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by borroka 2y ago
It is not my experience at all, and at this point, I have been asked for nutritional advice for 25 years. Any specific recommendations for the general population will be interpreted as that food + all the others that have been eaten before.
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by borroka 2y ago
I am not the op, but one should not complicate things. There are no secrets. People have been getting ripped since the dawn of time with chicken/tuna and rice and some vegetables. Eating less (95 out of 100 people in the general popula
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by borroka 2y ago
What kind of medications are we talking about, for what "issue" (suicidal thoughts or "my parents are disappointed because I did not go to college and I am feeling worthless") and what is the effectiveness, especially lo
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by borroka 2y ago
I will go even further than that. Talk therapy is the scam of the 2000s. The trickle that brought what we call therapeutic language into everyday life, the constant references to the narcissism of a partner who, if we are honest, had the g
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by borroka 2y ago
I am doing a lot, but I would like to do more. To become skilled at something, and not just to read a Wikipedia article about it, one has to spend time, energy, effort, and sometimes money. Having the money, more time and energy would incre
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by borroka 2y ago
"Also, constantly ask yourself how can I make the company more valuable. You do that and you will never get fired"--- In most companies and for most people in them, this would be useless at best and most damaging at worst. Just as
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by borroka 2y ago
It surprises me that so many people, when they are not working, do “nothing.” I think it's mostly a matter of the need for validation, which, in my experience, is particularly prevalent in the United States. People need reassurance tha
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by borroka 2y ago
They may not know at CMU that the vast majority of applied, trained-on-data statistical models that help run the modern world seriously violate one or more of the model's assumptions.
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by borroka 2y ago
"Do you want my advice" = I know how to solve it, but maybe you don't (because you are incompetent, insecure, or not ready to know the "truth") want to solve it and it's okay for you to stay with your problems,
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by borroka 2y ago
"Do you want some advice?" sounds too condescending for my taste, both from the giver and the receiver. Having moved to the United States from a European country, I have discovered that there is a particular dance that most people
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by borroka 2y ago
It depends on the "severity" of the violation of assumptions--you can also use GAMs to add flexible nonlinear relationships--and the amount of data you are working with. Statistical modeling is a nuanced job.
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by borroka 2y ago
For point (3), in most of my academic research and work in industry, I have used Generalized Additive Models with great technical success (i.e., they fit the data well). Still, I have noticed that they have been rarely understood or given t
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by borroka 2y ago
Not at all weird, because you were also boxing. But if your boxing sessions were only to be sprints, pushups, situps etc, and no boxing, you would surely lose interest in doing boxing at that place. Likewise, if your jiu jitsu training were
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by borroka 2y ago
I work in a network (like in computer networking, not setting up events) company where I get paid 75% of the FAANG salary for an equivalent role, working one-third of the hours expected from the median FAANG worker. My company has been free
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by borroka 2y ago
RSUs are income and the expected value must be factored in when discussing the total compensation offered. Those are not the options that LLM-wrapper companies sling around like candy at Halloween.
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by borroka 2y ago
Apart from the fact that the only truth comes from the W2 tax document or equivalent, FAANGs jobs are, in general and in the grand scheme of things, fairly accessible, while some very high-paying jobs people are talking about here are the e
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by borroka 2y ago
It is fairly common, it has been my experience and that of others I talked to, that unlimited in many companies means that you can take 3/4 weeks per year of time off, but you need the authorization of your manager or HR for any additi
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by borroka 2y ago
A comment, the one I am responding to, that would fit much better in the "hopeful" bucket than in the "realistic" one. I, like many others, hold a white-collar job in a technology company, not FAANG, with a salary betwee
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by borroka 2y ago
You can't take the extreme tail end of the distribution of interests, aptitudes and abilities, that is, people who pursue an academic career in mathematics, for the entire distribution of people who are taught or need to use mathematic
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by borroka 2y ago
But also, who knows if it is true? And why only books and not everything we have done in life? And why should Ralph Waldo Emerson, assuming the quote is his, know more about this than anyone else? The hours of history classes in elementary,
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by borroka 2y ago
"If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, then why read the book?" -- That's the authorial feeling of self-importance making itself visible. Why read the book? Because it might be enjoyable, a
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by borroka 2y ago
That's the observation. I work for a huge company, both in terms of number of employees and geographical reach. I/we receive emails, offers, and declarations of interest each month/year from dozens of start-ups selling some
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by borroka 2y ago
If it were only for the money...In CrossFit, even in competitions at the regional or provincial level, the top positions are practically all taken by athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs. Or, to take another example, in jiu jitsu, a
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by borroka 2y ago
The number, which by the common person is to be interpreted as unique viewers, is blatantly absurd.
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by borroka 2y ago
What he describes is perfectly in line with the way self-hypnosis was conceived before it was captured by the ''feel-good'' crowd. I recommend reading the exceptional book written by Dave Elman and the way he describes h
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by borroka 3y ago
I haven't followed prediction contests for a while because, frankly, the field has moved on (more sideways, actually, with LLMs). When I used to follow, until a few years ago, the winning models were ensembles of ensembles (e.g., RF is
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by borroka 3y ago
Exactly. Like hiring managers, recruiters and their cousins do not lie to the candidate. It is a game, and one has to use the necessary tools, including lying (in a reasonable neighborhood of truth) about one's experience and the offer
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by borroka 3y ago
Another perspective: if you are not in a position to change the rules of the game, understand the rules of the game and play that game, not another one that you would like to play or that you think is more fair to play. Alternatively, if it
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by borroka 3y ago
> But when biologists finds an insect type with different number of something they will call it a new species. This comment cannot be answered properly without knowing who the "biologists" are, which insect types we are talking
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by borroka 3y ago
You are, wrongly, scaling up from the potential of individuals to the potential of the group of individuals/species. Saying that "humans" are capable of locomotion or movement using their legs implicitly refers to an expectat

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