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by aqi 7y ago
The problems are not fundamentally of local scope. Consider for example the coal mining towns that have been left in a state of ruin by the shift away from coal. There is no local prosperity to fund local aid there.
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by aqi 7y ago
The US doesn't have a shortage of land or housing. Rather, the concentration of jobs in big cities induces localized shortages. UBI would actually make it feasible to move to areas with lower living costs, decentralizing demand for hou
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by aqi 7y ago
At the end of the presentation the presented mentions that this is structurally identical to loopy belief propagation... Isn't that a big issue, since they inherit many of its tractability issues with regards to training and inference?
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by aqi 7y ago
The problem is much bigger than the existence of these gig economy services. The deeper issue is that demand for unskilled labor has become weak enough that, for many people, this is their best option relative to their skill set. Working co
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by aqi 8y ago
This was built through incremental edits from a Python proof-of-concept, which you can see here: https://github.com/yeahpython/ascii-renderer/blob/master/fun... It doesn't have any real physics, but
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by aqi 8y ago
It's because I just changed the game to support arrow keys :)
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Interactive 3D ASCII scenes(yeahpython.github.io)
341 points by aqi 8y ago|58 comments
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by aqi 8y ago
I'd highly recommend learning some improvisational theatre. It requires a lot of the same skills that being charismatic does. Taking an improv class in college was a revelatory experience to me because it showed me exactly how I had be
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by aqi 9y ago
"Two people enter into a series of transactions, and both have the same probability of winning some amount of wealth from the other, just as in a free-market transaction." I don't really think this is a great description of f
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by aqi 9y ago
I think the reasoning is that optimizing the training performance is "easy", whereas optimizing the test performance is "hard". If you can guarantee that test performance will be close to training performance, then optim
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by aqi 9y ago
This extension seems decent: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-wasting-time/...
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Show HN: Taking Filter Bubbles to the Extreme(chrome.google.com)
3 points by aqi 9y ago|0 comments