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by beejiu 2y ago
Can we please stop calling them "prediction markets". This only legitimizes what they really are, "gambling exchanges".
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by beejiu 2y ago
CityMapper is probably the best app for London, although I can't recall how it behaves in deep tunnels. I think it may just use a timer to alert you when to get off.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Almost all tunnel sections now have 4G/5G and everything should be done by the end of this year according to Tfl.
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Secret Service Says Users Agreed to Location Tracking in Terms and Conditions(404media.co)
71 points by beejiu 2y ago|98 comments
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by beejiu 2y ago
I think the point is no money is at risk. I.e. you can't lose money, you can only gain rewards/gifts/cash/etc. That's not strictly gambling.
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by beejiu 2y ago
There's historical imaging on Google Earth https://earth.google.com/web/@40.24978465,50.87045099,-66.75...
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by beejiu 2y ago
It seems strange to me to call these "prediction markets" when we call them "betting exchanges" in the UK. It positions the goal of the market to make a prediction or a forecast, rather than simply being a bet. It's
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by beejiu 2y ago
My instinct would be a principal component analysis (which someone has demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=brt88wwoZtI ). Not sure it would tell you much though, but it looks nice.
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by beejiu 2y ago
It's still encrypted and you can still access it.
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by beejiu 2y ago
The reliability of the UK grid was 99.999998% in the past year.
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by beejiu 2y ago
The context is that Google has a new "Site reputation abuse" policy that some argue isn't applied fairly between small sites and massive media sites. The policy states: "Site reputation abuse is when third-party pages ar
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by beejiu 2y ago
At this point, YouTube is just an advertising channel to serve programmatic ads and for creators to sell or promote products to their audience. The content is over-optimized and too commercial. Why would anyone pay that much just to be prom
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by beejiu 2y ago
Ethics is not the same thing as legalities.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Strange, I've always appreciated those £0.99 offers, and I suspect the vast majority of consumers do. It's pretty transparent and very easy to cancel, particularly in the UK.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Hilariously, during WW2 there was also a research project to build guided missiles using pigeons in the nose cone. "The nose cone of the missile would be split into three compartments, with a lens projecting an image of the intended ta
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by beejiu 2y ago
The same reason they now have a toothbrush with AI. Because they are in a race to continuously re-invent the toothbrush every year to create new USPs, create new marketing angles and keep sales high.
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The Promise of Vertical Farming(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
2 points by beejiu 2y ago|1 comments
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by beejiu 2y ago
> If you peek, you really have to commit to running the test for the full duration no matter what. It's more complicated, but you can also run sequential A/B testings using [SPRT]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by beejiu 2y ago
Breastfeeding is also a possible cause, although I think there's evidence that's pointing in both directions. "They found those who were breastfed as infants had a 23 percent greater risk of developing colorectal cancer as ad
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by beejiu 2y ago
It's not necessarily psychology, it could be an involuntary stress response called freezing behaviour. It's where you stop, become hyper alert and observant of your surroundings to make a conscious decision about how to act. It&#x
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by beejiu 2y ago
Most people are familiar with "fight or flight", but there's a third response which is "freeze". That's probably what you are seeing in the video.
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by beejiu 2y ago
Interestingly, the UK is pretty advanced in terms of digital benefits infrastructure with its Universal Credit system, which works pretty much like a Negative Income Tax.
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by beejiu 2y ago
People have different definitions of UBI, but in my mind 'basic' doesn't translate to quitting your job and not working. People in a functioning society still have to work.
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by beejiu 2y ago
> I see it more like a limitation of server-rendered web apps. It's not an intrinsic limitation of server-rendered apps. Apollo solves this https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/performance/server-.
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by beejiu 2y ago
It's perfectly possible and common to generate a server-side render with the data fetched, so it doesn't break any consistency with the client-server model.
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by beejiu 2y ago
The article sort of touches on this, but in my experience working with React the most important thing is to keep as much as you can declarative. When you start doing things in an imperative way, particularly when they are async, that's
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by beejiu 2y ago
Caveat to this: In the UK and many other countries, you cannot limit liabilities that cause death or personal injury arising from negligence.
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by beejiu 2y ago
It interests me that the $200-600 billion number seems to be all-derived from GPUs. Are LLMs/AIs totally dependent on GPUs? I read last week ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40787349 ) that there is research ongoin
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London Underground hosts tests for 'quantum compass' that could replace GPS(theguardian.com)
198 points by beejiu 2y ago|134 comments
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by beejiu 2y ago
Isn't that where deep learning comes into play?

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