Readit NewsWinterMount223 commented on Olbers' Paradox en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olb... · Posted by u/luu
A root is a fractional exponent; I can see that as a valid description.
Exponentially means that it grows like exp(x).
WinterMount223 commented on What I learned from running a concierge search engine re-search.xyz/writing/wha... · Posted by u/researchers
I wouldn’t feel full or satisfied with such research done by other on open ended questions such as What kind of inflatable kayak should I buy? Maybe after researching, I realize that really I should get a rigid kayak instead. Such research is iterative, interactive, and some of my preferences or personal knowledge can’t be easily externalized.
A more concise explanation can be found in the Usenet Physics FAQ:
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers....
> too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight.
This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.
WinterMount223 commented on We were a few days away from being settled for life twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/... · Posted by u/daolf
That’s why you also do due diligence on your prospective buyer. Also when talks are reasonably advanced, ask for a non-refundable advance as a proof of love.
WinterMount223 commented on Crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead themarshallproject.org/20... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
I recommend the book Paranormality from Richard Wiseman:
https://www.amazon.com/Paranormality-Why-what-isnt-there/dp/...
Essentially if any of these powers were true, they could be reproduced in a scientific experiment and then reversed engineer on why they actually work. There is even a foundation with 1 million dollar price for whoever proves to have paranormal abilities. No-one has ever been able to prove scientifically to have paranormal power and won the prize for decades.
Not everything is able to be reproduced scientifically and reversed engineered. It’s not less real because of that.
You may know how to ride a bike. Can you reverse engineer and explain in an algorithmic way how to ride a bike? No. Does that invalidate the fact that you can indeed ride a bike? Of course not.
Edit: do not fixate on the bike. It was just an example. Write a symphony, create a joke, understand irony.
WinterMount223 commented on What is money, anyway? lynalden.com/what-is-mone... · Posted by u/cyber_kinetist
Big ups for Bernstein, Against The Gods was a fantastic read and I can’t wait to read Power of Gold.
Another book I’d like to throw into the mix here: Central Banking 101 [0]
Fantastic overview of how the current central banking system works, written post-Covid so it has some context for the extensive QE that’s been happening over the last 2 years. Author worked on the Fed’s trading desk for over a decade in various capacities so he has a deep experiential knowledge of the plumbing in action.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Central-Banking-101-Joseph-Wang/dp/09...
I found Bernstein’s Against The Gods shallow and blasphemous.
WinterMount223 commented on What is money, anyway? lynalden.com/what-is-mone... · Posted by u/cyber_kinetist
At the bottom there’s only exchange for labor.
Not to really defend Google here, but how else would you do it? The amount of data on these platforms is enormous and having people review the videos/apps/whatever would be simply prohibitively expensive.
I think they need to balance how strict their abuse detection is. Making it too strict will kick out legitimate users without mercy. Making it less strict will allow potentially harmful (for business) content to spread on their platform, which could lead to lawsuits, loss of advertisers etc. You can see which direction is more appealing for a corporation.
So concretely, now we complain about mistreated users, but if the automatic moderation was less strict, we'd complain about extreme content. It's not an easy problem.
If you can’t scale customer support then you can’t scale the customer base.
It is well known that if Google bans your account it will ban any "related" account and that includes your immediate family including your spouse, parents, children and your official job/startup.
I never understood this bizarre behaviour from Google. My colleagues got a taste of it when they shared their laptop and one of them had a banned account.
It was a defence project and the work computers were not allowed to have internet. One common computer away from work area and in a different lan was a designated internet computer. Unfortunately one dev with a banned account set a chain reaction of getting everyone else banned.
Did their accounts end up permanently banned or could they recover them? Seems like something that could actually be abused if not. A weaponized banned Google account on a laptop. A laptop with cooties. The seven generations punishment.