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by akozak 7y ago
Right I get why - but it's crazy to think that the vast majority of companies give up measuring the thing that everyone knows matters, especially when gearing your incentives around it should be better for everyone . (except low produ
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by akozak 7y ago
That'd be very job-specific. It's probably misguided to aim for highly quantitative measurements. If productivity is measured as output per input, you have a lot of flexibility in how to define the relevant output - e.g. hitting w
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by akozak 7y ago
Number of hours still seems like the wrong unit of measurement to me. Shouldn't companies care more about productivity?
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by akozak 7y ago
I'm guessing that's Tesla specific? My Bolt doesn't have (afaik) an automatic cabin conditioning feature so I've never thought about it. Presumably Chevy built it with parts on spec to handle heat.
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by akozak 7y ago
What's the argument against just relying on "cabin overheat protection" to keep the climate in spec? Seems like that would solve a lot of their supply chain limitations at once with relatively minimal battery drain - though i
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by akozak 7y ago
I suspect most housing advocates would agree that the end goal isn't more affordable land - it's getting more affordable units on the market.
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by akozak 7y ago
Worth remembering that housing (and I presume land) is far more expensive than it used to be. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/valu...
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by akozak 8y ago
Cool but you chose to say "high status women" instead of "CEOs".
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by akozak 8y ago
Damn, check your biases.
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by akozak 8y ago
That's a great spot, and right next to the ferry for SF commuters. Good find.
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by akozak 8y ago
I've been here for 15 years?
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by akozak 8y ago
Hot tip for startups: A lot of ppl who work for the big co.s (me included) live or have migrated to the east bay for housing over the years but hate the commute.
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by akozak 8y ago
I'm curious why more bay area startups haven't come to Oakland. (maybe it's happening and it's just not obvious?) Always felt like there was plenty of potential office space relatively close to BART but maybe that's
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by akozak 8y ago
You could call this the Wittgensteinian critique of the question.
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by akozak 8y ago
Insider trading would be bad and illegal. But absent evidence that it's happening, I think his point is that merely having a stake by holding securities isn't inherently problematic.
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by akozak 8y ago
The issue isn't that this approach won't be useful in building systems we can interact with linguistically. The problem is in describing the system as having learned a meaning . It might seem pedantic or like something only philo
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by akozak 8y ago
That's a great way to put it! It doesn't mean the approach isn't useful for building systems that we can interact with linguistically, just that we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking the model has captured meaning.
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by akozak 8y ago
A conception of language he famously threw out in the Philosophical Investigations!
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by akozak 8y ago
NLP via word associations might get you closer to capturing meaning in a Wittgensteinian conception than other methods (I happen to think the PI should be required reading for people studying NLP). But he would probably say the inputs into
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by akozak 8y ago
Yes - but for me it was this paragraph: > And it’s now quite clear where the Wittgenstein’s theories jump in: context is crucial to learn the embeddings as it’s crucial in his theories to attach meaning. In the same way as two words have
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by akozak 8y ago
Figuring out how to process context is important for NLP, no question. But I think this is probably wrong on Wittgenstein. I'm pretty sure his entire point in the Philosophical Investigations was that "meaning" is exactly NOT
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by akozak 8y ago
A game would be alright, but I'd settle for researchers running simulated interventions themselves and submitting it for peer review ;)
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by akozak 8y ago
I wonder what this model would suggest if used to guide interventions aiming reduce anxiety/violence. Would it be more effective to e.g. introduce more helpful similarity-based influence into each group, or reduce cross-group incursion
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by akozak 8y ago
Seems like vision based detection would be both easier and better.
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by akozak 8y ago
This is where citing studies would be helpful instead of arguing on instinct. But also remember: with cars you push a lot of the costs to riders (vehicle capex, maintenance, fuel) and there is interoperability with "last mile" inf
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by akozak 8y ago
There's been a longstanding struggle between the design principles of cryptocurrency - i.e. private payments - and the public policy goals of monitoring our payments infrastructure for criminal activity. What are cryptocurrency advocat
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by akozak 8y ago
I'd be interested in some of the math here - e.g. if you wanted to compare civ fitness - would you need to test every iteration of initial starting conditions? And then I wonder how that changes if the map is a hexagonal sphere...
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by akozak 9y ago
I think he said in the press conference that they weren't planning to reuse the core or boosters. (But then mentioned later they wanted some of the parts? IDK)
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by akozak 9y ago
That's interesting - even if they can prove chemically they're producing something that's already been approved?
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by akozak 9y ago
It's not a totally crazy idea to set aside a small portion of your portfolio for a bunch of long-shot investments that have huge upside potential (isn't that how seed funding works?). But I think practically speaking it'd be

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