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by c7b 4y ago
I love the seaweed that you sometimes get in restaurants (rarely where I live, unfortunately). But the article makes me a bit skeptical, it doesn't mention any downsides at all, it sounds more like a marketing piece than a balanced ass
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by c7b 4y ago
Cool that you're responding here. Well, regarding robotics, I'm sure there's all sorts of problems when it comes to training models, but I'm not sure that Goodhart's law is one of them, unless you can give a concret
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by c7b 4y ago
Not sure I agree. The problem with overfitting is fitting too closely to the data points at hand, but you might still be measuring the right thing, as discussed in other posts here. The problem with Goodhart's law is, as I've alwa
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by c7b 4y ago
Isn't FB marketplace just another search engine? It seems unlikely that the algorithm would be able to purely guess what you currently (actually) need. And moderated groups don't sound like a solution to the 'I have a concret
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by c7b 4y ago
Even then there are some mitigants: you could try to rent out your first home and rent or even buy a new one. Tax-wise that would work against you (usually, in most places), but it probably wouldn't bankrupt you. I agree, of course you
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by c7b 4y ago
> Ask it for a good coffee maker, and it’ll recommend choices within your budget from your favorite brands with only your best interests in mind. It sounds all great and I agree that we should be prepared to pay for quality services inst
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by c7b 4y ago
You seem to be looking at buying a house as an investment. I'd argue otherwise: your first piece of real estate is a necessity, not an investment - you always need a place to live. So, in financial terms, you're closing a short
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by c7b 4y ago
It's an interesting question, but you might also want to ask which markets people are based in. While the overall economy, interest rates and other factors do correlate to some extent, of course, some other important fundamentals (an
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by c7b 4y ago
Similar experience, although I didn't even search actively but wanted to let the famed algorithm work its magic. I think I made it to maybe 30mins before I meh'd out. I might have given it another try now, but I just saw that I al
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by c7b 4y ago
That's what the streamers in the article I read said - they all pretty much started out to "force" themselves to be reasonably productive (and/or in a small group of friends with the same goal). Don't underestimate
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by c7b 4y ago
Ok, but how large does the organization need to be for that to make sense, or how do you determine that? I was recently brainstorming some ideas with a friend who has a 1-person business where it would make sense for clients to be able to c
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by c7b 4y ago
Frankly, this sounds more like an "everything was better in the old days" rant than anything else. Cherry-picked anecdotes to make the case that we somehow have less information now than we used to, agrandissement ("When yo
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by c7b 4y ago
I was gobsmacked when I learnt that humans are capable of using sonar, like bats. Even the meta-knowledge seems to have disappeared, strange. I've sometimes wondered whether I could learn it, but I never got round to it, I guess there
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by c7b 4y ago
That doesn't rule out indirect influence, no? The likes of Stanford are what other universities aim for, so if the implicit message is 'If you want to play in that league, you need a massive administration and pretty facilities fo
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by c7b 4y ago
You're presenting it as if there was something intrinsically better or more efficient about streaming, but the millions of people could also be matched in pairs or small groups. There would be a bit more friction, but also more persona
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by c7b 4y ago
My understanding was that the primary motivation to build those communication channels was to gain an edge on the stock markets. I don't know about the telegraph, but for radio I remember reading that that was the reason JP Morgan was
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by c7b 4y ago
I read about influencers who basically stream themselves while studying, seems to be a similar idea with more even participation (and less likelihood of becoming internet-rich).
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by c7b 4y ago
I suppose the plant could mate and procreate with regular Pothos plants? I'm wondering what the implications would be if that happens in the wild, ie those special genes spreading further.
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by c7b 4y ago
Does that also hold for people doing data science in Jupyter notebooks? They're also programmers, arguably. At this point in the trajectory of software engineering, it's fair to assume that most of the low-hanging fruits have been
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by c7b 4y ago
Not the first article on HN to make that point [0]. Feels a bit like whistleblowers starting to come out. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722374
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by c7b 4y ago
The thing about Mathematica / the Wolfram language is that it's quite a bit harder to create an open source interpreter than it was for eg R (which is actually a FOSS interpteter for the commercial package S) or for Matlab (not su
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by c7b 4y ago
Base R is far from perfect, but for many basic manipulation tasks it works just as fine as tidyverse. Maybe not with piping, but that doesn't really save anything if you format it readably. There's something to be said about code
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by c7b 4y ago
So this is not about RStudio the IDE but the company?
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by c7b 4y ago
R is great, and so are some of the packages that lead to the tidyverse, but I think the latter was a bit too much. Re-inventing what already worked with new packages, always overloading R syntax in weird ways (looking at you, ggplot2). I&#x
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by c7b 4y ago
Wouldn't be the first time that Apple is nerfing perfectly well-working hardware. I never thought about Airpod updates, but according to their site they are applied automatically if you're in the vicinity of an iPhone/iPad&#x
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by c7b 4y ago
> One of the responsibilities of central banks is to carefully control messaging That might be exactly what they're doing. The article says that their forward guidance for interest rate hikes is substantially below market expectati
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by c7b 4y ago
That's the one the 20-odd guys from WhatsApp used to run live communications by 100m+ users before being bought by Facebook, right?
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by c7b 4y ago
Zuck's vision is btw directly taken from an explicitly dystopian narrative of how VR tech could play out. It is a vision that would be a net positive for humanity if it failed (and its fate is btw not tied to the success of AR/VR
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by c7b 4y ago
You put yourself in a situation where you can't even stay away from your computer for one week before your relatives get a weirdly alarming email?
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by c7b 4y ago
It's one of those things that I'm thinking about every once in a while but never get round to doing it, also because it's not clear to me what the optimal solution would be. A relative has set it up with LastPass, there are a

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