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by djoldman 3mo ago
Initially I assumed it to be negligible but the numbers are actually very close! I calculate around a 3% drop in speed (from 60mpg) for holding an average sized book out of the window. That's surprising to me. It's not quite right
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by djoldman 3mo ago
> ... you should worry that your car is going fast. Only if we know of an intervention that will likely slow the car down and the risks+cost of that intervention justify the benefit. Otherwise, we worry without purpose. EDIT: I will say
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by djoldman 3mo ago
As always with a lot of these: it's not saying causation. You might measure the speed of your car by putting your hand out of the window and notice that the wind force on your hand is strong when the car goes fast. Putting your hand ou
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by djoldman 3mo ago
The title confused me for most of the article because I assumed they were saying that getting an MRI was equivalently dangerous to a year of smoking. > So the same effort you would expend to get out of those activities on account of thei
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by djoldman 3mo ago
It's 25-34 year olds: > To calculate the earnings premium for undergraduate programs, the threshold is the median U.S. Census Bureau earnings of a working high school graduate, aged 25-34 who were not enrolled in postsecondary educa
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by djoldman 3mo ago
The calculation is interesting: (For bachelors degrees): Each year, they will calculate the median earnings 4 years after graduation of graduates of every (Institution, CIP code) tuple. (CIP Code: 6 digit code that identifies a "progra
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by djoldman 3mo ago
Yes. If one lives in the US and feels strongly about it, they should file an Out-of-Hospital DNR and POLST with every local hospital. Also consider wearing or carrying official bracelets/necklaces (varies state to state). I'm neit
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by djoldman 3mo ago
> Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack... He explained to me that he never, under any circumstances, wanted to be placed on life support machines
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by djoldman 3mo ago
> Say you want to throw an event. A medium sized gathering. More than a couple of friends. What happens if someone gets hurt at this event? Who's liable? Who's insured for what? It's boring and annoying, but if you throw a
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by djoldman 3mo ago
If you're going to take the time to read Geohot, take it with a grain/boulder of salt: he appears to enjoy poking the bear / being provocative, sometimes outrageously. Sometimes he's writing hyperbole that he thinks is h
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by djoldman 3mo ago
"The Anti‑Forbes List" Other possible titles: "List of Founders by Uncaptured Equity Value" "List of Most Regretful Founders" Logic fully breaks down when looking at ratios. If you have 1 cent, your ra
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John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement(apnews.com)
1397 points by djoldman 3mo ago|306 comments
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Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines(apnews.com)
135 points by djoldman 3mo ago|137 comments
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by djoldman 3mo ago
> This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools). These news articles are just tiresome a
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by djoldman 4mo ago
Follow the Nordic model has never been anything but a fantasy. All the Scandinavian countries put together have slightly more people than the NYC metro area and are extremely homogeneous in terms of ethnicity, religiosity, etc. as compared
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by djoldman 4mo ago
> So you can imagine how astonished I was last month when an American politician said that it was impossible to earn a billion dollars. > She wasn't saying, of course, that it's impossible to become a billionaire.... What sh
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by djoldman 5mo ago
What's rarely addressed in these articles is the question: if the product/service is so bad relative to the cost, where's the competition? Specifically in this article about fire trucks, they say that margins have tripled...
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> Society gains massively from future workers/tax payers It seems to me that, all other things equal, future workers/tax payers will lead to economic increases proportional to their costs. A reasonable forward looking plan &#x2
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> Under the US Cloud Act, American companies are required to hand over all information they store to the government if requested to do so, even if it is stored abroad. Hrm. It's my understanding that a US company is required to give
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Non-paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-is-starting-to-see-...
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> Replace ‘CTF’ with ‘high school’ or ‘university’ and you’ve described the total slow motion collapse of education; the only saving grace is that most of it requires in person presence. So something like, "Frontier AI has broken th
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by djoldman 5mo ago
I would love for the standard to be to ALWAYS report the required amount of memory to load and run a model in bytes of RAM alongside any other metrics. I'd love to see time to first token, token throughput, token latency as well but I&
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Not to support or attack the rationale behind the css or html standards but these have exact real world SI unit meanings: CSS | | Exact Size | Exact Size Unit | Name | (Inches) | (Millimeters)
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Could you share your thoughts about neuralink? Is there enough signal for this to really work?
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> Have you never met a bad doctor? A shoddy lawyer? A barista with a PhD? I presume the implication is that bad doctors and shoddy lawyers exist and just because they have advanced degrees doesn't make them good at what they do. Thi
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by djoldman 5mo ago
I came across a comedy clip where the employees are fighting over how many billion tokens they were using and assumed it was a joke.
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Unfortunately, it's probably not worth your time to read 99% of arxiv papers, LLM generated or otherwise. Ever pick a random one and really dive in?
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Just a reminder from January: "California completely drought-free for 1st time in 25 years after winter storms" https://abc7.com/post/california-has-zero-areas-dryness-firs...
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Is anyone actually at a company that is purposely trying to use a ton of tokens? It gets expensive really fast.
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> Runo extracts by meaning, not DOM position. Site redesigns and HTML changes won't ever break your pipeline. Bold claim.

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