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by FiberBundle 4y ago
So you've competed at the highest level of programming competitions, but you also seem to be doing work on Upwork [1]? That seems pretty unusual... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34935440#34935783
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Why do you need to hold that much cash in deposits though? There are alternatives that provide essentially the same kind of liquidity such as money market funds, which are used by other businesses. The rules were pretty clear: deposits are
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
"Dusts all their equity on a dumb bet"??? They bought mostly agency-backed mortgage based securities! Those are high quality assets. All major banks have the same problem of sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars of unrealized
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
That was still part of the Levine quote. He references [1] in the footnote as an argument for that claim. [1] https://archive.ph/gmJxU
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
No, it actually was incredibly stupid and short-sighted by VCs. Here's Matt Levine on that point [1]: > Also, I am sorry to be rude, but there is another reason that it is maybe not great to be the Bank of Startups, which is that no
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Sorry, but you don't properly learn any math topic in 80 hours. I've spent more than 10 hours on some problem sets in difficult courses. Solving hard problems takes a lot of time and is absolutely essential to learn math. When you
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Are there actually theorems from which you take those explanations or are these just plausibly sounding hypothetical explanations?
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
How much is OpenAI able to cache query results? There's a major difference in speed on some queries and in my experience the queries on which it is slow to respond are almost always very unusual and difficult to answer queries. I feel
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Does anybody know how search engines apply semantic search with embeddings? To my knowledge no practical algorithms exist that find nearest neighbors in high dimensional space (such as that in which word/sentence/document vectors
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Same here, I remember putting so much effort into a course on Riemannian geometry and still not really fully grasping the content on an intuitive level. That was by far the hardest thing I've ever tried to learn. The only areas in CS t
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I agree. Taxing unrealized capital gains is just not a good idea at all. What's more problematic than people having huge sums of unrealized book value, is that in the current system they're allowed to live a lavish lifestyle by ta
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
> zorr 1 hour ago | root | parent | next [–] In my (limited) experience it seems to perform even better for typed languages (for example Kotlin/Java/Swift) compared to Python. The Python code it provided often had subtle typ
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I've only read (parts of) the Murphy book from 2012, I assume you're reading this one: https://probml.github.io/pml-book/toc1.pdf ? Almost all of the content that the new book covers, with the exception of the
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
> My impression is that the field is more disciplined in terms of knowledge now than it was ~8 years ago - the fundamentals are better understood and more clearly expressed in literature. Is that really true? That's not my impressio
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ChatGPT can solve novel undergrad level problems in computational complexity(twitter.com)
5 points by FiberBundle 4y ago|2 comments
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Not for me: "Of the options provided, the best option would be to send another email to the 30 students who did not respond to the initial questionnaire, encouraging them to complete it. This would allow the university to increase the
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
What beneficial purpose are you exactly talking about here? From what I've read, the science to make the products Neuralink is working on feasible is still decades away, according to most neuroscientists. Attainability of those goals s
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I think this is the crucial point, just as in all AI applications the way it deals with corner cases will decide its impact on the job market. And corner cases are usually where AI has consistently been performing badly. Just as a reminder,
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I also asked it to prove some elementary theorems. Didn't really have a proper unterstanding of definitions. But it's actually fairly good at solving simple word problems. Something like: assume you have 3 bottles, each with a cap
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
What does any of this have to do with solving programming problems?
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I think it must have seen the solution somewhere already on the web. I find it extremely hard to believe that such a general purpose chatbot would just be able to solve programming problems. Deepmind had a paper [1] on solving programming p
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Yes, propaganda does work and I never said that there was another reason for the Nazis' popularity, though I would claim that most (or at least many) Germans at the time were attracted towards authoritarianism. It would probably have b
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
I never said that the Nazis came to power by winning the majority in an election and am well aware that they only came to power as a result of a huge mis-calculation of the conservatives. What I claimed was that the Nazis were popular after
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
The Financial Times is simply excellent. In my opinion it's substantially better than what even The Economist used to be like ~10 years ago. Almost every article has high quality, there's no clickbait content and the coverage of t
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
That's just my take from reading history. I think it's the general consensus in scholars who study Nazi Germany that the Nazis had the support of the population after having gained power. Evans [1] e.g. goes into depth on this, th
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Unfortunately the Nazi regime was popular with the majority of Germans.
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Imagine how completely devoid of empathy you have to be to get pregnant twice, knowing that your children have an extremely high risk of growing up without their mother, just because you think that this will improve your chances of getting
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
Not super well informed on Japanese markets, but my understanding is that their bond markets are extremely dysfunctional (they even have had days where the BOJ is the only buyer on the market!) and this poses considerable financial risk in
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by FiberBundle 4y ago
What's really weird is that he even pushes Musk's conspiracy theory that leftist activist groups are the reason advertisers are jumping off: https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1593297818420236288
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Large language models struggle to learn long-tail knowledge(arxiv.org)
27 points by FiberBundle 4y ago|2 comments

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