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jaggirs··on Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
No, they put zero warnings. Warnings only make it more likely that someone decides to start digging.
jaggirs··on China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
BuzzFeed News identified 268 newly built compounds by cross-referencing blanked-out areas on Baidu Maps with images from external satellite data providers

Pretty cool. Trying to hide the facilities made them easier to find.

jaggirs··on Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
Interesting, Google technically has the power to ban whoever they want from any website that uses their captcha.

All they have to do is give out impossible captcha's.

jaggirs··on What is 5D chess?
Exactly, we don't know the best play. So chess is uncertain. Whether there is a theoretical best move or not does not make playing chess any more certain if the move is unknown.
jaggirs··on Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election
Peer to peer internet is what is missing I suppose.
jaggirs··on What is 5D chess?
There absolutely is uncertainty in chess. Or do you know with certainty that you will win before the game starts?
jaggirs··on Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
Does this have any similarly with staring at a fire?
jaggirs··on What is 5D chess?
Hmm you are right. This brings to questiom why in real life we don't tend to go all in on the best bet.
jaggirs··on What is 5D chess?
A players mental representation of the game is already that (and you use this mental representation to predict future outcomes).

If you add probabilistic moves, the optimal way to play would be to give each alternative move the same weight (ie probability) that you think it will win you the game. You would pull this probability out of your mental representation.

Something like, "I think this is the best move, but this one is really good too so I will do it as well".

So I guess it could be fun to be able to try out all the moves you think are good in this way. But then an easier way to achieve this is to just play the game normally and go back to an interesting previous position once you have won.

But maybe a set of rules that will allow you to still win the game 'in retrospect' after all the 'best' moves were played by going through all the alternative superpositions as well.

So basically just play normally, but when you doubt what move is best, you make a superposition (and assign probabilities), which means you will be going back to this position later.

The winner would be the one who won most often, with each win weighed by the probability of that outcome (calculated based on the assigned probabilities along the game).

Sounds like fun.

jaggirs··on The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free
No, you are getting paid for the lies and advertisements you see. You get paid with free apps.
jaggirs··on Google’s top search result is Google
Then you should get mad, because there are better alternatives to google translate (deepl).
jaggirs··on New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases
The possibility of someone stealing your identity (or worse) far outweighs the damages from losing some coupons.

Deleting exposed databases is genious, there need to be real repercussions for companies if they leak user data.

jaggirs··on Book Review: Raise a Genius (2017)
Yes, that's what it is. Although the 'competitive' meta would be limitied to the adaptations of the top players.

The concept is common enough in gaming culture that they popularized a name for it.

jaggirs··on Book Review: Raise a Genius (2017)
You say that as if there is a divine purpose for each of us. By the same logic, what if their profession should have been selected by their parents?

This line of thinking is inpractical.

jaggirs··on Music Grid
The plural of anecdote is data. You just need to know that your anecdotes are reasonably trustworthy.
jaggirs··on Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (2013)
Negative indexing (along with the related syntax for slicing) is one of the most usefull python features. Numpy and pandas thrive on it.

Just learn the language, python is already one of the easiest languages out there.

jaggirs··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
I imagine it is like representing code with a flowchart. Suddenly you are a lot less restricted by your mental representation and you can draw arrows any way you want.

I often experience something similar, even though I'm not blind: When I'm doing algebra I sometimes get stuck 'looking' at the equation and systematically trying patterns on it. But what works much better is to really load the equation into your brain so that you have an intuitive idea that guides your pattern matching. If you are blind, I suppose you always need to load it up.

jaggirs··on Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
You could also not give the useragent to the iframes.
jaggirs··on Using Anki to remember what you read
Indeed, a fact like "Shostakovich composed his 5th sympohny in 1937" may have little value on itself, but its value is compounded with related facts. For example, if you also knew that Shostakovich was Russian, you could deduce with reasonable certainty that he composed this piece while living in the USSR (knowing also that the USSR was in place in 1937).

This in turn might allow you to enjoy the piece more, because you can relate the music to the time period and better understand what it depicts and what the composers intention was.

Now, you could also simply read a brochure about the piece/composer before the concert and you would know the same or more, but this would cost you time you may not have at that moment.

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Anyways, I don't think he is arguing for memorization, rather, he argues that you should first learn something (by reading) and then use some tools to remind you of what you have learned in order to not forget it. It turns out that the tool he chose for this is one that reminds him of some facts once in a while. The intention is not necessarily to know these facts, but to be reminded of the learned concept through these. Whether this is an effective method or not I do not know. One could end up becoming very focued on the facts, forgetting the deeper knowledge behind them (as happens in eductation, but for different reasons).

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Maybe I went a bit too in depth with this :p

I dont understand your point about my point (the article not being about 80's economics). Are you saying that because it is important, the article should have elaborated on it?

jaggirs··on Using Anki to remember what you read
The article not about 80's economics. He was just making a point, of course he knows the concepts he mentions with more depth than discussed in the post.
jaggirs··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
I am convinced there has to be a way to leverage the expressive power of a language like pure prolog without the strain of the 'hints' you need to give it when the depth-first algorithm can't solve the problem. My bet is that if the interpreter 'knows' enough algorithms to solve common calculations, it could leverage these to compute 90% of problems (without needing to have one algorithm for each problem). For the other 10% you would have to supply the interpreter with the necessary algorithms yourself.
jaggirs··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
A solution to this is leveraging the ecosystem of another language, like elixir (erlang) and all the jvm languages do.
jaggirs··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)
AI was hot too before winter came
jaggirs··on What Will Happen in the 2020s
1. Data Redundancy

2. Encryption

jaggirs··on Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
I never heard of Clikz, so I checked out their website, and their mayor sales pitch seems to be that it is european? I mean, as an european I suppose I would rather use european products, but I'm not going to use a different search engine just because of that.

(Just talking about the sales pitch here, I haven't used it so I don't know if it offers anything more)

jaggirs··on Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Democràtic repository
Also applies to content uploads from creators. If instead of only uploading to youtube they automatically did so for a variety of platforms, youtube's monopolistic position would be reduced somewhat. Also reduces the likelihood of your content being stolen and profited from on another platform.
jaggirs··on China Says ‘Stay Tuned’ for Retaliation over U.S. Tech Blacklist
I dont think who the person in charge is matters that much. The conglomerate of powerfull people in china have allowed Xi to rise into power because he would serve their interests. Same when Hu was in power. In a mature political system, transition of interests and percieved optimal policy changes who the man in power is, not the other way around.
jaggirs··on Show HN: RemoteMore – We connect developers with full-time remote jobs
So learn these skills before applying.

Unless you are arguing from the perspective of the employer. Then I suppose you will have less offers. But apparently employers mostly care about the social skills (comment by op), so this doesn't matter for most.

jaggirs··on YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims
There is no incentive to block an infringing video. The presence of the sound is accidental anyways and does not damage the claimants revenue (it is not a replacement good). So the claimant wont directly (video revenue) or indirectly earn money from these claims.
jaggirs··on Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator
This video from adult swim has a bit of a similar theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWsYaOM6pRg&list=LLyI69iuZYo...

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