ACow_Adonis

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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
For the record, he's literally listed off most of my languages: I have years of experience in SAS, R, Python, and SQL, and I also have no idea what he's saying. Also, for the record, that's largely how I think of databricks i
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Well, no. It clearly provides self-reported testament that it helps. But if you believe that, then 9/10 women found shampoo/moisturiser to improve their shine/visibly fade wrinkles! /that is to say, self-reported testam
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Oh god. I know you're (presumably) not the author of the website, but if you're going to produce a method based on the theory of faster/easier reading, it helps to not have a landing page that has up front in big massive font
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
when we say the overall turning point is a few decades away, under most assumptions that don't involve massive war or pestilence or ecological collapse, even with a substantial drop in fertility, my child(ren), by the time they are old
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
Am I the only one that finds it slightly amusing that the test also makes sure that the supposed work task/puzzle doesn't actually matter? Perhaps an ironically appropriate test for hiring for a job at many offices/IBM (and e
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
yeah, um, my life is in tables (stats, finance, etc). while csv is less than optimal, it's always worked out in practice for me (because we still have to validate anything of significant size and nothing finance or city/nation siz
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
having also not read the original paper recently, I'm in the camp that says the question is interesting and valid, but you've got to be careful about interpretation. how much the scores correlate (or autocorrelate) with self asse
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
I enjoy the in-person interactions in the office, and I'll even argue that there's benefits and desirability to it, and office work and centralisation. But my wife has worked at a company that did offsite kinda vacation/camp
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by ACow_Adonis 4y ago
on that, I've only ever worked at one company that provided free coffee (a large bank). And quite frankly, it being in Melbourne, Australia, only the absolutely desperate would touch it and not just go outside to cafes for meetings a
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
It depends a bit depending on how you account for other machines and peripherals (given that you can reuse/replace parts when doing it yourself), but the general price off the top of my head was: - CPU $1100 AUD - GPU $3000 AUD - RAM $
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
Out of pure curiosity, this is the comparison of that M1 Ultra Geekbench score against my setup which is VERY CLOSE to comparable: AMD 5950/3090/128gb workstation. Same version of Geekbench. What I would describe as well-thought o
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
If I hang a book on a public street and put on the first page "if you read from this book you owe me money and if you use the information contained within I will sue you because it's all mine", it's not at all cut and d
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
I think you'd have to be a bit more specific about what you mean by "manage" and the specific use-case/management of side-effects that would be required. I'm not personally convinced that it's been shown that
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
There's a tragic irony/flaw in the use of agassi in this article. His "enlightenment" moment didn't result in him walking away from his father's world (or the money, or the emptyness of living a life to play te
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
there doesn't seem to be any discussion of this article. But I feel obliged as someone who has worked with official statistics and data science to emphasise how much of a read it is worth. one of my constant bugbears is even finding ot
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
I dislike bad faith questions or tests. I took part in a Facebook recruitment competition (this was many years ago when it was less obvious how evil they were going to be). They gave us some data and some notional analytics task and your go
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
the AD industry. it would destroy the AD industry. they've been so successful in their advertising they've just managed to get people to call them "tech". tech would probably be untouched, and who knows, might even flo
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
There's a couple of issues with this line of thinking, but I'd also just observe that this split is technically an additional tangent. My point up above was that of course people understand why people don't like advertising,
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
If people genuinely thought this, there could be a market where people pay money to be advertised to or targeted towards. In many ways this is what trade magazines are/were, but the absence of a general market for such generalised inte
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
isn't that for the consumer of the data to decide? in fact, I'll go so far as to say that's exactly what most proper ad-blockers are: user implemented acceptable ads. if the user wants to view ads, they have it in their powe
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
I don't want ads on my web pages and TV in the same way I don't want ads in my novels, on my bedroom ceiling, in my bathroom, in my car, in my mail, the same way I don't want to be proselytised to, recieve junk mail, spam, vi
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
Well, at least in my experience, no. I feel like I grew up on forums and I'm still followed around by the psychological archetypes and ghosts of the long-term friends and acquaintances and their personalities many years later. I'v
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
well, just for the record, I do, and I've also worked for the body that calculates our CPI. just before I left we were studying how to get what we call "administrative item data" from the retailer's themselves rather tha
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
Let's run that scenario in a simplified manner of how CPIs are likely actually going to be calculated. First, they have to determine the conceptual basket of goods to track. Ok, that's comparable to your 1000 "highest volume
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
why wouldn't it be appropriate? whatever the profit/loss on individual retailer's books, actual goods are being transferred for actual monetary prices. if the system was unsustainable, CPI would adjust just as the prices and
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
as someone with a bit of an economics and official statistics background as well as tech (albeit not in the US), one of my frustrations with visiting hacker news are these threads on non-tech topics. for instance: CPI. how is it calculate
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
on the flipside, like with my Facebook account, i hold and use it purely so that i can control what other people say about me and so i can stop them tagging me in photos, and i can track what information the network has on me. but I'
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
Hell, half of the time (pre-covid) I/we used to end up in conversations with the propietor during these slower times and we'd catch up on how things were going. Once you find a place you like, it's not like most people are ju
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
Take consideration of the extent of public libraries, parks, actual cafes and co-working spaces that all provide these services in many places in the west. Many of those come with specific spaces for games and socialising and meeting rooms
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by ACow_Adonis 5y ago
i.reddit.com? Is that what you mean/are looking for?

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