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by blululu 4y ago
Nope. This is the line of thinking that gets people into hot water. He could have said nothing and he would be better off. When in doubt, just say nothing. Nobody asked him about a run on his bank - he just blurted that out in a public call
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by blululu 4y ago
This is a bit lateral, but there is a parallel where Marvin Minsky will most likely be best remembered for dismissing neural networks (a 1 layer perceptron can't even handle an xor!). We are now sufficiently removed from his heyday whe
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by blululu 4y ago
Tangentially related, but grasses are, in fact, a very recent evolutionary turn. We live in a very grass heavy epoch to the extent that it is hard for me to imagine a world with out grasslands. In some sense grasses seem primitive and found
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by blululu 4y ago
The objection here is more structural than technical. The famous dropbox objection is 'anyone could do this' - even though they might not have the wherewithal to do so. The objection here is that the open source project is relying
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by blululu 4y ago
Depends on how you think about monopolies and bundling. For the most part Apple's devices and products face a pretty competitive landscape. But there are some areas where they have a very strong market position. The revenue for paid ap
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by blululu 4y ago
In both cases the psychoactive is the same but the concentration is different. It is a fair nuance you bring up that an unregulated refining and cutting process has a lot of variability in its amount which can mean taking a rather large amo
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by blululu 4y ago
Sort of. It's analogous to Beer vs Whiskey: Same psychoactive, but one substance has been chemically concentrated. Both are bad for you but one can be consumed in much lower quantities and concentrations so the health risks are a bit
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by blululu 4y ago
For context this was just a team objecting to tracking progress against an external standard. The proposed metric was not that far off from the mean square error loss that was used for training models. Goodhart's law was just used as a
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by blululu 4y ago
This is a nice refinement to the discussion. There is an element of truth to Goodhart's law, but it is certainly not a law and it is maybe not even a default condition. As per the author, the work of Demming clearly shows that measurin
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by blululu 4y ago
This seems like a pretty pedantic reply. Yeah they have a vague CYA after the click bait headline. The OP is clearly responding to the fact that the original click bait headline and the tenor of the article intimates a much higher certainty
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by blululu 4y ago
Not really. There are many DRI s at a variety of levels. Authority is distributed and non hierarchical. As the DRI you are responsible for one thing but it comes with no real authority beyond that. The main point of a DRI is that authority
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by blululu 4y ago
Richard Hamming has a story where he was shocked/appalled that some folks wanted to include him on a paper after he suggested using Linear Regression in an obvious application of linear regression. The upshot is, if it were obvious it
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by blululu 4y ago
The Watt steam engine is roughly contemporaneous with the Battle of Plassey and the British ascendency over Bengal, but the Watt steam engine is not the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It built upon cultural and technical innovation
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by blululu 4y ago
Well that might explain why I wasted the last hour trying to get an upload validated. Good thing I came here to procrastinate.
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by blululu 4y ago
Tutorial videos are demonstrably worse at education, but they are just much, much easier to produce than a well written step by step blog post.
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by blululu 4y ago
Russian Biocosmism is truly wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism It makes modern SpaceX style futurism seem bland and sane by comparison. If you're interested a recent translation of some of the ori
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by blululu 4y ago
I enjoy a good laugh at the expense of management consultants, and I honestly thought that chat GPT really reminded me of their style. But while slide decks are the only tangible thing consultants produce, they represent a very small amount
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by blululu 4y ago
To clarify: it was the hostages that upset people - not the revolution. The revolution led to the hostages but it wasn't a big news item on its own. Walter Cronkite focused on day four hundred and something of the hostage crisis. The r
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by blululu 4y ago
The Iranian revolution was not a big issue in the election. It was the fact that American embassy staff was held at gunpoint for nearly two years so they could put the Shah on Trial. People were not happy about that.
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by blululu 4y ago
The cards were stacked against him. The legacy of Vietnam and the Yom Kippur War led to a massive debt, and an oil embargo from OPEC. This led to high inflation, high unemployment and constrained federal budgets for the first time in ~40 ye
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by blululu 4y ago
>> It really does look like this was an opportunity for capital to regain some leverage they lost and crack the whip. Which, to be fair, at least in the tech sector was probably warranted. But not really what the Fed should be enablin
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by blululu 4y ago
FWIW I think there are more or less two very distinct experiences/use cycles of YouTube. There is the one where people get to it from outside (mostly Google Search) and the one where people get to it from within YouTube itself. As some
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by blululu 4y ago
Not the OP, but this is a leading question that goes in the wrong direction. You can't really trust any source 100%. You need to do your own research and be humble about it. Journalists are good at this kind of work but they make plent
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by blululu 4y ago
It's even better than that: I am not a recurrent customer since my 2004 Corolla is still rolling along after all these years. Who knows maybe I'll buy another one someday, but it hasn't been an urgent priority.
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by blululu 4y ago
There are also some broader macroeconomic reasons that these philosophies took root in post-war Japan. The combination of a weakened currency and strong New Deal style labor laws (that were proposed but thwarted by Detroit) was unique. Labo
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by blululu 4y ago
One of the author's primary critiques is that nobody cares about the users/customers. All actions are aimed at an internal audience rather than an external audience. Thus product releases are done for internal reasons (i.e. impres
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by blululu 4y ago
This piece has a click bait title and focuses exclusively on the last week of tech-news. IMO the answer to the clickbait title is still yes, but the reasons lie in the last 5 years of stagnation and extend far beyond the use of AI in search
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by blululu 4y ago
Going to have to disagree with you on this. AirPods and the Apple Watch both came out under his watch. But the biggest area of expansion for Apple is going to be in software which has seen a ton of innovation in the past decade (Cloud servi
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by blululu 4y ago
Well he sat at the helm of a very powerful company during one of the largest and longest bull markets in history. Beyond being at the right place at the right time - did he do a good job? I would say that he is thoroughly mediocre. I don&#x
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by blululu 4y ago
There are many reasons to leave a company. Tech companies are frequently fundamentally unstable operations. In my opinion experience employee churn is more a matter of the environment than the individual and their plans.

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