Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is a very hard task, not least of which because your definition of what is a good "topic" probably has more to do with the use case in your head than anything generic about language. E.g. what does it mean to "make"
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Why is it hard to tax these things directly? Is it our dumb inheritance rules or something else?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Why should I care about the corporate tax burden? Taxes come out of people's pockets, not corporations. There's an argument to be made that we can get foreign shareholders to pay taxes they otherwise wouldn't, but that's
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by Eridrus 8y ago
If this program is so good it should probably take equity or be structured as a loan so that society can get more out of it with its funding.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It costs NYC about 2.6 billion to construct a mile of subway. In light of that, the money invested in self-driving cars is pretty small.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
They're reportedly seeking outside funding: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/report-googles-waymo-seeks...
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Trains involve massive capital outlays and 60% of bus operating costs are for the driver, resulting in buses that are larger than necessary and therefore increasing the non-driver costs. If we had self-driving vans we could provide better a
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by Eridrus 8y ago
MOOC completion rates are not a good indicator of success. It's ridiculously easy to sign up, so a a lot of low intent people sign up, but these people would never have enrolled in a college for the class and probably didn't plan
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is yet another anecdote, but have a look at ML roles at tech companies, most write that they want someone with a Masters/PhD. They will hire people without it, but that's what they write on the tin.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm curious, what are the best examples of where your statistics knowledge was useful? What do you think practicing data scientists should learn to be more effective? Experimental design? Something else?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
FWIW there is a bill working it's way through city council to limit the fee to 1 month's rent, so people realise it's an issue. Now if only they banned renter-side fees entirely.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is definitely not my area of expertise, but I found John Platt's work on modeling the marginal cost of energy a pretty compelling counter-argument https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46289 The gist is tha
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think Lambda school is great, and applaud what you are doing. College needs some.seroous rethinking, so I applaud basically all the ideas we are trying. I wonder what you make of the argument that most of what colleges/boot camps&#x2
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You don't really need ifttt for this, both platforms have some form of "shortcuts"
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I haven't written any Rust in a few years, but last I knew, it was very possible for a Rust program to crash. The guarantee is that it won't corrupt memory while doing so.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The Amazon proposal explicitly came with half a billion in funding for transportation in Queens. And it's also ignoring the fact that a lot of people already live in Queens, and that LIC specifically is connected to Brooklyn via the G.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
LIC does not have many commercial tenants, and none on the scale of Amazon. It would be a good thing to not concentrate all jobs in Manhattan. Also, if you walk around LIC, it's not as developed as you might think, sure there are huge
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The 3b wasn't an annual figure either.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Is it a good bill though? I don't know what we demand in terms of permits, but ensuring that many small vendors are actually taking food safety seriously is generally harder than for a few large vendors. I like the idea of using existi
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by Eridrus 8y ago
A good chunk of the country has had a backlash to Trump's rhetoric and is actually now more pro-immigrant than before the election.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Because iOS has you by the balls for digital goods, but not for physical goods. It would also be far harder to impose an Apple tax for in-browser Shopping. If they made their own app, I would expect them to take a cut.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, I agree that data work is a large part of the job. When presented with a new problem, you have to build the data infrastructure before you can do any learning. But if you are on a team maintaining a project over the long term, you amort
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think the unions actually had much to do with Amazon pulling out. Some unions were actually for it either because they were involved in the construction plans or thought it would give them leverage if Amazon was more firmly roo
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by Eridrus 8y ago
If the 5% were a true accounting of all the costs involved, yes. When it's 90% you can get away without an accurate accounting since the margins are so huge.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Please. No one was talking about the 500m. Everyone was talking about a 3bn giveaway. While some people understood what was happening, most opposition intentionally confused onlookers. And even with the misinformation, the deal was still po
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, for the folks like me who don't know anything about rockets, it seems like "specific impulse" is the measure of how much "impulse" is generated per unit of fuel. So 330/275 = 20% better.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Note that these chips only support TFLite, which is still pretty spartan atm.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Not tipping makes people feel bad, so people often tip to keep their idea of themselves as a good person, not for a "rational" expectation of benefit.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Because we're in a Nash equilibrium where it isn't rational for any individual actor to change. Restaurants that incorporate the service fee into prices sell less food and particularly booze, leaving them with less money to pay th
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Besides the job thing, there are a lot of UBI criticisms around the "dignity if work" and how UBI will make them unhappy, so I am glad this exists as a counterargument.

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