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by JackFr 4y ago
As part of a post mortem you should ask "People will remain fallible; How can we change the process so this is unlikely to happen in the future?" And in general one likes to see that kind of transparency ... but if the the proble
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by JackFr 4y ago
> I think it's fascinating, and at least to me completely unexpected, how good these image generation models are. What happens when we have a 42gb model, or a 4.2tb model? First 'how good' is an ill-defined metric -- that
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by JackFr 4y ago
The problem with UBI experiments is that it hasn’t been U. If it’s localized and small scale it’s obviously not Universal, which makes it hard to draw conclusions.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Plot twist (spoiler alert?) - in the last section the author reveals he's got prototype WebMD replacement!
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by JackFr 4y ago
Too much money chasing too few goods. The Fed can only control the too much money side of the equation. In the case of inflation do to a supply side shock to an inelastic good, that is necessities with few or no substitutes, there is nothi
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by JackFr 4y ago
> 3: Governments will rather use tricks to lower inflation. Change the definition. That is an unsophisticated view. Lowering inflation by 'changing the definition' is like trying to lose weight by switching from pounds to kilo
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by JackFr 4y ago
And there was a recorded instance of futures selling in olive oil in Ancient Greece. But to the GPs point, while there were contracts, there were no tradeable claims, no capital markets and no professional management separate from the own
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by JackFr 4y ago
> There are ZERO documented incidents of orcas attacking humans in the water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Keltie_Byrne
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by JackFr 4y ago
In Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein famously said that "if a lion could speak, we could not understand him".
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well, yes and no. - I care about injuries other than just fatalities - Non-fatal injuries due to being hit by cyclists are underreported - Those statistics are for all of NYC - the pedestrian experience in much of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Qu
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Cycling is cheap, often faster than driving (in my city), healthy, less noisy, creates vastly less pollution, less dangerous to pedastrians... As a pedestrian in Manhattan I am in much more danger from cyclists that from cars, trucks a
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by JackFr 4y ago
Founder & CEO of a startup supporting remote work posts his pitch. Nothing to see here.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much? Is that a serious question? Why indeed? Maybe because a union job with a state pension (yes, defined benefit
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by JackFr 4y ago
The descriptions of the childe empower in the Forbidden City and scheming civil servants remind me very much of “Titus Groan” and “Gormenghast”. I need to check this book out.
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by JackFr 4y ago
And while a globe is obviously better, the orthogonal representation of North-South and East-West also allow for some easier instruction of some earth science topics - basically that the Earth rotates along the horizontal axis.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Every projection is so far off that it just becomes comical. Except Lambert and Albers. They become conical.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I think you could remove a lot of your fairness and logistical concerns by at stage N choosing one solution and everyone group has to start from there. Now for pedagogical purposes it might be that the professor chooses the best solution or
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by JackFr 4y ago
Can we somehow find a middle ground between saying “Thank you for your service” every time we see a uniform and writing off the entire military and defense industry as immoral?
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by JackFr 4y ago
Non-state actors typically don’t have life changing amounts of money.
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by JackFr 4y ago
To reiterate and sum up - during the crisis the price of mortgage backed assets was declining in a very low rate environment because of increased risk of default. In the current environment the price of mortgage backed assets are declining
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by JackFr 4y ago
> That apply to Dan Price too, whatever he did. > Maybe it is time to grow up America and accept the world as it is. What does that mean? I think I understand your point - that people like to create hero-narratives that are mostly not
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by JackFr 4y ago
Honestly it is so goddamn easy to quit Facebook. Really. Just stop. I haven’t been on Facebook in 10 years.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> A cultural thing is when everybody wants to make it work but it never really works as intended. That is sometimes the difference between stated preferences and revealed preferences. A lot of people say they want democracy but when they
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by JackFr 4y ago
The more I learn of him, the less able Fuller seems. I kind of suspected before, but this letter and the Dymaxion car article last week seem to confirm that he was not an engineer or inventor, scarcely an architect and was more a promoter
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by JackFr 4y ago
No. It’s not right to left. It’s just weird: 3 ^ 1 * 2 6 3 ^ 1 / 2 1.73205 3 ^ 1 + 2 5 3 ^ 1 - 2 1
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by JackFr 4y ago
There’s not a lot of meat in the article. Cephalopods it seems are a fantastic jumping off point for rewarding thought experiments about the mind and it’s relationship with the brain. But any claim to insight about “how cephalopods think” i
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by JackFr 4y ago
This exactly. Simply put, with physical controls you can operate them without looking. That is impossible with a touch screen.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Slightly off-topic. Ok, off-topic. I find it exceptionally galling that the so-called Inflation Reduction Act sends $80 billion to the IRS, of which $15 million is earmarked “to fund a task force that would study the cost and feasibility
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by JackFr 4y ago
Just from what I know anecdotally, you’re going to do best in college towns or vacation spots. And while that doesn’t preclude affordable homes, it means you might not get the pick of the litter. The economics of supporting a walkable down
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well, typically in proofs one uses epsilon to represent a vanishingly small number (as in the classic proofs of differentiation.) After a couple dozen epsilon-delta proofs it’s a hard association to break.

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