JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
Like the vast majority of solar installations in suburban neighborhoods, none of the homes in my neighborhood have any battery paired with the solar panels. The solar panels just feed power into the grid. This is the standard model used al
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by JPKab 5y ago
"Net exporter" doesn't really matter for the specific conversation at hand. A better way to quantify grid health would be to identify periods of peak demand across northwestern/central Europe, and then tally who is selli
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by JPKab 5y ago
I don't disagree, but at my last company, I was always very explicit about these things in business terms. The real enemy I ran into was the SVPs desire to please the CEO who wanted to please the board who wanted to please the investme
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The Definitive Guide to Embeddings(featureform.com)
1 points by JPKab 5y ago|0 comments
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by JPKab 5y ago
Holy shit, this looks amazing! I see you've got examples for NLP use cases in your docs. Can't wait to read them. Embeddings are a constant source of complexity when I'm trying to move certain operations to Lambda, this loo
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by JPKab 5y ago
Not relevant to NFTs, but had an amusing test result with it the other day: The prompt I gave it: """ 1. Create a list of names of stupid people. 2. Create a list of names of smart people. """ The result: (Note
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by JPKab 5y ago
I've heard the Ehrlichman quote, but just to be super clear: I am vehemently against most aspects of the drug war. I've even grown multiple cannabis plants with a hydroponic system/grow tent I setup in my basement. Heroin a
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm one of those people. I didn't know my mother very well because she abandoned my family when I was 3 years old, but I did eventually start to get to know her again starting in 2012. She was always struggling with addiction, bu
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not? Crenshaw and others never claimed that CRT and other variants of Conflict Theory were empirical in nature. In the early 2000s, while pursuing my engineering and applied economics degr
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by JPKab 5y ago
Life expectancy in the US has a massive drag due to the bottom decile (unlike in other countries) having garbage health care and eating habits. Also, the opioid epidemic (again, something limited to the US) dragged down life expectancy gai
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by JPKab 5y ago
The issue isn't whether this number is precisely correct, it's that there is simply no concerted effort by the activists to pursue it. Just like how advocates for the invasion of Iraq were perfectly happy to allow Americans in 20
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The Assault on Empiricism(tabletmag.com)
14 points by JPKab 5y ago|10 comments
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by JPKab 5y ago
"The ideological movement that I favor triggered a rise in crime, so I'm going to minimize that rise in crime by comparing it to overall crime levels several decades ago, after I first denied the rise was occurring in the first pl
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by JPKab 5y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/us/homicide-rise-us-report/in... "The number of homicides in 2020 compared to 2019 rose by 25%, according to an FBI preliminary report. That represents the larges
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by JPKab 5y ago
Please tell me what shared cultural heritage a white boy from a trailer park in eastern Kentucky has with a white boy growing up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, or Cambridge, Mass? They don't speak the same dialect, they have ancestors which
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by JPKab 5y ago
How about ignoring the fact that a far higher percentage of shooting victims survive gunshot wounds now than they did in the 70's, which has a significant impact on lowering the number of gun deaths, while increasing the number of vict
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by JPKab 5y ago
I agree with you on "Right Wing", and with "denier" in the sense of climate change, but alt-right has devolved into a meaningless label for anyone to the right of Mao. I was called "alt-right" by an AI ethics
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by JPKab 5y ago
I noticed this as well, and as I said in another comment, I've voted Democratic my entire life. The "Reformist" category, if following the same logic as the "Right Wing Accelerationist" category, should have identif
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by JPKab 5y ago
Your partisan lens is showing here, rather blatantly, along with a heavily US-centric tilt. Do you think the spike in crime is driven by the pandemic? A GLOBAL pandemic? Do you think there is a spike in crime in other nations as well? Or
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by JPKab 5y ago
This is interesting because my son's best friend lives in Shanghai and chat messages sent between the two on Xbox are heavily monitored. In December of 2019 several messages he sent to my son ended up getting erased later with no expl
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by JPKab 5y ago
It's almost as if conferring special privileges and innate knowledge on people because of their group identity is absurd and creates silly incentives.
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by JPKab 5y ago
My wife's parents came to the United States from the Philippines. It's a very odd twist that our mixed-race children will benefit on their college admissions forms by checking the box for white. Completely unfair. I would vastly
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by JPKab 5y ago
I agree 100% with your sentiment about not caring about who your ancestors are. I had a larger than expected percentage of African and native American ancestry but I'm not foolish enough to think it has any impact on who I am or my cul
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by JPKab 5y ago
I use marshmallow-dataclass in an API client lib I've been continuously working on for a while for work. It's great stuff, but I'm always looking for alternatives.
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by JPKab 5y ago
So basically all the pre-barista degree people graduating from humanities departments?
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by JPKab 5y ago
Saying that a lab leak of a SARS virus has no precedent is completely inaccurate. There was a lab leak of SARS1 in 2004 which infected a lab worker and the people he came in contact with. https://www.google.com/amp/s&
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by JPKab 5y ago
Agreed, but based on my 10 years spent in defense work before escaping to startup land, Boeing and Lockheed are bloated, pathologically wasteful defect factories. Their entire business model revolves around winning contracts via paperwork
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by JPKab 5y ago
This is a horrible Twitter thread. He leads off with an immediate ad hominem against Nicholas Wade, complete with an accusation of racism. He then states, falsely, that it isn't possible to engineer a virus without telltale markers,
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by JPKab 5y ago
Zero evidence? Might want to look at the details of the NIH grant funding the research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. You aren't very informed on the subject, which is why you dismiss it as fringe. https://reporter.ni
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by JPKab 5y ago
There is currently zero evidence to support a zoonotic origin. It took 9 months to find the source of MERS (camels). It took 14 months to find the origin of SARS1 (bats). What evidence do you have that this was transmitted from an animal c

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