ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Perhaps they need the money liquid? Or the risk reward ratio is not good? Or they don't have a CFO that can do treasury and the opportunity cost / effort is not worth it?
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Amazing reading. Though I wonder if the migration is canceled, or that the Client simply lost faith after 2 months and simply found another solution.
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
The article says that when the case against her didn't pan out for the litigant, they launched a new case, stating that this time they were attacking her estate as she was dead. How this statement in court filings resulted in her being
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Well, for example, schools? We already teach children history, basic statistics, media literacy, basic epistemology, etc. That does not mean that schools teach kids what to think. Rather, we teach kids how to think, and what the common
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I guess it's tongue-in-cheek. But you made me imagine the scenario for a movie : once humans start going down that rabbit hole, code becomes more and more like nature : no over-arching "design" that can be reasoned about, jus
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Law is not symbolic logic. Language has semantics and is uttered in a societal context. The position of white males and immigrants are not equal. When people make statements about whites or males, it is generally not about all males. And
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
If I remember the analysis of Matt Levine correctly, they have a lot cars, and even if the beginning of Covid was rough on them as ppl traveled less, the price of 2nd hand cars went up 6 months after the that and they were able to bounce ba
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
My solution for this: open an incognito session. So ctrl+shift+N instead of ctrl+N (or RMB and select from menu)
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
A 6700-page report (1) and a Hollywood movie were made about Gitmo. Just like climate change, the issue is not one of knowledge or information. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committe...
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Yes. A tiny area of paint was chipped. Unfortunately that meant that the distance was increased by the distance of the layer of paint.
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I don't know anyone that thinks that reducing is the solution. But, as our technology is, for now, it is part of the solution. The hierarchy of the three R's is 1) reduce 2) re-use 3) recycle. That's for a reason. No need
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Yes, but it is in fact a mixture of gasoline and ethanol. To quote the Wikipedia article: Blends of E10 or less are used in more than 20 countries around the world, led by the United States, where ethanol represented 10% of the U.S. gasolin
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I belief that the issue is bigger than that. If you live in the US and drive a car or eat meat, you are likely to be co-responsible. Soy culture is used to create a cheap protein feedstock for the meat industry. Modern
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
YouTube proposed me an essay on that yesterday, with a sub-title of : An analysis of the dissonance between morality and heroism in stories, and the reality and moral complexities of our modern society. It raises some points regarding the q
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Totally different case, totally different country, but FYI : France this week condemned Google for not reaching an agreement with newspapers. 500M€. They have 2 months to negotiate more earnestly, failing that they will get a further fine o
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
When people tell me that paternity leave is bad for your career, I always tell them that being a dad has made me a better manager. And I've noticed the same transformation in others. More empathy, ability to relativise, balance. This
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I had the same sort of situation the other day. I wanted to produce a "corporate video" for our company that explained our ontology, and it's benefits. Using Blender I managed to come to a semi-pro result, but getting the nar
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
My guess: a function that you can evaluate but that you can not differentiate. Differentiate being "know the slope". Differentiable functions are great because you can run gradient descent on them in a very optimized way. Example:
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Perhaps you are already aware, but if not: one of the tricks in the Russian playbook is to build an ethnic group within their neighbours, as a way of annexing parts. Krimea for example was 'liberated' in 2014 from the yoke of Ukra
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I remember a reportage on television where they explained that airplane food had to be specifically designed. The reason being that you are in a very noisy environment, which alters the taste response. Just looked it up, it does seem to hav
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
While breathless press announces are indeed often too hyped, I think we should keep in mind the history of the transistor. We went from fragile expensive single transistors to VLSI in half a century. And we consider that amazing. That doesn
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
If memory serves, this is also why leprosy sufferers often miss extremities. Their nerves are cut by the initial bacterial infection, and repeated (unnoticed) cuts so the rest.
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Bumped into this company some years ago that use light to perform 'random projection', which can be used to approximate matrix multiplication. Which is used a lot in the AI space (reduction of dimension etc) How? They do the pro
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
I believe the issue is that the update to the T's & C's is worded in a very wide and vague way. If I interpret that in a generous way, it's because their lawyers told them to be generic so as to be "always in complia
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
generally I abhor videos, but to get a "simple" version of "how UMAP works", I found this presentation by Leland mcInnes, one of the creators of UMAP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6iPZVUxZU
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
Idempotecy means you can run something several times and it will do the same thing. Let's say you're controlling a factory and you have a function that fills a reservoir. A naive way would be to define the semantics of the operati
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
To respond to your last question: I think the issue is that it puts a lot of power in the hands of whomever is controlling then surveillance system. This can be bad because of rogue operators (creep spying on women, blackmail, spionage to g
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
The Thought Emporium did a DYI experiment on this that was quite interetsing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVxGnl_3y8
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
If you found this article interesting, I can highly recommend the book (and documentary) "Status Anxiety", by modern philosopher Alain de Botton. The video has a couple of gems, such as the comparisson between an english country-s
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by ArnoVW 5y ago
One molecule of methane is worse than one molecule of CO2. But there is more CO2 than there is methane, so the total 'warming' by CO2 is worse.

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