Tycho

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by Tycho 3y ago
Well first of all I’d say that your goal shouldn’t be to stay in the same role, even if it was keeping pace with inflation (in future it likely will anyway, when inflation returns to normal levels). By evolving or changing your role you can
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by Tycho 3y ago
The post described being trapped “like dogs” in a hellish state: They will drive us to the absolute edge of torches and pitchforks and keep us there, forever. Hardly an exaggeration to call this doomsaying. You seem very petulant.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Someone posted a website to HN a year ago which took a track as input and then returned you a list of similar tracks based on the sonic qualities. I tried it with Blue in Green and it actually did supply a list of tonally, harmonically, mus
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by Tycho 3y ago
This just isn’t true. Hyperbole isn’t always appropriate just because it has a name and is a “literary device.”
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by Tycho 3y ago
I disagree with the doomsaying and making things out to be much worse than they actually are. I don’t think it’s a good thing to do.
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by Tycho 3y ago
I was in the same position as you when I was 25. But I was very hopeful about the future. You don’t need to be in FAANG to do very well for yourself. It worked out well financially.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Your reply is rather hyperbolic.
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by Tycho 3y ago
The way going girls go crazy for pop stars is a bit like how sports teams supporters act when their team scores.
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by Tycho 3y ago
But retailers in some places are having to shut down stores because theft is so high and the law is not enforced and for some reason private security is not an option.
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by Tycho 3y ago
I was in London this week and encountered these 'Amazon Fresh' grocery stores for the first time. You walk in, somehow they track your movement through the shop and know what items you have picked up (or put back), and then when y
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by Tycho 3y ago
The famous real estate developer Gerald D Hines used a slide rule constantly - it gave him time to think of answers to questions while clients watched him go through the motions of some calculation. It also helped him quickly do actual sums
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by Tycho 3y ago
At university I studied 'natural language interfaces to databases' (NLIDBs). I recall that very early, I think in the 60, NASA and other organisations were trying to build things like this for their scientists. Of course, there wa
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by Tycho 3y ago
I would like a giant book about virtual worlds in games. Games that have a free-roaming element. So things like Zelda: OOT as well as full blown open world games like GTA V . There's so much work that went into them, and also so muc
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by Tycho 3y ago
Well what I mean is that eventually one forgets most of what was in a book, and all you remember was whether the book was particularly good. I’m thinking more about literature. So who is better read, the professor who read all of Shakespear
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by Tycho 3y ago
It's interesting to consider that being 'well read' may always be a function of, say, the last 10 books you read (or the number of books your read in the last 3 years, or something like that).
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by Tycho 3y ago
Can some billionaire not fund some sort of 'Academic Integrity Institute' non-profit - bust citation rings - catch plagiarism - flag statistical malpractice/mistakes - attempt replicate published studies/experiments Coul
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by Tycho 3y ago
If you are unfamiliar with Jane Street, it is a quantitative trading firm and global liquidity provider focusing on using sophisticated quantitative analysis and a deep understanding of market mechanics to help keep prices consistent and r
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by Tycho 3y ago
Hasn't really been a problem. The way I use it is like "Explain this concept to me." "Give examples from the physical world and every day life." "Elaborate on that last example." "Give some examples f
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by Tycho 3y ago
I enjoy using the voice mode to learn about subjects when I’m driving.
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by Tycho 3y ago
I like thinking about analogs between computers and brains. For instance, working memory as RAM, or deja vu as orphaned linked lists. What’s the analog for LLM context windows? Maybe consciousness is essentially a context window, and when w
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by Tycho 3y ago
Not sure about right now (obviously there are some energy challenges), but it has been a powerhouse for centuries.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Saw someone use this for an explanation of why the German economy is so competitive. High concentration of industrial excellence, with all the factors needed to sustain it.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Well “more than half” is a completely different proposition to “9 out of 10”.
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by Tycho 3y ago
How is it possible that there is a ten to one ratio? What’s the explanation for that?
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by Tycho 3y ago
I wonder if fully automated traffic could be optimised to remove most congestion problems, if a system was able to coordinate the movements of the driverless vehicles. Theoretical maximum throughout may be much higher than typically realise
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by Tycho 3y ago
Yes, that’s what I mean. And you are right, adjusting the numbers works. I suggested it after upping my monthly savings inputs and then noticed that at end-of-life there was still a huge pension pot. Then I fiddled with the spending figure.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Really nice piece of work. Very easy to understand. It would be good if it could tell you a retirement spending number given all the other constraints (assuming you want to draw down most of your funds eventually).
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Behavioral Sink(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Tycho 3y ago
Food is the one thing on which the average citizen regularly spends 10x or even 100x more than they need to spend.
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by Tycho 3y ago
“Energy”, “mental batteries” - these are entirely made up concepts. Any sort of activity is tiring - it is especially tiring if you aren’t very good at it, if you have to make a conscious effort rather than being so competent that it’s “sec

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