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by analyte123 2y ago
If their weather forecast is really the best, power traders would pay them large amounts just for the forecast.
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by analyte123 2y ago
A big thing that he didn't mention: Income-based repayment programs (particularly the new SAVE plan) and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), while certainly well-intended, make the cost of college essentially irrelevant for people
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by analyte123 2y ago
I'm aware that many of these people couldn't pay, mostly for lamentable reasons outside of their control, but pretending nothing is wrong usually doesn't help a bad situation. Ignoring letters from the IRS doesn't make y
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by analyte123 2y ago
During this same time period I had a project at a part-time gig which involved updating document templates and adding a few fields here and there for a legal application. The application was used by a law firm which specialized in mortgages
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by analyte123 2y ago
70% of shelter CPI is calculated by calling random homeowners up and asking them how much they think they could rent out their house for. It was switched to this in the early 80s when the Volcker shock spiked interest rates, housing payment
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by analyte123 2y ago
Doctors don't seem to be driving the majority of the costs. After adjusting for inflation, doctors don't make much more than they did in 1984, yet the percentage of GDP spent on healthcare has almost doubled since then (and the re
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by analyte123 2y ago
It really shouldn't be a point of pride for any kind of "researcher" to have the revelation as an adult that oil has been important in the history of the California economy. I could understand this level of naive astonishment
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by analyte123 2y ago
Mineral's rover really appeared to be a solution looking for a problem. Why do you need a giant, expensive vehicle to slowly roll through your fields and see how the crops are doing when you could fly over it with a $700 drone and just
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by analyte123 2y ago
If you read about agile, standups are supposed to be conducted among the dev team members who are working together on something, and primarily for their benefit, not as a status update to or for someone else. The PM or whoever is considered
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by analyte123 2y ago
It's simply not true that the only users of SQL are programmers. In fact, I have seen the disdain programmers have for SQL be a problem, where the programmers designed a Python client for data and the major users wanted SQL.
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by analyte123 2y ago
SPAs and "engineering for slow internet" usually don't belong together. The giant bundles usually guarantee slow first paint, and the incremental rendering/loading usually guarantees a lot of network chatter that randoml
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by analyte123 2y ago
A new Civic, Elantra, or Corolla all have MSRPs under $25k.
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by analyte123 2y ago
The license for this [1] prohibits use of the model and its outputs for any commercial activity, or even any "live" (whatever that means) conditions, commercial or not. There seems to be an exclusion for using the code outputs as
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by analyte123 2y ago
The author is an anesthesiologist. I don’t think we’re going to see the transplant surgeons writing with such concern any time soon.
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by analyte123 2y ago
At least in the US, 40% of wastewater solids are already used for agriculture [1]. Another 10% is used for landscaping. The same site estimates that if all US biosolids were applied to agriculture, they would supply 3.2% of applied phosphor
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by analyte123 2y ago
I can't think of a better argument to have on-premises software than this article.
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by analyte123 2y ago
Are you using GPT-4 or the free version?
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by analyte123 2y ago
My go-to first screening question, regardless of where I work, is to present some JSON from a public API relevant to the domain (nothing too crazy, maybe 2 or 3 levels of nesting max), then ask the candidate to do a filter plus a sum or max
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by analyte123 2y ago
You can buy several varieties of hydroxyapatite toothpaste on Amazon now. Before 2021 or so it was a bit of a pain - a couple Japanese and Singaporean brands with spotty availability. Edit: as alluded to by sibling comment, there are confus
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by analyte123 2y ago
At a bare minimum, training and releasing a model like this builds critical skills in their engineering workforce that can't really be done any other way for now. It also requires compilation of a training dataset, which is not only an
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by analyte123 2y ago
The victim's parents would technically have been guilty of a felony if this happened today, by failing to lock up the firearm and the minor causing injury to another, including their own self [1]. Michigan's safe storage law was n
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by analyte123 3y ago
The 273 btu of gas they have stored in those impressive cylinders is equivalent to 0.08 kWh. Here's hoping for more to come.
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by analyte123 3y ago
It's estimated that green ammonia costs between $800 and $1500 per ton today to produce [1]. While this is higher than conventional ammonia, it is less than how much ammonia cost in the 2022 energy crisis [2] and likely to decrease f
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by analyte123 3y ago
I don't know why you would take a headline as an invitation to speculate on the cause when the data itself will tell you that all of these are significantly less than the difference in drug overdoses between the US and peer countries.
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by analyte123 3y ago
I suppose the conclusion, "the biggest picture is that OER inflation is running well above pure rent inflation (see chart)...it may well the deter the Fed from cutting interest rates anytime soon" may be relevant today, but when I
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by analyte123 3y ago
Most people affected by economic and social problems do not resort to theft to solve their problems. In fact, they are probably far more likely to be a victim - either directly out of sheer proximity or indirectly as stores close and opport
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by analyte123 3y ago
Organized crime in Mexico would probably do it to prevent other people from using migration routes they control and reduce police efficacy. Of course, slightly rogue Mexican police or even US vigilantes also have an incentive.
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by analyte123 3y ago
The tutorials, examples, demos, and blogs for every vector DB or RAG system that I know of focus mostly on toy datasets far, far under a million tokens. So most people can be forgiven for the view that long context would kill RAG - and it r
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by analyte123 3y ago
>The White House said threats could arise because vehicles “collect large amounts of sensitive data on their drivers and passengers"...[and] also said vehicles could “be piloted or disabled remotely” and added the investigation will
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by analyte123 3y ago
That isn't a "price-cap" on electricity, it's a limit to what is essentially a tax routed through electricity bills and given to utility companies, to the tune of about $30 per person per year. The intent of the tax is t

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