antasvara

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by antasvara 9mo ago
I like this as an optional "this will be read and considered by a human" guarantee added to a job posting. That way, you can still get the reach of digital submissions but the benefits of this approach.
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by antasvara 9mo ago
No different from applying to jobs. Much like companies, there are a variety of journals with varying levels of prestige or that fit your paper better/worse. You don't know in advance which journals will respond to your paper, whi
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by antasvara 10mo ago
I don't have a "problem" with AI being used in this fashion. That being said, this article (and others on the blog) sound quite generic. They're characterized by the staccato, "I wanted this. Then this. Also this&qu
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by antasvara 11mo ago
Just wanted to shout out the ability to copy, paste, and transpose the data using your mouse and keyboard. The ability to combine and reorganize data without needing to program is huge. It means you can grab data from an online source, past
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by antasvara 11mo ago
This could be anything, so making a sweeping generalization is premature IMO. It could be insider knowledge that Intel/AMD/other has made a huge step forward and has reduced Nvidia's moat (unlikely considering his public su
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by antasvara 1y ago
>it can't be a failure of the montessori method because the very design and goal of the method is to not let that happen. or at least the chance is very small. and then it is still a failure of the teacher and not the method. High i
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by antasvara 1y ago
>that they aren't very good at recognizing when the ideology is failing a kid. I would amend this somewhat to say that most ideologies have aspects that are much less effective in practice than they are in theory. I think this match
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by antasvara 1y ago
I don't doubt that it's a solvable problem. Basically any educational method claims to work for every kid, and in theory they all do. I just think that any method of education is a series of tradeoffs. Time management and difficul
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by antasvara 1y ago
Sure, there's an element of that. But I think it's fair to say that life involves doing things you don't want to do sometimes and Montessori struggles with that.
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by antasvara 1y ago
Nope, fully accredited Montessori school and trained Montessori teachers. I'm actually a huge fan of Montessori schools, including the one I went to. It was a great experience. But in my experience and the experience of a lot of others
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by antasvara 1y ago
Having been through Montessori, I think it's fantastic for kids that are naturally self-driven. I had a great time when it came to learning science and English (the two subjects I cared the most about). Howrver, I was also pretty far b
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by antasvara 1y ago
I work in insurance, but not specifically in-depth on regulated insurance rates like personal auto. That being said, I can add some insight. Most state insurance regulators require a company to justify the rate they're charging based o
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by antasvara 1y ago
If you have other people working at your company or investors, politics will come into play. It's rare to have a CEO that can decide things 100% by themselves and still retain talented employees. It's also super rare to have inves
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by antasvara 1y ago
Inflammation is a blunt instrument. It's one of the body's tools to contain and attack a pathogen. Without it, many bacteria and other irritants would wreak havoc on the body. As allergies and (to an extent) COVID have shown, infl
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by antasvara 1y ago
You're correct. The NHL Player's Association (so the PA in NHLPA) is the organization that collectively bargains on behalf of the players in the NHL. That's why all of the players were in the game, but the NHL logo, team logo
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by antasvara 1y ago
There are a lot of interesting dynamics in this market. For example, CAT bonds are generally tied to the specific natural hazard ("this bond triggers if a hurricane of Category 3 or higher land falls in this segment of Florida") o
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by antasvara 1y ago
For what it's worth, that's how the Montessori school I went to worked. I have my critiques of the full Montessori approach (too long for a comment), but the thing that always made sense was mixed age and mixed speed classrooms. T
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by antasvara 1y ago
Around 54% of adults read at a 6th grade level or below: https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy Based on this, you could reach both of these conclusions: 1. Most literary fiction is inaccessible to the average ad
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by antasvara 1y ago
>Lots of literary fiction is perfectly readable for normal humans. Lots of what isn’t accessible is just not that enjoyable to anybody. The PIAAC surveys, while imperfect, indirectly address what percentage of adults can read and appreci
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by antasvara 1y ago
>Insurance gates these but could do so with their own tech rather than relying on the third party. Could help with keeping loss ratios at the minimum. I work in insurance. In my experience, the fact that you have to go to the doctor for
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by antasvara 1y ago
In the broad sense, people are in favor of automation. Most people aren't clamoring for the days before the stove, dishwasher, and car (all automated versions of past technologies). That being said, I think a lot of people are against
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by antasvara 1y ago
Robots are expensive, heavy, and require skilled workers to service. Even if they (for example) became competent electricians tomorrow, they wouldn't be cost competitive versus a human any time soon. More generally, you don't have
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by antasvara 1y ago
The "work" is actively trying to recall the information on the card. Spaced repetition is just a more efficient way of doing this than (for example) cycling through every single card, every single day.
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by antasvara 1y ago
I can speak to some of it. When items like this go up for auction, sellers often set a "minimum" price. If that isn't met, the item isn't sold and remains the property of the original owner. As you've highlighted, t
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by antasvara 1y ago
>Pharma needs patent laws and a whole market economy to function. I agree in general with this sentiment. However, I think that "medical robot that can cure anything" isn't something you'd patent (as you'd have t
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by antasvara 1y ago
>I didn't buy the premise of the movie that only that rich would be able to use them. Given they were robots, governments, hospitals, could and would make them readily available since ultimately it would massively lower their medica
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by antasvara 1y ago
I think you're both sort of right. The orders in question here are 1 for Apple (the one that made circumventing Apple payments super difficult) and 1 for Meta (their ad-free subscription service). Meta and Apple have to comply with tho
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by antasvara 1y ago
I mean, the view I have is that at the time of the LBO nobody knows for sure what will happen. The PE firm knows what they plan to do. The lenders know in a general sense what the PE firm plans to do, along with the track record of that f
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by antasvara 1y ago
>In this case the PE firm would have been better off not getting a loan to begin with - it would have kept the interest payments to itself. That assumes the PE company can predict exactly how long the expect the business to survive after
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by antasvara 1y ago
A loan at an 11% interest rate pays for itself in around six and a half years. The general concept is that even if the PE firm runs the company into the ground, it only needs to exist (and make loan payments) for 6.5 years to get your money

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