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by _rpd 6y ago
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26727878
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by _rpd 6y ago
tl;dr: Internet non-adoption is linked to a number of demographic variables, but is strongly connected to age – with older Americans continuing to be one of the least likely groups to use the internet. Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older
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by _rpd 6y ago
For remote landlords, local management fees can be higher than rent revenue. It can be less risky to just wait for capital gains.
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by _rpd 6y ago
I worked on a decision like this once. It eventually came down to the financial auditors preferring SAP’s reports. Roll-your-own isn’t going to fly with anyone.
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by _rpd 6y ago
Here are some interesting numbers relating to number of neurons vs. glial cells in various types of animal brains ... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/
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by _rpd 6y ago
It’s a fairly easy call on the existence of a finite upper bound, even if we can eventually start distributing a person’s intelligence to components outside their skull.
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by _rpd 6y ago
Here’s the 2018 paper that underlies articles like this ... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... It mentions gains in the US and losses in Western Europe. Could it just be eco
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by _rpd 6y ago
From the article ... > ACC has reduced global agricultural TFP by about 21% since 1961, a slowdown that is equivalent to losing the last 7 years of productivity growth. The effect is substantially more severe (a reduction of ~26–34%) in
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by _rpd 6y ago
> "If we had remained on Facebook, we might have had another 5% growth,"
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by _rpd 6y ago
> Bali, Cakici and Whitelaw (2011) adopt extreme positive returns as a proxy for lottery-like payoffs. Their finding indicates that stocks that exhibited the highest daily return (sample maximum of the daily returns) over the prior month
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by _rpd 6y ago
Sure, but coding a human-equivalent response to such events is trivial (because no one and nothing responds well to such events).
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by _rpd 6y ago
I don’t think this analogy is helpful. If an IQ 110 AI can research 10^6 person-hours for each IQ 110 person-hour, the results are going to look like a qualitative difference (i.e., higher IQ). That said, I do think that some problem spac
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by _rpd 6y ago
Once you have an AI with a human approximate general intelligence, the ability to instantiate it thousands of times and/or run it at thousands of times 'baseline' speed to explore a problem space is going to look like a big I
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by _rpd 6y ago
Won't AI designers choose optimal values for those variables that have been identified? If so, I don't think the result looks like a normal curve, or at least the resultant 'optimized' normal curves skew 'smarter&#
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by _rpd 6y ago
Yeah, the title should be "Handwriting helps particular kinds of people remember particular kinds of things"
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by _rpd 7y ago
"Serial concatenation of interleaved convolutional codes forming turbo-like codes"
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by _rpd 7y ago
Any new flu could be the next ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu > The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic,
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by _rpd 7y ago
For greenfield plays, the benefits of being market leader are so extreme that "grow as fast as possible" is almost always the right strategy.
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by _rpd 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X17_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_force
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by _rpd 7y ago
> The dark matter concentrations detected by Hubble are 1/10,000th to 1/100,000th times the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo. Article has cool images of gravitational lensing of quasars.
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by _rpd 7y ago
> for regulatory reasons, credit cards could not be used to invest; and while SeedInvest, the platform we used to execute the round, was able to accept debit cards initially, our debit card processor decided, several weeks in, that it no
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by _rpd 7y ago
> I think the phrase "warrantless encryption" should be outlawed. What is that even supposed to mean? I believe it means: encryption that does not have a built-in backdoor such that anyone with the backdoor key can break the en
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by _rpd 7y ago
Give Directly press release ... https://www.givedirectly.org/how-do-cash-transfers-impact-ne... Direct link to paper ... https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Gene...
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by _rpd 7y ago
> it only makes sense to spend energy on sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, once you've already de-carbonised everything which you possibly can. Except possibly when energy prices are negative due to wind and solar intermittency - a
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by _rpd 7y ago
Policy goals change from "reducing X" to "reducing the harmful results of X."
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by _rpd 7y ago
Yeah, that goes beyond sloppy and into negligence.
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by _rpd 7y ago
> stems from understated liabilities in its insurance business, misrepresentation of its cash situation, and improper accounting for its acquisition of a stake in the oil field services provider Baker Hughes. So it stems from a dispute b
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by _rpd 7y ago
When the tree dies, it will release 99% of the stored carbon back to the atmosphere. Unless you bury the tree in an anaerobic environment or treat it in some other way, the tree is just a time-delayed release mechanism. New forest can stor
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by _rpd 7y ago
I'm pretty sure some 'on back order' emails are a deliberate attempt to get you to call so that you can be upsold.
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by _rpd 7y ago
I think the business school orthodoxy is that brand is everything. And if you don't want to have to compete on price alone, there has to be something that sways the buyer to pay a premium.

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