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eruditely

641 karma · joined February 24, 2013

"Al-Baqir is reported to have told one of his followers that if in this world people need a guide to travel even a few miles to a strange place, then what of the path to heaven of which they are far more ignorant?" - Arzina Lalani, Early Shi’i Thought p. 75

Sikh. Minority. Asiatic Aryan. Love the bay area & wouldn't change a thing about it.

Antiquity. Love epistemology, epistemology of pharmacology, trying to cultivate an empirisme érudit. Taleb's epistemology and Curt's epistemology. Stoicism, want to know more about Byzantium, John Gray too.

Experience in Node/Mongo/R/scipy(prefer R) for statistics operationalized to say Kruschkes books few chapters

Since i'm interested in learning probability theory I have an interest in machine learning,

I'm interested in Popper's negativism & preference for asymmetry, Charlie Mungers "Inverse problem" as insight into the situation and all other related applied esoteric affairs.

Best way to learn about me is to see my bookshelves and my amazon purchase history.

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eruditely··on Bayesian Epistemology (2022)
Nice book. You might also want to check out “Bayesian Epistemology” 2 volumes by Titelbaum
eruditely··on Beating the Averages (2001)
Thanks for mentioning this, I'll check out imba.io. Also the essay itself is a classic, I wonder what other new techniques or technologies have been invented that let us beat the averages, other than just lisp, though.
eruditely··on Ante: A low-level functional language
I was wondering why the dot product wasn't 32! Good thing I checked. Also this seems like a cool new language, I need to learn a functional language, I wonder how far this language will go in development.
eruditely··on Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
Can you point me to where you find that the left/right division comes from Greece?
eruditely··on Microsoft second company to crack $2T valuation, after Apple
Congratulations to Microsoft, this new management is killer. I wonder who will be first to reach $3T.
eruditely··on Daniel Ellsberg: The 90-year-old whistleblower tempting prosecution
Ellsberg apparently made contributions to decision theory, I forgot where I read this but this guy has notable qualities other than being a whistleblower.
eruditely··on Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians
Just fyi there are non upper caste Indians, I’m Sikh so caste distinctions are forbidden for us. I’m a “Saini” my name is Ricky Saini and I’m not sure this fits with my experience as a lot of the people in my family(who are Indian of course) are not upper caste. I would be shocked to learn if this was true. Just so you guys know the modern Indian community not only Punjabi’s try very cars to be against caste. So don’t think we’re not trying or anything. We try really hard.
eruditely··on Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?
I disagree that Taleb is "middle-brow", check out his new technical incerto book, from what I've heard its rather rigorous.
eruditely··on Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius
I think my all reasonable estimates, he was a polymath, maybe not on the level of Kolmogorov or something but it's the fact that he died so young, had such immense influence, and worked in so many fields.
eruditely··on Frank Ramsey: A Genius by All Tests for Genius
By the way, it's alleged by a famous professor(?) and amazon reviewer Michael Emmet Brady that Ramsey in no way "demolished" his theory and that this particular problem has drawn people away from respecting and appreciating Keynes immense work in philosophy of probability

here is the review: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2927587

"An Examination of the Fundamental Reasons Why Frank Ramsey Failed in His Reviews of J M Keynes's a Treatise on Probability"

eruditely··on Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms
I disagree with your statement as well, psychedelics have a variety of use cases and the entire experience is difficult to describe, for example take the following statements

"I like the wall breathing" "The wall is breathing"

it is difficult to qualify and categorize whether this is "Escapism" or "Facing reality" this statement and a variety of the subclass of total experiences of mushrooms and lsd at times is that often, it just doesn't make sense, but it can induce profound thought, at least we hope is profound =)

Much love.

eruditely··on Being a Noob
Oh come now, one essay can't really detract from the general character of all his essays does it?
eruditely··on Sunsetting Python 2
It seems everyday that history moves on, anyways this is a historic day and I applaud the principal's for making a difficult decision. I wish them all the best.

