If you read this article and found yourself wishing there was more detail about the writing routine of each author, then you might like "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" [1]. It's a really great small book that goes in detail through the daily routines of many authors and artists.
Completely agree with you about "Finite and Infinite Games".
Also read it recently and was disappointed. It's written in a style that I associate with continental philosophy. Obtuse language that can be difficult to follow.
That wouldn't be the end of the world if the underlying ideas were really brilliant, but I wasn't convinced.
From your linked article:
> It recognized touch input, allowing me to move an on-screen cursor and tap app shortcuts, among other things. But I noticed that tapping the “Show Applications” icon made the app list expand and disappear quickly. I think it’s registering single-taps as double-taps.
To me that's an annoying enough problem that I'd say it does not work.
The linked repo does Firefox as well. Not sure why the HN title[1] is Chrome specific because that's not the title on GitHub. But it's still a handy submission regardless.
[1] At time of writing, "chrome-utm-stripper: Chrome extension to strip Google Analytics data from URLs"
Agreed - it gives a very solid overview of the field. Truth be told, it was a bit too mathematically rigorous for my taste, so I had trouble producing code for backpropagation. However with the second link (backpropagation step-by-step, with numbers so you can check progress) and then TensorFlow Jupyter notebooks I think I cracked it. Now I just an excuse to use ANN at work... ;)
One thing that was helpful to me in making sense of this post was to understand that Quadratic Voting is trying to solve the problem of the "tyranny of the majority." It's a voting scheme that gives greater weight to minority preferences than the one-person-one-vote schemes we are mostly familiar with.
(Please note that this is "minority" in the "!majority" sense of the word, and not merely "!caucasians.")
Tyler's contribution here is to push back a little against the idea that we should be favoring minority preferences more than we do currently. He thinks this is too indiscriminate. Some minority preferences are quite good and others are pernicious. Favoring all minority preferences empowers the good and the bad.
I was also struck by the last paragraph:
> "In any case the relevant question is what kinds of preference formation, and which kinds of groups, we should allow voting mechanisms to encourage."
In other words, all voting schemes favor certain preferences and groups over others. There is no perfectly objective voting scheme that would let us avoid this. We as a polity have no choice but to grapple with what and who to favor.
The implicit criticism in that final paragraph is that Quadratic Voting is leaping over the "what/who should we favor" question and optimizing for a particular answer. Tyler is saying "wait a minute, we haven't even agreed on the fundamental questions. So why are we already optimizing for a particular solution?"
While I broadly agree with your criticism and Tyler's, what I have to particularly ask about is the following:
>One thing that was helpful to me in making sense of this post was to understand that Quadratic Voting is trying to solve the problem of the "tyranny of the majority." It's a voting scheme that gives greater weight to minority preferences than the one-person-one-vote schemes we are mostly familiar with.
There have always been minorities insisting that we are under a moral imperative to avoid a dreaded monster known only as "tyranny of the majority". Strangely enough, they have never been required to prove the existence of any such creature by actually measuring the degree to which the status-quo system functions in a majoritarian way and represents majority preferences.
Since the status-quo system largely seems to represent the top 10% of the population by income, who are already a minority, I would say that contrary to talk of "tyranny of the majority", we actually need the system to represent the broad masses more.
Your comment is baseless speculation and only serves to spread fear.
There hasn't been a new reported case in Nigeria in 30 days. That data is coming from the WHO, which is not under the control of the Nigerian government.
Actually, noticing that inflation and the quantity of dollars in the system have a non-linear interaction is the core of his point if I understand him correctly. He preaches de-emphasizing inflation in favor of NGDP, but this is not the same as saying that inflation should be higher. Rather, he says that NGDP and inflation are more orthogonal than previously thought.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Rituals-How-Artists-Work/dp/030...