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by currymj 3y ago
Here's a scenario: - I have no idea how to use an API, and it is poorly documented, but I am an expert in the general problem it's trying to model - I need to write code using this API in the next hour - That code will only ever r
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by currymj 3y ago
it probably technically wouldn't be insider trading in the US but I think the laws may be different in Europe.
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by currymj 3y ago
i have a fairly ill-informed question. my sense is that office-to-residential just rarely makes sense. but could one change building codes so that, when new office buildings are constructed, they have to be designed to make a future residen
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by currymj 3y ago
I think, frankly, the whole philosophical discussion about the purpose of the criminal justice system is a pointless abstraction and waste of time, because the US jail & prison system is a complete failure and as it currently exists, ca
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by currymj 3y ago
I don’t know the exact law, but my understanding is most people who can work, don’t get the exemption, no matter how clear-cut the disability.
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by currymj 3y ago
In Switzerland this system exists right now, it's an extra 3 percent income tax for 11 years. Some people with disabilities are exempt from the tax, but it is common to be deemed unfit for military service due to a disability, and have
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by currymj 3y ago
I don't think it is just pressure from above. I think a lot of professors would sincerely prefer to not give out any grades (as is done at some universities), or at least to give them an extremely low importance, and grade inflation is
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by currymj 3y ago
it's too bad, i was hoping the USA could free ride off European regulation. i would like to see an iMessage app for Android. for me, it's the opposite of the teenager status issues. rather, a lot of older people seem not capable o
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by currymj 3y ago
everyone buying GPUs for AI and scientific workloads wishes AMD was a viable option, and this has been true for almost a decade now. the hardware is already good enough, people would be happy to use it and accept that's it's not q
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by currymj 3y ago
arguably there is not so much difference between AirPods in transparency mode and a hearing aid these days. i share your feeling and remove earbuds. but it’s starting to feel like taking your hat off — purely symbolic gesture.
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by currymj 3y ago
in Germany i think there is a general bias by medical professionals against using medicine at all for the treatment of symptoms, not only pain.
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by currymj 3y ago
“Spatialize Stereo” is an option in iOS if you have airpods. (long press on volume meter, same place where you can switch between transparency and noise canceling)
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by currymj 3y ago
in the US, especially at "organic" grocery stores such as Whole Foods, you can typically get various weird apple cultivars -- although usually newly-developed rather than traditional. worth checking out if you like apples.
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by currymj 3y ago
if you accidentally scan something twice, frequently the machine requires an employee to delete the entry for you.
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by currymj 3y ago
where things seem to really go wrong with peer review is when entities outside a scientific community want to use published research to set public policy, decide where to invest, or make high-stakes hiring decisions. doing this actually req
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by currymj 3y ago
this GPU was so good at the time that it started cannibalizing sales of higher end data center cards, and Nvidia had to put terms in the EULA for the drivers to try to legally prevent this.
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by currymj 3y ago
a lot of the more remote Swiss bus services are "PostAuto" and got started exactly like this -- giving passengers a ride on existing mail carriages. Now they run actual buses along the same routes (which are still bright yellow li
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by currymj 3y ago
"Dive Into Deep Learning" may be good in that it usually has code alongside any mathematical notation: https://d2l.ai/index.html I have not actually looked at it in detail, but the legendary Gilbert Strang, in add
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by currymj 3y ago
if you have no mathematical background at all this isn’t the book for you i think. that is not really advanced mathematics although a little notationally dense. there are many good materials such as the fantastic fast.ai course that don’t r
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"From the Necessary Existent to God" – Peter Adamson [pdf](traditionalhikma.com)
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by currymj 3y ago
i think you're exactly right -- it is trying to take some of the mental tricks that "good at math" students would intuit for themselves, and teach them explicitly. this is good overall, although of course it's possible t
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by currymj 3y ago
a major focus of the project is to also monitor the whales' physical movement, in order to put the particular sounds in the context of actions.
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by currymj 3y ago
the "ASCII ribbon" referred to a ribbon drawn as ASCII art, not an insistence that people use exclusively ASCII characters. Unicode is still plain text and supports any language you can think of, and also most languages you can&#x
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by currymj 3y ago
i'll post one of my favorite related facts about noncompetes. Famously, California bans them, but this was not an intentional policy choice for the sake of entrepreneurship. It was done in the 19th century and almost by accident. David
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by currymj 3y ago
up til now I could see a customer saying "who cares" wrt WeWork's financial situation, the product can still be fine and useful. but if you're effectively subleasing, and WeWork might not be able to pay their rent, sudde
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by currymj 3y ago
1) it's basic research, 2) you can always chop off the last layer and use the embeddings, which I guess might be useful for something
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by currymj 3y ago
just use google scholar to start (which pulls from almost all journals + arxiv), and consider searching through citations as well. you can search for survey papers and look at their bibliographies too. do NOT subscribe to any academic journ
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by currymj 3y ago
i think ordinary people frequently feel frustrated with low-quality software, but it seems to me not necessarily in a way they can consciously articulate. that is, they probably can tell when software is frustrating to use, but they don&#x2
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by currymj 3y ago
i think it's fine if universities grade on whatever scale they want, or none, and it's not clear who is hurt by this. I guess if you have to hire Harvard new grads, want to base your decision on their academic performance, and wou
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by currymj 3y ago
you lost me with the supermarket... lots of people in NYC walk or take the subway to supermarkets that have little/no parking... people like a big store where all the food is in one place.

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