mbroshi
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Brilliant! Makes a simple children's game very interesting. One aspect I really enjoy is that it makes clear the knee-jerk response towards action bias[0]. There are times when your opponent has two-in-a-row, but the probability of a frown on the third is > 50%, in which case it's in my interest to have my opponent click on the third square instead of me (but even knowing that cognitively, it's still hard to not action).
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
FYI, Sage is also the name of a mathematical programming language: https://www.sagemath.org/
Comment · 3 years ago
There's an implicit assumption that the organizers would cancel the race if conditions are unsafe. E.g., when I go on a rollercoaster, I assume engineers have calculated the safety better than I could ever evaluate
Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds like an interesting--although presumably not easily and quickly scalable--solution to fertilizer shortages. I am dubious about the environmental improvement. According to a meta-analysis[0], chemical fertilizers produce less ammonia emissions
> However, ammonia emissions, nitrogen leaching and nitrous oxide emissions per product unit were higher from organic systems.
Basically, chemical fertilizers are much more efficient and have more uniform distribution of nutrients.
[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147971...
Comment · 4 years ago
I see a lot of doubters, but the bet is still open. If you're so doubtful, go ahead and put your money where your mouth is!
Comment · 4 years ago
> Did you use a regex to verify the data looks like a uuid before putting it into the database?
Is that really a thing? I have used UUIDs as primary keys many times in my life, and never had a need to do such a thing. I am struggling to even think of a valid use case.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is something I have thought about a lot.
I have had coffee daily, gone months without any caffeine, and currently average about one cup of coffee every week or two.
I think the best approach is experimental and data-driven. Everyone has different genes, life circumstances, sleep quality, etc., so it's hard to deduce too much from others' anecdotes. Once a week, I do a version of the Beck Depression Inventory[0] to measure my mood over the previous week. For me, daily coffee definitely causes me to be slightly depressed. I have found a cup when I really need it (which is about once every week or two) is ideal. But, whatever it is you want to optimize for (lines of code, happiness, sleep quality, etc.), make sure you are measuring, and then start experimenting!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Depression_Inventory
Comment · 4 years ago
As Tyler Cowen always responds to headlines like this: "If it’s true, why isn’t the price of oil down?"
This doesn't resonate with me. I see companies adding more sloppily written features with AI. I see more bugs in the software I use, not less. While it's plausible that software is getting both buggier and more secure, I suspect those two move in the same direction not opposite.
My guess is that we're getting better at finding _existing_ security issues with AI (and thus fixing those issues), but simultaneously adding more insecure surface areas _at a faster rate_.