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by ianhorn 6y ago
People are all talking about how it's useful for quick stuff with datasets, but it goes far beyond that. It's useful for quick anything you might want a small database for. Imagination is the limit. For example, if any of you pl
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Most ceiling fixtures have a couple bulbs. Get one with three, and a bedside table + lamp on each side of the bed. That’s at least five hue bulbs, which lights up a room very effectively. Not full sunlight, but enough. I think you aren’t in
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by ianhorn 6y ago
I have a Hue light on my bedside table that goes from 0 to max over 30min, plus three bulbs in the ceiling socket that do the same, but are staggered. Like bedside can be 6:55-7:25, with overhead 1 from 7-7:30, overhead 2 from 7:05-7:35, et
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by ianhorn 6y ago
I bought some smart bulbs for the bedroom and use those as a gradual alarm clock. It works wonders. I only have a blasting audio alarm clock when I need to catch a flight these days and it’s much much more pleasant to slowly wake from the “
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by ianhorn 6y ago
A bunch of mock-ups of something that doesn’t exist doesn’t seem any worse than a description of the same. The problem is that the startup and the consumers have totally different goals. Misleading marketing is always better for the company
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by ianhorn 6y ago
For the last bunch of years, wherever my instinct says to add white space, I instead put a comment. If you want something to be a visually separate entity, it’s the perfect place to put a couple words about that entity, and it still gets th
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by ianhorn 6y ago
A super common solution to the problem of too many ideas packed into a clever solution is just naming intermediate things. For example, naming the zip(...) is a little change that goes pretty far in making the second one more obvious:
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Does delivery tend to be different from takeout in your experience? It does in mine. The gap between finishing prep and me eating it is much longer for delivery, except that the apps almost all lie about it. While your order is sitting ther
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by ianhorn 6y ago
That’s a good slogan but there needs to be delineation of who is and isn’t involved. It turns out to be the central question. If I buy a book from Amazon and want to sell it on eBay, who needs to opt in? I certainly shouldn’t need your perm
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Physics upper level undergrads too. There’s a pretty fuzzy line between something appropriate for the end of undergrad versus the beginning of grad school. If you have had vector calc, basic probability and stats, and linear algebra, the bo
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by ianhorn 6y ago
> Journalistic integrity isn't as strong of a concern simply because it's not the journalists who write headlines. Shouldn’t it still concern them? If I wrote a piece about Obama making a hard choice to fund orphanages or schoo
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by ianhorn 6y ago
That’s only the case if it’s entirely statistical, while the whole point is that there are factors under your control. Hiring someone/something to drive your family around isn’t a reversion to the mean. You can make certain efforts (in
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by ianhorn 6y ago
It’s so widely acknowledged that headlines mislead, and also that people often only read the headline. Why does the editorial practice of shitty headlines persist so strongly? It seems like journalistic integrity goes so much further with a
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Why don’t we mandate that people submit themselves to a mandatory medical experimentation lottery? We’ll do so much better if we go through as many people as we do lab rats, and it’ll save unimaginable lives in the long run. Utilitarianism
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Let’s say you hire a chauffeur to drive your kids around. You find out they’ve been drinking on the job and speeding recklessly. When you confront them, they pull out stats that they’ve been actually less drunk than average. Do you fire the
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by ianhorn 6y ago
I think I read that ninety something perfect of driving deaths or accidents are people being irresponsible in the manner you said, but can’t find a source again, so take it with a grain of salt. I was able to find one that of the 37k drivin
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by ianhorn 6y ago
tl;dr Cheaper credit and inflation. The monthly payments today are actually 40% lower on an inflation adjusted basis. Only the down payment is more expensive, by 30% after inflation. I’m going to go with 1990 for a specific date. According
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by ianhorn 6y ago
I firmly believe that better voting systems are the highest ROI changes we can make to government. Unfortunately the people the current system over-favors are the ones who need to do it. It’s a microcosm of the whole problem of politics :(
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by ianhorn 6y ago
BPE as used in NLP might count as a successful hybrid approach. Maybe the hybrid approaches that work out will be really specific purpose like that for a while.
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by ianhorn 6y ago
This is super interesting. Tons of people agree that machine learning needs a better grasp of causality. Something underdiscussed is that our data doesn’t generally include the information needed to automate causal inference and discovery i
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by ianhorn 6y ago
“Money laundering” is taking criminal money (maybe marked currency or something) and trading them out for “clean” currency that can’t be tracked. Imagine a dataset about healthcare outcomes. You want to know whether airlifting a patient is
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Any chance you have pointers on how to set that up? You'd probably laugh/cry to see my setup right now, with my Windows desktop on the left monitors and my MacBook on the right monitors because I need both... purely because Dragon
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Yeah there is the Kaldi backend for caster, which I've tried on my Mac machine, since Dragon isn't a thing on Mac. Unfortunately it's not nearly as good :-( I'd like to try to record my usage of Dragon that I could fine-
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by ianhorn 6y ago
> or Mac alongside Dragon Unfortunately it looks like Dragon on Mac isn't a thing anymore, which is a shame because my main dev machine is a Mac. Or at least it used to be, before I needed to start dictating everything.
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by ianhorn 6y ago
I’ve been having similar issues lately, and after looking at talon, serenade, and caster, I ended up using caster [0]. The different programs all have significant differences in usability, and have clever ideas behind them, but unfortunate
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by ianhorn 6y ago
A side effect of this is that if your individual productivity goes up, your real wage might go up, but if your whole industry’s productivity goes up, it’ll be mitigated by this effect. Kinda like how everything in SF is so expensive, so the
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by ianhorn 6y ago
It’s an extreme end of the spectrum where static, restrictive, but harder to screw up is one end, and weak, dynamic, permissive, but easy to screw up is on the other. For what it’s good for, it’s great. I love it because you can do many thi
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by ianhorn 6y ago
> If you want to understand “how GPT-3 works”, you can just study GPT-2. Nothing is different architecturally between them. This isn't true. At the very least, off the top of my head, GPT-2 didn’t have the sparse layers that GPT-3 h
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by ianhorn 6y ago
One of the last classes I ever took was nonlinear dynamical systems. It should have been one of the first after basic calc/vector calc! The typical progression is to start with systems you can solve by hand and then move to ones you ca
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by ianhorn 6y ago
Oh wow, ziteboard has a feature I’ve been looking for for ages: vector graphics rather that pixel graphics. You can zoom in indefinitely, making nested notes and annotations possible!

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