [1]…
This. There's also Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, and others. More here: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
Some of this highlights an issue that I think about a lot (and it's obviously not just me): the duty of corporations to maximize profit of shareholders (as represented by the majority vote of the board, as I understand…
> But if you must, start with something like Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson. Don't just pull out the Goetia and start summoning demons. Reality may or may not be mutable, but our perception of it certainly is.…
Interesting take. It's analogous to religious arguments defending the idea of miracles. I don't say that in principle the world must be causally closed and bound by natural laws; only that it seems very likely, as it…
Yeah, to be honest, parts of this message I'm having trouble even parsing as information. If you've had/seen interactions like this where the other person just seemed too literal-minded, I'd ask you to think about…
Fair enough. Then would you say the spiritual plane that can be accessed or interacted with via these rituals, couldn't be fully described under the laws of physics as we currently know them? (Obviously almost any…
> I can't recommend doing any of these things, but if someone wants to, I highly suggest not naively following the directions of a satirical blogpost. Very interesting stuff. Regarding this part, are you saying that…