I've only used python for scripts and such and pandas for data-analysis at my last job.

eruditely··on $100 Billion USD oops
I wonder how many more errors like this have happened.
eruditely··on Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
What about Graham's number?
eruditely··on Phrack Magazine (1985-2016)
very polarizing website, posting many interviews with antisocial hackers(still cool though) but also more nicely minded ones.
eruditely··on Roubini's crypto critiques are nothing new, and they're worth taking seriously
Roubini is risking significant social capital recently IMHO I believe calling bitcoin a 'scam' and the block chain ledger 'histories least useful technolog'
eruditely··on Tesla said to seek number 2 exec as Musk’s behavior angers board
Is his recent behavior really that distasteful to some? He seems to be behaving fine to me, nothing out of the ordinary, he's just being a fun guy.
eruditely··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Taking junior devs who would take a pay cut to join your company?
eruditely··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Will you accept people in a junior role for less money for hiring and then work themselves up? I'm a good hire.
eruditely··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2017)
Location: San Jose / San Fransisco Bay Area / South Bay Aryan

Remote: No(Maybe)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mean Stack/ Node JS/ Back end Engineer/ Data Engineer

Résumé/CV: https://ufile.io/bw5ia

Email: finalsilence@gmail.com

Please hire!! You're all good looking and i'll buy a puppy!

eruditely··on Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks
I don't see this replacing Jupyter notebooks any time soon, as they simply are better.
eruditely··on The first genome data from ancient Egyptian mummies
You're supposed to develop universal laws from data like that so that it's easier to hit negation over it.
eruditely··on CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police
that asymmetry decides which side women like more, (noob), women will always like the side that wins in the intimidation hierarchy, or the side of the most aggression without repaid cost.
eruditely··on Stopping the False Epidemic of Adult ADHD
short version: ADHD 7-8x less chance of graduating college with a degree, 10% of dropping out of high school, 30% of repeating a grade(8-12 or maybe k-12), E.F. deficits overpower High I.Q. very easily. As economy of time > economy of information.
eruditely··on Stopping the False Epidemic of Adult ADHD
It doesn't matter if people are abusing drugs, it matters whether it is immoral or poor for them or not, it depends on what drugs are being abused and if they're bad, since adderall is a general performance enhancer and humans see significant benefits then such activities should be considered permissable, people cannot be held back in their lives because their doctors disagreed on their behalf, people cannot be held to the tyranny of underqualified 'professionals'.
eruditely··on CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police
Military's are more than professional, get paid less, and still risk your life much more, being a LEO is not harder than being in the military.
eruditely··on CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police
ie a demand for us to be excessively passive and make their be an asymmetry in favor of the aggressor, ie why girls like criminals now, while they just to like knights before, the good guys, anyways, what you advocate men to do would be cede the asymmetry in favor of aggressors/criminals, police & criminals (same group of people, if you've ever had those sorts of friends they often just decide to try to be a cop later to maintain a few things, anyways, we cannot seed any situation to these people.

anyways, my father's house was just broken into, a few other things happened, and we have enough cops, but stuff still isn't being taken care of, anyways, the most important part is the courage to contest

eruditely··on Silicon Valley programmers pressure friends to quit working at Uber
It's probably just a high energy workplace full of plenty of power moves and the resulting hit and miss that comes from that. As if sexual relations could be acted upon as if we had perfect knowledge!

Hell even if we did have perfect knowledge we would know that women find it attractive in itself if a guy will approach and based on the skill of that approach yea/nea or w/e happens, so even if we could read each-others minds there would still be the act of the effectiveness of your tactics and if you didn't play it right then things could still get awkward.

There's variance to life you know. In before anal-retentive attentiveness to how I used epistemic randomness.

eruditely··on Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins
Is this displaying in a weird way for anyone else? I half thought that this was a bug or something, some attack(?).
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