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> Experiments show that transfer learning basically doesn’t exist, average people simply cannot apply principles they’ve learned in one context in a completely different context.

This is an exceptionally bold claim. Sounds dubious.

> Finally, many people have very successful careers in one field despite having a degree in a completely different field, which suggests that whatever people learn in their degrees doesn’t really matter all that much.

No it doesn’t. For that to be true you would need to demonstrate that, say, having an engineering degree does not influence likelihood or magnitude of success in engineering careers.

In reality there are likely going to be many recipes for success. Nepotism or social skills is one. Learned Competence is also one. Dumb luck is a third. The fact that you can succeed without such things does not mean such things are worthless

Or just shoot down the delivery drones

When you think about game design you have two big buckets. Writing code to make mechanics work, and writing code to make new content. This kind of game is almost entirely the latter because it’s not much more than handling one off edge cases and is very simple.

I would recommend using https://love2d.org/ to get started. This is a simple language built around a 2D game engine with (I think) many examples to follow

I always thought that game must have an incredible ontology underneath it that would be amazingly useful to other ventures...

I also recall playing it and, at a certain point, realizing that I was stubbornly uncreative in using the variety of options available to me.

In retrospect maybe that wasn’t true, and the game managed the massive potential for variance by condensing things into smaller buckets. Either way those were some brave developers agreeing to that project scope.

Written by a guy who’s livelihood is supporting AWS customers.

I have no strong opinions on the topic, but the author sounds like an asshole going for the impression that confidence == competence.

When I first read this I couldn’t think of a good use case. Then the example shown seemed like something I deal with all the time and wish I could do. But then I realized I would need to remember to add reloading to the range before I commit to the long loop I wish to change. Pretty damn cool though.

If it doesn’t add much overhead this would be amusing for something like game dev, swapping out how the game works while running it.

> It's worth noting that traditionally, actual insurance runs at a loss or break-even, most of the profits tend to come from investment.

I hadn’t considered that. It sounds like another reason why insurance is broken. If you have two options, $100 premiums and $100 cost; versus $1000 premiums and $1000 cost; the net gain on premiums vs cost is the same, but the investment income over the interim will be higher when the total amount of money in the system is higher.

I would be interested to see the average premium price compared to total investment funds across different geographies and times

Is this the same for pigs and possible related to African swine flu difficulties?

I don’t think I agree with that. If we imagine people can pass through each other but must still obey the rules of the queue (one person at an item at a time) the overall wait time is not going to change much. When you think back to your buffets, I hope it’s not the physical difficult of maneuvering around people stalled at an item you don’t want that takes up the most time.

Queuing theory is very appropriate for this. It’s a queue.

Damn that’s way better

“Surprising”

> The young and gracile protohuman famously known as Lucy... was hardly the sort of presence to intimidate a lion or cheetah.

And look at us now

I wonder if there aren’t multiple us agencies competing for a majority share Unbeknownst to each other, all of them limiting the abilities of the others, all of them making it a better platform for those wishing to remain anonymous

Well if you abandon the right to all government services, then someone else will be stealing your home instead so, idk, pick your poison.

That seems like arguing about metrics for the sake of it. If we change the definition to be x% reduction in the rate of accidents relative to the expected rate if a non autonomous car would be use otherwise... you would get a similar rate of impact, normalized to a smaller population, limited primarily by rapidly diminishing economic barriers that don’t seem especially relevant to the argument at hanf

I’m not sure I’ve seen those. Their coffee ones are pretty good, and they have snack ones like everyone else. I’ve also seen vending machines giving tickets as a way to order food. But I’m not sure I saw a working model for meals

The location thing is a pretty big deal because they need permits to occupy the space. They also require someone to take orders and exchange money. And to your point, since they sit in one spot all day, you order from them if you come across one, not because it pops into your mind that it’s an easy option at home.

Sure, but that doesn’t really change the issue that it’s quite a bit of labor to have one person carry one meal at a time. I think most delivery is in a weird spot of having lowish quality but highish prices. I think there’s an opportunity to go for the low end market. Vastly reduced choice, no branded restaurants, but damn is it cheap. Dark kitchens are a great idea, but I think you could go one step further.

/crackpot idea

It’s like making it illegal to not greet your neighbor each morning. The underlying premise is to make things nicer, but it’s also just stupid. A good rule would be “try to be considerate of pronoun preferences”.

