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Clarity comments on Open thread, Nov. 23 - Nov. 29, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: MrMind 23 November 2015 07:59AM

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Comment author: Clarity 24 November 2015 11:44:10PM 3 points [-]

Thanks. What counts as noise and what as signal to you, and what do you mean by transient?

Comment author: Lumifer 25 November 2015 03:17:02AM 11 points [-]

By "transient" I mean that you mention a topic once and then never show any interest in it again. By "noise" I mean random pieces of text which neither contain useful information nor are interesting.