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by covidacct 6y ago
Xi Jingping consolidated power by rallying people around the flag of anti-corruption. Same with Putin. Obviously, neither of those people is anywhere close to non-corrupt. Don't rally around anti-corruption. Rally around accountability
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by covidacct 6y ago
OT, but does anyone know where the "learnings" phrase in corporatese come from? I noticed it five or six years ago and now it's everywhere. The first time I heard it was from a German VP and I assumed it was some sort of odd
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by covidacct 6y ago
Seems tautological, especially for a platform biz. Companies that don't "aggregate demand" fail because "aggregating demand" is just a fancy way of saying "have a critical mass of customers". It's tau
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by covidacct 6y ago
> Is there some realistic path for me to escalate? Is the instructor an ad junct? Those are cheap and replaceable. They make maybe ~1/10th of what your average FAANG engineer makes because the labor supply is extraordinarily over
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by covidacct 6y ago
I'm mostly on board with the critique of university rankings, but I really don't buy this specific critique. It's a strawman. Here's what they did: they took the top research universities and the top liberal arts college
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by covidacct 6y ago
> They accept the risk and willing to trade the cost with the benefit. This is only true at the very beginning of a smoker's habit. I know a lot of smokers. Exactly zero of them are "willing" to trade the cost for the be
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by covidacct 6y ago
Counter-point: The "everyone needs ridiculous amount of driveway space" rule existed in a suburb I lived in. We had exceptionally wide streets, but parking any car in the street for any amount of time was strictly forbidden. All o
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by covidacct 6y ago
> Roads bridges See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partner... > healthcare The large healthcare providers are already run like private businesses, because they are private businesses. &
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by covidacct 6y ago
> But you can't just move your entire country onto solar power If oil consumption enters extreme secular decline and SA doesn't transition to solar, then SA will be a horrendously poor country powered by oil. If oil consumpti
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by covidacct 6y ago
> Private capital, during the same time frame, gave us google search and maps, smartphones, movies on demand and god knows how much other stuff I was perhaps too coy. https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?c
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by covidacct 6y ago
Here's one teeny tiny example. They made a smart investment, to the tune of billions of dollars, in computer science. And not just for the past 30 years, but continuously for the past 100 years. That investment included a modest (6-7 f
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by covidacct 6y ago
Federal and state governments are different.
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by covidacct 6y ago
From my original post: Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. The 2008 financial crisis wiped out state budgets
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by covidacct 6y ago
> I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. Here’s a modest proposal to my critics. Instead of attacking my ideas of what to build, conceive your own! What do you think we should build? There’s an excellent chance I’ll agree w
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by covidacct 6y ago
This talk is an amusing aside. I think the other posters are bit harsh for a talk that's clearly meant to be taken in that way. If you're interested in actual psychology of programming languages, there is a small but growing resea
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by covidacct 6y ago
Corporate debt
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by covidacct 6y ago
I implemented neural networks before the advent of the good python frameworks. It sucked. And CNNs existed for decades before AlexNet. Honestly, the software and hardware engineers are the real heroes of the deep learning revolution. By w
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by covidacct 6y ago
Yup, I absolutely agree. Almost all big leaps in software engineering and applied computer science come from building a powerful and simple abstraction. Powerful and simple abstractions are surprisingly difficult to get right.
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by covidacct 6y ago
It's a huge amount of code, hidden behind the tensorflow import statements. It's common to credit GPUs for the rapid spread of deep learning, but good GPUs were available for quite a few years before deep learning really took off.
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by covidacct 6y ago
The ability of workers to capture their own productivity gains is a lower than it's been in a century. This crisis will push the second derivative lower.
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by covidacct 6y ago
I've never understood why high-quality chairs were ever symbols of excess. Ask anyone with bad sciatica how much they spend on PT a year. It's probably several multiples of the cost of a good chair. Then ask how much more they wou
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by covidacct 6y ago
The idea of defining a set of transition rules and then analyzing the properties of some closure (e.g., think reflexive and transitive) of those rules. For transition rules of various orders, expressiveness, etc. And then stepping back and
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by covidacct 6y ago
The question you're asking requires non-trivial effort to answer precisely because "emulation cone" and "rulial space" are never quite all the way defined, and the question being asked in terms of these definitions
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by covidacct 6y ago
To avoid redundant threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22871806
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by covidacct 6y ago
Oy, I've been dreading having to answer this question since I pressed "post" :) I've decided that I do not have the time or interest in writing the Related Work section for a paper-length blog post touching on an enormou
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by covidacct 6y ago
The substance a good dsl for implementing rewrite/string substitution systems, as well as (likely high-quality) implementations of algorithms causal invariants, knuth-bendix completion, graph isomorphism, etc. [1]. A lot of that pre-e
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by covidacct 6y ago
Sure. The problem here is that exactly the ideas he's proposing to explore have already been explored. I've slightly edited my previous comment to point this out. The problem, in the very particular case of this blog post, is that
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by covidacct 6y ago
Maybe. I doubt it, though. There has always been substantial cross-talk between CS/information theory and Physics. Even through the 1990s it was difficult to be a computer scientist without eventually coming into contact with a non-tri
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by covidacct 6y ago
After a few iterations, I think I understand the point of this piece. It was a bit difficult to hone in on, though. The article suggests that working out the theory of something like rule production systems, and then figuring out how that t
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by covidacct 6y ago
Hopefully OP will response. I read ojna's post to mean that he prefers F# over Python, but that the rest of the job around the F# programming was miserable (maybe biz, org, process, and personality stuff was bad).

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