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"Wizard, Engineer" reminds me of Yegge's "Software Liberal/Conservative" approach to risk.
https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSKeg4v...

Albeit, rather than "wizards like implicit/magic, engineers prefer explicit/boilerplate/maintainability", the difference Yegge suggests was management of risk.
This is what we get for all the stupid fear-mongering done by people with no understanding of "AI". Pop scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk weighing in on a field with 0 overlap with their expertise is treated by the media as some kind of prophecy sent from the heavens. Don't get me wrong, there's scary shit happening with AI that we can legitimately talk about, but we are so far from a world with sentient computers that the problem being posed by media figures is no more appropriate to discuss today than it was with the advent of neural networks.
I'd argue that debt, unlike direct payment and savings, always comes with added risk. So in a sense, debt can be intrinsically bad, if the total value added by that debt is less than the risk plus the time value of the debt (the classic Black Scholes model).

To put it another way, there's always an intrinsic limit to debt that may or may not be concretely captured in practice - we should probably not be letting individuals borrow a billion dollars if they're earning a median wage and have no net assets, for example.

That's the way in which debt can be dangerous, on a societal level - as in 2008, when society as a whole over-leverages itself, there's no easy path back to a safe level of debt.
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A great way of getting started with OpenSCAD is (blockSCAD)[1], which is a scratch-type graphical editor (that can switch back and forth between text and block code).
While I don't usually like block code, it actually works really well in the setting of OpenSCAD, and because of the one-to-one mapping between blocks and written code the editor can switch back and forth between the two.

A related project is (openJSCAD)[2], which uses the same geometry logic as openSCAD, but embed it into javascript for flow-control and related logic. I really like this approach, since it avoids having to pick up yet another DSL.
The openJSCAD online editor also features an local-file integration that blew my mind when I first saw it.

[1]: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/
[2]: https://openjscad.org/
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We definitely do study specific instances. For example, the other day an article was posted here on Support Vector Machines, which are a convex optimization problem having a special structure that is exploitable for fast solutions. For more examples, see Convex Optimization by Boyd and Vandenberghe, and the course notes for EE364a/b at Stanford. Modern Convex Optimization by Bertsekas is also good. I had the privelege of taking the convex optimization sequence at Stanford from Prof. Boyd, and one of the major take aways is that many practical problems can be solved in quadratic or even linear time. A general purpose solver typically runs in cubic time. For large problems (lots of variables), a special purpose solver can solve problems in seconds that would take a general purpose solver hours!

The book posted here is very much an introduction; even the EE364 sequence was merely a jumping off point for being able to explore the literature. Mathematical optimization, and especially convex optimization, is a deep and beautiful field!
I meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18789008 , agree my comment makes little sense when read as a reply to you.
Isn't that intuition, so Kahnemans criteria [0] apply? This means item b comes down to:

> So all we need is an unchanging environment, lots of practice, and immediate feedback.

[0] https://fs.blog/2012/03/daniel-kahneman-on-intuition/
Most illegal immigrants also simply over stay their legal visas

Not "most", but many. And most of those planned to overstay from the start.
The video is very worth a watch all the way to the end. I work with Alteryx for data processing because I prefer to hire business analysts vs programmers, but the tool is expensive and a bit clunky in few areas (mostly because it’s desktop first, not web first). This concept looks promising, I have few questions: 1) how do you plan to work with bigger datasets (say 100 columns and 2 million records)? 2) in your point .3 in “connecting to the world” have you thought about where the computation can happen? For instance, if data is in a database, do you envision pane running funcions directly in the db through sql?
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There's also Xamarin which should allow for close to native performance, provides a native user experience and allows for a lot of code sharing between iOS and Android. And, it's also proven tech. I also like that Xamarin follows up on new iOS and Android releases really quickly.
There is one more related work: spreadsheets.
> The only problem where I don’t yet see a clear path forward yet is how to develop more efficient ways to recruit patients for clinical trials. Without a simple and reliable diagnostic for Alzheimer’s, it’s hard to find eligible people early enough in the disease’s progression who can participate in trials.

