cherryteastain

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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Options/futures market makers
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Cursor also has a CLI
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Why bother with this when they already paid $60B for Cursor?
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
How are these types of awards usually structured? Are they just grants? If so, doesn't that create a perverse incentive to take the money even if you never intend to deliver the result?
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Putting aside the lack of evidence that tariffs meaningfully reduced the US trade deficit as other posts here remarked, reduction of the deficit would be catastrophic for the USD based global financial system anyway so it's bad for the
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Reminder that EU institutions were designed from ground up to smother democracy: - Members of EU Parliament cannot propose regulation, only the unelected Commission can, MEPs can only vote yes/no - EU Parliament is the only parliament
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
WoW has a lot of mechanics involving line of sight (eg a spell you begin casting when the target was in LOS will fail when the casting time finishes if the target moves out of LOS) and positioning (AOE spells, spell ranges, NPCs/object
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Syria had an extremely destructive civil war and one of the worst collapses in living standards ever of any country (measured by however you want to look at it - HDI, GDP/capita...) Meanwhile Egypt was overtaken by Vietnam and performe
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
If you look at UNDP historical HDI data [1] you will see that Egypt barely caught up with the HDI levels of poorest Eastern European countries like Moldova from 10 years ago and is still well behind the HDI levels of better-off Eastern Euro
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Point of labor participation is that it's independent of whether you want to be employed or not.
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Buy second hand
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
You can set GPT 5.5 to 1M context mode in Cursor but it costs more after the default 272k.
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
Point is that income from dividends, rent and capital gains far outstrips the $150k the 90th percentile guy makes [1], which you have conveniently ignored. The $150k 90th percentile earner has more common with the $50k 50th percentile earne
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
"Top 10%" is such a misleading slice here. The guy who's at the 9.99th percentile is a normal salaried worker not doing better. The gains are entirely concentrated in the tiny billionaire slice buried inside that 10%. In fact
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
They had a large memory manufacturer, Infineon, who spun out their memory division as Qimonda which then went bankrupt [1]. They were the 2nd largest in the world at one time apparently. Looking back, it's easy to say the German govt s
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
In practice sadly many of these more obscure TLDs seem to be more expensive than more 'normal' ones like .org
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
His research is in Game Theory. He should have realized that, in a situation where all competitors are (possibly) using LLMs, the game theoretic optimal choice is to use LLMs.
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
It's worse than OpenAI or Anthropic. However their lower tier consumer offerings can sometimes be had for <$10/mo on offer and come bundled with other Google services like cloud storage.
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by cherryteastain 3mo ago
It's the place outside US and China with the greatest concentration of AI talent. Deepmind was founded in London for instance. Sadly UK is fully into nanny state "safetyism" culture so I am not convinced it'd be better.
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
From US companies that is.
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
Enterprise plans don't have the equivalent of the subsidized-usage-included Claude Max/ChatGPT Pro plans anymore. The revenue generated and total amount of tokens used by individuals is probably a tiny fraction of tokens billed at
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
A related viewpoint is that overparametrization is good because the model is stranded when the Hessian has all positive/zero eigenvalues. If we treat the probability that a particular Hessian eigenvalue turns positive as a Bernoulli pr
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
> shameful to work for As bad as Meta products are for society, I'd say Palantir is far more shameful to work for.
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
> If you're building out a brand new system, why not make use of the computing device with input/output capabilities There is no sovereign EU mobile OS. Adding a hard dependency to Android/iOS is removing one US hard depen
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
Agree re. prediction markets and predatory marketing but disagree so hard with this > The private interest is genuine, a global market's appetite for a frictionless way to hold dollars, captured by the saver who holds the token and
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
Crackpot really has connotations like "flat earther" and "aliens built the pyramids". It's one thing to say "I believe GA proponents' claims regarding the usefulness of the geometric product are overstated
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
Not a fan of the article. It resorts to ad hominem attacks like > GA had gotten a bad reputation because of its tendency to attract bad mathematicians and full-on crackpots. Hestenes honestly sounds like one a lot of the time, and I’m no
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
You can statically link boost
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
Mullvad already does all of the things you mentioned. Cryptocurrency payments with no KYC, and many anti-censorship [1] methods. Moreover, their mobile and desktop apps apply heuristics to find combinations of anti-censorship measures that
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by cherryteastain 4mo ago
> the bursts can be correlated Hawkes processes are what other fields use to model this

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