robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@SceNtriC jak to się dzieje, że używanie pojemnika na bio brudzi? Uchwyty są ubrudzone (no ale przez co/kogo?), czy coś innego?
@whitequark I remembered that typical donation amount is half a liter and that's about ten percent of total volume.
@mattwilcox do you know of a country that doesn't have some kind of voting registration and also doesn't have an up to date registry that lists where everyone lives (at least approximately, and necessarily approximately for homeless people)?
@kravietz wrong video?
@mcc so... Patreon is not going to have per-creation billing at all, even for people who e.g. don't want iOS users to be able to subscribe?
What is the value of observers that are prevented from seeing ~anything? Is it in them being able to see things that are too large to be hidden or something else?
@grrrr_shark it you haven't played it already, Outer Wilds. There's some amount of sadness in the story, but it's not overwhelming and the game was very immersive for me.
Czemu nie "poszłem"?
@munin Do you mean that they include things that are supposed to help with direct-action-causing phishes specifically?
@munin What about phishes that ask you to actually do the harmful action (e.g. wire money, reveal confidential information, ...) instead of getting you to provide credentials so that they can do the action?
@marwa To jest dodatkowo skomplikowane, bo co najmniej niektóre z tych nazw się dziwnie tłumaczą: przynajmniej w Szwajcarii "Hochdeutsch" znaczy nie wysoki niemiecki, ale standardowy niemiecki.
If you haven't seen https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762, you might find it interesting. (It's from a decade ago, but I have no clue whether we know more about the area since then.)
Yup, and there's no good way to handle "everyone is taking into account how the system works", because if there were, the resulting system would break the Arrow's impossibility theorem.
A colleague of mine btw did write up a computation of that kind for most recent parliamentary elections in Poland, but the point there was mostly to compare voting in different constituencies (you may vote in any constituency in those elections, as long as you actually arrange for that slightly ahead of time and appear in a voting location in that constituency).
If you have some estimate of likely results (in the form of a probability distribution over vote counts -- likely you'd assume an uncorrelated multivariate Gaussian or something similar), then it's fair to say that you can estimate the direct effect of your vote: compute the probability (as a function of what vote you cast) that your vote will be the deciding one, and pick the vote where you like that distribution the most.
In places that have a threshold this usually means voting for a party that has a significant chance of being above the threshold, sadly. Apart from this it often doesn't align with voting for larger parties (nor even, in FPTP, parties that are very likely to get at least one seat in your constituency: voting for a party that's expected to be just below 1 seat is better than for a part that's expected to be above 1 and well below 2, if you like both equally).
Nie orientuję się w cenach, ale wiem, że różnice między kosztami rekonstrukcji z własnego ścięgna i ze ścięgna od nieboszczyka mogą być nawet ~1/4 (gdzie to pierwsze jest tańsze). (IIRC generalnie u ludzi po czterdziestce zwykle preferuje się przeszczep od nieboszczyka, a przed od siebie.)
I wonder whether you'd have recommendation on how to address letters to someone you can only try to guess the gender of in German. (I recently misgendered a fellow from our road construction office and still feel slightly bad about it.)
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You mean you'll send them letters to educate them on the issue? :)
I know about (at least some) problems caused by tilling, but I don't really know what's a better approach than crop rotation (other than pausing between plantings). A skim of wiki didn't help, so can you recommend something to read about it?
Did you ever observe them debugging something they were unfamiliar with? (I'm asking because this is the ~everyday software engineer activity that requires IMO most evidence weighing, pruning of hypotheses, and choosing what evidence to try gathering.)
BTW I'm somewhat surprised by the ratio of compsci/compeng-graduated colleagues you have, but that might be just a bias caused by my personal circumstances.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
