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by afpx 3y ago
The algorithms are tuned for engagement - a blind result of massive A/B testing. People engage with content that causes fear, addiction, get-rich quick schemes, and ideology. I quit FB years ago when I started feeling like something wa
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by afpx 3y ago
Really eye-opening for me. I grew up pretty poor, like no heat or plumbing or bed poor. And, I pretty much have all the low-status behaviors. It reminds me of reading Sapolsky's "Behave" which discusses a lot about physiologi
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by afpx 3y ago
Yeah, apparently I have a very high IQ but I still suck at programming. I often wonder if they tested me wrong, but I was tested twice. IDK Anyone else like this? Maybe I have a learning disability or something.
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by afpx 3y ago
In my wife's experience, men are generally less friendly to women in the corporate environment. In fact, as she climbs the ladder, she finds that the men are more aggressive and hositle toward her. For her, she just wants to get the sa
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by afpx 3y ago
25 yoe slacker here. Before now, I've interviewed about 10 times in my career. The last time I interviewed was about 12 years ago. Man, what a difference does 12 years make. I remember the days when you'd give a resume, get an int
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by afpx 3y ago
Reminds me of MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) https://reason.com/2007/10/30/prohibition-returns/
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by afpx 3y ago
It's hit or miss. Sometimes, I give it relatively complex requirements, and it spits out a running program. Worst case, it at least points me in the right direction. I save well over an hour a month with it, so it's worth it.
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by afpx 3y ago
The companies paying 3x median income are trying to hire smart people, not necessarily ones with particular skills.
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by afpx 3y ago
It's a power law. The middle class also grew, less substantially. 86% of the world's population are wealthy enough to afford to own a smart phone. To me, that's pretty amazing.
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by afpx 3y ago
About 1.5 billion people were raised out of extreme poverty over about 30 years arguably because of capitalism. Similarly, large global middle classes have built up over that time. It feels like we should keep doing what we've been doi
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by afpx 3y ago
I've been out of the industry for a few years, but it used to take 9 hours to turn a coal generator on.
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by afpx 3y ago
Why do you replace them every few years?
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by afpx 3y ago
Before 2010, I used to get a lot of “why are manhole covers round?” type questions, not ACM competition type questions.
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by afpx 3y ago
I had an interview recently where I was given a 1000 line, deeply stacked conditional and asked to traverse it. Like, what are they selecting for? I hope that’s not demonstrative of their source code.
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by afpx 3y ago
That's the cost of two people.
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by afpx 3y ago
I love that high-profile people like you are taking risks and innovating with hiring. Thank you. I'm hoping to see some change in the industry. There are probably a lot of high-performing people who have little motivation to go through
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by afpx 3y ago
Yeah I’m being dumb. I was thinking of MCTS with infinite depth where the path through time that’s taken (wave function collapse) is the optimal path for some reward function (maybe complexity?).
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by afpx 3y ago
Does it depend on what type of simulation? For example, if it’s an optimization problem, couldn’t you tell statistically by looking at macroscopic events?
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by afpx 3y ago
Reminds me of the guys who cruise around in rumbling cars. It's not to get the ladies. Some sort of territorial marking?
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by afpx 3y ago
Apparently not - look at venntel for example.
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by afpx 3y ago
I've recently started seeing job postings that say at the bottom "Mail physical resume" - is that the new brown M&M test? Also, can't the hiring process be improved with optimal stopping?
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by afpx 3y ago
Most of it is LARPing.
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by afpx 3y ago
What about papers like these that suggest creation of task-oriented manifolds? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/764258v3
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by afpx 3y ago
Fighting NIMBY has been a thing since the 80s. Have there been any successes?
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by afpx 3y ago
One of the first things they teach in Econ 101 is how bad rent control is for an economy.
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by afpx 3y ago
Now I know where platitudes like "Be your own spectator; seek your own applause." come from.
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by afpx 3y ago
That's why I have alt accounts - one for each of my different personalities.
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by afpx 3y ago
Their rail company is almost $1T in debt.
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by afpx 3y ago
Code is very token dense, from what I understand.
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by afpx 3y ago
I’m more concerned with lack of chargers. Between DC and Pittsburgh, there are only a few chargers. There are probably more than 100 gas stations.

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