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by dkga 1y ago
A few „anthropological“ impressions from this text. First, why do people throw away tennis shoes, unopened food etc? Why not take with them on to their next destination? Second, why not just put on the street so that other people can come a
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by dkga 1y ago
This is a very sensible comment. One thing that could explain why I see (subjectively) a lot more bigger families in Switzerland where I live compared to other places in Europe is that cities‘ size is „just right“, so having a family to sta
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by dkga 1y ago
TIL. I am not from an engineering/physics background so for me the original Unreasonable Effectiveness paper was Karpathy’s blog post about RNNs.
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by dkga 1y ago
The last sentence is exactly how I would describe Paul Hudson, as a HwS reader/user.
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by dkga 1y ago
So IP is considered personal information?
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by dkga 1y ago
Interesting!
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by dkga 1y ago
So, on an M4 I sometimes get faster training on plain vanilla jax compared to the same model in pytorch or tensorflow. And jax-metal often breaks :/
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by dkga 1y ago
This cannot be stressed enough.
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by dkga 1y ago
Well, in some fields some PhD classes involve a lot of reproducing (at least partially) others‘ papers.
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by dkga 1y ago
Someone (probably from here) would develop a local inference model probably - or hopefully.
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by dkga 1y ago
A: "I can't believe I caught you in that website!" B: "It's for research, really!"
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by dkga 1y ago
This is how some people in economics format their papers due to how some top journals require manuscripts to be. Source: I'm an economist (although I personally prefer to place figs/tables where they are supposed to be).
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by dkga 1y ago
Will definitely read the book after this readout. Trying to get Xi to name his child is both completely tone deaf to the point of being offensive, and incredibly debilitating for his child's self-esteem as just a bargaining chip.
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by dkga 1y ago
Very interesting! You know it gets wild when you read "... Here's the core of the raycasting algorithm in SQL"!
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by dkga 1y ago
There is a huge survival bias that you are not considering. Today's parents that had unlimited access to the Wild West that was 90s internet and are successful today do not represent the whole population of people who had access to int
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by dkga 1y ago
Even when watching Wayne's World?
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by dkga 1y ago
That is all very nice but as an Apple user I think they need to step up their game with respect to user experience. I often need to switch between three languages in iPhone and the Mac and the keyboard autocorrection and suggestions have be
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by dkga 1y ago
I‘m delighted to introduce to you the amazing microlino.ch
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by dkga 1y ago
I agree with all your comment… except the very last bit. Do you really find python to be more efficient at engineering stuff than R? And especially speed, which in my experience at least is broadly the same if not faster with R because it i
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by dkga 1y ago
This is exactly what I do for the vast majority of my academic papers. It combines the power and flexibility of R for statistics, which I agree with the upstream poster is incredibly underrated (especially with tidyverse) with python.
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by dkga 2y ago
Isn't the Economist based out of the UK?
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by dkga 2y ago
Well, not just the idea. The technical feats supporting Pix are actually amazing; it's a whole separate payments system that settles almost immediately, 24/7.
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by dkga 2y ago
I live in Switzerland - TWINT has other differences as well. To start, its settlement is not immediate as Pix's. As you point out, it is also not standardised.
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by dkga 2y ago
Control over the population? That's some conspiracy theory.
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by dkga 2y ago
There you go: https://github.com/bacen/pix-api
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by dkga 2y ago
You cannot seriously believe that. Visa or any other private card processing company would actively seek to exploit it for its financial gains within the limits of the rules. The central bank (which is not "the governmentTM") woul
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by dkga 2y ago
Saying this as a user but especially as a central banker and financial economist: Pix is truly amazing, and in fact an inspiration for many other countries. Beyond the payment sphere, we are only now beginning to scratch the surface on the
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by dkga 2y ago
I haven‘t yet read the book but his Youtube channel is always my first go-to place for ideas on how to communicate these concepts easily. My work involves using ML in econometric analyses and most economists do not intuitively understand ML
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by dkga 2y ago
Yes, but are consumers that knowingly bought into the Apple ecosystem harmed?
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by dkga 2y ago
Standard practice in Switzerland for years now.

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