EternalData

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by EternalData 9y ago
Criminal justice in the United States borrows a lot more from the Scarlet Letter than rational policy.
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by EternalData 9y ago
Thanks for bringing this thread of thought to light! Sometimes I look through Stack Overflow not only for solutions to particular problems, but particularly elegant solutions in a proactive manner. I often just browse through profiles of pe
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by EternalData 9y ago
There's a future utopia somewhere where you can use programmable digital monies that are a proxy for some sort of deeper more intrinsic value than our current economic system, which in turn allows you to purchase and unlock programmabl
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by EternalData 9y ago
I liked the term "junk finance". There's a subset of financial products that are essentially the equivalent of going to McDonalds every day, and ordering a Big Mac to go.
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by EternalData 9y ago
I'm thinking of splitting my logins into a set of essential information in a paper journal -- while keeping some transactional passwords on 1password. 1password was one of those times where I decided to trade off convenience for absolu
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by EternalData 9y ago
Super interesting reading -- thanks for this!
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by EternalData 9y ago
Great read. I loved the honest balance between engineering features and how much they ultimately ended up mattering to users. Oftentimes, the features we select can be quite arbitrary -- it's good to do gut checks by running real-time
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by EternalData 9y ago
Great idea! Email newsletter have such great ROI, it's just a pain to find out who owns them and getting into contact with people who are looking for sponsors.
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by EternalData 9y ago
I thought this was supposed to be a few years away -- i.e beating Lee Sidol was impressive, but Lee wasn't nearly the top player in the world? Wow, this must be what it feels like to be living on a parabolic curve...
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by EternalData 9y ago
Not sure the cryptocurrency boom and gift certificate utility are super-correlated -- Target has been trying to trap me and my USD with those checkout cards for ages. Usually the incentive is social shame for not just giving straight cash t
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by EternalData 9y ago
I feel like there should be a general law or rule of sorts -- don't use technology for the sake of using technology.
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by EternalData 9y ago
I've recently taken a step in this direction by being really deliberate about my media choices and designing around them. For example, as a consumer, I realized I was obsessive about looking over r/Politics and forever updating ne
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by EternalData 9y ago
I feel like an apt title for a book about late-stage capitalism would be "A Society of Salespeople". With that said, I'm not exactly sure what type of career path somebody studying, say, political science could embark on -- i
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by EternalData 9y ago
https://backchannel.com/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-narrativ... "A company’s narrative moves like a clock: it starts at midnight, ticking off the hours. The tone and sentiment about how a business is doing move from po
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by EternalData 9y ago
There's an interesting inflection point when it comes to age and politics nowadays. Ossoff is 30 and is now the best hope the Dems have at picking up a seat in suburban Hillary country. Macron, at 39, is the youngest French leader ever
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by EternalData 9y ago
It seems like for that amount of money, you could have tried doing a bug bounty instead :/ I get that this is probably social hacking/phishing, so not really analogous -- but I wonder if there's a way to apply that kind of me
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by EternalData 9y ago
Yeah, very fair point on this. Are private secondary markets just by default eternal bull markets? What's the price correction mechanism? Devaluation due to massive supply/demand imbalances? Interesting space to get involved in, f
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by EternalData 9y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how long private markets can maintain irrational bubbles hidden away from transparency. I think a lot of people are "rich on paper" and scared to know exactly what that means. As a corollar
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by EternalData 9y ago
Haha, this really was TLDR-length. Kudos!
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The Quantum Thermodynamics Revolution(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by EternalData 9y ago|0 comments
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by EternalData 9y ago
It's really cool to peer behind the hood of really massive open source projects. I have to give kudos for the TensorFlow team for staying on top of what must be a massive amount of work!
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by EternalData 9y ago
A lot of employers still use degrees as a rough proxy for ability and dedication. This may be especially prevalent in data science since the field itself tends to have a lot of Masters/PhDs occupying the field -- which will tend to bia
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by EternalData 9y ago
Also, to add another wrinkle to this discussion, most pension funds won't weight themselves 100% in stocks (corresponding positions in cash/bonds average much lower real or nominal return), and most pay significant management&#x2F
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by EternalData 9y ago
You're overfitting. This is exactly the problem I'm describing. Case in point, you've omitted 2000-2010. Real (CPI as inflation) averaged annualized return on the DJIA 2000-2010: -2.219% This is with relatively mild inflation
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by EternalData 9y ago
I feel like local governments are going to be the first to really be affected by significant pension overlays that are not properly accounted for -- a lot of pension funds assume rates of return that are historically farcical. I think the i
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by EternalData 9y ago
Good old SQL. Your reliable friend that always shows up with the right amount of booze and gas money, and which, when you stop to think about, basically hasn't ever majorly fucked up around you.
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Five articles that will nuance your view of race(rogerhuang.co)
2 points by EternalData 9y ago|0 comments
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by EternalData 9y ago
It's interesting to have local politics geared towards attracting talented people, but there's precious little that can be done if talent is fractionalized at a national level through the concentration of urban bubbles to immigrat
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by EternalData 9y ago
I wish I knew that 80% of impact really does come from about 20% of work -- and I'd have organized my work life accordingly.
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by EternalData 9y ago
Very cool! Would be awesome to eventually run the summaries the RNN generates in a production-ready capability, and see how it does. Reddit has a few TLDR bots that I think are more extractive and could use an update.

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