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Yeah, you could make the same complaints about jpeg compression.

One way to generate a sequence of heads and tails is to start with either heads or tails, then randomly choose how many of those to use before switching to the other. You're sampling the length of runs. e.g. Heads, then choosing 12113 would translate to HTTHTHHH.

It feels easier to ditch some of my biases generating a sequence this way.

>What cant there be more housing development on the edge of SF...

Three of the edges of SF are water.

I was so bummed when I looked into this in college. Going for a physics degree, there was basically nowhere I could go in the spanish speaking world with classes that counted towards my degree. Which is nuts, since physics is a degree almost everywhere.

>The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they can lose to the vocal minority and self-interested politicians.

This like makes me frustrated. It shouldn't be everyone's responsibility to go on twitter or wherever and be loud. Maybe politicians should put in real effort to learn about who they represent. They could engage in the same kind of polling they do during election season, rather than just paying attention to whoever is loudest.

The definition of best is irrelevant. The point is the distinction between maximizing something for an individual versus maximizing that same thing for the group.

I think your hands probably have more bacteria than your junk.

I doubt Phelps was fucking with the interviewer. I was also a competitive swimmer and my experience matches what Phelps said.

It'll reward the companies with the best groups of people, but not the best groups of companies, which I think the other comment was getting at.

I'd bet that sample efficiency is a factor in translating they most hyped bits of RL into solving IRL problems. So many business problems translate to "Learn which of these things to do, as quickly and cheaply as possible."

>The best argument might be that eventually no one will trust video.

Obama talked about it this afternoon. He said "This is bad, blah blah oh no." Of course, you don't believe me because I made this up. That doesn't preclude you from believing written quotes, given the right chain of trust. It's been great to have formats like video that didn't require the chain of trust for a while, but if that time has passed, there's nothing we can do. It is hard, but in the context of text where quotes have been easy to fake for ages, we have dealt with it. It's good for everyone to be on the same page.

Thanks for the answer! Out of curiosity what about systems we can prove able to "do" basic arithmetic, ignoring whether they can talk about it?

I'm imagining the difference between a system that can show "P(n)" for any n, rather than a system that can show "P(n) for any n."

It seems like the former must come with a proof about the system. The quantifiers "for any n" have to come somewhere. If they aren't embedded within the system, do we still end up with a system that must be able to express "This sentence is not provable?"

Neat work, but doesn't behavior require colluding to be considered collusive? Otherwise this is just another neat equilibrium.

I never understood the step about how a system that can do basic arithmetic can express the "I am not provable in F" sentence. Does anyone have an ELI30 version of that?

>Anything you post on Aether will be gone in about 6 months. This is nice, because no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep.

This seems really misleading. If I can view it, I can save it. Enough people take data dumps from reddit that even if reddit decided to follow the same policy, it wouldn't mean "no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep."