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- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 1 day ago:
If it hasn’t already, that post and its links need to be archived.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 3 days ago:
You can only use it in a self-deprecating manner if you are yourself an educator, in which case, you’re still minimizing educators.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 days ago:
I needed to know if there was any validity to the claim. And if I’m doing the work anyway, I might as well share it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 3 days ago:
Let’s say you save exactly one pill and it works on anyone. Also assume 100% pregnancy rate, so if you are paired with someone and neither have the pill, then it’s an automatic pregnancy. Our goal is to minimize number of pregnancies.
- “Max promiscuity”: Say we have a complete bipartite matching. if it’s given to a male, then no pregnancies have been prevented since every other male can impregnate every female. If it’s given to a female, then it reduces the number of pregnancies by 1 since none of the males can impregnate her.
- “Traditional”: Say we have a bijective matching (i.e. each male is paired with exactly one female, and vice versa). Then the pill can be given to anyone and it will always reduce the number of pregnancies by 1.
- “The Harem”: Say we have a matching where males have more than one pairing but females have at most one pairing each. In this case, giving the pill to the male with the largest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies by however many pairings they have.
- “Reverse Harem”: Same scenario as above but flip male and female. Giving the pill to any female will have the same effect of reducing pregnancies by 1. Giving it to a male will have no effect.
- “The Cliques”: The population is split into disjoint graphs, but each of these disjoint graphs are complete (bijective) bipartite graphs. In this case, if the pill is given to a male, then it will only have an effect if that male only has a single pairing, thereby reducing pregnancies by exactly 1. Otherwise, there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to a female, then it will always reduce pregnancies by exactly 1.
As far as I’m aware, the real world operates most like a mixture of “Traditional” and “Cliques”. At least, in places where birth control is an option. But in the real world, we have more than one pill.
If we have enough for either all males or all females, then the effect is the same regardless of who gets the pill. It will always lead to 100% pregnancy reduction.
Let’s say we have enough pills for all but one male, or all but one female.
- “Max promiscuity”: If the pill is given to the males, then we still have one male that can impregnate everyone, so there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to females, then you will end up with exactly one pregnancy.
- “Traditional”: As before, there’s no difference. Any decision will lead to reducing pregnancies to exactly 1.
- “The Harem”: giving to all the males except the one with the smallest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies to however many pairings that one male has (more than 1). If given to females, then it will reduce it to exactly 1.
- “Reverse Harem”: Giving it to the males will reduce pregnancies to exactly 1 since they’re only in 1 pairing. Giving it to females will also reduce it to exactly 1.
- “The Cliques”: if given to the males, then it will only make a difference if there exists a clique with exactly one male. It will reduce pregnancies by the largest number of females in a clique with a single male. If given to females, then it always reduces pregnancies to exactly 1.
So with the goal of minimizing pregnancies, it either makes no difference or is optimal to have the pill on women (unless you’re in a harem). This is highly reductive though. We have many other considerations when deciding who should get access to birth control.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 4 days ago:
Fahrenheit makes sense. The Tide website recommends washing at 16C minimum for regular detergent and 4C minimum for cold water detergent.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 4 days ago:
The brands I see that produce regular milk also make lactose free milk here, so I’m guessing they’re all processed the same way within the brand but just with added lactase at some point. Different brands probably do things differently. It’s usually 2-3 weeks for both regular milk and lactose free.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 5 days ago:
Is your lactose free milk prepared/packaged differently from your regular milk? The two keep for just as long here.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
It’s not a criticism of people participating in a shitty system and have little say in the matter. It’s a criticism of a system that forces people to make shitty decisions.
- Comment on How can I learn to estimate the likelihood of real-world events? 1 week ago:
For one off events like 9/11, you can’t. There isn’t an accepted definition of “probability” for things like that. Either The question is completely nonsensical (Frequentist view) or the numbers are more or less all arbitrary (Bayesian view).
