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by ailun 3y ago
I just got car insurance last week through Progressive in California. It was cheaper than the same coverage in Washington and activated instantly.
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by ailun 4y ago
I remember hearing something different. Seems like Mercedes is moving in that direction. https://insideevs.com/news/575160/mercedes-accepts-legal-res...
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by ailun 4y ago
Very interesting, thank you! I don't think I've worked on any truly large problems with these methods so I will keep your thoughts in mind when I do.
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by ailun 4y ago
That's why I said "more worried," though. Of course you can't be sure that they are doing a perfect job for every situation. But I don't think I'm going to do a better job manually than those heuristics - that&
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by ailun 4y ago
To be clear, I don't disagree with you about MCMC. But wouldn't your first two pitfalls wouldn't be taken care of as much as possible by using a widely used library's implementation? All the libraries I'm aware of t
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by ailun 4y ago
Why wouldn’t you just use Stan or Pymc or one of the other dozen existing implementations with something like HMC? They use it as the default sampling algorithm.
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by ailun 4y ago
It’s not. Beijing is pretty accurate as most English speakers say it (except for the tones), although I often hear people do really weird things with the j. The b and j sounds in Mandarin are not the same as in English, but they are closer
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by ailun 4y ago
I understand media skepticism, but your comment is just as reductive and misinformed as saying that all the protests are pro-democracy. There are both types of protest right now in China. Many are anti-local government, asking for the centr
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by ailun 4y ago
This was my first thought as well! I was weirdly obsessed with that game. It crashed all the time, so that part fits. I originally had the demo on CD, I think it came with X-Wing vs Tie Fighter or one of those other Lucasarts games.
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by ailun 4y ago
I just tried the feature in China, doesn't seem to help.
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by ailun 4y ago
The situation is a bit different. It's common in China to pay for unfinished apartments. So the bank has nothing to foreclose on, and the property development company becomes even less likely to finish the property. The fear is that mo
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by ailun 4y ago
I don't know for sure about OMSCS, but in OMSA you can ask the advisors to let you take more than 6 credits and they'll usually approve it. There are a fair amount of people who try to finish it in 3 semesters, although that seems
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by ailun 4y ago
Yes, they can.
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by ailun 4y ago
You can email them to enable receiving short codes for a specific number. That doesn't mean it works with all banks or whatever (the sending company may not allow Twilio numbers), but it does work for some of them. https://s
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by ailun 4y ago
You completely misunderstood their post.
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by ailun 4y ago
I'm in a similar situation, or I will be eventually. How hard is it for Chinese nationals to move to Taiwan, do you know?
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by ailun 4y ago
Yeah I forgot a word there. Typed it quickly on my phone. Meant to say I don't think the clips are all recent or in Shanghai.
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by ailun 5y ago
I saw that video and I don't they are all in Shanghai or all recent.
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by ailun 5y ago
One more for you (long): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/prospectus-on-prospera
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by ailun 5y ago
It’s important to keep pointing these things out. I’m not quite as pessimistic as some who believe that the US will continue to do these things forever; I believe the US populace is slowly waking up to what has been done in their names. Whi
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by ailun 5y ago
Well, I live in China as a foreigner so maybe our experiences are not as far apart as you think.
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by ailun 5y ago
I’m not on the opposite side of a debate with you, and I don’t care about “high school debate rules.” If you’re right then you don’t need to lie or mislead and use little tricks like the one I pointed out. Just make your point without them
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by ailun 5y ago
Then that's a nice rhetorical trick, but dishonest. A direct quote from you: The fact that AP backpedaled like this shows how shaky all the evidence was. You're comparing your impression of a bunch of poor quality news with an a
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by ailun 5y ago
Please cite the previous AP article that said "worse than the holocaust". I don’t believe it exists.
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by ailun 5y ago
Because you’re probably waiting with the crowd near where the smaller waves are breaking so you can catch those. Some people do just wait further out for the bigger waves, but they miss out on all the smaller waves breaking closer to the be
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by ailun 5y ago
This is one of the best explanations I’ve seen of as_strided. Could have used this a few months ago when we had to use it to implement a CNN in class!
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by ailun 5y ago
Sure, the quality of mainstream news is always, and has always been, a problem. More education and improvement in understanding is always a good thing. But you're not making any interesting points there, and you have no way to quantify
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by ailun 5y ago
I don't believe it is irrelevant. You're saying other people are overly attributing opinions to censorship - and you have a Harvard paper (but don't link to it) that may show censorship in China is more based on potential to
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by ailun 5y ago
I agree that there is a bad tendency to look at Chinese people as brainwashed drones. But you're going too far in the opposite direction. China's media control, educational policies, and army of nationalists absolutely affect the
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by ailun 5y ago
Then you aren't reading the right "China-watchers". Some names from a quick review of my Twitter feed to check out if you're actually interested: Kevin Tellier, Peter Hessler, Xifan Yang, Michael Pettis, Manya Koetse, Sa

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