alexbeloi

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by alexbeloi 8y ago
This is a great idea to gather problems/questions. There's no substitute for scaled A/B testing, and finding worthwhile things for testing can be the hardest part.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
That's really interesting. Do you think it could be related to the effect of map projection biases? Is that a thing dates far enough back to affect settlement decisions?
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Lots of things should be one way and aren't. See racism. The point of these discussions is proposing on the how of making should into does .
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>You're not going to become an entrepreneur with $20k since that won't pay for office space, equipment, etc. Not if you spend it on office equipment. The $20k buys you $20k worth of free time in your life to work on your person
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Agreed, I was only addressing the part about collagen breakdown. Pressure cooking makes most sense when you don't change the medium of cooking, as you say, boiling bbq doesn't make much sense. Otherwise the principal is the same,
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
What you need to break down collagen to gelatin is just energy. Energy = heat * time, so you can break it down in less time by using higher heat differential (higher temperature), which is exactly what a pressure cooker does. I have a stew
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
I hope you're not doing anything illegal, citizen.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Can I ask what psychedelics you're referring to?
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
You're probably thinking of MDMA, which releases serotonin. LSD doesn't release seratonin, but it does have similar shape to serotonin and therefore can trigger the same receptors that serotonin does.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Somebody at Alphabet or DeepMind decided that the research they produce wasn't tangible enough to justify their cost, so they have to demonstrate 'real business value' of their research. For bottom line business people, this
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
There may as well be no territory, the only thing relevant is the map and how it reacts to probing.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
You and GP are talking about different things. As you say, Gitlab.com has been deteriorating and has continual performance issues, however Gitlab Core (the OSS project) has made big strides in the last year in adding features like excellent
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>I thought you were talking about classification of these tweets so that politicians know what their followers are talking about. Sentiment analysis is a very small part of what we do and as you said there are tons of examples on web tha
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>Are you aware of any such corpus? I am not aware of a corpus for political sentiment specifically. There's a general twitter sentiment dataset[0], the link appears to be broken but it's what everyone cites, not sure why it&#x2
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Have you considered using this for analyzing feedback for politicians? They have similar pain points in understanding what feedback from constituents is a general problem vs isolated concern. Maybe through twitter data (as PoC) and then act
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>What am I missing about the benefits of the status quo keep it so entrenched? The entrenchment is due to perceived (and cultivated) prestige, less so about tangible benefits. Prestigious journals have good brand value, they spend money
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Presumably you are also required to delete it from any training data for an ML model, does that make any models trained on previous set of data illegal to use?
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Somebody on HN once mentioned maintaining duplicate/redundant deployment scripts for two different cloud providers. If one goes down you 'just' redeploy onto the other cloud provider. So you would be down for only as long as
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
This seems to me like this should be a non-profit. This company's revenue growth is misaligned with their customer's goals. Total success would be for the company to have 100% churn from successful rehab, the better they are at wh
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>The people don't get the food produced on their farms because they can't afford the food. They can't afford it because the Ethiopian economy is in its infancy. Sure it doesn't feel right when the food is being shippe
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
The dirty secret of machine learning is it's 20% model building, 80% plumbing.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Despite the existence of Spotify, Pandora, Google Music, etc. There is a huge group of people (among the largest on youtube) that listen to music using youtube playlists. This was definitely true when I was in college a few years ago. I thi
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
As you say, a perfect solution might be a redistribution of global food supply to allocate more to starving regions. I will support you in 'fighting the good fight'. To me, the pragmatic solution is to grow more food with the same
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Super cool! IMO, the killer feature is how easy it is to embed recordings into your project readme or issues/comments in markdown/html.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>What about GMOs? What is the harm in not using them? lower crop yields, more starvation, more malnutrition
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
It sounds like the core problem is that you're unhappy about how the division of roles was made. Is it that your co-founder isn't contributing as much as you to the company or that he doesn't respect your and others contribut
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
This is what Blendle offers according to u/ChuckMcM, price per article decided by publisher, ranges from 9c to $1.99, average 25c.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
For some things I prefer the subscription model because of the incentives it creates, every article I read or day that I go to a gym lowers the overall cost-per-visit. With a per-article or per-visit model, I would be disincentivized to rea
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
Not counting damages to reputation (1 - P) * 1110 + (cost of additional legal fees) Where P is Bell's probability of winning.
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by alexbeloi 8y ago
>service sector jobs don't create wealth: you can not have a city solely of repairmen and realtors. Repairmen very directly create wealth by adding value to the thing they repair, equivalent to a craft trade or construction. Realtor

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