RSS

Sniffnoy

Karma: 4,080

I’m Harry Altman. I do strange sorts of math.

Posts I’d recommend:

Un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated points about util­ity func­tions (of both sorts)

Sniffnoy4 Jan 2020 7:27 UTC
47 points
61 comments15 min readLW link

Goal-think­ing vs de­sire-thinking

Sniffnoy10 Nov 2019 0:31 UTC
23 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Three types of “should”

Sniffnoy2 Jun 2018 0:54 UTC
9 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Meetup : Ann Ar­bor Area Amalgam of Ra­tion­al­ist-Ad­ja­cent An­thro­poids: March 11

Sniffnoy10 Mar 2017 0:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Link: Si­mu­lat­ing C. Elegans

Sniffnoy20 Nov 2014 9:30 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ter­minol­ogy sug­ges­tion: Say “de­grees util­ity” in­stead of “utils” to prompt af­fine thinking

Sniffnoy19 May 2013 8:03 UTC
14 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

Should cor­re­la­tion co­effi­cients be ex­pressed as an­gles?

Sniffnoy28 Nov 2012 0:05 UTC
101 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ple of neu­rons use­fully com­mu­ni­cat­ing with­out synapses found in flies [LINK]

Sniffnoy23 Nov 2012 23:25 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Where to re­port bugs on the new site?

Sniffnoy12 Aug 2011 8:32 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[LINK] Re­v­erse prim­ing effect from aware­ness of per­sua­sion at­tempt?

Sniffnoy5 Aug 2011 18:02 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A sum­mary of Sav­age’s foun­da­tions for prob­a­bil­ity and util­ity.

Sniffnoy22 May 2011 19:56 UTC
81 points
91 comments13 min readLW link

Link: Chess­box­ing could help train au­to­matic emo­tion regulation

Sniffnoy22 Jan 2011 23:40 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Draft/​wiki: In­fini­ties and mea­sur­ing in­finite sets: A quick reference

Sniffnoy24 Dec 2010 4:52 UTC
42 points
25 comments12 min readLW link

Defi­ni­tions, char­ac­ter­i­za­tions, and hard-to-ground variables

Sniffnoy3 Dec 2010 3:18 UTC
8 points
8 comments4 min readLW link