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by boyka 3y ago
Is there any analogous research on groundwater and tap water? Are sewage treatment plants that effective in removing PFAS?
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by boyka 3y ago
I have no experience with Superset. Can you elaborate on a few points where you see it excel beyond Tableau?
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by boyka 3y ago
Learn non-deterministic balanced play with solvers.
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by boyka 3y ago
Even in tech, in Germany a 15h work week, i.e., a 36%-40% part time job’s salary would cover taxes, rent and rent utilities, and basic health insurance. No food, clothing whatsoever.
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by boyka 3y ago
Also in most countries of this world, charging an EV effectively means charging with a majority of energy derived from burning gasoline (or equivalents).
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by boyka 3y ago
> improved markers on EVERY single thing tracked Sounds like such a diet could have adverse affects on TSH, T3/T4 and Test. Were those tracked? If so, what was the effect?
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by boyka 3y ago
Were you getting these different prices on the actual airline websites or on the aggregators such as Booking, kayak etc.?
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by boyka 3y ago
It seems like most of us all have the same issue with SO. However, is there a viable alternative?
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by boyka 3y ago
Thanks, this is incredible! As a Doyle fan, I didn't know this and am looking forward to reading Kareem's novels.
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by boyka 3y ago
Gradient descent type optimization is far from "trying random things until one of them works without really knowing why". You can calculate all partial derivatives and understand the impact.
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by boyka 3y ago
Grokking in ML has been around for quite a while. First heard the term being used at a conference in 2017.
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by boyka 3y ago
Availability only on GCP and in particular cost.
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by boyka 4y ago
I can confirm this. In my case I have to exercise at least every 3rd day to maintain a high mental work capacity, and immediately feel the effect of not exercising on my brain fatigue.
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by boyka 4y ago
The realization that a 6th order approximation is good enough given our definition of float is beautiful.
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by boyka 4y ago
The degradation effect paper is authored by among others James Yu, Kate Hsu, Shinder Chen (employees of NK producer) and Ayako Ishii (company involved in NK supply chain). Take it with a grain of salt.
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by boyka 4y ago
Given that the primary author is OpenAI affiliated and some of the assumptions are far fetched (e.g., on programming - not even coding) this reads like a sponsored post pamphlet to me.
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by boyka 4y ago
Try time periods with length at least 20y. Does that statement still hold true?
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by boyka 4y ago
Thanks for the thorough overview. Can you elaborate on - risks for Ashkenazim - which plant families actually contain notable amounts of AA? I.e., do all ginger types pose a risk?
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by boyka 4y ago
10k is still half of recently re-IPOd Porsche profit per car though. That probably doesn't explain the majority of their valuation. Especially given that Porsche are similarly priced [0] and don't have revenue from CO2 certificate
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by boyka 4y ago
> And you know what that is? I hope you are a billionaire. Please tell us what it is and how you calculated that. Please review the HN guidelines on snarky low effort comments. If you value billionaires and their assessment of reasonably
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by boyka 4y ago
Vaclav Smil - How the world really works Excellent read, I wonder what other readers think about it
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by boyka 4y ago
What if the shareholders do not agree to sell their shares? How does he justify his current power over Twitter? Did he buy his 80-90% outside of the free float market?
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by boyka 4y ago
It's rather ca 100% of their average yearly earnings or 3% of their current market cap/6-10% of their market cap a few years ago.
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by boyka 4y ago
Google Reader
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by boyka 5y ago
Prices will stay high as long as buyers are not paying out of pocket. Once they have to pay more out of pocket with rising mortgage rates, they will notice that they weren't able to afford it in the first place and people will need to
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by boyka 5y ago
I was wondering: is being an influencer a low status high paying job? Because that is who journalists are indirectly competing with if we funnel ad-spend through until it reaches media.
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by boyka 5y ago
I stream music from YouTube because of its superior recommendation algorithm (in comparison to, e.g., Spotify). The recommendations that I didn't know prior to them being suggested to me are spot-on. This must be entirely based on my
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by boyka 5y ago
Another (more) interesting question would be: What is Jack Ma actually doing with all the money from private loans against his shares? Buying European real estate? We probably will know eventually if $BABA keeps its downward trend and margi
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by boyka 5y ago
Worked in the field, read the book. Strongly agree that the book is essentially useless. Hull is a good starting point.
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by boyka 6y ago
> Real yields of reserve currency sovereign bonds are negative and the lowest ever. Real yields of cash are even worse though not as negative as they were in the 1930-45 and 1915-20 great monetization periods. This I cannot comprehend. C

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