pick the right raid chunk size

Planning problems are among the most important and well-studied problems in
artificial intelligence. They are most typically solved by tree search
algorithms that simulate ahead into the future, evaluate future states, and
back-up those evaluations to the root of a search tree. Among these algorithms,
Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) is one of the most general, powerful and widely
used. A typical implementation of MCTS uses cleverly designed rules, optimized
to the particular characteristics of the domain. These rules control where the
simulation traverses, what to evaluate in the states that are reached, and how
to back-up those evaluations. In this paper we instead learn where, what and
how to search. Our architecture, which we call an MCTSnet, incorporates
simulation-based search inside a neural network, by expanding, evaluating and
backing-up a vector embedding. The parameters of the network are trained
end-to-end using gradient-based optimisation. When applied to small searches in
the well known planning problem Sokoban, the learned search algorithm
significantly outperformed MCTS baselines.

repressed memories aren't a thing

The idea that people "block out" traumatic memories has been proven wrong over and over. Why, then, do therapists continue to promote it?

"The Growth Delusion" is an accessible book that examines one of the most fundamental—yet flawed—concepts in economics.

Firefox codec workaround on clear linux

netdata -D -u "user"

The FIT limiter, is a dynamic limiter of voltage and will set a different maximum for each CPU. To find out what your limit is, enable PBO to max out your TDC, EDC, and PPT limits to motherboard levels. Now temperature, FIT and Fmax are your only limiters. Use auto-overclock to raise Fmax by 200MHz, removing that barrier. Run an all core test and overserve (preferably with CPUz) what your voltage maxes out at. That is the FIT voltage, and any voltage below that AMD's algorithm deems "safe".

good news: no evidence of echo chamber effect

bad news: "Instead, the results indicated that people simply ignore all information that does not conform to their own opinion"

as astute reddit user /u/SheriffComey put it: "You'll never reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/eixcei/our_beliefs_are_so_resilient_that_we_effectively

chromium crippling adblock extension support (chrome is built on top of the open source project chromium).

good reason to switch to Firefox.

latest status as of 31dec19 is for the change to go live in 2020: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/ei0098/outcome_of_the_chrome_noadblockers_policy

the decade of mental health, being woke, activism, antidisestablishmentarianism

what it looks like when a government prioritizes educating its population. I think this is the most successful way to tackle such a structural problem. People at large aren't equipped with the skills to deal with misinformation, both targetting them, and self-inflicted. The change needs to happen from the bottom up, at a young age, through the education system.

"The initiative is just one layer of a multi-pronged, cross-sector approach the country is taking to prepare citizens of all ages for the complex digital landscape of today – and tomorrow... combining fact-checking with the critical thinking and voter literacy"

“It’s not just a government problem, the whole society has been targeted. We are doing our part, but it’s everyone’s task to protect the Finnish democracy,” Toivanen said, before adding: “The first line of defense is the kindergarten teacher.”

engaging with bad faith actors is letting them win.

"It was the first time that an EU country had convicted those responsible for disinformation campaigns, drawing a line in the sand between extreme hate speech and the pretense of free speech."

“Just like any polluting companies or factories should be and are already regulated, for polluting the air and the forests, the waters, these companies are polluting the minds of people. So, they also have to pay for it and take responsibility for it.”

Tolkien accurately describes how I feel about science fiction (and I guess to a lesser extent, fantasy). I'm looking for an internally consistent rational universe, which behaves differently and follows a different set of rules than my own. The most satisfying part is the lead-up, slowly piecing together an understanding of this universe, and what rules it contains.

"Not all authors believe that suspension of the disbelief adequately characterizes the audience's relationship to imaginative works of art. J. R. R. Tolkien challenges this concept in his essay "On Fairy-Stories", choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief based on inner consistency of reality. Tolkien says that, in order for the narrative to work, the reader must believe that what he reads is true within the secondary reality of the fictional world. By focusing on creating an internally consistent fictional world, the author makes secondary belief possible. Tolkien argues that suspension of disbelief is only necessary when the work has failed to create secondary belief. From that point the spell is broken, and the reader ceases to be immersed in the story and must make a conscious effort to suspend disbelief or else give up on it entirely."