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by davedx 2y ago
The vector space projection of the human experience. I like it.
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by davedx 2y ago
Again, citation needed. These are extremely broad claims about the nature of British society. Or just go ahead and downvote me if that makes you feel better
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by davedx 2y ago
Perhaps it was even like Shakespeare - how do we really know he even existed as a person at all? Perhaps "Alexander" was actually a collection of Macedonian Generals?! As was stated in the article, all the original sources are gon
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by davedx 2y ago
Citation needed? The UK certainly has plenty of upper-middle class families. This is nothing to do with family wealth and everything to do with business culture.
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by davedx 2y ago
> In Europe the old rusty impotent gray-haired managers wont even listen to you, even if you offer them a goddamn magic bean or a money printer machine. And why would they? They risk a lot and gain almost nothing, as there are no reward
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by davedx 2y ago
Is accounting really a core part of Uber's business? They're a transportation company not a bank. I kind of question the premise really
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by davedx 2y ago
What do you think is useful for NASA to do? Do you think any form of spaceflight is useful ?
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A typical Rails app will serve up to 1.5 requests per second per vCPU(x.com)
3 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
> A swarm whose members are in known spatial positions relative to each other, having state-of-the-art microminiaturized clocks to keep synchrony, can utilize its entire population to communicate with Earth, periodically building up a si
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What were the benefits of quads used by Nvidia's NV1 over tri based rendering?(computergraphics.stackexchange.com)
1 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
Thank you, that's kind of you to say. It's been a journey! :)
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by davedx 2y ago
> I'd want to be able to define a model like "I think the fair value of a company is its net current assets plus its last 5 years of earnings", and have the tool email me whenever I can buy shares in any company substantia
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by davedx 2y ago
Yes but it's not really about the number crunching itself (NN's or something else), but more about modelling the "wider world" ("macro") outside the company that could drive its business. Like if you wanted to
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by davedx 2y ago
That doesn't surprise me at all, I've heard it's the same in private credit. I think a lot of the initial ground work that's done in due diligence and modelling is more to flush out any red flags than to inform the inves
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by davedx 2y ago
I've also tried Japanese, Swahili, Arabic and Hebrew. Languages with completely different writing systems obviously have a significant extra hurdle. And of course, it depends how well you want to learn it . Becoming fluent enough to g
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by davedx 2y ago
Mmm. The one thing I mostly learned from doing DCF models myself in Excel was how sensitive the output was to the different inputs. It didn't really help me to do the modelling itself, the hard part is predicting the future, not the Ex
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by davedx 2y ago
English speaker who moved to the Netherlands here. My experience was it isn't particularly easier or harder than any other language to learn. The grammar and word ordering is different enough that you really have to study and practice
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by davedx 2y ago
Wow, absolutely atrocious. There really is no justice for the victims of war, is there? This guy must be a sociopath.
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by davedx 2y ago
> it's functionally impossible to build new overhead transmission lines anywhere This isn't really true, new overhead lines are being built all over the place. It definitely depends where they're being built and there is d
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The 84-Year-Old Man Who Saved Nvidia(wsj.com)
4 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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by davedx 2y ago
Fascinating! Using HVDC to interconnect async grids is very common. This presentation is a nice deep dive on the situation in Europe: we are even building HVDC “corridors” embedded inside some of the sync grids. Pricey gear but valuable too
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by davedx 2y ago
Ha yeah I remember that part. I speak Dutch and it basically sounded like German to me? Really strange.
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by davedx 2y ago
But that's not how VC funding works! Many to most of their investments will fail - that's completely normal. In the case of Tesla, that was also true - and then some of them (e.g. his transformers) resulted in massive wealth creat
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by davedx 2y ago
My point was Westinghouse benefited immensely from Tesla's patents. His AC transmission network wouldn't have been possible without them. My second point was not every investment in a founder will yield a huge result - many will f
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by davedx 2y ago
> Even with hindsight, funding Tesla was a bad decision for investors return wise. He invented the brushless motor and types of transformers that were instrumental to building Westinghouse's empire. When Westinghouse was running low
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by davedx 2y ago
> b) the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit) We can be as cynical about this part as we want, but I think what is meant here is that startups should try to raise investment from VC&#x27
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by davedx 2y ago
Elegantly written presumption.
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by davedx 2y ago
Azure have a decent set of offerings for this too, they work quite well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/ai-services/document...
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by davedx 2y ago
I'm having decent success with GPT4o on this. Have you given it a try? It probably varies from table structure to table structure.
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by davedx 2y ago
Ooh that's a very neat approach, great idea! Chains of thought across abstraction layers. Definitely worth a blog post I reckon. Good luck!

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