JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
Xerox invented generative image ML for document scans, off a single training sample 10 years ago!
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by JackFr 3y ago
I don't think so. Jack Daniels spent a lot of money to make their logo and bottle widely known. Another company is 1) trying to make money off of that spend, and 2) destroying value created by Jack Daniels. Trademark law is a relati
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by JackFr 3y ago
> And he opens your eyes about edge cases and the victims of this thinking in ways even heavyweights like Nassim Taleb will seem like a rookies in comparison. Nassim Taleb is not a heavyweight by any stretch.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Caitriona Lally won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature while working as a janitor at Trinity College. I believe she maintains that job today.
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by JackFr 3y ago
How are you measuring productivity?
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by JackFr 3y ago
A former boss called me the most distractable person he had ever met. I've worked in open plan offices since 1997. But apparently I have superhuman abilities to concentrate, because honestly I've never found it difficult to ignor
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by JackFr 3y ago
You seem to think that answering my question isn't part of his job. It may be that you have the wrong measure of productivity.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I think you've hit on something here. I understand very well that it is active moderation which keeps SO from being a toilet of spam and junk. At the same time, in my limited experience SO moderators are petty tyrants, very jealously
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by JackFr 3y ago
Typhoid Mary was an interesting case because she was completely asymptomatic, and so she claimed not believe she had it. This women seems to have full on TB.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I gave up after 7 minutes.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Don’t forget WholeFoods perks.
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by JackFr 3y ago
“As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
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by JackFr 3y ago
The Black Scholes paper is actually pretty difficult, and not terribly rewarding with respect to developing intuition. To develop the intuition, get a full handle on put-call parity, the construction of replicating portfolios, and then ris
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well for me this would be a hobby purchase. The problem is that while I could justify dropping $150 on something like this to myself, I don't want to pay for it by the month, knowing that most months I won't use it.
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by JackFr 3y ago
You don’t seem to get it. By continuing to participate you are prolonging it. Dream bigger. I mean unless you love the current shitshow. https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies I know I’m not living in a totalit
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by JackFr 3y ago
"I can either punch you in the face or kick you in the crotch. Which will it be?" "What are you complaining about? You asked for it?"
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by JackFr 3y ago
> You basically have to choose the least bad options. Do you? I choose not to vote because I refuse to participate in a charade of false consensus. If you pick the lesser of two evils, you are still picking evil. The obvious -- yet neve
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by JackFr 3y ago
There are more eyesight than those which can be addressed with simple corrective lenses.
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by JackFr 3y ago
When many people describe themselves as brutally honest, they seem to believe that being honest is a license for brutality.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Priests worry about saving souls. Pastors worry about replacing boilers.
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by JackFr 3y ago
First the Flaming Hot Cheetos Inventor and now the SR-71 Speed Check? What's next? Am I gonna find out that every TED talk is basically BS?
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by JackFr 3y ago
I find the certainty with which archeologists speak about Iron Age cultures and mores to be amusing. In fact they are at best plausible just-so stories that don't conflict with patterns of artifacts that have been discovered. I under
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by JackFr 3y ago
If I understand your back of the envelope estimate, you believe he had a 650% return on investment. It seems far more likely that some of your assumptions are wrong. Regardless, assume this guy had couple of million pounds — building the fl
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by JackFr 3y ago
Growing up my brother and I had to do many items of yard work using a wheelbarrow my father had taken from his father who had pulled it out of someone’s trash in 1939. Eventually my brother and I had real landscaping part-time jobs in high
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by JackFr 3y ago
My experience at mega corps has been the opposite: instead of a widespread, open source, robust implementation we had to suffer with a home grown, poorly supported, buggy, inferior product because it had the sponsorship of a politically imp
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by JackFr 3y ago
> The article was generic with "work-related topics" so I was too. Sending a text saying "Hey I'm in the CCB analytics weekly business review meeting with so and so can I call you back" won't get you fired.
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by JackFr 3y ago
> “Another current employee within the firm's commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app” Now that's amusing and quite a tell as
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It's simply nonsense. Source: I was a VP at JPMorgan.
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Possibly my favorite biography.
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I have retrieved my wife's phone two times and my own once using Lost Mode. We are in NYC. Maybe I just got lucky or the universe is just smiling on me. I did give each of the do gooders some money and each of them initially tried to

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