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by dmurray 2y ago
There's some noise in the process, so you won't get the same results if you ask the same model the same prompt 4 times. Most of the services that do this just ask the same model 4 times with a different random seed, as far as I ca
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by dmurray 2y ago
I took it to mean that the corporate entity had some favourable tax treatment (perhaps from losses in previous years, which could offset against future profits). Which indeed means the corporate entity has no value by itself, but it has som
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by dmurray 2y ago
I suppose you'd do it the same way any North Korean operative would. They'd offer you training on how to bypass the controls. They'd get you to exfiltrate the code and the product roadmap. They'd have someone more skille
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by dmurray 2y ago
Why would you favour "date plus a day" rather than "number plus a number"? I agree Excel has to guess, and in isolation guessing that "1/2" should be parsed a date is not a terrible choice, and that parsi
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by dmurray 2y ago
The saved money and the payroll for new money are both in dollars per year, not one-time costs. So the additional premium needs to be 10%, not 5%, to erase the benefits, and it doesn't matter how many years you look at. (I'm ignor
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's one revolution every 1.8 seconds. That seems too fast for most roundabouts, but maybe not uncontrollably so. 78 rpm is Formula One territory.
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by dmurray 2y ago
What basic rugby technique? A rugby scrum is highly regimented, it's not the optimal way for 3 (or 5 or 8) guys to push the other team back, it's the optimal way to do it given that they must be bound in a particular way. A rugby
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by dmurray 2y ago
Why would they continue to decline? If all that information is already known, why isn't it priced in and why isn't the best estimate of Tesla's price in 6 months equal to today's price plus the return of Treasuries?
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by dmurray 2y ago
It comes from the future production of the countries, the exact thing the spending is meant to boost. If the 800bn creates more than 800bn in (time-adjusted) future productivity, it pays for itself. If not, it was a bad investment.
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by dmurray 2y ago
The term to search for this is barratry and there are laws against it in some jurisdictions. Realistically, you will not win a judgment on this to compensate you for your time dealing with a single cease and desist letter. If someone show
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by dmurray 2y ago
This is laughably poor geography. Both Gatwick [0] and Stansted are busier than either Washington airport [1], and if you're considering Miami as an alternative to Atlanta then why not similarly ridiculous options like Paris, Amsterda
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by dmurray 2y ago
Human perception of absolutely everything is influenced by the surrounding conditions. Every so often a study goes viral that demonstrates that humans can be fooled about such simple things as whether wine is red or white, whether a dog is
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by dmurray 2y ago
10^7 cases, but almost every case has billions of digits. Even that doesn't seem so bad though, it's on the order of 10^16 total digits to check in the worst case, and far fewer in practice. Maybe someone here can run a program ov
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by dmurray 2y ago
It could be a measure of each candidate's difference (in diversity points) from the overall cohort, which is an approximation of how much the diversity of the group will change by accepting/rejecting this candidate. But that seems
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Even the most devout vegan would surely concede that the plants they eat must die in order to render sustenance from them. Let me (far from a vegan) try to disagree: you can sustainably harvest the fruit or the bark of a plant without
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by dmurray 2y ago
That's one of the purposes of darkpools, to let institutions trade large size without moving the market. No one's getting manipulated here: both the buyers and sellers know what's going on. You can trade on these yourself - t
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by dmurray 2y ago
Are they? They seem easy enough to operate remotely, or by a guy in a tank or a bulletproof Popemobile or whatever.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Firefox seems to be good enough - is there anyone who wants to fork Firefox out of a frustration over how it handles some web standard and a feeling that they could do it better? Hard forking a browser and implementing all future features o
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by dmurray 2y ago
All reasonable fitness trackers use your weight as an input, and there's nothing in the article to suggest the devices weren't provided with this information even though it's not "something the watch can monitor".
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by dmurray 2y ago
This doesn't seem right. Even the companies with the strongest RTO policies still allow many employees to work from home one day a week / if they are sick / if they are on call / in other extenuating circumstances. So th
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by dmurray 2y ago
> China adopted the Surveyor / Apollo-era philosophy. Their first successful lander, Chang'e 3, used the same hover & fall technique as Surveyor. Dropping the last 4 metres isn't a sign of having a ruggedized, over-spe
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by dmurray 2y ago
That's fair. In fact, you might say that for a competently set up fleet of computers, nothing beats it.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Well, her first last name was Last, but her last last name was Belville. And her last first name was Elizabeth, and her first first name was Maria.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I think it's a failing of rhe the original article. There are links that show most of the examples, but no inline images.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Versions of both of these exist in the FX market ("last look" and "latency floor" if you want to Google). They are successful in reducing, but not eliminating, the advantages of lower latency. It's not clear that th
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by dmurray 2y ago
I hadn't heard of this although I'm in the industry. It sounds weird. Normally if you want to attract or profit from high frequency traders, you offer the differential product (fast market data / colocation / direct exch
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by dmurray 2y ago
My Outlook at work shows the first line of the body alongside the subject, and adds <EOM> if the entire message fits in that preview line. This seems as good as or better than having people add the "<eom>" marker manua
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by dmurray 2y ago
Ok, but "had some authors who wouldn't pass a 2025 purity test" is moving the goalposts quite a lot from "never published anything that wasn't by a White man, about a White man". Le Guin, while a great author,
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by dmurray 2y ago
Asimov's Susan Calvin stories first appeared in Analog (when it was called Astounding, but already under Campbell).
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Everyone from SMBC to the NY Times would put all of their content behind a paywall, or in an app, or something else that's worse than the status quo right? The NYT already puts its content behind a pay wall, and SMBC (as of this u

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