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by b3kart 2y ago
I agree focusing on the journey is more healthy (many cognitive therapies focus on trying to re-frame your thinking like this), but realistically all of our social/rewards structures are focused on the outcome, hence it's so diffi
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by b3kart 2y ago
> Ambition is about the magnitude of your end goals, not about your mental state on the way there. The problem is that once you tie your self-image to your end goals, no matter the magnitude, how can your mental state _not_ suffer if you
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by b3kart 3y ago
Given the history of the field, I think it’s clear which has a higher probability of success. See http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
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by b3kart 3y ago
> But it's not a bug deal for me. Did you type this on a touchscreen? ;-)
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by b3kart 3y ago
Unlikely given the dimensionality and complexity of the search space. Besides, we probably don’t even care about the global minimum: the loss we’re optimising is a proxy for what we really care about (performance on unseen data). Counter-ex
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by b3kart 3y ago
Dubious evidence for rather strong claims. > The median London wage is something like 30k GBP / 40k US. In New York (where I lived before London) that number is ~70k, and the costs of living are pretty comparable. Couldn't be b
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by b3kart 4y ago
What is boring about pushing yourself to get better at something? If an activity is boring to you unless you’re better at it than other people, maybe it’s just…boring to you, and you simply crave validation?
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by b3kart 4y ago
And after all of this work your resume gets ignored because the recruiter got distracted for the 5 seconds that he has to look at each of 1000 resumes in his pile.
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by b3kart 4y ago
Very mild, but also unmistakably Latvian accent. Was also surprised to learn about Juris. RIP indeed.
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by b3kart 4y ago
Any recommendations?
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by b3kart 4y ago
If you use your own domain (as the parent suggests), the cost is creating an account with any other e-mail provider that supports custom domains and updating DNS entries.
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by b3kart 5y ago
Not so sure on “absolutely”. Echo Moscow was riding this sharp line through thick and thin for 30 years, and even they had to close up shop yesterday.
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by b3kart 5y ago
I know. But not reporting _anything_ is not unlawful, and seems more honest than playing along with government’s rules. At least then it’s clear that Russia has no independent media. The way I see it is a newspaper in Nazi Germany deciding
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by b3kart 5y ago
I am conflicted about this. On one hand, people’s livelihoods are at stake, and one can argue some news is better than no news. On the other hand, by continuing reporting on events unrelated to war, are we not helping Putin’s regime to pu
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by b3kart 5y ago
They often don’t scale, they are tricky to implement in frameworks that people are familiar with, but, most importantly, they make crude approximations meaning after all this effort they often don’t beat simple baselines like bootstrap. It’
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by b3kart 5y ago
While might be necessary, doing such a dress down in public seems unnecessarily hostile and counterproductive, especially in the context of voluntary work. I know Linus is/was known to do this, but I never found it “cute”.
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by b3kart 5y ago
Well they are in a sense: you can just do the task yourself. It’s expensive of course, so you can use methods applied to human labelling for ML: _periodically_ injecting tasks with known results and checking how trustworthy the party is, ve
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by b3kart 5y ago
My guess: extracting it from the ocean water requires evaporation, which in turn requires a lot of energy/fuel?
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by b3kart 5y ago
No human has ever set eyes on a perfect circle, because it (most likely) doesn't exist in nature. As such, I would argue that a perfect circle is a concept (or a model , if you will) that we've invented to make it easier for us
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by b3kart 5y ago
Yes, sounds very much the the ever-harmful “butts-in-chairs” style of management, or self-management in this case.
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by b3kart 5y ago
Sense of entitlement for…privacy? What a world we live in.
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by b3kart 5y ago
There are probably better examples you could've used. They've literally added "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" to the list of principles like yesterday. At the very least they seem to have recognized the problem
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by b3kart 5y ago
Survivorship bias plagues all of “self-help” writing, unfortunately. Let’s take successful people and assume everything they’re doing contributes to their success and so must be replicated.
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by b3kart 5y ago
Would the land tax work well with, say, tech companies though? To me it seems those take advantage of completely different resources. Internet infrastructure, data, attention, you name it.
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by b3kart 5y ago
I think what they're implying is that the bottom 80% are incompetent and should (presumably) feel bad. This is an interesting way to define competence.
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by b3kart 5y ago
> only That’s a bold statement.
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by b3kart 5y ago
But does it go vroom vroom when you accelerate? No? Waste of time... /s
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by b3kart 5y ago
Schmidhuber has done a lot of important, fundamental work, at the time when none of it was “cool”, but whenever I stumble upon his writing it always reads like a bad history book, where when and who are more important than what or wh
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by b3kart 5y ago
They can do better, no doubt, but it is a problem that sounds like it should be easy to solve, but becomes really rather tricky at Amazon’s scale and with their catalogue size, speed of updates to it, and general dependency on the quality o
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by b3kart 5y ago
Agree wholeheartedly: there's definitely a spectrum between what Google are doing atm and full human moderation. I am a strong believer in using AI to augment humans, not replace them. Nudging Google towards putting more humans in the

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