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by _dps 5y ago
An acquaintance of mine was working on an accounting PhD on basically this subject (trying to quantify CEO contribution to revenues and profits, all else held equal). He said that after years studying it, he thought it's too noisy with
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by _dps 5y ago
There is a level of this that is reasonable, which is that what is presented in the writing be factual and not sensationalized. I imagine The Dispatch believes they meet this bar (I have no idea, I just heard of them now). But there is a le
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by _dps 5y ago
Is it actually less appealing? My understanding is that DBAs consider Oracle very good, just very (very) expensive. This also lines up with my experience tuning queries against Oracle vs Postgres backends. The folk wisdom seems, to me, to b
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by _dps 5y ago
Educational Information has already been democratized by MIT Open Courseware, Khan, and others. But Education itself is an interactive human activity carried out by an expert professional. Some of those professionals will be better at educa
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by _dps 5y ago
For a counter-opinion re: "developers don't pay for things" from someone with enviable entrepreneurial success https://stackingthebricks.com/developers-dont-pay-for-things...
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by _dps 5y ago
As far as I know there is no good data on "long covid" that substantially controls for confounders like obesity and age. Obese people are likely to have seemingly "long-term" effects from any respiratory problems that ac
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by _dps 5y ago
Also, the same-product-again recommendation doesn't have to be a great one; it only has to beat the alternative it displaces. So I could find it plausible that taking a swing on you buying another of a product you already bought beats
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by _dps 6y ago
If you can do it on the water even better, but obviously that's harder to arrange. The basic physiological benefits come from either IMO, and 95% of the time I've been rowing on a machine. P.S. If I've misunderstood your ques
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by _dps 6y ago
Others mentioned lifting weights — +1 to that but let me add something I haven't seen mentioned yet: rowing. Rowing is, in my opinion, the perfect anti-programming exercise. - you unfurl your body instead of hunching over, stretchi
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by _dps 6y ago
It's not characteristic of all forecasting, only purely empirical forecasting. Definitionally, the only way to reason about risk that doesn't appear in training data is non-empirical (e.g. a priori assumptions about distributions,
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by _dps 6y ago
It is absolutely untrue that DL is immune to fat-fail problems, and it is important that no one operate mission critical systems under this assumption. The two fat tail questions one has to engage are: - is it possible that a catastrophic i
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by _dps 6y ago
Texas has a limit of I believe a 10% increase in tax assessment per year, so this prevents the worst outcomes but only slows down the rest. If you think of property tax as crudely analogous to rent (from a budget perspective), most families
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by _dps 6y ago
Oh hey, you made APE and redbean! Very cool projects, and something I always wondered if it was possible (I once tried a different strategy, failed, and then never tried again). I was very pleased to see someone had succeeded.
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by _dps 6y ago
> I collect different C libraries as a personal stash of toolkits Might you have a write-up or link for these, and if so might you be willing to share it? I have been using Sean Barrett's libraries [0], as well as his curated list o
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by _dps 6y ago
This is very interesting and helpful, thank you!
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by _dps 6y ago
I'd be interested in reading suggestions for criticism of Maslow or "win win". The few criticisms I've found of Maslow seem to be that it's not 100% universal across individuals and cultures. This is true, but I thi
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by _dps 6y ago
This lines up with my unverified theory (I can't seem to find hard information about FPS boost online). My theory is that it detects a list of certain compatible games and then "lies" to the game engine through syscalls for c
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by _dps 6y ago
If you have an interest in this kind of art, this GDC presentation by Mark Ferrari "8 Bit & 8 Bit-ish Graphics" gives lots of great detail about the art process, tools, and practices of the time (Ferrari worked on the EGA art
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by _dps 6y ago
I have a fair amount of experience with this in a startup setting. Unfortunately most of it I picked up in a diffuse way online. If you want to kick around ideas feel free to email me (see my profile).
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by _dps 6y ago
Just a personal anecdote, but it regularly makes a substantial (like 2x+) difference for me in tight linear algebra loops. It seems to be required if you want to coax clang to emit vfmad instructions for common C linear algebra idioms. Narr
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by _dps 6y ago
Aha! Good correction, thank you. I must have been remembering how long the discovery remained classified, not how long it predated the public discovery.
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by _dps 6y ago
There's a very amusing epilogue in Steven Levy's "Crypto" [0] about the fact that either RSA or Diffie-Hellman (I've forgotten which) was in fact known to the intelligence services for 10+ years prior to its re-disc
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by _dps 6y ago
re: cognitive vs physical development, I think at the level of star athlete most of the difference in performance is, for lack of a better word, mental If you look at Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Jeremy Lin, Tiger Woods ... they're very
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by _dps 6y ago
Cars my family bought in 1990 (i.e. 31 years ago) drove happily for 15-20 years. I don't think the "lasts way longer" claim stands up to scrutiny.
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by _dps 6y ago
Another related aspect to consider is that it's really not very hard for the wealthy to create an inheritance-like legal vehicle even without special cases like trusts. Should it be legal to contract with someone that you will give the
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by _dps 6y ago
(Almost) entire game soundtrack by various artists, including a nice version of my favorite piece, Fisher's Hornpipe (note Yo Yo Ma also has a version) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jHjEJUeGqKisKEagkh46N
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by _dps 6y ago
The professor's quip is cute but myopic. The pieces of paper are claims on future production so the true cost is seen later. The end result was - American Boomers got cars - Japanese boomers got USD - Japanese investors the
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by _dps 6y ago
It was (and remains) an investment in the sense that it allowed you to live in a nicer place farther from work, or to commute to a job you otherwise couldn't take. But was it ever an investment as an appreciating asset per se? I'm
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by _dps 6y ago
Two simple reasons. First, "hello world" requires less explanation print "hello world" vs print ("hello world") Second, printing a line to stdout is an extremely common and special activity (especial
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by _dps 6y ago
Agree with everything you said here, but let me riff on this > The "print" statement being a great example. Was it kind of weird? Sure. I am reminded of the Emerson quip "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mi

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