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by ak_111 2y ago
I always thought that part of the upside of being tenured and extremely recognised as a leader of your field is the freedom to submit to incredibly obscure (non-predatory) journals just for fun.
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by ak_111 2y ago
- hey honey how was work today? - it was fine, I desk rejected terence tao, his result was a bit meh and the write up wasn't up to my standard. Then I had a bit of a quite office hour, anyway, ...
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by ak_111 2y ago
Wow his database startup that raised 12M died this year after only three years. If anything this shows how insanely difficult it must be to succeed as a database startup (when was the most recent startup success in this space?), as the foun
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by ak_111 2y ago
Anyone tried replit? Is it worth the money with free copilot now from Github?
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by ak_111 2y ago
Yes you are right, I think I was referring to London, not UK (although 8.25 ratio for the UK is pretty bad given that it was around 4-5 not that long ago). Average London salary: £44,000 Average London House: £531,000 There are many other
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by ak_111 2y ago
You highlight and try and predict the eventual problems of non-marketisation but you don't seem and try and do the same to the eventual problems of marketisation. These things are difficult to predict, but already for example we notice
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by ak_111 2y ago
I am arguing this is mostly explained by universities being taken over mba-type managers: launching new products (i.e non-sensical degrees), turning university study into an "experience", ... is all the sort of thing that mba type
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by ak_111 2y ago
"Selling indulgence" is a bit of gross generalisation though. Getting a medicine or technical degree from a top-tier university does prepare you technically for a very technically demanding job. Whatever replacement you imagine
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by ak_111 2y ago
tbh working at google has a lot of advantages that a lot of hackers don't appreciate until they start trying to doing their own thing. For one thing as soon as you start doing your own thing you will quickly find your day eaten up by a
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by ak_111 2y ago
can you please name names? I can't think of any (but am not an expert on the space).
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by ak_111 2y ago
Could it be that part of the failure is that EdTech companies are focused on replacing the pedagogical aspect of schools, but the main utility of schools for parents is not pedagogy - it is a daycare centre for kids while parents go on abou
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by ak_111 2y ago
Would be interesting to know which model solved the 2% and what is the nature of the problems it solved.
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by ak_111 2y ago
I think because if you end up having an AI that is as capable as the graduate students Tao is used to dealing with (so basically potential field medalists) then you are basically betting that 85% chance something like AGI (at least in con
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by ak_111 2y ago
I don't see how it refutes the broader point that not having socialised medicine creates all kinds of diabolical dynamics in society that punishes you as soon as you fall out of the system for any reason. For example if I understood co
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by ak_111 2y ago
It is well known phenomena: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Trump_voters although anecdotally most people know people personally that voted Obama then Trump. Obama was very much a populist outsider in his o
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by ak_111 2y ago
"In Europe you'd also need a boatload of cash or a top private insurance if you'd choose the best private chemo therapist and clinic in the country outside the public health system where Walter would be on long waiting lists
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by ak_111 2y ago
Yes exactly I meant for some people it was very radical to vote for him despite the aggressive McCain/Palin campaign that was painting him as a black foreigner cupboard muslim with a strange un-american name. Imagine those white, MAGA
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by ak_111 2y ago
I watched it long time so forgot the exact details. But you are saying he could have had enough money from his cofounders, but that was still after he decided to start drug dealing. So how is that refuting that the initial trigger for his d
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by ak_111 2y ago
Yep. The most interesting phenomena in all most all electoral history is the Obama-Obama-Trump-Trump-Trump voters (those that voted Obama twice, then Trump thrice). It is probably 1-2% of the electorate but probably 5-10% in most swing stat
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by ak_111 2y ago
American wealth isn't uniformly distributed. And as soon as you fall below a threshold of poverty in the US you feel it 10x more painfully than an equally poor person in Europe. The US series Breaking Bad talks about a well-behaved c
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by ak_111 2y ago
I didn't read the article but did it shed light on why some survived and some didn't? I am wondering if those who didn't survive probably died from trauma/injury during the capsizing, or was it because they were incapabl
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by ak_111 2y ago
Could argue this works in exactly the opposite way. This "wall" makes the west an open book to china, while for the west it is hard to crack the Chinese. For one thing, think of the implications on recruiting people to spy or inte
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by ak_111 2y ago
I wonder the cost to Microsoft if there is a rigorous political effort by the CCP to move all Chinese desktop consumption away from Windows and Office Suite to open source (local) alternatives.
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by ak_111 2y ago
Note that Palantir's moral stature isn't as grey or debatable as made in the article, it is basically clearly complicit in the genocide in Gaza. In other words, if you read the article I would add one more bucket to the three cate
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by ak_111 2y ago
Actually if you are in place like the UK or northern Europe it is very much not considered fashionable or virtuous to stop drinking even today. For example whenever you go out in a work event, people would look at you almost suspiciously if
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by ak_111 2y ago
I think the argument against moderate drinking, and it is not a particularly strong one, is that is hard to remain moderate, not that moderate drinking per se is dangerous. I think your grandfather would be deemed a teetotaler by today&#x27
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by ak_111 2y ago
Yes that's my point, it is very telling that nobody talks about it because it is a sign that alcohol is mostly a negative thing and has negative impact on people's life. If it wasn't we would be hearing far more from ex-tee
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by ak_111 2y ago
Not sure about vegetarian. There is usually lots of comments from people who say they tried being vegetarian but it didn't work when discussing meat and vegetarian threads.
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by ak_111 2y ago
Interesting why did you regret it? Is there anything you miss about it?
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by ak_111 2y ago
Poster is clearly not suggesting ubiquity of alcohol is conspiracy. There are also alcohol-related phenomena that has never been ubiquitous as they are now, such as binge drinking by large section of the population especially underaged peop

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