ericjang

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by ericjang 5y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. the term "dark chasm lurking just beneath the surface" to describe what total freedom looks like on bad days speaks to me. I also agree with your assessment of his partner. Keeping up with the J
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by ericjang 5y ago
Googler here. dabfiend19 is correct, around ~2019 I believe new L3 hires were switched to this new grant schedule. Prior to that, it was based on a fixed number of shares.
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by ericjang 5y ago
This was an interesting, well-written post. I myself was an avid movie buff up until graduating college, after which point I became interested in other hobbies. My two cents: 1) I wonder to what extent the anhedonia is due to not the movie
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by ericjang 5y ago
> To be fair, meme activism has had its upsides. The author seems to dislike the meme #BlackLivesMatter, but also praises some memes like "#5DemandsNot1Less to generate pressure on the Chinese government to preserve the relative pol
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by ericjang 5y ago
Author here. Thanks for challenging my ideas. If you keep the bag for yourself, and don't care that other people think you have a fake bag, then this is equivalent to the case of "consumable luxuries" that I discuss with Wagy
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by ericjang 5y ago
I'm curious how many people take advantage of the "borrow money against equity to finance lifestyle" approach. At what net worth / amount of equity does this strategy start to make sense? 100k? 500k? 10M? I've heard
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by ericjang 5y ago
Setting aside the advantages of Proof-of-Stake in terms of energy consumption, and setting aside the "green energy buyer of last resort" argument that the BTC maximalists often say, and setting aside the theoretical requirements f
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by ericjang 5y ago
I sincerely hope that someone as skilled & self-motivated as Radon is absolutely flooded with job offers due to the PR explosion of this blog post.
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by ericjang 5y ago
I agree about the "corporate tax creates work in tax avoidance", but if corporate taxes are abolished, wouldn't it drive more individuals to incorporate their own businesses? The tax avoidance industry now shifts to servicing
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by ericjang 5y ago
I agree with this comment and upvoted it for credible argument's sake
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Sovereign Arcade: Currency as High-Margin Infrastructure(blog.evjang.com)
1 points by ericjang 5y ago|0 comments
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I would take a more charitable view on their move here. AGI research is risky from a R&D standpoint (for obvious reasons), and also tricky from a business strategy and product development standpoint. There isn't a mature business p
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by ericjang 5y ago
How would oracles verify semi-private business deals?
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by ericjang 5y ago
I went and read the paper in more detail. Yeah, my original comment was way off-base, except if you draw a parallel with normalizing flows as iterated refinement (similar to iterated de-noising), and see that the DDPM is a more unconstraine
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by ericjang 5y ago
Do you have an estimate of energy used / total value secured ? If I am understanding correctly, an upper bound on "total value secured" would just be the total transaction volume moved in a block?
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by ericjang 5y ago
My general rule of thumb is that if the new comp arrangement isn't better in an obvious, predictable way, then it probably isn't better for the employee. I think it would be good for Fred or Coinbase comp team to provide the expec
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by ericjang 5y ago
Ah, thanks. I had mistakenly assumed the diffusion process here was comparable / drop-in replacement to Langevin dynamics used with energy models.
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by ericjang 5y ago
I can try to provide a high level intuition. For actual experts, please forgive my errors of simplification. Drawing samples from "simple" distributions like normal distributions is computationally easy. You can do it in microseco
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by ericjang 5y ago
vanilla neural networks from the 1950's look like def f(x): for _ in range(3): x = g(Wx + b) return x Essentially it is a matrix multiplication, a vector addition, a non-linearity. Transformers are a modification t
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by ericjang 5y ago
Contrary to popular belief, cows have been known to eat small animals / meat for extra calcium or protein supplements https://farmhouseguide.com/do-cows-eat-meat And vice versa, wolves also eat plants sometimes https:
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by ericjang 5y ago
I don't know of role-model investors / traders who amassed a fortune in a short amount of time, starting from a small amount of capital, without borrowing money. There are of course cases like /u/DeepFuckingValue turning
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by ericjang 5y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google too (not ads), all opinions my own. I'm surprised the author focused singularly on the "funding the open web" stance, and did not discuss the alleged negative externalities created by advertising-
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by ericjang 5y ago
> if you are not working at a hedge fund using large sums of other people's money, then the amount of profit one would make actively investing their own money is not worth the amount of research it takes to make informative investme
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by ericjang 5y ago
Martin Shkreli (yes, The pharma bro) has an excellent set of youtube tutorials on reading 10-k and 10-q forms to compile DCF valuation models. His video series focuses on household tech names here's the first one in the series: https:
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by ericjang 5y ago
I think in the last decade, cultural norms in progressive circles have conditioned people to notice and point out when a community lacks racial / gender diversity. For instance, people will pay lip service to the cryptocurrency, AI, cy
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by ericjang 5y ago
> From this, it follows (as the night from the day) that the return on the average actively managed dollar must equal the market return. Why? Because the market return must equal a weighted average of the returns on the passive and activ
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by ericjang 5y ago
"statistically proven reality" is an oxymoron - past outperformance of passive funds (statistics) are no guarantee of future returns (reality). Some of the math surrounding the derivation of the weakest forms of EMT also relies on
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Science and Engineering for Learning Robots(blog.evjang.com)
2 points by ericjang 6y ago|0 comments
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by ericjang 6y ago
I see this as a natural progression of VC industry - the game is not about who can predict the winners and losers, but rather about capturing as much early stage equity on new business opportunities. In this sense, YC acts as an index fund
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by ericjang 6y ago
Got it. I do research in reinforcement learning and I can sympathize with the difficulty here - in my experience, even something as simple as "I want to balance two objectives: 1) the agent should get a high score and 2) the agent shou

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