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Because those two actively self promote.

It's like the computer history museum that closed

*Living Computer Museum

Considering that they have Terence Tao himself working on the problem, betting against it would be unwise.

Why? STEM education is exploding around the world, demand should be spiking.

IEEE-754 isn't precise enough for my capacity :( I too need rich parents.

The next step is ELBO — the evidence lower bound.

Well since the letter x is taken, we can use w for web components. So a component file with tagged HTMl strings should have the extension .tsw or .jsw

They can use macaques which are much closer, but for some reason people are against it.

They can use other humans, which are much closer, but for some reason people are against it.

Any thoughts as to why?

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I can’t tell that they are pretending

Might be a good example of Base Rate Fallacy. Assuming we can presume that the amount of people who truly wouldn't understand why anyone would be against testing on monkeys is extremely low, there can be a significantly higher chance of false sincerity than true sincerity, even if most people wouldn't lie.

And proxy farms exist solely to get around this problem. If you believe the rights of content creators is the end all be all, don't complain next time Disney tries to extend the IP expiration dates.

Using the behavior of one bad actor to excuse the abuse of everyone else is pretty bad.

It's not as hard as you think, he's an English speaker and French and English shares approximately 40% of the vocabulary. And once you have mastered French, you have the other 80% needed for Spanish as it's a Latin language like French.

How hard do you think I think it is? Are you implying that it's easy for an English speaker to master the English scrabble word list?

Well, I think it is impossible, so the comment works for me.

And I refuse to update my priors to account for the fact that somebody did it. Because I can’t even memorize the English scrabble dictionary well enough to enjoy playing. I am happier to live in a universe in which Scrabble is just impossible.


For the stated time frame, it's definitely as hard as you think, and then much, much, much harder.

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