There’s an interesting use case for Facebook’s Machine Learning algorithms
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Chinese schools monitor students activities with 'intelligent uniforms'
Except that IQ predicts real world performance on cognitive tasks. In fact, it is the single best predictor of job performance that exists.
That's not necessarily true anymore, and is pretty inconsistent. Most crossover "SUVs" (which are the best selling segment of cars in America), for example, are classified as cars.
Thanks again for sharing. Great insight. If you had a blog/newsletter, I would be a reader.
Is research in commercial companies becoming a driving factor in today's scientific achievements?
There is no reproducibility crisis with IQ research.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-school-tracks-students... is another one on the topic. The uniform can activate an alarm when the sensor detects that a student has fallen asleep in class. Wish I had this when I was in school.
Malnutrition only has effect on intelligence at extreme levels that basically never occur in the US. The American poor sometimes go hungry, but are never actually starving, and don’t lack micronutrients either. Don’t get me wrong, terrible food and atrocious eating habits, resulting in serious health problems, are one of the most serious problems in this country. However, this doesn’t impact intelligence.
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Warren Buffet writes very insightful letters to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway which you can find online
Ok, so that conversation sounds pretty reasonable, you said "OK, I'll give it my best shot, but don't expect too much.", then proceeded to give it a shot and actually succeeded at debugging it. So... whats the problem?
Ride-Hailing Apps May Benefit Poor and Minority Communities The Most, Study Suggests.[1]

Waymo has caused a single crash in 5 million miles of driving and no one was hurt.[2] They have been involved in slightly more incidents than would be predicted for a human driver (30 vs. 21) in those 5 million miles but it was not at fault for the others.

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/06/30/uber-lyft-poor-minority-commun...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-crash-self-driving-google-...
My own theory is that everyone else is thinking the exact same thing: looking for a "great deal" 1-3 year old used car. So demand for these cars is quite high. Modern cars are much more reliable than before, and that is reflected in the price you pay for a lightly used car.

Used luxury cars still have a lot of depreciation and 1-3 year old luxury cars can be a good deal; my guess is that luxury cars tend to be more costly to maintain and less reliable than regular cars. Also, luxury car owners tend to lease their cars, which creates a large market of used luxury cars.
And "gamer tools". Boy, are those resoundingly, universally terrible. Have you ever touched an overclocking GUI or whatever management tool for "gamer features" your motherboard/other hardware has?

It's often ludicrously bad.
>An employer profitably exchanges wages for labor. That profit is the economic value. If this weren't true, then all businesses would be bankrupt.

The fact that you can have a net profit doesn't mean you operate anywhere near 100% efficiently, or that you don't have tons of BS jobs. After a point of profit, wages are only a tiny part of the cost of a company.

Besides industries and companies get bailed out, VC money pay for tons of useless jobs (and/or indulgences) and then companies crash, etc.

Not to mention: we're not looking for economic value, but to value to society. You can make a good profit in all kinds of leechey businesses too.
That seems like it could be a Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-style remix, with a few Sherlock Holmes stories rewritten to feature Batman instead and then packaged as a book.
Oh shit I got one of these! Awesome to see what work went into it, I've been thinking of making my own badge next year!
Note that TFA is about "meaningless jobs" not "profitless" ones.
Only if everybody is equally good at developing intuition from a given set of data. That has not been my personal experience, FWIW.
Huh, didn't know about viewcad (Jupyter OpenSCAD viewer). Looks amazing.
The ending seems to have been missed off most quotes, it appears to have been "A computer on every desk and in every home running Microsoft software".
>His whole approach designed to cut through bullshit and seek the truth.

If that's the case, then why did he expend so many words on matters that were irrelevant to his core thesis? Why not just concisely set out the evidence demonstrating the inadequacy of IQ?

>People who have something to hide will respond by getting offended at his tone, rather than simply defending/explaining their ideas on their merits.

There is an overwhelming amount of information and opinion on the internet. Most of it is very bad. Winnowing it down requires some heuristics. The heuristic "do these words look like those of a careful and thoughtful person making a good-faith argument?" has served me well. I do often encounter bad ideas dressed up in faux erudition, but I very rarely encounter good ideas delivered with a string of irrelevant insults and ad-hominem attacks.

More broadly, being polite in your writing is a simple matter of neighbourliness. Causing upset or inflaming anger is occasionally necessary to pierce the veil of indifference, but we should do so only with great caution. There is already more than enough discord in the world without us adding to it. I see abundant evidence for the fact that civilisation is a fragile and precious thing, held together with the glue of civility. We should think twice before discarding the norms of social behaviour that most of us learned in kindergarten.
>People don’t understand how much of an anachronism small town America is. The brain drain is real, young people who are capable can’t wait to move as soon as possible to experience more of the world.

Yeah, I'm one of those people, and after I moved I found out that I don't enjoy city life at all. The entire reason I want to go into tech is so I can get a remote job and go back.