The wants of the LGBTQA community are, in the eyes of the majority, probably not this. I like to be polite and respectful. I’ll be honest though, I would guess that less than 0.1% of the English speaking population identifies as “Xir” and that a non trivial portion of those that do are comfortable with the understanding that random strangers are more comfortable using gender neutral language. I would further posit that the portion of those that are not ok with people having points of view favoring even gender neutral language and instead demand the usage of the term Xir have adopted it as a counter cultural stance to combat heteronormativity- which honestly is fine, but it’s also a move made knowingly to make some people uncomfortable which by any metric must be ruder than someone who is just trying to avoid controversy at all by using gender neutral pronouns to begin with. I’m a left leaning adult, and I think it’s pretty bullshit. Especially on the Internet where women have been assumed to be men by default for decades.

If I misgender someone, and they ask me to use any specific pronoun in the future, I probably will. If the responder instead gets angry and implies that I am rude because I made a common assumption, and instead asserts that I’m going to tell them to buzz off.

Rudeness is clearly a subjective concept based around intent. And it’s frankly a waste of people’s time.

Imagine if every post had pronouns at the end, and if every man then demanded a correction for a use of they instead of “he”. That would be a waste of time and disrespectful to the ability of everyone else to be an adult.

I think food delivery will come to be won by pseudo food trucks. Vehicles with minimal cooking capabilities, perhaps just warming, that go around delivering standard uncustomized meals.

The economics of one driver picking up one order and delivering it just don’t make sense to me.

You’re stringing together a few questionable statements here.

It’s true that the vast majority of cars won’t be autonomous for “a very long time” so the vast majority of deaths won’t be prevented. But what’s your point? That if the vast majority of the problem can’t be addressed quickly it’s not worth exploring?

On a quick search, 30% of fatalities involve alcohol. 7% involve rain (the most common condition that causes crashes).

Cars don’t actually need to be better than humans, or even as good as the average human. They just need to be better than the bottom 5th percentile, prefer safe driving, and not get distracted/drunk.

I wouldn’t overindex on this. I think this article is talking about biorepositories, which have a fair bit of work to do in storing organs in good condition and matching the donor data to clinical trials. More critical organs like hearts or kidneys are probably being sent to patients without much of a middleman

maybe I’m missing something but people don’t normally take antidepressants to deal with one off periods of stress, right?

Do you have reason to believe this happens?

Seems like there’s a few things at play here

Foremost it sounds like Facebook has a shitty performance management culture. Let’s forget intent for a minute. Looking at the details offered, it’s just bad. If you get a rating of “meets most”, and that’s really bad then your system is off the bat not clear.

The implied story I got was about Chinese worker and visa abuse. But it sounds like it’s more just bad company culture with high degrees of competitiveness and finger pointing. I don’t see anything especially relevant to his race or immigration status. The idea that they’re dangling anything over his head (as is a common and important problem for many low skilled tech workers, (which probably doesn’t describe this guy)) because it’s implied they were going to push him out.

The internal push to silence any internal discussion on it is shameful.

But overall this seems like the result of organizational incompetence rather than malice. And I don’t think it should be surprising to anyone that this is the case because you’re going to be selecting for a very specific profile for a company like Facebook. Namely, people who put higher value on money and prestige.

What about war and progressive social change

I meant the claim that most politicians are middle class.

That being said... I’m no genetic expert but I’m pretty sure these papers are garbage. They keep referring to genetic influences but as far as I can tell, do not use any genome data. It’s true that twins share genes. That doesn’t mean that is the only thing they share. There’s incredible potential for confounding effects.

And I think I understand that’s because they’ve elected an Iranian favoring government which they believe is causing limited economic opportunities- or perhaps anger at the government due to its violent response to generic economic protests.

My question is, why should I care if the protests are successful or not? It’s a separate idea from wanting protestors to receive humane treatment from the government.

I mean I’m sure American influence has been a clusterf*

But I guess what I’m trying to say is I can clearly explain why I want the Hong Kong protests to be successful. I don’t think I can do the same for Iraq

> I wonder to myself if this isn't just the culture you guys have built where you live.

A lot of this is simply a culture of poverty and CERTAINLY not developed by the kids suffering in it