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by deltree7 4y ago
considering how people are already gaming/cheating on this, it's useless stats. Sure, you can write code to check for bots and the bots will write code to beat it...and so on
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by deltree7 4y ago
The minute, someone uses VR to gain/master skills 5x-10x times faster than regular users, everyone will switch to VR. The minute, enterprises use VR to improve productivity, everyone will switch to VR. I'm always astounded by
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by deltree7 4y ago
i) Hedge Funds can easily carry out this a) Short all of PoW cryptocurrencies b) Carry Out 51% attack c) Profit. ii) Nation States can easily carry out this. a) Carry Out 51%. b) Shut the assholes who parrot, "Hurr Durr Crypto is bette
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by deltree7 4y ago
An iPhone user in rural India surfing the open internet on $1 / month LTE mobile networks is absolutely an example of Trickle down economics working. Every single of the thousands of innovation that goes into an iPhone was subsidized b
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by deltree7 4y ago
1) Spurious correlation between Cumulative Debt and currency circulation. 2) Confusing yearly numbers like GDP to long-term Debt. Debt/GDP are just a ratio, we don't know what the upper limit it or does it even matter. 3) An infl
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by deltree7 4y ago
Dumb article that gets so many basic things about Money Supply and Debt wrong
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by deltree7 4y ago
Wrong! A plot of land in rural Arkansas has been stable irrespective of Money Supply. The value of grain of sand on the beaches of South Carolina have been same. OTOH, Bitcoin is not an hard asset :) Hard/Soft classification are used b
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Bankrun 3.0(cnbc.com)
2 points by deltree7 4y ago|2 comments
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by deltree7 4y ago
Another day, another lesson on finance/banking/economics the world had learnt 300 years ago.
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by deltree7 4y ago
because there is no natural law that says Gold/Bitcoin will do well during inflation. Like all non-cash generating assets, it is driven by supply/demand and speculation (nothing to do with inflation protection) It is the snakeoil
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by deltree7 4y ago
HN crowd for all their smartness are as ego-driven and as susceptible to human biases like everyone else. Most opinions come from an irrational hate towards Google. (It's the nerd equivalent to be edgy/hip among peers by hating so
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by deltree7 4y ago
Bingo! I like how all these arm-chair HNers who have never run a successful company or built a public-facing product used by millions suddenly are experts at how to build a successful company. Yeah, you know how Search serves 4 Billion peop
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by deltree7 4y ago
Some people/firms have figured out that increasing brand-awareness is not through traditional product marketing but PR releases and tweets on things that has nothing to do with your product. See: Musk and Microstrategy and My Pillow...
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by deltree7 4y ago
What about statistics about rape, violence, thefts, invasions, random-beating-up? If the victims of these crimes had guns(or threat of having a gun), what would the statistics look like?
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by deltree7 4y ago
In a country of 330,000,000, people who have shot up schools may be around 330 or 0.0001%. It is impossible to assign any single causality to events that have such low occurrences unless you have billions of examples. (Yes, the rest of the
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by deltree7 4y ago
"Privacy" focused users are the most monolithic demographic and the easiest to target in the history of all demographics. It's just as easy as selling bunker-beds and ammo for doomer-preppers (while stroking their ego). But,
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by deltree7 4y ago
You think you have more data than all these companies who are worth Trillions of $$$ because they actually hired smart engineers?
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by deltree7 4y ago
Only on the internet, that someone working for a cost-center division, building an piece of internal software used by 20 users, gets to lecture how a $2 Trillion Dollar, building multiple Billion real-world user products, generating > $5
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by deltree7 4y ago
Stanford releases most of their courses for free for the world to consume and improve their knowledge and help humanity. It is not about internet points, but the fact that how anti-capitalists the intellectual elites have become despite mas
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by deltree7 4y ago
"This person didn't do a great job of accounting for inflation" Listen to yourself. This is like saying "we have a perfect earthquake prediction model, except it doesn't predict certain types of earthquakes" Th
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by deltree7 4y ago
Exactly, it is not just operational cost for 1 year, but Stanford and Hebrew universities have to survive the next 500 years of humanity for the benefit of humanity. No amount of Cash in the Reserve is enough for a 500 year plan
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by deltree7 4y ago
Well, two flaws. i) if Einstein had patented his ideas and had left Billions of Dollars to a top university, would it have been ok with you?. To answer your question, Universities are institutions that last centuries. To survive and attrac
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by deltree7 4y ago
Einstein is more famous than Jesus and Mona Lisa. 40% of the world population are from India and China (a Non-Jesus country). Kids at a very young age are introduced to Einstein in pretty much every school. Mona Lisa not so much. In fact, g
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by deltree7 4y ago
If you read the article it is certainly more nuanced. * The money is going to a Top University. * There are strict limitations about how the images / brand can be used. I especially like the idea of not mis-quoting and fabricating quot
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by deltree7 4y ago
employment is a lagging indicator.
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by deltree7 4y ago
If I had a nickel 1% of the time some naive dude said, "we only need to capture 1% of the market to become rich", I'd be very rich.
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by deltree7 4y ago
Incredibly dumb and naive to assume that if Kagi becomes even remotely successful, the SEO bandwagon will not target them.
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Gato – A Generalist Agent(arxiv.org)
140 points by deltree7 4y ago|58 comments
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by deltree7 4y ago
https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
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by deltree7 4y ago
Indians and Chinese make 40% of the global population, but only 1% of US population. So, clearly the diversity of US isn't representative of the global population.

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