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ashleysmithgpu commented on Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart? durmonski.com/life-advice... · Posted by u/enigmatic02
I am a curiosity/intelligence researcher, AMA. (Seriously, I am.)
This article reads like un-researched folk psychology rather than science, which is fine I guess, but I would take it all with skepticism.
I'll note that based on my and others' research, it seems to be better to have state curiosity (curiosity about the task at hand) rather than trait curiosity (as in, claiming to be a person with a high curiosity personality trait). Trait curiosity gets you almost nothing: no better learning outcomes, no better performance, and no better recall (in complex problem solving anyway; results are sometimes different in trivial pursuits, but who cares about that [edit: I shouldn't say it that way. I was being glib. From a scientific knowledge standpoint, of course we are curious about how curiosity works in trivial matters!]).
I don't believe there is a way to boost your state (task) curiosity. I'd also be skeptical that you can boost your trait curiosity.
Anyway, one of the main problems with curiosity research is the difficulty in even defining curiosity to a high degree of consensus. I would suggest that as you read this thread, you will see various meanings.
Is curiosity a desire to gain knowledge? Is it a desire to see if you are right or wrong? Is it a drive to test existing hypotheses? Is it a motivation sparked by novelty or uncertainty?
I would genuinely be interested in knowing what you, dear reader, think curiosity really is. :)
Reminds me of gradient descent. Trying to find the minima of a function by exploring random points that are outside of known minimums.
ashleysmithgpu commented on BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux beaglev.seeed.cc/... · Posted by u/pathompong
"Open source" with nvidia hardware? Good luck with that
ashleysmithgpu commented on Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? ourworldindata.org/cheap-... · Posted by u/yurisagalov
I hate the argument that we’re just waiting for batteries now.
I think if we had variable pricing that matched the availability of renewables, consumers would shift quickly.
Say something like power costs .02/kWh while the sun is shining and .30 when it’s not.
I’d charge my car at work. I’d put a timer on my dryer to turn on at 10am. They probably come out with a hot water heater that goes really hot during the day and coasts through the night. Same idea for your freezer.
Heck I’d even blast my AC to ten degrees below where I want it during the day and then ride out the night.
Octopus energy in the UK has something like this https://twitter.com/energystatsuk would be great if you could push energy back to the grid and get paid for it too
ashleysmithgpu commented on The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched sifive.com/blog/the-heart... · Posted by u/guerby
I wonder if there are any binary blobs required to boot? I guess the WiFi/Bluetooth modules would be the main problem but those are removable
ashleysmithgpu commented on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper remarkable.com/#What_Is_N... · Posted by u/punnerud
$399 when I set my country to US, £399 when set to the UK? That's not how currency works :/
ashleysmithgpu commented on Temporary National Emergency Library to close 2 weeks early blog.archive.org/2020/06/... · Posted by u/ingve
IPFS works based on files visited. I wonder if you could write a script that crawls randomly until it hits a certain threshold stored...
On a related note (Yes crypto, sorry) Filecoin is encouraging people to help backup certain large data sets: https://filecoin.io/blog/intro-filecoin-discover/
ashleysmithgpu commented on Spatio-Temporal Handwriting Imitation lme.tf.fau.de/pattern-rec... · Posted by u/yread
Does anyone write their S's from the bottom up?
This is exciting - I'm looking forward to it.
I've been nerding out a bit playing with Matrix/Riot and Urbit - there's a lot of exciting stuff happening in this space.
If you like what Matrix is doing consider paying $10/month for your own server via Modular.im (https://modular.im/). It supports the Matrix devs and you get your own high performance federated server to use on the network.
Their automation makes it extremely easy to spin up your host so you don't have to manage anything yourself. The default server they run has a lot of traffic so having your own is a better experience, and it helps further decentralize the network (and you control your own server).
I'm excited to try out p2p, thanks Arathorn for being so responsive in the comments on HN.
After Keybase sold out users to Zoom my friend in China and I switched to Matrix/Riot. While the default Matrix server is blocked there if he doesn't use a VPN we can still communicate on others (for now).
One question for Arathorn re:
> "Hooking up E2E Encryption APIs in Dendrite (not that it buys us much in a pure P2P world)"
Doesn't this still matter if the internet traffic itself is tapped? If I'm understanding this correctly we'll still want E2E for things like deep packet inspection in China (or bulk collection by western governments).
I was interested in a server, but the website does not mention how much storage or any details at all really. Anyone happen to know where to find that info?
Just to add a dissenting voice to the conversation, I recently attempted to transfer some money with transferwise and they refused just after I had uploaded all of my ID etc. In the end I went with worldremit and they were much easier to deal with. Slightly more expensive but I'd choose that over the hassle of tw.