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by diab0lic 1y ago
When people buy a car they sometimes get a loan from the auto manufacturer’s financial services arm. What they don’t usually get are warrants struck at a penny for 10% of the manufacturer. You sound like you know what you’re talking about.
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by diab0lic 1y ago
> or you have to physically segregate inventory by vendor, which is not practical. The headline seems to indicate that the geniuses in logistics at Amazon have figured out how to make it practical!
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by diab0lic 1y ago
Your understanding is correct.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Until a few years ago most projects at Netflix were done with a handful of engineers ( <= 6 ). A dozen people working on something would have been considered very large. Four dozen would have been considered a company wide effort.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
The difference is that in machine learning the changes between iterations are themselves caused by the gradient, in evolution they are entirely random. Evolution randomly generates changes and if they offer a breeding advantage they’ll beco
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by diab0lic 2y ago
I don’t really think that it is. Evolution is a random search, training a neural network is done with a gradient. The former is dependent on rare (and unexpected) events occurring, the latter is expected to converge in proportion to the vol
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by diab0lic 2y ago
My team bought one of those for our on-call to carry around. I never wanted to let it go at the end of my on-call shift.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
That would be a different subclass of anomaly detection solutions.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
You are not wrong! An entire subclass of anomaly detection can basically be reduced to: forecast the next data point and then measure the forecast error when the data point arrives.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
That’s fair, I should have caveated this statement with the fact that I don’t know much about using the modern AWS console. There are likely a few factors at play here, including the fact that Netflix decided to go its own way in this regar
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Once you hit a certain scale anything on the AWS console becomes impossible to use. It’s one of the reasons most high to very high scale companies use something else to manage cloud resources. See: Spinnaker and Asgard for Netflix specific
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Thanks for the textbook link, this looks right up my alley!
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by diab0lic 2y ago
For those with more experience how does (Num)Pyro compare with PyMC? I haven’t had the good fortune of working with any of these libraries since before Pyro (and presumably numpyro), and with PyMC3 back when it used Theano under the hood. A
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by diab0lic 2y ago
I’d imagine it is fairly dependent on which cache you’re connected to.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Similar experience. I’m in my 30s and many peers in the same age group (add a standard deviation in each direction, but skew to the left) “don’t know how to cook” and door dash daily, sometimes dessert is a separate order made later. When I
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Errr that last sentence should end with “is what makes this non-ergodic.”
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by diab0lic 2y ago
An example that may be useful to aid in understanding… Casinos are non ergodic. A million players each placing a single bet will have an expectation of losing the house edge. A single player placing a million bets has an expectation of $0.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
> It's almost like the banking system was designed by rich people to suit the needs of rich people or something. Food for thought: If they didn’t have an investment manager before this, and their primary asset was a big house they c
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by diab0lic 2y ago
The full paragraph is as follows. > I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of sleeping), and one particular slide j
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by diab0lic 2y ago
> All non-competes are harmful, end of story. Ah. How could I be so foolish as to think there might be some nuance to the situation! For what it’s worth a lot of friends in finance are/were bummed about how this law might affect gar
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by diab0lic 2y ago
VTSAX isn’t a free lunch, but you pay in risk rather than time spent managing real estate. It’s passive assuming you can handle drawdowns whereas real estate is passive assuming you think running a rental business is passive.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
The whole conversation is very scope dependent. A species can be antifragile specifically because the constituent organisms are fragile. The species evolves not in spite of death and mutation (variation) of the organisms but because of it.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
I think you may have misread the quote you’re replying to. You and the GP post appear to be in agreement. I read it as: P(ethical_and_principled) < P(ethical_and_principled|stands_to_gain) Or in plain language people are more likely to d
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Would this increase prices, decrease prices, or leave prices unaffected?
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Oh you’re right. I updated my comment to reflect that so as to not spread misinformation. That said the point stands. ISS junk hitting you will cause just as much damage as SpaceX junk.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
For practical purposes does this matter? There is a lot of range between lethal and burns up on re-entry speeds for a ping pong table sized piece of debris.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
The point of the article is that the frequency of launches is increasing, and the frequency at which pieces are surviving re-entry is increasing. I don’t think past performance is necessarily indicative of the future here.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
The article also mentions pieces of the same Crew Dragon mission landing on the roof of a house in North Carolina. Pieces of a non Crew Dragon mission going through a roof, and floor of a house in Florida. So no, the risk isn’t negligible.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
It’s a CLI flag to the compiler that enables all warnings.
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by diab0lic 2y ago
Hey Ghalib and Nathan, Amazing work! Two questions: 1. What is the best avenue for potential customers to express interest in the addition of a new data source or sink? 2. I assume this runs on Polytomic owned compute? Is there a way to bri

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