Seabiscuit

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by Seabiscuit 4mo ago
The article doesn't mention of "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam, which explored pretty much the same idea, a.k.a. the value of the 'room', (which for Putnam was 'social capital'), and its rapid decline. Bo
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by Seabiscuit 8mo ago
As a (young, thus-far childless) woman, I feel it's important to add something that men may not fully grasp and I haven't seen much in the thread so far: what tips the scales in this decision is often not just daycare costs/c
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by Seabiscuit 4y ago
This actually isn't true for some types of farmed fish, like Norwegian salmon, but it varies by area and by company. The industry is looking into alternatives like insects, and typically 30-40% of the feed now comes from vegetable prot
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by Seabiscuit 4y ago
>> Through the big role played by the industrial fishing, 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic float in our oceans, enough to circulate the equator 425 times, go to the moon twice and back, with the total amount of plastic heavier than the
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by Seabiscuit 5y ago
You are not alone in your struggle with West Elm quality. This blog post describes the 'Peggy truther' community (of people surprised and upset with their Peggy couch): https://www.theawl.com/2017/02/why-
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Public company virtue signalling: the “Goodness” Gravy Train Rolls On(aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com)
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by Seabiscuit 5y ago
Interesting site. I currently work at a hedge fund, but have a small dose of NLP in my academic background, so it's always interesting to see concepts like this come out. Two questions: - Are you using EDGAR's 'Facts' f
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by Seabiscuit 6y ago
Isn't this the idea behind Registered Reports? ( https://www.cos.io/our-services/registered-reports / https://www.elsevier.com/reviewers-update/story/innovation-i... )
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by Seabiscuit 6y ago
You would enjoy Saygin et al, (2000) [1] ('Turing test: 50 years later). 'Not getting math right' is part of a classic repertoire of cheap hacks used to pass the Turing test by mimicking 'how' a human might speak. T
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by Seabiscuit 6y ago
LBOs are not synonymous with private equity. LBOs do not always lead to corporate raiding or asset stripping, in the same way that the restructuring and rationalisation that follow an LBO does not always result in mass redundancies. Theore
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by Seabiscuit 6y ago
These predictions often surely make most sense and are most prevalent in a particular field of NLP research, like dialogue (open-domain, non-task oriented). Believable dialogue seems to require some kind of world knowledge, certain forms of
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by Seabiscuit 6y ago
An interesting overview of Edward Bernays' life, work, and life's work cementing his position as the creator of modern commercial propaganda is Larry Tye's _The Father of Spin_. It's the source of a hundred little ingeni