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by iaw 3y ago
Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel It's the best non-biased primer I've found on finance.
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by iaw 3y ago
Based on your comment I think you may be missing one aspect: The money you get lent at the bank is the money people are investing. Both of the things you describe in this comment are two halves of a market. There's someone borrowing
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by iaw 3y ago
Not dumb, this stuff isn't really taught unless you explicitly pursue it. One note: the return on some companies may be higher and others lower, the issue is that the risk for money in companies is higher. Very simplistic example: th
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by iaw 3y ago
I'll try to be quick and simple: - The US government sets a base interest rate it will pay if you buy bonds from them - Bonds are basically loans - People with money want that money to make money so they buy bonds and invest in stocks&
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by iaw 3y ago
Anyone seen details on if this can handle splitting a model across GPUs?
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by iaw 3y ago
Very much not an expert here but what I understand is that most deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.) have some overhead associated with them just being on the graphics card. This takes PyTorch code and removes the overhead
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by iaw 3y ago
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by iaw 3y ago
How far are we from fully modeling the human brain? I mean besides an easy way to identify all the neuronal connections... This makes me feel like we're close to that one terrifying short-story.
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by iaw 3y ago
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
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by iaw 3y ago
Could you elaborate, in detail, what you mean? I feel like you're verging on a rule violation.
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by iaw 3y ago
Does anyone know the encryption schema of LTE? Does the key change with each message or is it for a longer period of time? I'm wondering how feasible it is for an attacker to capture and then break the encryption (obviously if we'
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by iaw 3y ago
Just as an FYI if you're like me and wanted a Raspberry Pi for something like PiHole but don't want to pay insane prices there are tons of clones out there like the Orange Pi (or just google "Raspberry Pi Alternatives")
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by iaw 3y ago
I've always naively assumed gravity to be a facet of momentum/movement through time. The math between acceleration, gravity, and time dilation are all too cute to be coincidental in my book. I suspect that gravity manifests as a
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by iaw 4y ago
Why do you say that?
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by iaw 4y ago
My experience is that usually leveraging quosures I can make a wrapper function to get Hadlerverse behavior from any other packages. I believe that Hadley's work is the driving reason R remains a competitive alternative to Python for d
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by iaw 4y ago
I have purchased two Klein bottles from Cliff on different occasions and they're resting in my trinkets cabinet. Both came with notes from Cliff that, as stupid as this sounds, made me feel special. Cliff, not sure if you're stil
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by iaw 4y ago
The story https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Crocker%27s_Spite_Fe...
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by iaw 4y ago
Knuth and Cliff Stoll are some of the people that I feel like are amazing treasures of our generation.
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by iaw 4y ago
Not seeds or stems, trimmings. There are non-negligible amounts of THC is the trimmings of the flower even though they aren't comparable to the actual flower. These used to be a waste product sold/given away but now it is turned
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by iaw 4y ago
For anyone curious I believe the statistical method referred to in the last segment is annealing[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
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by iaw 4y ago
If you believe that valuation then it's ~$1.5M over 3 years. I would personally ask for explanation of the $70B valuation because if it goes for a piddling $500M your friend gets ~$11K over 3 years
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by iaw 4y ago
I understand part of the posters irritation but the second one starts equating BLM/pronouns with 'Heil Hitler" I'm done.
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by iaw 4y ago
Quines break my brain.
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by iaw 4y ago
Serious question: How far are we from AI being able to rewrite complete stories? The simplest example would be the same paragraphs with sentences with different structures. The most complex would be something like Gone with the Wind leading
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by iaw 4y ago
You're clearly well accomplished in multiple areas. How do approach learning something new?
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by iaw 4y ago
Wow, I love how these represent some of the top of the line graphics of the day. It takes me back before live-rendering of CGI equivalent graphics was commonplace.
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by iaw 4y ago
Historically government backed currencies are are stable because they have two underlying components: an economy denominated in the currency and an implicit threat of force (e.g. standing militaries). It's one of the reasons the US
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by iaw 4y ago
> Given the virtually unlimited executive powers the CDC believes it has Care to elaborate? CDC has historically been an extremely powerful organization devoted to the safety of the US public.
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by iaw 4y ago
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/isps-cant-find-a... <-- correct link
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by iaw 5y ago
Anyone have insight into what the overtly complex one-way function they proposed was?

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