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by Gimpei 5y ago
This is totally counter to my experience. NNs are a real pain involving architectural searches, hyperparameter searches, etc. They take forever to train. Sometimes it's even difficult to get them to converge. The easy magical things ar
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by Gimpei 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate. Let's say a columnist in the WSJ wrote a piece with a bunch of first hand stories of people who were murdered by ex-cons who had been released early. And as a result the decarceration movement was sta
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I don't think you can just give money to someone and call it charity. Otherwise you could just give money to your children, skip inheritance tax, and get a yummy write-off. Karp probably had to pay a hefty gift tax on top of the 180K,
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I worked at Plaid from when it was less than 50 people to when it was a little over 100. There was no selling of data going on when I was there in any form (anonymized, aggregated, or otherwise). More generally, it doesn't make sense
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I think Animal Farm provides a nice answer to that. In my reading of the text, the problem was not necessarily with the revolution, it was the fact that the revolution was perverted and in the end the pigs (communist cadre) simply replaced
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Normally when people talk about homelessness in the US, they mean people living on the street without any sort of shelter. Of course Syrian refugees count, it just seems like they are their own distinct case, as, for one thing, they are she
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I don't think wikipedia is a good source of data in this case. For one German homelessness includes Syrian refugees. Second, it appears as if the definition of homelessness varies wildly across countries, making these numbers not reall
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Agreed these are spectacular. A lot of these pictures are very wide frame shots, so Hubble level magnification isn't really necessary. Instead you need a good camera, mount, atmospheric conditions, and some serious Photoshop chops. I t
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by Gimpei 5y ago
This is quite a caricature of the profession. I studied economics in grad school and most of the time was spent discussing all the ways in which the market is not efficient. Not saying there aren't problems with economics, cough cough
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I disagree. Intellectual merit is in the eyes of the beholder. Sometimes it is valuable to hear a view for the simple fact that it is held by a lot of people or it's influential. If a bunch of people hold a view that I despise, at the
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I definitely see this in San Francisco. 24th street in Noe Valley is an odd combination of empty store fronts and shops selling hippy tchotchkies. There was a huge supermarket size space that was empty for fifteen years. They tried to make
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Company’s Post-Pandemic Work Policy, Explained(jessicapowell.substack.com)
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by Gimpei 5y ago
The problem with this argument is that, if not for NIMBYs, growth really could have helped all the people of San Francisco. Dense cities are the places with the greatest opportunity and the greatest mobility (see for example Chetty). But fo
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Article seems to suggest that SF lots aren't large enough for 4-plexes to be economically feasible. I wonder what the minimum height is for this to work. Five stories perhaps? The SF supervisor Mandelman who was mentioned in the articl
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Those are some creepy pictures! It's like a photo of the demon inside.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Isn't the solution to this to mint less humanities PHDs? It feels criminal to me to encourage somebody to burn six years of their life on something that will make them less employable. Better to move there bottleneck to departmental ad
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by Gimpei 5y ago
My first job out of college was at a magazine. The two editors there were in their 70s and notorious for being bullies (although for what it's worth, one of them mellowed out after their editorial assistant committed suicide). There wa
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Crime has exploded across the US since the start of COVID, not just SF. So I'm not convinced Chesa is to blame. Which isn't too say I'm a big fan of his either. Homelessness is indeed a problem, but according to the biannual
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by Gimpei 5y ago
Interesting! Any reason why bindings for torch or tensorflow weren't created instead?
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by Gimpei 5y ago
He claims that he invented the flaming hot line, which he didn't. There probably are sales people and founders who engage in a similar level "exaggeration". And there's a pretty good name for them: liars.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
The Lathe of Heaven belongs on this list. Definitely in the top three.
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by Gimpei 5y ago
I think that's fair. There were definitely purges of Turkish and other European Muslims at the time, and they should be acknowledged. On a related note, I have a friend who is Serbian and he claims there were Bosnian atrocities against
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by Gimpei 5y ago
My family is Assyrian and was living in a region of Iran that was at the time still part of the Ottoman empire. During the genocide, the Kurdish proxies of the regime came into my grandmother's village, murdered all the men, and raped
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by Gimpei 6y ago
Having studied and worked in universities in the US, France, Russia, the UK, and Japan, this is closest to my experience. US universities like Harvard have a ton of money that they can throw around in order to get the best researchers. The
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by Gimpei 6y ago
Having done tertiary coursework in both the UK and the US, I can tell you that it's much much much more difficult to get an 80 in the UK than a 95 in the US. Even a 70 is hard. A 70 is like an A in the US thirty years ago.
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by Gimpei 6y ago
When the population of a city suddenly jumps, increasing density is the ONLY answer. Without extra housing, where do you think all those extra people will live? In the apartments of current residents of course. This is not a view held solel
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by Gimpei 6y ago
This is interesting but doesn't appear to be evidence. Any studies with a plausible identifying strategy? It could be, for example, that rents wouldn't have gone up much regardless.
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by Gimpei 6y ago
The problem with this argument is that you are presenting truth and falsity as a binary quantity. While it's correct that there is no statement free of bias, it does not follow that all statements are equally biased. Fox news seems pre
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by Gimpei 6y ago
I agree. I liked Ultima 8. Don't get me wrong. 7 and 7.5 were better, but 8 was still enjoyable. I was disappointed when they didn't release an expansion pack.
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by Gimpei 6y ago
How is this issue affected by rising sea levels? I'd think that those beaches are doomed anyway and not even sea walls are going to save those houses.

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