MathYouF

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And if I were to go through the effort of providing proof of my Venezuelan best friend and his accounts of life in Venezuela, since my hacker news profile is the same name as my real identity profiles, I'm sure you'd capitulate an
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My knowledge of the usage and value and improvement on quality of life for people using cryotocurrency in nations experiencing massive hyperinflation come from one of my closest friends from Venezuela, who I talk to every week for hours (I&
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Exactly, if people trusted legitimate financial markets like the NASDAQ and invested their money with accredited, well regulated investors like the former NASDAQ chairman Bernie Madoff, we could avoid losing billions of dollars from fraud a
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Indeed, never seen so many people on HN be so reactionary and emotional about a simple technology. The demographics of the crowd: wealthy, living in the most stable country in history, with access to digital forms of banking worldwide, abil
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Alternative currencies to the Bolivar have been the only way for Venezuelan citizens to protect themselves from losing their entire life savings because of the actions of their governments cental bank. Digital forms of currency which aren&#
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It's an individual citizen's hedge against a poorly managed government in a country they have little choice but to be in (immigration isn't so easy if you're not born into an already prosperous, stable country to begin w
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You should read up on the last decade in Venezuela, which used to be the richest country in Latin America, and having wealthy professionals see their savings evaporate due to 1,000,000% inflation because of the actions of a government they
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I'm also a sort of amateur at 3D modeling (though my background is in VR programming so I have a lot of exposure to it) so take my knowledge with a grain of salt, but afaiu there's a few different steps: Modeling: Maya is best, B
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Oh it is assuredly not the best hotel in Kyoto, or even the nicest staff. Still, I don't doubt the service was so much better than they've experienced everywhere else in the world that they statistically just assumed it must also
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しります (shirimasu) means "know", so, yes.
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Having lived in Japan for a year and reading the review of the service, it reminds me how funny it is to read foreigners reviews of Japanese customer service describing it as miraculous when Japanese would consider it standard and adequate.
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I watched an interview with her on YouTube and she had a very argumentative tone when questioned by an audience member, rather than a conversational and educational one. Not surprised to hear from a fellow expert that her theories aren&#x27
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Luddite: a person opposed to new technology or ways of working. Seems like you came up with the perfect word to describe your view on this. :P I defintiely do think there is reason to worry about the future you're imagining happening,
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Says the person who likely owns a washing machine, sink connected to plumbing, microwave, stove, lighters, clothes made with a sewing machine, ect. ect. GPT-3 will take way less time to make a good substitute that costs the power of compute
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And the children of those broken 1990 families are now the ones responding to the polls in 2021. The ones responding to the polls then were divorced men who had been raised in stabler 1960's families. Maybe being divorced isn't th
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A very unrealistic view of the programming and mathematical abilities of the average person, even the average college educated, employed, under 40 person, is the main source of contention I find whenever this argument comes up in my social
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Or perhaps only a society rich as rich as the U.S. can begin to question if total economic output is a noble metric that our brightest and ablest minds ought to strive for or be awarded public accolade for. Perhaps it's only in disfunc
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Hey Stepan, I've been in a fitness routine for the last two months with intensive personal training and a dietician, but I'm around 25% body fat because of where I started. However I'm very diligent about my calorie tracking
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The state also makes it possible for me to charge for usage of everything else I own, not just land, by restricting people's ability to use it freely without my permission. For example, my body, my computer, my laundry machine, my bed,
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GPT-3 does only thing, predict the next character based on the previous n characters. The nuance of the context (previous n characters) and the quality of the prediction(s) (following character, a function of gpt-3 you can repeat by just co
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I believe GPT-3 being able to convert descriptions of functions or designs into semi-functional code is what has some excited. It's certainly the strongest argument and reason to hope it could be different this time that I know of. I&#
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Ask who your manager will be. Look them up on LinkedIn. Look at all the people on the technical side of the company and their LinkedIns. If their last few jobs for the last several years aren't technical, that's the answer. In gen
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The grass is greener if you stop working for companies dominated by non-technical leadership. Unfortunately the types who move from one corporate behemoth to another rarely see the light and continue indulging in the fantasy that one day th
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Literally told a FB recruiter yesterday I was already earning near FB comp for global remote work, and for that reason I wasn't even intersted in interviewing for the position they were offering which required in the office work in SF
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Like or dislike the Chinese government, question how much it cares about saving face versus protecting the international community, sure. But name a time since the dawn of commercial air travel 1950-2019 where a country, much less the count
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Correct me if my understanding of how tax credits work is wrong, but if Pelton said they'll only build the factory with a $47mm tax credit, the two choices of Ohio's government are as follows: 1. Not collect the first $47mm/$
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Wasn't trying to trivialise your work! Just offering some ideas of the basic ways this could be tackled. Sorry if you thought I was trivialising it, the intent was more to support the idea that modern DL can still provide solutions wit
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My bet is they just invested a few months making a varied dataset, a few grand on mturk using labelme, some image augmentation, a few engineering tricks for a nice UX,some strategies for getting the model to converge on tricky test images,
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Any time I encountered a rule that seemed strange I would ask my closest Japanese friends (girlfriend, her parents, friends) and they always gave a reasonable answer that almost always was related to the rule upholding collectice civility,
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I appreciate the time taken to give a detailed reply, especially from someone with experience living in Japan, and who had once a possibly similar view as I do currently. That said, as much as you think I've integrated right wing falla

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