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by adharmad 3y ago
Or Musk returns to the board of OpenAI after a hiatus.
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by adharmad 3y ago
Unrelated, but maybe you mean special relativity. Poincaré was very close and others like Lorentz would have made the logical leap to discover special relativity. Most scientists however agree that GR would have taken much longer for someon
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by adharmad 3y ago
It is a shell company, except that it is not Google (or its equivalent) who is creating it. It is the Infosys and Cognizants (or other bodyshopping firms) of the world who create this structure to satisfy the demand created by the Googles.
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by adharmad 3y ago
Also: (Almost) Impossible Integrals, Sums, and Series - Cornel Ioan Vălean
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by adharmad 3y ago
The MIT integration bee has some good problems. So do the Putnam tests.
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by adharmad 3y ago
Nitpick but it was Paul Buchheit who came up with “Don’t be evil”.
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by adharmad 3y ago
It gets proportionally easier to say such things with a straight face as the size of the exec's golden parachute increases.
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by adharmad 3y ago
From the article: "One theory is that such CEOs are overpaid because they have too much influence over the board that should be monitoring them on shareholders’ behalf and too much influence over the committee that sets their pay.&quot
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by adharmad 3y ago
Quite a few future field medalists in that list. The collective math IQ of the group is off the charts!
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by adharmad 3y ago
Indeed. Hans Bethe did serious and solid scientific work way into his 90s.
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by adharmad 3y ago
Something very similar is the theme of the book "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt, which outlines the theory of constraints in a factory setting. The key is to identify bottlenecks and use them to increase/control throughput to matc
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Farmer owes $82,000 in contract dispute over use of a ‘thumbs-up’ emoji(cnn.com)
10 points by adharmad 3y ago|4 comments
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by adharmad 3y ago
https://bsky.app/
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by adharmad 3y ago
You added a generation there. Sonia was Rajiv's wife - not his daughter.
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by adharmad 4y ago
Also this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/160
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by adharmad 4y ago
Margin call is a documentary in more than one ways.
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by adharmad 4y ago
No but their quarterly statements do have relevant information, if someone wants to dig around. One would assume that if people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on AWS (someone to manage their compute), they would spend some time doin
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by adharmad 4y ago
But in today's economy, any rumor or random event can cause a run on any bank. In fact, there are stories as we speak of the current run on SVB being caused by Peter Thiel and his buddies. If the banking system is so fragile that it is
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by adharmad 4y ago
Capitalism without bankruptcy is a bit like Christianity without hell.
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by adharmad 4y ago
None of the other regional banks had the investment risk profile or the depositor distribution (number of individual investors, SMBs, startups) of SVB.
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by adharmad 4y ago
Now that the bailout is done, I hope these guys stop tweeting for the sake of everyone’s sanity.
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by adharmad 4y ago
Or they can find a buyer for SVB's assets - preferably a bank - which do all this and in addition provide business banking services as well.
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by adharmad 4y ago
But why can their investors not cover the costs? Surely the same VCs who lent the startups money can lend them some more for the short period until SVB's assets valuation gets sorted out? Aren't they the ones to lose most if the s
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by adharmad 4y ago
Facebook is one of the most end-user-hostile companies ever. No interface is what it seems to be. Even downloading your own pictures is very difficult with the actual image hidden in some weird link in a maze of javascript. And the original
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by adharmad 4y ago
“I can’t see it” == “I don't know whether it happened or not”
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by adharmad 4y ago
What I said in no way prevents us from guessing or inferring what could have happened using knowledge known to us. But they are all possibilities, some more likely than others - there is no way of knowing 100% which one of them actually hap
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by adharmad 4y ago
Yes but you cannot tell exactly what happened without the light reaching you. Sure you can guess. For example, if you know the state of a star a few billion years ago, with no other information after that, you can calculate at what point it
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by adharmad 4y ago
But how do you know that it has taken place without the light reaching you? Without the light (or radiation), all you can say is that "something may have taken place everywhere".
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by adharmad 4y ago
How does one balance the rights of the vulnerable, who sometimes do need to be anonymous for fear of retribution and the people who use anonymous accusations as a harassment strategy or for political purposes or for a witch hunt? The only w
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by adharmad 4y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler for them to just have moles in the police department? Or bribe some of the officials involved?

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