Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is a truly optimistic assessment of the Availability of Government Services. I went to the post office a few weeks ago, and while the building was open, they had stopped taking packages. Not that they wouldn't mail them today, but
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Google had all of the pieces before Alexa even existed. The Google Assistant was basically a bunch of existing Search tech duct taped together at the start. Some of this investment is negated by the amazing progress in neural nets since Goo
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Does anyone have any good examples of concrete privacy harms that people have suffered? Generally, the larger an effect is, the easier it is to measure. If we don't have any ideas on how to measure it, that makes me think the effect is
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by Eridrus 8y ago
What are the margins on child care? How elastic is demand for childcare? Not all child care has equally strict limits on the ratio (it depends where care is being provided), increasing wages may drive people to more loosely regulated child
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think this an indictment of the typical supply & demand model. The model is pretty flexible since the shape of the various curves will dramatically change what happens. The real argument isn't about the model, but rath
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You get historical PET scans from years ago and label them with whether they turned out to have Alzheimer's later in their life or not.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm fairly sympathetic to abolishing corporate taxes, since corporate taxes are a flat rate on all shareholders, and some of it even falls on workers, however... Corporate taxes provide an additional incentive to reinvest the profits o
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by Eridrus 8y ago
At some point blaze added the concept of visibility to control dependencies, so teams can whitelist users of their code. Though you can always comment it out while developing locally.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Thanks for the answer, and the pointer to those books! I hadn't really thought about the layout challenges. Though I think the benefit would be less about just releasing the source, though the Open Data Structures book makes a compelli
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So I got started working on ML in 2015 as well, and it has gotten far easier, but the thing that has gotten easier is the engineering side of things, not the ML bits. And tbh, "take the latest model and tune it on your data" has g
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by Eridrus 8y ago
What's the goal of the course? A lot of the changes I've seen (from a distance) in the last few years are about how to better scale front-end development, which isn't really necessary for people who don't plan to be deve
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Thank you very much for making your textbook available. Maybe having a separate set of problems for the online version, with solutions, would be appropriate? I have been wondering this for all freely available textbooks: have you ever thoug
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is functionally equivalent to being given negative marks for getting answers wrong, which I've seen on multiple choice tests.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
One of the things I don't really see mentioned about scooters is they're less ideal in cold/wet weather. So I'm not sure if the east coast can really capture the benefits as well as California.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
They aren't explicitly writing it in, but they're adding revenue requirements that make this only apply to foreign companies.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think you made the same.mistake as the media - thinking that today's AI systems are more general than they truly are. IBM did build a computer that could play jeapordy. But being able to play jeapordy doesn't tell us how good an
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by Eridrus 8y ago
They could keep the same battery life and simply have a smaller battery.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Hence my point that the issue is not DRM. Even DRM that locks content to your account, e.g. iTunes did not result in a monopoly.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I don't think your argument here really follows. DVDs have DRM, streamed content has DRM, and yet neither of those markets have monopolies. The fact that Amazon has a proprietary format has more impact on market structure than the fact
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The pro-ebook comments here are surprising. I love ebooks, but they have some real drawbacks: you can't lend them, you can't switch platforms easily, their layouts are usually pretty limited, and they often screw up diagrams, etc.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> We can't just decide "upgrade tonight and go offline for a bit". So we have to engineer around this... But since we can't do a bulk update and force people to restart, we need to deal with different versions which i
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Does ZocDoc work well for anyone? My experience with it has been that none of the appointment availability is accurate and administrators don't even know about it when you call them up to make sure the appointment has been made. I&#x27
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I haven't really followed Jupyter's development lately, so maybe this is already happening, but I think what you really need is some concept of a workspace, rather than a single file. The problem with notebooks is that they get un
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Maybe they want strategic investors who bring more than just capital.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Companies cannot usually capture all the value they create.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
But all of the things you advocate for in your previous post are things that could be achieved with less pain. Even the fuel tax, while the goal is to drive change, you can drive change by rewarding the desired behaviour (e.g. a revenue-neu
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This sort of thinking is the exact problem. It works from the point of "what should we do if we think environmental concerns are the biggest priority". IMo the correct lense should be "what is the minimal amount of change&#x2
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by Eridrus 8y ago
If you had read the OP I was replying to, you would see they were suggesting everyone should buy and carry a Nalgene water bottle with them at all times, in case they needed water. If you read further down this thread, many commenters in th
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The "everyone should change their way of life" approach to environmentalism hasn't worked and has been quite divisive, why do people continue to think it is an effective strategy?
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Get a Windows VM that you can RDP/VNC into. Amazon Workspaces could work. It's going to suck, but you can try it out.

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