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by beambot 3y ago
Many of those companies no longer exist...
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by beambot 3y ago
They've just inherently got un-hedged interest rate exposure.
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by beambot 3y ago
You're describing the DTFT (discrete-time Fourier transform), not the DFT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-time_Fourier_transfor... Pedantics aside: Spectrum analyzers are computing DFTs over a finite windo
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by beambot 3y ago
Respectfully, your characterization of a DFT's infinite domain conflicts with the definition of the DFT -- it is defined as a finite sequence, and that's how it's used in common industry usage. Case in point: https:/&#x
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by beambot 3y ago
I think I get what you are trying to say... but the intuition about "this moment in time" is perfectly reasonable for a spectrum analyzer, since it's actually doing a DFT (not continuous from +-infinity) with the last sample
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by beambot 3y ago
From my experience at a R1 school, this is only true for late-undergrad and grad classes, not early-stage coursework with massive student-to-teacher ratios. In those courses, you are more likely to get Q&A time with a TA during office h
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by beambot 4y ago
Google L3 SWE total comp is $193k https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Salesforce&track=Soft... Base salary is the wrong comparison. As you move up to higher levels and get stacking equity grants, the liquid stock v
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by beambot 4y ago
Please give an example of such a university?
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by beambot 4y ago
All of these sound like basic lessons from anyone who has performed large layoffs for the first time...
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by beambot 4y ago
I've always heard the adage "cut once, cut deep" to avoid repeated destruction of morale. Anyone care to speculate about Meta's rationale behind repeated cuts?
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by beambot 4y ago
Curious - many people do see those "problems" as the "opportunity" of our time, just as past generations had their own bleaknesses to overcome.
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by beambot 4y ago
The timeline becomes wildly condensed in more-modern years. Would love to see a "zoomed in" timeline from 250Ma-0Ma to capture that detail on more pages. :)
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by beambot 4y ago
I don't think I'd classify their zero-config p2p-style VPN as "simple" -- or at least, certainly not simple to replicate... More to the point, I hope their technology becomes commonplace & gratis a la LetsEncrypt for
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by beambot 4y ago
Market cap is a function of revenue (cars sold) & margins, not just revenue. Tesla PE is 50x, and Toyota PE is 10x. Purely on the basis of earnings: If Tesla can 5x their sales (in a rapidly expanding market) while maintaining some of t
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by beambot 4y ago
We own a Model3 (me) and a Leaf (wife). My wife bought the Leaf more recently; she always defaults to the M3 when given the option. In short, Leaf:Flip-Phone and Tesla:Smartphone. The only saving grace for the Leaf is price. We should&#
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by beambot 4y ago
Outside of FAANG? They're all doing layoffs too...
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by beambot 4y ago
Contrary to some peoples' understanding, replacing fiat currency for everyday purposes isn't the only viable application of crypto. As one example: There are already banks that use XRP as the international settlement medium. You&
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by beambot 4y ago
> But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along. Just looked it up. Between BTC, ETH & top stablecoins, crypto has $900B+ market cap and $60B+ in 24-hour volume. I'm not saying your conclusions are wrong (though I d
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by beambot 4y ago
The knee-jerk contrarianism seems to be in vogue right now. Reminds me of some colleagues in 2007 lamenting about the iPhone, "It's not that great; it doesn't even have copy & paste!" Fast forward a few years, and
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by beambot 4y ago
That doesn't mean that shareholders can't be wiped out. See GM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_re...
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by beambot 4y ago
I like that! Given how commonplace virtual "meet"ings are these days, I rather like the idea of a new homophonic homonym for in person "meat"ings.
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by beambot 4y ago
Revoke tax exemptions and see how fast it gets shut down...
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by beambot 4y ago
IIRC, Polymagnets give unique field patterns but do not replicate the overall field strength of neodymium magnets. A much better alternative is someone like Niron Magnetics, who build nitrogen-doped iron magnets that demonstrate field stren
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by beambot 4y ago
> failure to build up is a failure to help less well-off neighborhoods How - like tangible, tactical recommendations that have the political willpower to get enacted?
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by beambot 4y ago
> But the wealth that stays in SF tends to build upward rather than lift up less well off neighborhoods. How do you square this statement with gentrification? Feels like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation...
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by beambot 4y ago
Calling it now: CaaS - Chips as a Service. Soon everyone from CPUs, GPUs, memory, etc will be trying to charge a recurring fee.
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by beambot 4y ago
What do you mean by "reliably perform basic reasoning"?
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by beambot 4y ago
What marks the hard line for "intelligent"? It's largely philosophical. Is a human? Dolphin? Mouse? Cockroach? Tree?
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by beambot 4y ago
Google is currently in an existential crisis on this front... Microsoft is already way ahead of the game when it comes to integrating LLMs into productivity tools & search. This recent product announcement about Microsoft 365 integra
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by beambot 4y ago
> The main way in which IBM mainframes in the 1950s-1970s were "firewalled" was simply by being fiendishly expensive – most people's houses cost significantly less. This was the primary aspect I was referring to, in the sa

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