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by cs702 2y ago
Economic conditions in Argentina were exceptionally horrible before Milei, and now they are... ordinarily bad. It looks like progress! Alas, I'm always a bit skeptical of any piece published by the Cato Institute, because it is not exa
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Interesting. For the government of a country like Denmark, with 1.4% the GDP and 1.7% the population of the US, the only viable way to build homegrown alternatives that avoid relying on software controlled by big US tech companies is to inv
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by cs702 2y ago
Abstract: "We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to
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by cs702 2y ago
Mass-market online dating apps are already a minefield of phony/fake and spammy/scammy content. AI will make it so much worse, so quickly. I wonder if this will spark a return to more old-fashioned methods for finding dates.
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by cs702 2y ago
Few details about the model have been made public, as far as I know. However, Steano Ermon, one of the founders of Inception Labs, the company that released the model, co-authored a paper in late 2023 (revised in 2024), titled "Discret
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Shiller's Cyclically Adjusted Price-Earnings (Cape) Ratio, 1871-Present(multpl.com)
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by cs702 2y ago
I don't know if what you say about Musk is true, but I want to thank you for sharing that quote by and that video of Warren Buffett. I had seen that quote before, but not the video. Both are insightful. I found the video more powerful.
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Ah, got it. Thanks!
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It could be useful for domains in which all or at least many problems are solvable (i.e., they can be stated and satisfied) with first-order logic. It could also be useful as a lower-level component of general-purpose systems that internall
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It's not hard to find out that many individuals in the current administration -- and the thinkers they praise -- are fans of Rand. In particular, they are fans of her novel, Atlas Shrugged. Many of the terms these individuals use, like
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I agree, they don't "love" tariffs, but many are so uneducated about economics that they will publicly state things like "import tariffs are better for the economy than income taxes."
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Uh-oh. I wonder how all the Ayn Rand acolytes in power today will react to the bad news. Their approach to macroeconomics can be summarized as: first, they always blame bureaucrats for bad economic conditions; and second, they believe that
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by cs702 2y ago
Wait, what? That makes no sense to me. Why ignore cyber threats from another country?
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Before you comment here, may I suggest you first read and make sure you understand the national income and product account (NIPA) tables mentioned by the OP? These tables are accounting statements compiled by... accountants. The tables
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Gary Marcus. By all accounts, he doesn't understand how LLMs work, so usually he's wrong about technical matters.[a] But here, I think he's right about business matters. The massive investment in computing capacity we'
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TL;DR: 1. Take FNet ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03824 ). 2. Replace the fixed (frequency-domain) convolution filter with one that is dynamically computed from the data. 3. Apply non-linear functions to both real and ima
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There's a thick, bright red line on the floor, as it were. On this side on the line, you have a country whose government respects the private tax data of citizens, controlling who has access to it with some kind of due process. On the
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There's now too much evidence to deny that human activity has changed the earth's climate, but... that doesn't mean we can predict the state of the world 100 years from now, because long-term technological progress is unimagi
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Original source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01698-1
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When a business bets itself on a bold gamble, with enormous upside but also enormous downside, if the gamble doesn't pay off, the worst thing that happens is that the business goes bankrupt, investors lose some money, employees lose th
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W.T.F.!? Let us hope this is just a temporary thing. Let us hope the disappearing data will resurface again at some point. Let us hope this isn't driven by ideological motivations. Sigh.
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Huh. I just skimmed this and quickly concluded that it's definitely not light reading. It sure looks and smells like good work, so I've added it to my reading list. Nowadays I feel like my reading list is growing faster than I c
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Agree. Thanks! :-)
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Financial institutions cannot force customers to borrow. Customers must first ask to borrow. Their collective behavior determines the multiplier. Customers = individuals and private non-financial organizations. Since the financial crisis, t
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I found the OP interesting and though-provoking, even though its title is too linkbait-ish for my taste, and the author completely ignores the harsh reality that most business decisions in Silicon Valley are driven by the fear that applicat
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IRL, whenever anyone tells me that the Fed's "money printing" is "causing" this or that other thing, I always ask: "OK, tell me how the 'printed money' ends up in people's hands, and why and how
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In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows how to live alongside nature(washingtonpost.com)
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Meh. The public directive doesn't strike me as a big deal. Also, I find it hard to take seriously anyone who compares company market capitalizations to country GDPs -- that makes no sense.
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All big-tech AI teams should be worried. The DeepSeek folks just showed the world how to do the same thing those teams do, but at ~99% lower cost -- and published all code and weights as free open-source.
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To be perfectly clear: I don't think there was any ill will here. My perception is that Musk may be unaware of the possible consequences of his actions.

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