RockyMcNuts

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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
so, you can't get a physical credit card in the mail in the name of Donald Trump, like the picture in the report? seems pretty bad if true. gotta wonder if Block was really that lax that anyone could do that, or if the authors found an
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Full-time tenure-track faculty salaries haven't really beat inflation since the late 60s. And senior profs have been substituted by adjuncts and grad students. And yet cost of college keeps soaring. https://www.aaup.org&#x2F
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
generic billionaire logic: - be richer than God - don't rescue a venerable, functional institution that is modestly, temporarily impaired, partly due to terrible risk management and partly due to a tsunami of cash flowing in and then s
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
really what OpenBB is, whether they realize it or not, is a one-stop setup and UX for a lot of the python data tools, which are pretty great and could use an integrated framework. One UX instead of accessing FRED, Polygon, FMP, AlphaVantage
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
In the 1700s France had John Law, wars, famines, and bad kings. Geopolitically France is an interesting place with one foot in Mediterranean civilization and one foot in Northern Europe, good natural barriers, and a fairly unified culture.
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
It's not a standard economics answer, even economists (normal ones anyway) aren't going to fly on planes entirely unregulated in a purely free market. Gradient descent and reinforcement learning work eventually, but they take a lo
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
The cool thing about the business judgment rule is, you can define 'best interests' almost any way you want. Not that different from 'effective altruism', really. Maybe running a Ponzi is moral if you are taking the mone
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
and Hacker News creates a special system for keeping Musk news off the front page. in general probably a good idea, because it's always something with that guy and his fanbois, but this has implications and it's weird that lesser-
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
I haven't seen anything like Bing + ChatGPT since the Road Runner's rocket powered roller skates.
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-... https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-o...
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
sometimes you can't have nice things because there are people who will abuse them. there are actual Nazis out there who want to put people in ovens, so it's taboo to make jokes about how they may have a point. similar thing with t
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
They have a fuel cell vehicle - https://www.toyota.com/mirai/
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Also, it would make me so happy if someone did a proper benchmark of - pandas - polars - modin with various backends - DuckDB and Postgres SQL from Jupyter/python with the usual SQL dataframe magic - R - on medium and 'pretty big
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Vertical is the new horizontal, because of stuff like Epycs with 96 cores/192 threads, AWS instances with 24TB of RAM, M2 MacBook Pros with 96GB RAM, 12 cores, ludicrous SOC bandwidth. What used to be 'big data' fits on an in
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
You have the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If you choose to do nothing you still have made a choice. Life doesn't require anyone to confront bad stuff that only grows worse if it is tolerated. Life do
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
Someone saying, this looks misleading, here's why, if there is room for good-faith argument about it, it helps me trust them. Certainly more than suspending journalists on trumped-up pretexts. I'm less worried about a possibly inc
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
it's a hard tradeoff between false positives and false negatives. it's like being a soccer referee or a judge, you can be almost perfect but the screwups are all anyone remembers. short of putting everyone away for life, some conv
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
The fundamental problem which is impossible to solve is game theory. Suppose the collision avoidance is perfect. Now put it on the roads of NYC, or New Delhi. There are a lot of people who will just walk in front of a car going 40mph, i
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
yeah, if putting it out there doesn't work, make a custom guitar from components, or buy it from a custom maker like Ed Roman.
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33604877
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
hmmh, what I got out of it was a little different ... simple deterministic systems can have surprisingly complex emergent behavior that is quite hard to predict. normally, if you disturb a system three things can happen, it can be stable, i
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
my personal view is, it does matter. the biggest problem with NYT is they bend over backwards to appear neutral and give all sides the benefit of the doubt. it becomes doublespeak and provides cover for bad faith. for instance today's
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
when Elon Musk talks about 'citizen journalism' disrupting the media, that post is what he means ... 'private historians' and puffers employed by VCs and tycoons controlling the narrative. https://twitter.com&
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
he seems to have a lot of antagonistic partisan talking points https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results?q=thomas+sowell
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
read great books outside your professional world join some real life groups outside your professional world, meetups etc. cultivate something you like outside of work, movies, sport, cooking, gardening, travel etc. kind of like Zuck's
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
temperamentally he is mercurial and polarizing which is the opposite of what Twitter needs. maybe he can turn Twitter into a super-app on the console of every Tesla. a plan is not in evidence other than throw spaghetti at the wall and see w
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
it's important to distinguish short-run productivity and long-term sustainability. systems need slack. if you take away all the shoulders on all the highways you will get improvements in throughput and cost per trip. and any breakdown
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by RockyMcNuts 4y ago
see also - Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

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