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Knowledge Is Worth Your Time

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29 points·by topaz0·há 9 meses·8 comments

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topaz0
·há 16 horas·discuss
To be clear, I am not agreeing that people only upvote their favorite billionaires, just that if this particular thing was done by a Chinese model it would not have gotten the same attention
topaz0
·há 20 horas·discuss
Yeah
topaz0
·há 4 dias·discuss
Log odds ratios are less misleading. Or at least odds ratios.
topaz0
·há 16 dias·discuss
Road safety is a social good -- it depends on the cooperation of everyone on the road. Choosing to put down your phone or slowing down make everyone safer, including you. Choosing a bigger car makes everyone less safe except you, who get marginally more safe. It's obviously antisocial and the kind of choice that makes the world worse for everyone.
topaz0
·há 16 dias·discuss
Appreciating that there are some benefits is differwnt from adhering to the church
topaz0
·há 16 dias·discuss
It's not a question of whether it's biased to say that, rather whether it would tend to bias the model's response (e.g. toward weighting the stated downsides as more imported than the implicit upsides). But that said, choosing to highlight particular facts while leaving others silent is a very common sign of bias.
topaz0
·há 16 dias·discuss
The other issue is that it is going to depend very strongly on how you ask.
topaz0
·há 18 dias·discuss
It's an antisocial, even solipsistic way to do that. Offense evidently intended, even if you convince yourself it's not.
topaz0
·há 18 dias·discuss
You decrease the risk to you but you dramatically increase the risk to other people, especially pedestrians. The total deaths go up.
topaz0
·há 18 dias·discuss
The only virtuous goal is to type some fun words imo.
topaz0
·há 19 dias·discuss
Database problems are math problems too.
topaz0
·há 22 dias·discuss
If you look at his GitHub it does seem like he's obsessed with the tools
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
Since I can't upvote @thrance's reply, I'll second it here: certainly complaints about postmodernism date to the 90s or earlier and fear of Marxism is as old as Marx (less sure about when "cultural Marxism" specifically became a scare-term of art)
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
By "word on the street" do you mean "word that they are leaking to the press so they get favorable coverage, and based based on opaque and questionable accounting"?
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
If we're nitpicking metaphors I think it's more accurate to say it's like they were taking requests to rekey the lock on your door.
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
Individuality is not to be tolerated.
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
Nice work. I guess "vast majority" is overstating the case, but majority anyway.
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
The 2^64 in gps argument comes from the number of pairs of 32 bit numbers, not from the upper bound of multiplying two 32 bit numbers. So for the addition case the symmetry argument is still only good enough to get you down to about 2^63, which doesn't help you at all because you have much stronger information from the upper bound.
topaz0
·mês passado·discuss
It's a bit more subtle than that -- most n>2^32 are not prime in which case 2 x n has more factorizations you would have to check.

(Just by way of example, for n=2^33, 2n=2^34 but also =2^17*2^17)