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by RhysU 2y ago
That's opting into a 401k, essentially. Employers often match employee contributions to some amount. But it's not compulsory nor is it universally available. IRAs are, however.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Can one upweight the known-rare concepts in the training set? But then which are rare and how should we identify the rare ones worth knowing? ML is funny. It's predictably going to run into the Education field.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Money and power are fungible (caveat heavy transaction costs). If you eliminate the ability to build colossal wealth you leave open only the option to pursue significant power. Doing so will... not turn out well.
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by RhysU 2y ago
First post! > Locations more than 1.389 m leeward of the stagnation point are predicted to sustain turbulence in this scenario. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/00524fca-a2d9-42c1... Anyone actually know th
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by RhysU 2y ago
Evangelion has robots...?
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by RhysU 2y ago
True! That could be chalked up (yuk yuk) to needing to otherwise dispose of a dead body.
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by RhysU 2y ago
I misjudged a tight pass on the highway this past weekend. It was stupid on my part but I will faux righteously blame the clown camping in the passing lane. My car's warning system lost its mind as I approached the car in the right lan
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by RhysU 2y ago
> control of God and physics If either God or physics want it, they already have root.
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by RhysU 2y ago
Reminds me of the old webring concept from long ago.
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by RhysU 2y ago
No, as operational risk can quickly sink such companies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group Doesn't matter if they're so fast they can't lose on any single trade, there's always a
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by RhysU 3y ago
That video is Cirque de Soleil meets The Mitchells vs the Machines.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Yes, including the field's worth and the counterfactual that it doesn't exist as a field of study. gets popcorn But, like, sincerely, first they read some Plato/Aristotle/Machiavelli/etc, second learn about mercan
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by RhysU 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem Evaluating each chance to use one specific favor, based on your perceived need for it at one moment and its potential outcome, feels equivalent to interviewing one job ap
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by RhysU 3y ago
Billboards on inbound roads to major US tech hubs, beyond just SF/NYC targeting bedroom communities with families, seem worthwhile. As does some sponsorship a la the VPN ads my kids see constantly in content heavy educational videos.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> Kagi does no paid advertising Because of adverse selection? Users that are users because of marketing are somehow different?
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by RhysU 3y ago
Standardized tests are interesting in that they measure both raw aptitude and socioeconomic resources. Either measurement is good from the perspective of long-term positive outcomes for matriculated college students but only the former is p
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by RhysU 3y ago
... but behind the District of Columbia, New York State, Massachusetts, and Washington State. I don't understand the intent of the comment. People commonly compare California's GDP to various countries, not its per capita GDP.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> California has a GDP comparable to India... California's a big economy. But it's not (at least superficially) outsized relative to other parts of the United States that contain similar populations. Data: https://gi
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by RhysU 3y ago
US citizens come from many historical nationalities. I would wager that conditioning on US citizenship is less restrictive than conditioning on any other citizenship when seeking diverse historical nationality.
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by RhysU 3y ago
Yahweh was originally a weather god, not unlike Zeus, well before being interwoven with El during proto-Judaism [1]. Any "Greek period" of the eventual Jewish faith, to which you refer, ended certainly by their complete adoption o
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by RhysU 3y ago
Those who have children will never wonder what could have been. Even a horrific outcome answers that question. There is no other way to do do.
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by RhysU 3y ago
This perspective ignores employee acquisition costs and reputation costs. It is not free to churn at-will employees.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> you have not explained how to handle progress reporting in gnu parallel. `parallel --eta` provides progress reporting over all tasks based upon observed completions. > in tfa the workers are an implementation detail of a wider progr
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College Education and a Comfortable Retirement(papers.ssrn.com)
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by RhysU 3y ago
Agreed. For low-stakes interpolation, give me the guesser. For high-stakes interpolation or any extrapolation, I want someone who does not guess (any more than is inherent to extrapolating).
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by RhysU 3y ago
Good points. Perhaps building the representation is building understanding. But humans did that for Sora and for all the other architectures too (if you'll allow a little meta-building). But evaluation alone is not understanding. Evalu
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by RhysU 3y ago
Now I want ChatLevine, an AI filter that turns everything into Matt Levine's writing style.
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by RhysU 3y ago
> very good... understanding of the physics of objects and relationships between them I am always torn here. A real physics engine has a better "understanding" but I suspect that word applies to neither Sora nor a physics engin
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by RhysU 3y ago
In our parenting class of about 20 attendees, many years ago, there were a married pair of professional clowns. I have always wanted to know how that kid turned out.
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by RhysU 3y ago
I am terrified by the sentiment that we should take away free will because it might be dangerous.

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