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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> what is the challenge here? If you know the precise state of each motor in a robot hand, you can compute the absolute position of its fingertip, right? To make a robot play piano, you need to solve the reverse problem of it i.e. to c
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
My real question is: Is there any asset manager who does not have an ESG program in 2025? Even a small PE shop I personally know is launching an ESG fund this year (asian credit ESG fund). Everyone seems to be a PRI signatory nowadays.
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
This "city" is actually more like a Disneyland park, except that their main focus is on to experiment with futuristic commercial ideas/concepts. Here is the list of a few companies that co-invest with Toyota: - Nissin (Instan
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> be true! If you ignore the fact that the correlation is so weak that calling it 'statistically insignificant' would be quite generous. I actually came to a different conclusion than the author. Here is the way I'm thinki
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
But how do you explain those results? - Brian Nosek's team examined 100 studies from high-ranking psychology journals in 2015, and could only reproduce 1/3 of them. - Tim Errington did the same for cancer papers, and could not rep
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
In 2021, the percentage of Salvadorans who were using Bitcoin was 26%. After three years of mandatory acceptance requirement, it's now 8%. It says a lot about the popularity of Bitcoin, no?
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
This discussion feels a bit ancient to me. Considering that desktop apps nowadays rely on web counterparts to be functional, most commerecial apps will stop running after some time, regardless of whether operating systems keep compatibility
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> What’s the context size? SmolLM2 uses up to 8192 tokens.
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> Employee owned is pretty rare. A partnership is basically an employee-owned company, and it's a fairly common structure among law/financial firms. It works reasonably well. The catch is that your business should not require
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
You may not believe it, but that's how K/Q/J people write C code. Bonus: Go visit and do "View Source" on that website. Even HTML has fragrance of K.
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
This thread is grossly missing the point. OP is writing about a foreign aid program directed at Nepali people. Nepal is a rocky country, having a large patch of lands unsuitable for farming. People in the rulal area are literally one of the
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by cloudbonsai 2y ago
> But the law is about business competition. That law is basically Japanese version of DMCA. "Unfair Competition Prevention Act" is an antiqued piece of law first enacted in 1930s. Its original scope was trade malpractice such
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
Found a clip that shows how this robot works: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UwrXj4as6LA&t=18 It's very cool. The machine is basically a very big overhead scanner that slowly moves over hills. Seems that this design
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
> I guess she is the expert Absolutely. I recommend everyone to look at her publication history on HBS website: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=271812&... Her featured work is a book ti
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
I'm also a habitual paper-note taker, and found your note pleasant. Good work! Addendum: I maintain a loose leaf binder that documents important ideas/decisions I made during the cource of life. So this habit can be extended to b
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
Sorry, but I find this article very hilarious. 2000: Computer programs do what exactly we told them to do, but not what we wanted them to do. So be careful. 2025: Computer programs do neither what we tell nor what we want them to do. Gee, t
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
I tried this recipe too, and came to the same conclusion. It has too much oil. Some historical context seems to be missing here, or Locke must have been an Epicurean.
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
> This applies to many historical figures whose names are widely known. ... such as?
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
> scenario would leave 128-choice-8 possibilities open That only amounts to log2(C(128, 8)) ~= 40.3. Your encryption key is now just 40-bit strength.
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
> He opened up a mini workshop in Zaria around two decades ago. > He has 10 apprentices - aged between 12 and 20 - at the workshop where he is teaching them the skills of the trade. Seems more like a successful small business owner (n
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
> Small companies with better aligned incentives My previous company (~50 employees) did not have performance reviews at all; Instead, employees were handed out a blank spreadsheet with names of every personnel, and asked to fill who sho
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
I agree. After reading Flash Boys, I started doubting the credibility of his previous works. In flash Boys, Lewis asserted: - Pushing confidential codes to a personal SVN hosting (or sending them to your personal email account) is perfectly
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by cloudbonsai 3y ago
Mmm. So is MicroCloud essentially a glue between LXD + Ceph? It's not really clear what the problem MicroCloud is trying to solve, though. Considering that LXD already supports multi-node clustering, why does anyone want another cluste
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by cloudbonsai 4y ago
I tried "whenever it feels good" and it returned: "0 0 * * * *" (Every hour) So I believe this robot is quite happy -- way happier than average mortal humans.
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
> What do you do if your VPN goes down and you need access to your server to debug it Here is exactly what I would do: 1. Sign in to AWS console (with my Yubikey). 2. Click "Lightsail > instances > <my-server>" 3. C
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
> I just rent a VPS and run it on that. I don't want anything I don't own initiating connections to anything on my home network in any way. I do this for my personal web server, but also set up the network rule so that its SSH
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
Thorp operated a small stat arb shop for a decade after P/NP, and IIRC it was quite successful (avg ~20% return with sharpe ratio > 1.5).
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
The interesting part is that Snowflake omits Databricks' performance scores in their graphs. Here is how they compare on TPC-DS benchmark, based on two companies' self-reports: * Elapsed time: 3108s (Databricks) vs 3760s (Snowflak
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
To be fair, debit card offers a few advantages over credit card: * Debit card allows to set granular spending limit (e.g. $100 per day). So you can protect the potential amount that a fraudster can spend with your card. * You can set it up
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by cloudbonsai 5y ago
For anyone interested, the malicious code can be found in the following link: https://github.com/veged/coa/issues/99#issuecomment-96153687... TLDR: The attacker injected an attack code as coa's `preinsta

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