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by adw 2y ago
The KMT believe, officially, that Taiwan own China; the DPP believe Taiwan to be independent of China. Neither regard the CCP as the legitimate power in Taiwan.
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Blue and Green in Taiwan do not relate to environmentalism, they relate to the position of the party with respect to the mainland.
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The university sector (both public and private) is a mess and this is one of the many, many ways in which that is true.
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22% of revenue, not employees, colleges don't accept employer liability. This settlement should be rejected as unconscionable. Public universities (and private universities which actually care about education!) would be well advised to
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Absolutely addiction does; so we're going to ban alcohol (and weed), and then maybe move onto video games and books and and and and? Prohibition has generally been a lot less effective than regulation. The problem in the US, in my view
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The NIL loophole? Yeah, not really, and not enforceably, and examples of teams reneging are not hard to find.
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by adw 2y ago
If the players aren't employed by their teams, provided with healthcare and pensions and all the rest, then it absolutely is. The NCAA (for revenue sports) is a scam and everyone involved with any of it is morally bankrupt.
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by adw 2y ago
All the tech piling into US sports books is British precisely because the British markets (particularly horses, football and tennis, but really everything up to and including political markets) are so much more sophisticated and there'
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by adw 2y ago
> I’ve believed for a long time and continue to that the math on these businesses just doesn’t work. Particularly for Las Vegas, the business may not be what you think it is. Vegas is, amongst other things, a global money laundrette.
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"perversion of sports" is a particularly American viewpoint, I think! The latent streak of puritanism, maybe. Yet, somehow, the NCAA (which is wage theft on a truly industrial scale) is morally okay. It's weird. (The intersec
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Polyend Tracker is the other hardware tracker out there. Similar price though.
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The equivalent is the EMA.
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"Center right" is if anything underselling it. The NYT is to the right of, for example, the Financial Times.
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I’m not and, unfortunately, those aren’t universal either, even within a country. The normal terminology where I grew up would be S1, which follows P7. I would expect most people to know about trigonometric functions by age 12, yes. (I ente
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> we are not doing geometry here we absolutely are doing geometry here, given we're talking about metrics in a vector space – and this is trigonometry you learned by the first year of high school.
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In other words: `busybox` is primarily an implementation of a _standard library_ and only secondarily a command line tool, so it _must_ use the standard names.
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Yes, ultimately everyone is currently doing something which looks like synchronous data parallel training on the outside. The linked PDF is very light on detail, but what results they do claim are about a 1.2bn parameter model. This is tiny
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And a massive success in games development, particularly on mobile. (Unity!)
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Is it reasonable to expect better of a prominent institution like DEFCON than from some other typical company?
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While not disagreeing with anything you’ve said (music theory is one part acoustic physics to several parts history and sociology), the specific primacy of Schenkerian analysis is a particularly American trait. It’s also, interestingly, ill
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You just described basically the entire trading strategy of most high frequency traders.
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Implement it as part of the network, not as a discrete system outside of it.
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(2020)
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Whenever you're building some ad-hoc non-differentiable circumstantial hacks around your learned model (regardless of whether it's an LLM or not), two alarms should go off in your head; a) Could this be made differentiable? End-to
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Will deal better with less well-conditioned parameters, maybe? That's a bit of a wild-ass guess, but it's not an entirely uninformed one.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_to_Coventry
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https://reverb.com/item/66376148-copppersound-diy-mini-bread... is popular in the DIY guitar effects world
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You’re paying them to take the higher variance end of a swap. That is exactly the same transaction as insurance, complete with the same pricing model.
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Both are transferring risk. If I insure against political risk, is that any different from betting on the presidential election? No, it isn’t. The distinction between insurance and gambling is cultural, they’re both just risk swaps.
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They are absolutely gambling; there are various ways that position can blow up. (Consider counterparty risk.)

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