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by ak_111 4y ago
I think presenting this data using the "funnel visualisation" is the most informative way of doing it.
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Whats a good intro book to understand optics that is technical but doesn't completely overwhelm (bonus if it includes how vision works from a physiological level)?
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He gets quite a lot wrong about Wahhabism (which I am not a fan of). To his credit he does mention he didn't bother going deep into trying to understand it, and his research is very superficial relying on all the well-known debunked cl
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by ak_111 4y ago
I think there approach and model are interesting the problem is that they overhyped it to the point that it would be unacceptable academically. Their abstract says "In this paper we introduce Galactica: a large language model that can
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I tend to sympathise with this view, but I think one interesting thing which it tried to accomplish was code-generation or auto-verification, in a way it was an interesting early form of no-code in this regard Also it is quite useful to und
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by ak_111 4y ago
reminds me of my post where i tried to understand blockchain in good faith: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132610
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I don't know who managed to blow their life more. With her intelligence, good looks, connections and charisma she could have easily been a Marissa Mayer 2.0 by hustling 10 times less than she did, if only she played it safe in any of t
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by ak_111 4y ago
I second this comment. It will be very interesting to see a rough sketch.
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by ak_111 4y ago
Am not sure you can give him that much benefit of doubt. He was promoting btc heavily way after the initial excitement of crypto up until the end of 2019 (he gave a public lecture in Lebanon where he suggested it and blockchain technology a
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by ak_111 4y ago
The irony is that Taleb was a big promoter of bitcoin for many years, and even wrote the forward for the first edition of "The bitcoin standard" praising it for being anti-fragile and a black swan event that mainstream financial e
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by ak_111 4y ago
Brings to mind Israel's frequent bombing of Gaza. They might have more precise missiles, but the the human density in Gaza is much greater, leading to more deaths, you can hardly blow a dynamite without bringing a whole building down.
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by ak_111 4y ago
In this case they should have awarded it to one of the civil right movements. The symbolism of awarding it in the first year of Obama's presidency would have had the same impact in underscoring the civilisational progress of having him
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by ak_111 4y ago
Arafat at least signed a peace treaty that superficially ended one of the most impactful and divisive conflicts of our time. He arguably came closest at the times to being the Palestinian Mandala (alas he had many flaws to be that imo) I wo
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by ak_111 4y ago
It is more crazy if you remember when they bought whatssapp it was less than 20 employees supporting a billion user. And the app doesn't look like it changed that much since it started being supported by 10,000 employees (guessing).
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by ak_111 4y ago
Yeah I think the concept is very cool and probably has lots of potential, but the fact that not even most scientists I know have heard of it implies that is yet a niche area that hasn't yet had a major impact in applications.
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by ak_111 4y ago
This sounds mind-blowing and if it is transformative as you state, then why did it take so long to award it the prize, have all the most recent previous winners been more worthy?
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by ak_111 4y ago
Wouldn't it be noticeable if someone got their ranking reset? So others can easily infer who got caught?
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I agree, but I am trying to give them the benefit of the doubt here that they are not just stupid or political opportunist with the country's national wealth. So I am offering a reason why they might sell it for some 'smart'
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by ak_111 4y ago
What are the chances that this is a 4D chess move, where the US government is confident we are heading into an almighty recession soon (because they basically know from their contacts at the Fed that they will not stop hiking interest rate
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I submitted this story, but I agree the wording is very suspicious.
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Indeed it is not a rigours experiment by any stretch of the imagination. But the difference in scale in response (and the fact his profile looks earnest) we have an interesting data point on bias in academia.
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by ak_111 4y ago
I wouldn't say that all postdocs are extremely specific in a field like plant biology. You might require the postdoc to be knowledgable of certain lab practices only for example. In fact, in many cases it is very unlikely that you will
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by ak_111 4y ago
At the stage of shortlisting for the interview, a lot of people don't actually go out and check the paper, they just register it is published in a good journal, they might do a deep dive when preparing for the interview if at all. Espe
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by ak_111 4y ago
Sure, we can give the benefit of the doubt that most were unconscious about it. But the scale of difference in the response rate means that we also can't rule out that there were a minority who rejected him because they are basically r
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by ak_111 4y ago
It's actually worst than I made out in the title. The responses he got under his original name were "almost all negative", not actual invitations. While almost all the response under his pseudonym were positive, some getting
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PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name(twitter.com)
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Actually Nintendo started (140 years ago!) also as card trading company before becoming a console giant
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You can tell that being rejected by YC isn't that strong indicator for success given the number of YC startups who have been public about having only got into YC in their third or even fourth attempt. In my book that is equivalent to b
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by ak_111 4y ago
Note that he only recently finished his PhD in a tangential area related to Quantum computing, so he is not a giant in a field like say Aronson who I would be interested in knowing what they think on this industry. I do in fact agree with m
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by ak_111 4y ago
Note that he only recently finished his PhD in a tangential area related to Quantum computing, so he is not a giant in a field like say Aronson who I would be interested in knowing what they think on this industry. I do in fact agree with m

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