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by acchow 4y ago
SF also attracts plenty of educated immigrants from other countries, many of which have safer cities (think Canada, Europe, Australia, etc)
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by acchow 4y ago
I imagine SF feels probably fine coming from another American city. But if you moved here from Seoul, it would be terrifying
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by acchow 4y ago
I would suggest avoiding Samsung for TVs. LG is miles ahead. I also have a Hisense Android TV and would avoid any Android TV's.
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by acchow 4y ago
Sure, children can pattern match. But I was thinking more about seasoned mathematicians, who not only create new theorems but can also understand proofs and thus find errors in proofs and decide they are wrong, or can be correct. They can a
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by acchow 4y ago
Sure, you can create new sentences. But you can't recognize which ones are "true" and which are not.
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by acchow 4y ago
> We are "glorified" autocomplete engines too This doesn’t feel intuitive to me or convincing. What evidence do you have to support such a claim? I certainly don’t feel like I’m an autocomplete engine. Was Gödel also an autocom
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by acchow 4y ago
Can someone explain why computing a delta needs to hold the entire model at once? Can't it just do one layer at time?
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by acchow 4y ago
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously. Please don't sneer" HN Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by acchow 4y ago
I think this may be an issue with certain provider networks (have heard horror stories about Kaiser and such). I'm with Anthem and I've gone directly to various specialties with appointments within 1-5 days.
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by acchow 4y ago
> People don’t like bikes. People don't like cycling within the current infrastructure. Not only would most bikes have to share the road with vehicles (and semis!), but car dependency creates vast distances to traverse - massive p
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by acchow 4y ago
From this, most people conclude that financial managers cannot outperform the market. Which is obviously false since there are a bunch of managers that have consistently beat the market for many decades. The actual conclusion is that most f
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by acchow 4y ago
> I can't tell if this article is just ignoring that fact or if they are actually running on "flat" balls You mean flat ball, right? They have 30 balls in a tire. If one goes flat, then they are running on 29/30 balls
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by acchow 4y ago
> There is a reason why metabolic values have "normal" ranges. The "reason" is that they assumed a normal distribution and wanted to include 95% of people. If you're outside the normal range, you are abnormal. Wh
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by acchow 4y ago
Seems to me everyone is craving human interaction, but they have gotten so comfortable being at home all the time, they forgot how to muster the energy to get out of the home
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by acchow 4y ago
What happens when the SEO-equivalent cottage industry for LLMs appears? Will trainings models be so easy?
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by acchow 4y ago
What software/hardware combo are you not able to get? I think HD is only available on Safari on Mac (no Chrome) or Edge on Windows (also no Chrome)
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by acchow 4y ago
Probably half of Americans today would fail the Turing Test.
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by acchow 4y ago
The data that you train your model on is certainly a huge moat...
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by acchow 4y ago
Disney has been making bad movies for a while, but for whatever reason Marvel sold well despite repeating the same storyline every time... Same writing, same style, same jokes, same flair. After the MCU reset, I don't think Disney has
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by acchow 4y ago
After the SVB thing, the fed set up a new facility "Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP)" which will provide liquidity to banks so they won't go the way of SVB.
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by acchow 4y ago
Such a controlled trial would not pass ethics review. But for the human side, hopefully we can run statistical analyses to show correlation at least? I think a mechanism of action in vitro plus a biologically confirmed trial in rats plus co
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by acchow 4y ago
Because as their South SF presence grows, traffic will become unbearable. Without trains, you can't just increase job count indefinitely.
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by acchow 4y ago
I wonder if biotech in the Bay Area can now expand into SF because of falling rents?
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by acchow 4y ago
Wasn’t the late 90s a period of prosperity because it was the upswing of a bubble that ended with the dotcom crash? The rising part of a bubble always has massive economic growth. It used to be better for everyone when there wasn’t a perman
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by acchow 4y ago
It absolutely amazes me that places like Amsterdam, London, etc build so much safe bike infrastructure when the weather is so dreary . And despite the weather, of course people will use it because it feels great and is so fast! And yet, he
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by acchow 4y ago
You may be mistaking socialism for social welfare?
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by acchow 4y ago
They handled SVB itself, fine. It's a bank that didn't manage interest rate risk sufficiently so its equity holders got zero'd out but depositors are made whole. That's fine. Wish they would handle the next SVB the sam
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by acchow 4y ago
But CS says firmly that they don't need government aid. Are they possibly too entrenched with Russian and drug money that they just can't open their books to the swiss government?
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by acchow 4y ago
The recovery rate is written down in the terms of the swap. You'll have to read the contract.
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by acchow 4y ago
The 40% recovery rate isn't written down on the swaps actual terms? Edit: I asked ChatGPT. "The recovery rate of a credit default swap (CDS) is typically specified in the contract and agreed upon by the parties involved. The recov

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