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
People will always need a place to live, yes. We also always need food, and general safety from harm. A home is no good if you lose any of the other two while living there. That can happen if, for example, the government or your neighbours decide that your kind is undesirable, or an arbitrary trade war forces businesses in your area into downsizing/bankruptcy and losing you the jobs that paid for your food, or the same happening to farms in the area. How big these risks are will depend a lot on where you are and who you are.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Rent often isn’t too far off from the cost of buying. The main financial advantage of buying comes from appreciation, which I would say is a pretty big gamble.
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Jokes on you, my toddler makes me count the steps each time we go up and down.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 week ago:
Depends if you count undergrad. One that comes to mind is the RWKV paper.
- Comment on mercy merci 1 week ago:
Starlight tour, but for spiders.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 week ago:
Depending on the gym, some are a lot more third-spacey than others. I’ve been to a smaller gym where people just hang around after their workouts to socialize, with occasional impromptu dinner outings when the gym closed for the night. I miss that place. You still meet people at bigger commercial gyms, but it’s not the same.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if I heard they actually wear them to parties and such, surrounded by other wealthy people who are also above the law.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Require a specific interaction from the user to display your actual email (e.g. click on a button). Even if they run a headless browser, they’ll still have to parse the page to figure out what to do and then do it. That’s much more expensive.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why you’re commenting if not to take part in this community.
- Comment on Not promotings violence. If someone or some group puts a bounty on a presidents or kings or pm's head how does a person collect and do they give you safe haven in country? 2 weeks ago:
It’s usually the job of governments to enforce agreements. If you take them out, then you’re on your own.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 weeks ago:
Neural networks are a class of models. Genetic algorithms are a class of learning algorithms. You use learning algorithms to train models. Genetic algorithms are a valid way of training neural networks, but this is not currently in vogue. They’re typically trained via gradient descent.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 weeks ago:
Not all machine learning is AI
The other way around. Machine learning is a subset of AI.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 2 weeks ago:
I would actually buy that
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 3 weeks ago:
An example with an oversimplified diet to illustrate the point I think you’re trying to make: You have a diet that’s exclusively cake and you’ve determined that you need 2000 Calories of cake to maintain your weight. That 2000 Calories figure is an estimate and we don’t know exactly how much of it we’re actually absorbing. In reality, it’s actually more like 1800 Calories. Now all of a sudden, you switch your diet to eating exclusively cookies. You measure out exactly 2000 Calories of cookies and eat the same thing every day. But your Calorie estimate is wrong and you’re actually eating 2100 Calories of cookies per day. Now you gain weight on this supposed 2000 Calorie diet.
I argue that this doesn’t matter either. If you see that you’re gaining weight, then it means you’re eating too much. Reduce your Calorie target and you’ll be back on track. In a real world scenario, you’re going to have a much more varied diet than only cake or only cookies, and each item will come with their own measurement errors. But for most people, their diets are varied in a fairly consistent way, so these errors are also consistent on average. If you ever make changes in your diet (e.g. completely cut out McDonald’s), you’ll change both your estimated Calorie intake and target like in the example above. Adjust your numbers accordingly based on how your bodyweight moves and you’re good.
Of course, other ways of dieting are also effective. It depends mostly on what you can adhere to and your goals.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 3 weeks ago:
We’ve had at least two of these in the recent past: that Ukrainian power plant that was under attack, and also Iran’s nuclear facilities getting bombed.
- Comment on Anon finds a plot hole 3 weeks ago:
As would building a fence to keep in a bird.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 3 weeks ago:
None of that actually matters when it comes to weight control. What matters is that the linear relationship is retained in your proxy measure of Calories. Meaning that if you eat two pieces of cake, you’ve doubled your Calorie intake compared to eating one piece.
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 3 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you achieve the same thing using a ceramic bowl with a lid?
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 3 weeks ago:
An air fryer is a convection oven. But not every convection oven is an air fryer.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re able to give precise instructions on what to do to resolve the issue, then couldn’t you also automate it and make it seamless from the user’s perspective?
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 3 weeks ago:
industrial hardcore
What are some of your favourites in this category? Spotify hasn’t been giving me any good recommendations on this front either.