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by Donald 7y ago
B&N is surprisingly one of the few private establishments available in the US for the simple pleasure of going in for a nice sit without feeling an obligation to purchase something. Would be a shame to see them go.
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by Donald 7y ago
> after being crushed by the immense debt of a leveraged buyout $680M is in the realm of a cash transaction for a hedge fund, and indeed, if you look at their SEC filing (below), this is an all-cash transaction. Expect aggressive cost-cu
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by Donald 7y ago
Maybe this behavior will change under the scrutiny of anti-trust investigations.
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by Donald 7y ago
The released FTC report, at the very least, will be cited for years in civil lawsuits against Facebook.
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by Donald 7y ago
There's significantly higher demand for used cars than there was a decade ago, which has allowed banks to extend finance terms out to 96 months. For example, take a look at this depreciation curve for a Ford F-150: http://us
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by Donald 7y ago
European bond rates have recently turned negative again, and they were negative for large chunks of the last decade: https://europe.pimco.com/en-eu/insights/viewpoints/why-the-b...
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by Donald 7y ago
An imbalance of power between a a $70 billion dollar company like Uber and folks who need an extra $200/week to make rent. Also keep in mind that even at these fee levels, Uber and Lyft are somehow not profitable.
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by Donald 7y ago
You should look at things from the perspective of someone not familiar with Telsa's product line. Sure, if you own or interact with Telsas, the feature set of autopilot vs FSD is clear. But, if you're a newbie, you just Googled &q
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by Donald 7y ago
This is precisely their messaging on the embedded vimeo video on https://www.tesla.com/autopilot "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons" https://i.imgur.com/74XHPiL.p
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by Donald 7y ago
Because of this, at this time we will not be releasing our research, model or datasets publicly. Has OpenAI's handling of GPT-2 inadvertently provided political cover for commercial organizations who would love to claim they en
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by Donald 7y ago
Note that this layoff (reassignment, actually - these are union jobs) has been planned for years and is related to automating the job. See this article from January: https://www.govtech.com/workforce/New-Tools-Tech-to-P
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by Donald 7y ago
The NWS produces expert commentary (aka "forecaster's discussion") that can explain the deviations from forecasted weather. For example, there is a stalled weak cold front over the US right now. Many areas are getting variant
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by Donald 7y ago
The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Twitter feed is similarly fascinating: https://twitter.com/cdcmmwr
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by Donald 7y ago
See also Trevor Darrell's group's work on neural module networks: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/06/20/learning-to-reason...
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by Donald 7y ago
Are Singaporeans making that these days? In my past experience, those in that range are generally Americans working for an Asia Pacific site office.
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by Donald 8y ago
https://mattermost.com/
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by Donald 8y ago
Do you have a more concrete example or paper?
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by Donald 8y ago
What about custom models?
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by Donald 8y ago
His background is available on his CV: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/
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by Donald 8y ago
Not when Amazon's scaling benefits are used to mostly benefit themselves.
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by Donald 8y ago
The threat is that if DC policy makers split up Amazon, tens of thousands of people in the local area could lose employment.
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by Donald 8y ago
You won't find the quotes from US Presidents (present excluded). Heads of state who comment harshly on reserve bank decisions are typically met with steepening rates enforced by the sovereign debt market's perception of higher cre
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by Donald 8y ago
I like how if you go to https://store.google.com/product/pixel_3_how_to_buy and click on any of the company names under "Find your phone. Get up to $300 back" you will be redirected to Google's internal
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by Donald 8y ago
Depends on the complexity of the interactions between variables. There are plenty of examples where we have excellent local models, but make (comparatively) worse prediction at scale. A pretty classic example is biology - we have excellent
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by Donald 8y ago
Sounds easy to thwart via key extraction from the hardware or simply recording a high-res screen playing the neural-network generated image or video.
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by Donald 8y ago
This is a cooperative research and development agreement ("CRADA"), which is generally a technology sharing vehicle. Money flows from the non-federal party to the federal party on these agreements. Looks like ARL is matching the f
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by Donald 9y ago
Is MIT '09 really an aging alum?
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by Donald 9y ago
This was clearly vetted (or written) by a lawyer who is interested in changing the narrative for his future wrongful death defense rather than exercising empathy.
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by Donald 9y ago
The big issue is the low-quality of machine learning / applied CS literature in general. Pull a paper and try implementing their algorithm(s). You'll be almost certainly guaranteed to encounter barriers ranging from mistakes in th
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by Donald 9y ago
This wasn't overnight decay (plus this is short vol, so contango works for you.) This was panic selling as XIV neared its terminal drawdown point.

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