Higher population density doesn't mean much for the city I live in now - there's hardly anything to do that I'm interested in, and urbanites are as closed-minded as their caricatures of everyone else. (Not having Netflix isn't as much of a problem as not being a socialist, or not being down with a nationwide gun ban or whatever, but it's in the same ballpark.) I had to abandon all my hobbies when I moved, for lack of space and proximity to the communities. And the threat of physical violence is much higher here - I've learned from experience that I can't go outside after dark.
I can confirm that a curious 10 year was indeed responsible for the loss of at least one PSU. At least he learned something.
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Which of his earlier writing did you enjoy? I’ve completely avoided anything of his since about the first 30 pages of The Black Swan.
I’m surprised by this article. Most people seem to agree that the the metro systems of NYC, Philadelphia, and DC are much better than those of the west coast. LA’s is unusable for most people because there aren’t enough stops. Seattle’s light rail is definitely gaining steam as it adds more stops.
Data is much more comprehensive now, and everyone knows which brands/models to buy.
It turns out growing up below the poverty line also has an effect on IQ. There have been studies on how many words children hear before the age of 2 at income levels. Turns out poor people in my country are largely ethnic, but you get the same results for any race. A systematic policy of imprisoning a whole communities young men seems to destabilize as well. Genetically, what people think of race is almost an illusion. You are spouting some dangerous half cocked bs.
I think you can set the resolution with something like $fn=100; if I remember correctly.
On the other hand, most armed conflicts are preceded by rhetoric of some kind.
> His abrasive style is also a test: people who care about truth will not be offended, as they will welcome their ideas being challenged and scrutinised, because they'll win either way; either they'll be proven right, or they'll be shown to be wrong and they'll learn something.

Really? My mental heuristic is that the more aggressive and flowery language someone uses, the less they believe in the strength of their argument; they’re trying to erect barriers to discussion and debate
That's nominally (and not a brand, a "Protected Designation of Origin").

We still (in Europe) call champagne anything that's a champagne in nature, regardless of origin, even if its maker can't say so on the label.

(The same way perhaps one would say "xerox" even if the machine is from another maker).
"We still need a lot of innovation to solve problems like malaria or obesity ..."

There's really no innovation needed for the latter. Just educate people and when that fails implement better controls, i.e. sugar taxes on sodas and food. Fundamentally the goal should be get rid of refined sugars in foods, especially high fructose corn syrup.
> Which makes sense, considering that questions for IQ tests are created by people with close to average intelligence.

This isn’t true. Designing, testing questions and norming a new IQ test or updating an existing one is very expensive. At minimum you’ll need a Master’s in Psychology, Psychology or Psychometrics to get those jobs. Look at the Educational Testing Service.

https://www.ets.org/research/internship-fellowship?WT.ac=res...

> The Harold Gulliksen Psychometric Research Fellowship Program >
This program seeks graduate students who have completed their doctoral coursework and are at the dissertation stage of their program, working on a dissertation related to statistics, psychometrics, educational/psychological measurement or quantitative methods. Selected Fellows study at their universities during the academic year and conduct a research project under the supervision of an academic mentor and in consultation with an ETS researcher or psychometrician. Selected Fellows are required to participate in the ETS Summer Internship Program.
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Um. Yes. I've been visiting various sites selling chatbots. None of them use a chatbot to sell their own services. Only one, IBM, even had a demo chatbot, and despite using "Watson", it was dumber than some phone trees.

On the other hand, Alexa seems to be far better than most chatbots.
Was curious to read this, but the font is appalling. Hurts to read this on my phone without glasses.
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> Every once in a while he’s correct about something important.

Lol, you just summarized the book he keeps writing. Black Swan and Anti-Fragile are alright long drive audio books. He's pretty funny once you figure out that he uses being a prick as a filter. He's like a human r/spacedicks.
Thank you for all those references!
This is mentioned in the page:

> Spreadsheets are a clear precedent for any live data project. In particular, I would like to call out Glen Chiacherri’s Flowsheets project, which explores how to give spreadsheets the power of conventional programming, while maintaining the immediacy and casualness of the good old grid. PANE aspires to this same blend of power and immediacy.
I have six years of college. I was in all the gifted programs and so forth in school. I was one of the top students of my graduating high school class.

Then I ended up very ill and homeless.

My comments in online forums during that time were filled with typos and tended to sound like an idiot wrote them.

I've gradually gotten healthier. My typos and other issues have gone way down.

There are a lot of Americans living with various sorts of chronic health issues.

So, in short, I don't agree. But I'm probably not up for trying to "prove it" and just contemplating the possibility makes me feel tired and aggravated.
I wonder if that's because a lot of tools (and software) are nowadays designed so that you can't make a mistake, or if you do, it's easily fixable.
You couldn't export software implementing cryptography, but there wasn't any similar restriction on books about cryptography, even if the book contained detailed descriptions of the algorithms and the mathematics!
Criminals in Europe also have guns, anyone can trivially fedex these over from the US and you’ll maybe lose 1-2% of the guns you ship.

