adaptiveValleys

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by adaptiveValleys 7y ago
> middle-man firm who are creating the security and trying to unload it. If the investment bank only facilitates the transaction, then the key incentive that could tilt the transaction toward having a sense of urgency, and as a result, i
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by adaptiveValleys 7y ago
I think that's the intent, but it seems to only have incentivized discovering another proxy for race. For example, I recently watched an infosec talk 'hacking your credit score.'[0] Where the presenter mentioned that Fair Isa
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
I agree. He interviews a lot of fascinating people with highly-specialized backgrounds. To research their work and understand it enough to have great conversational flow and remain highly insightful would take a lot of time. But since this
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
The name was chosen very carefully for a specific purpose, nothing to do with proclaiming moral high-ground. Eric explains the various meanings in a video he uploaded to his channel [1]. I would argue Molyneux is not remotely part of the ID
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
He doesn't consider himself a physicist either.[1] [1] https://youtu.be/2wq9x2QcZN0?t=2025 At 33:45 of the podcast after he gives the kinetic-potential energy analogy to describe his distrust of Pinker's optimism.
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
I'm very much like you, and I think startups/small companies with a flat management structure (i.e. level obfuscation as another commenter phrased it) or where most managers have engineering backgrounds. In my experience at large
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
There's a fascinating youtube channel called X-Pilot that does videos on flight incidents/disasters. The creator gathers a lot of really interesting info and does a brief step by step recreation of the incident in a simulator, and
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
True, which is why looking at so generally makes it seem paradoxical. I can't recall where it read it, but I think it's the result of some phagocytic, either auto- (i.e. lysosomes, intracellular clean up) or macro- (i.e. macrophag
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
I'm sure they are, so they a pass those lovely negative externalities onto the customer because they know it's in demand and only they provide that service. If only they had a competitor that could launch the same products a few m
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
Agreed. I recently heard in a talk an example of NLP being used to help rank sellers by analyzing messages between buyers and sellers, before and after transactions. Another example was how Taobao increased the number of useful reviews by a
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
MIT & Harvard, NCBI says Research Support, US Gov't, P.H.S. (I believe that stands for public health services, based on googling US Gov't PHS). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/221933 Since I can'
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
Very interesting. I was able to find the patent, but not the whole paper. Seems to suffice as a substitute. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4181128
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by adaptiveValleys 8y ago
The criteria for adaptive evolution, in the classical Darwinian sense, are: 1). Reproduction. 2). Variation between the products of reproduction. 3). Heritability between those variants. 4). Differential success among the variants. Anything