JamilD

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by JamilD 5y ago
Regarding culture, variety, and politics, I think it’s more a consequence of the Bay Area being socioeconomically segregated. My neighbors are all artists, and have great and vibrant communities around their work — but of course, no one in
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by JamilD 5y ago
The trope that SF is more expensive than the rest of the Bay Area isn’t even true, at least not anymore. I pay $1650 for a studio apartment in a decent neighborhood near a tech shuttle stop. That’s cheaper than Stanford’s student housing in
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by JamilD 5y ago
I've noticed this in product design a lot; designers/programmers assume way more attention from the user than is typical. Most of the time, I don't read instructions, I just do what's "intuitive". Designing w
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by JamilD 5y ago
NIMBYs often advocate for building “out” rather than “up”, either explicitly or by omission (saying not to build any housing results in this; people need housing somewhere). It results in sprawl, car dependence, inefficiency, reduced acce
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by JamilD 5y ago
A law can be "not racist", but still be crafted with certain intentions in mind; it's easy to exploit certain correlations to achieve a certain end result. I don't think anyone would argue that there's something inn
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by JamilD 5y ago
A tl;dr, because the idea behind the Decision Transformer is really cool and elegant; they model reinforcement learning tasks in a similar way to autoregressive language modeling. In language modeling, you want to learn, for example, the ne
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by JamilD 5y ago
> And while it can still be accessed over HTTP, the bottlenecks become the same companies that might comply with censorship requests. This is something that bothers me about the state of dapps right now. The way many of them connect to t
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by JamilD 5y ago
I recently started doing this too. I tend to always push myself and try to deliver as much as I can, limited by time and energy — it was hard to get rid of this habit, so I tried to create things outside of work to "bound" that ti
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by JamilD 5y ago
Compute power requires money though, no? Whoever has the most capital now controls the BTC blockchain, which happens to be mostly miners in China. It’s a lot easier for me to stake ETH than to buy hundreds of GPUs. And my reward is linear w
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by JamilD 5y ago
Are the benefits of proof of work worth the additional cost over other consensus algorithms, to you?
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by JamilD 5y ago
Why is this a more direct reward than generating energy to sell? In mining, revenue = efficiency * potential energy * BTC per unit produced energy In selling energy, revenue = efficiency * potential energy * USD per unit produced energy I d
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by JamilD 5y ago
Many of DeepMind's opinion style papers are like this. Another example of the "handwavy" DeepMind paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03406.pdf It's also worth it to note as well that this isn't
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by JamilD 5y ago
From the perspective of Richard Dawkins / The Selfish Gene, there are two distinct incarnations of evolution, driven by the same force (natural selection). Genetic; unit of selection is the gene, substrate is DNA: responsible for our b
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by JamilD 5y ago
The options for retirement funds in my 401(k) include "LifePath Index 2065 Account A", but that's as far as it goes for now.
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by JamilD 5y ago
Tom Gruber (one of the cofounders of Siri) had a talk a while back where he spoke about this. https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_gruber_how_ai_can_enhance_our_... > Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "hum
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by JamilD 5y ago
There's a weird methodology quirk here. Looking at the data, words like "violence" seem to directly decrease the overall happiness score. Which is weird, because use of that word doesn't necessarily indicate that someone
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by JamilD 5y ago
Thanks for those links! Didn't know Amadeus had something similar. Just like with Sabre, it seems all the "juicy" stuff is in the Enterprise API (which is opaque on pricing and setup -- you have to contact the sales team to g
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by JamilD 5y ago
A few years ago I tried writing a Python wrapper around SABRE's API to get pricing, route, and schedule data, which seemed to work reasonably well. It likely doesn't work anymore, but it was a fun exercise. https://gith
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by JamilD 5y ago
I wonder how we escape this trap. Cars are 1-2 ton machines that can kill you as a cyclist or pedestrian, and humans are awful at operating them. The solution is therefore apparently to put more of those machines on the road (for self-prote
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by JamilD 6y ago
Likewise. Once in a while I force myself to do backprop by hand to make sure I still understand all the concepts and can walk myself through the calculus.
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by JamilD 6y ago
It's interesting how we can use age (selectively) as a discriminator, but within a certain range and in certain contexts, it's seen as "bad" to discriminate. Most wouldn't say the concept of a retirement age is disc
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by JamilD 6y ago
> only do what maximizes their own financials So if a company feels like they can acquire more customers or employees, or gain positive publicity by taking certain actions and expressing their right to free speech, shouldn't they be
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by JamilD 6y ago
Undergrad courses are 100-level, graduate courses are 200-level, advanced graduate courses are 300-level.
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Surprisal-Triggered Conditional Computation with Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
1 points by JamilD 6y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 6y ago
A lot of people underestimate how important this is for us. So many countries in which I'd love to live are ruled out immediately, and we simply don't have the flexibility to only take into consideration cost of living, natural
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by JamilD 7y ago
When OS X Snow Leopard was announced, this was the intro slide: http://2ig18m1zutag3bjpoclbo8am-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-c...
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by JamilD 7y ago
I’m in the middle of reading “The Outlaw Ocean”; really eye-opening to see how much people can get away with in international waters, away from any scrutiny or accountability.
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by JamilD 7y ago
You do. There are so many referenda, at least in the US, on seemingly inconsequential things that end up having a huge effect on the layout and organization of a city. Transportation taxes, light rail lines, zoning, affordable housing min
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Why a&W's “Third Pounder” Failed (2015)(thresholdresistance.com)
3 points by JamilD 7y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 7y ago
With respect to point (2), the argument doesn’t really work for SF; rent control only applies to units built before 1979. New developments can raise the rent as much as they want. You could argue the threat of possibly having rent control

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