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by currymj 2y ago
I think there is a lot of confusion around private prisons in the US. I can't understand why this is such a talking point for people who want prison reform. For-profit companies operating carceral facilities is just not the main reason
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by currymj 2y ago
I agree completely with your last point. As other commenters have pointed out, this is probably a good solution for HPC jobs where everyone is using C++ or Fortran anyway and you frequently write your own CUDA kernels. From time to time I r
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by currymj 2y ago
I'm not really talking about companies here for the most part, I'm talking about academic ML researchers (or industry researchers whose role is primarily academic-style research). In companies there is more incentive for good soft
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by currymj 2y ago
if you're talking about building anything, that is already too hard for ML researchers. you have to be able to pip install something and just have it work, reasonably fast, without crashing, and also it has to not interfere with 100 ot
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by currymj 2y ago
i don’t think credit freezing matters too much in this case because the leak wasn’t tied to SSN, name, etc. that would be used for identity theft. it was phone call and location data. much worse for privacy but less useful for financial fra
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by currymj 2y ago
in this case it’s pretty tough because the phone company does need this metadata just to bill people. so they should protect it properly.
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by currymj 2y ago
interestingly the NYC yellow cabs were recording all this data for a while and released it in an "anonymized" dataset, which turned out to be pretty easy to deanonymize because people tend to be picked up or dropped off near their
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by currymj 2y ago
being a tourist destination seems to me almost like a resource curse, like oil wealth can be in certain countries. tourism can be so lucrative that it is actually profitable to force out normal people and completely reorient the economy awa
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by currymj 2y ago
given the explosion in popularity of vaping and nicotine pouches (like Zyn) since this article was written, I think we now know this is false. Tons of people have become addicted to pure nicotine without ever touching tobacco.
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by currymj 2y ago
there can be serious downsides to amphetamines, even at normal therapeutic doses and in the case of no addiction. they have emotional effects and effects on cognition. people can become paranoid, start to have strange and erratic patterns o
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by currymj 2y ago
Villeneuve is actively working on Rendezvous with Rama, it's likely to be one of his next projects.
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by currymj 2y ago
the dream is that if i already have to drive downtown, if only there were more parking spots, i could always find one easily instead of driving around searching. but this often won’t happen.
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by currymj 2y ago
i think the point of "induced demand" is that you sometimes can't really fix -- specifically -- traffic or parking congestion problems by building more. if you widen the roads, in many cases it won't make your commute an
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by currymj 2y ago
I didn't make any prediction at all.
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by currymj 2y ago
5 years ago you couldn't hop in a commercial self-driving taxi in a major US city. Now you can. The progress has been slower than everyone's predictions but it is still substantial.
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by currymj 2y ago
“Hackers” is interesting because there’s two depictions of hacking in the same movie. One is flying through the holographic city of files. The other depiction is quite realistic: they show the protagonist spending all night reading through
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by currymj 2y ago
generally it has to be public knowledge which prisons people are in, because the alternative would be really bad (people “disappear”).
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by currymj 2y ago
i don't know about European healthcare but in the US, there is this huge mess of unstructured text EMR and a lot of hope that LLMs can help 1) make it easier for doctors to enter data, 2) make some sense out of the giant blobs of noisy
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by currymj 2y ago
a big part of the project is to not just collect whalesong data but also measure what activities the whales physically engage in as they “speak”.
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by currymj 2y ago
the CEO of the bankruptcy estate sent a letter to the court arguing against this. people are "made whole" in that they will receive the dollar value of the assets on the day of the bankruptcy, but due to rise in cryptocurrency pri
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by currymj 2y ago
as i understand it, the theory was that it would discourage the undergraduates from hanging out in their rooms, and force them to hang out around campus and socialize, and this would be good for them.
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by currymj 2y ago
most of the leetcode problems are based on material that a new grad CS major would have learned recently from taking a class that uses CLRS as the textbook. if this background is assumed then the key to success becomes building problem solv
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by currymj 3y ago
this pattern continually repeats itself. at this point everyone knows oxycontin was marketed by Purdue Pharmaceuticals as a less-addictive substitute for morphine and heroin. very early on in the discovery of morphine, there was some hope t
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by currymj 3y ago
from reading this article, it seems like there may be some odd short-term pressures, or incentives internal to the companies, that mean policies are getting cancelled based on clearly inaccurate information.
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by currymj 3y ago
a key aspect of the cutting edge companies is their ability to execute on very large and complicated software engineering projects, so you should see if your existing software engineering skills might already be useful. e.g. look at Anthrop
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by currymj 3y ago
many CS conferences have something literally called a "meta-review" and then there are further senior people who read and oversee the meta-reviews. it stops there though.
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by currymj 3y ago
you can sign a book deal to write a book and get paid an advance against your royalties. for a major publisher and a "normal" author this would typically be five figures. those are hard to get, especially your first one, and also
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by currymj 3y ago
Is this true? I thought it was just named after the emoji. I knew they had a chatbot product at one point but I didn’t think it was for therapy.
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by currymj 3y ago
the problem is that having a healthy community of scholars doing good historical research using sophisticated methods, produces a lot of positive externalities. most people never engage with it but having such people around does limit histo
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by currymj 3y ago
early 2000s was a different time also. nerd career paths hadn’t yet become prestigious and formalized. there were no middle schoolers optimizing their resumes for how to get a Jane Street internship in 8 years bc Jane Street was only a few

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