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by imh 12y ago
Yes, when walking with a passive-elastic ankle exoskeleton.
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by imh 12y ago
But for ages, you'll just have to follow orders and do the bad stuff, otherwise get fired. Hell, someone else in the thread talked about a friend who didn't even know what he was working on. For good people to have a good effect,
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by imh 12y ago
Let's talk about a hypothetical case where we flip an unfair coin (more likely heads than tails). Every time it comes up heads we fire someone. Then some particular person says they were fired because we used an biased coin instead of
844.
by imh 12y ago
I've always liked the analogy to Barry Bonds for this kind of thing. There's a famous quote out there that goes something like, you can't point to any specific home run and say "he hit that one because of steroids,"
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by imh 12y ago
>only goal is to take 1 penny and turn it into 4 pennies That reminds me of what he said about "the thing that feels least reasonable is some early-stage valuations." His interests lie in driving early stage valuations down and
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by imh 12y ago
I believe the definition they are using is something like: given a random process X for your percent return, if you invest in n nths of your money into iid copies of X, you will get the same expectation, but with smaller variance compared t
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by imh 12y ago
I've heard of saying: "Valuing options at $x/share, we'll give you $y divided however you want between equity and salary."
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by imh 12y ago
>...except for very short sprints in unusual circumstances. It's worth noting that very short means different things to different people. I hear "crunch time" for anything longer than a few weeks and I cringe. For some peo
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by imh 12y ago
>People often forget that dealerships often abuse their power and take advantage of consumers. Aren't corporations selling directly to consumers known for doing the same?
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by imh 12y ago
One of the interesting parts of this is the distinction between different types of applications: safety critical and otherwise. If, as other commenters are saying, no we can't trust libraries, but yes we have to anyways, then a library
851.
by imh 12y ago
That's really not a fair comparison here. With a monospaced font, it's much more comparable: func<Future<List<Option<String>>>> func[Future[List[Option[String]]]]
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by imh 12y ago
It leads to an improbable, but still interesting, question about sampling bias. We may learn a ton about affluent people who can afford iphones. (Not a critique of the work, which I think is awesome and has the potential to do great things.
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by imh 12y ago
To add to what has already been said, I sorta disagree with "they just have to be better than us." I would prefer the car to not just be better than an average driver, but be better than me. As any person, I'm sure I dramatic
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by imh 12y ago
I've always wondered about doing this in non-flat spaces. Like if I add the "7100 miles west" vector to the "California" point, I get Turkmenistan. If I add "7100 miles west" again, I get back near "C
855.
by imh 12y ago
Likewise for engineering. I don't know anyone who paid for their doctorate. Instead, they got small stipends.
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by imh 12y ago
For the most part, I'd say yes they are the same. But the focus on computing/business for data science leads to some parts that are really more CS than stats. Interacting with databases, for example, can fall under data science, b
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by imh 12y ago
I'm a big fan of that book, but there were a few too many important proofs "left as exercise for reader" for my taste.
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by imh 12y ago
It's not about waiting until it's perfect, it's about waiting a little bit longer and focusing a bit more on the "viable" part of MVP.
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by imh 12y ago
There's probably a bit of a Poe's Law thing going on. You see it in one context, your reaction is that it's a joke about the sign. You see it in another context, you think it's a comment about the cemetery.
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by imh 12y ago
When there's too much data for a scatter plot, a heat map will do nicely.