I’m not convinced that someone that’s willing to shoot a police officer would be unwilling to smuggle weapons internationally.

Guns also get stolen all the time in Europe, yet we still manage.
Reminds me of Pure Data (PD)

https://puredata.info/
Right. I'd like the West Coast transit systems to match those available in NYC, DC or Boston. It could be done 20 years from now if we started laying down more subway now.

Scooters and self-driving cars is not a transit system.
I think LA's is only really usable to get to/from DTLA. The nice part is DTLA is becoming more eventful, so you actually want to go there sometimes for non-work reasons.

Getting anywhere else is a bit of a crapshoot for the last-mile. I don't think LA's train system is ready for primetime until it can reasonably get into LAX; preferably with a more direct route from the westside that doesn't detour through DTLA.
That's if you include all of San Bernadino and Riverside Counties, which stretch north and east up to Las Vegas and Arizona.

Which is complete nonsense.
> Our results suggest replacing the flat style user interfaces with interfaces based on the design principles developed over decades of research and practice of HCI and usability engineering.

This feels like a straw man argument. Of course nicer looking design is usually worse for function. If nothing else, just sticking to ONE type of consistent design lets all users rely more on memory. They seem to assume that user interfaces are designed with the sole goal of being usable. Have they seen any modern furniture?

When they say "our results suggest that" they don't mean that the product (e.g. a web site) would be better in some sense such as making more money long term. They say it would be easier to interact with. I completely buy that.
But that's the easy part of the equation to prove! The hard part is: does a site that's nicer looking according to a majority of users but 5% harder to interact with get enough extra business to offset the more difficult UX? Does the company valuation or other metrics such as ease of attracting talent improve? This is the similar to the question "would a furniture maker sell more of this chair if it was 10% more comfortable but a bit uglier?".
Lovely article! Reminds me a lot about how I came to programming and what drew me into it. A good read to explain that idea to any friends who might be interested
> IQ is an EXCELLENT measure of "value, contribution, quality of thought".

Actually, it is not. At best, IQ is correlated with intellectual potential.

However, having potential is not the same as being able to perform.

Even a V8 without gas fails to perform on par with a filled 2-stroke motor.
It is "okay", but you will end up with more bureaucracy. If, as mentioned, you are living in Germany 99% of the time and spend close to zero time in Estonia, the german tax authorities will (sooner or later) argue that the company is effectively being managed from Germany. Then you have to deal with tax nonsense in two countries and finding a tax consultant who will deal with this is rather expensive. Some basics (if you understand German), are explained here: https://www.ihk-berlin.de/blob/bihk24/Service-und-Beratung/r...
The follow-up post is a must read: in the panic ensuing after a failed switch flip, they made a series of disastrous mistakes that almost caused a fatal road accident.

The animality of the human mind is fascinating, all it takes is a small change in the perception of external threats to drive people utterly bonkers. Puts all kinds of things from wars to conjugal murder into perspective - what is utterly nonsensical to a calm and rational individual may appear as the only way to go for someone who is distressed.
The difference is that places like Seattle and LA are expanding their systems. In New York, Boston, and DC it's rather stagnant.
The astro/cosmonauts did it after the hole was discovered due to leaking air.
When not too constrained by size and particularly for prototyping, I tend to use short descriptive names that are not too hard to decode.
For example you could use Cby* for bypass capacitors, or maybe if you have a series of LEDs, then you could have Dr, Dg, Db* depending on their color, and similarly Rr, Rg, Rb* for their respective resistors, or Rpi* for I2C pull-up resistors, etc.

Sure you could have a look a the traces to find those out, but it's not always straightforward.

This makes a big difference when debugging boards IMO. For example now if you see that your blue LED is too bright again (as is usually the case ;)), you can just look for Rb* and fix it without the schematic.
Buying a lot of domain names, unfortunately selling them is a lot harder than expected.
Curious if have you tried more traditional generative models on these data sets. It seems a even a higher order Markov or a higher order hidden Markov would perform comparably. Stochastic grammars that allow recursion would be even better.

With a small corpus these would run into similar difficulties but would likely perform much better than RNN/CNNs trained on the same corpus. Regardless of whether you use NN or something else your approch is the right one: start with model trained on a larger but similar corpus and then use the smaller one to modify the transition probabilities.

Leaving out the "Deep" stuff will shed popular clicks on your post, probably a lot, but would get the job done with less cumulative effort. Important if for some reason you cannot use third party models. The stochastic grammars I mentioned are a lot less fiddly to train than * to vec
There's no actual font. It's just vector graphics in SVGs. No alt text either. This is one of the least accessible web pages I've seen.

EDIT: Fixed by the author. Thanks for the accessibility update.
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