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How to become a pure mathematician or statistician (2008)(hbpms.blogspot.com)
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With the size of context windows now it'd be economical to dump all the resumes into an LLM and query the pool this way.
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They are the party mouthpieces of the Democrats. It’s not useful as an empirical analysis or philosophical exercise. But it is useful as a declaration of belief for a certain cohort of American elites. So the revealed news is really that th
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The greatest failure of American capitalism today is that meteoric companies take decades to trade on public markets instead of years. Only the already wealthy and connected are allowed to invest in these kinds of opportunities. In the 80s
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The evolution of video games has stabilized. There is not much more to add to the standard "AAA" title. Hardware improvements made for the landscape in which creative utilization flourished, but it is sometimes now impossible to t
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Coventry City 2–2 Bristol City (1977)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Yes, and it could be that intermittent fasting with metabolic syndrome is cardiotoxic but intermittent fasting without is cardioprotective.
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Demography leads to more conservative European societies(tandfonline.com)
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It seems that in the brief era of Pax Americanus in the period between the Cold War and the War on Terror life was unequivocally best somewhere in either Silicon Valley, the Northeastern Megalopolis, London, Hong Kong or Tokyo. These places
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I don't know how to describe this, but Japanese enjoy putting a little bit of joy into every thing, like Ronald McDonald, but real.
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It's pretty funny to talk about central interference when the federal government already has a monopoly on monetary policy.
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I take offense to your implication this is an incorrect usage of the word deploy.
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It's really difficult to wrap one's head around the cash they're able to deploy.
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When it is framed in this way the compensations are rational.
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This is proof LLMs are viable and productive in my opinion. The baseline rate for business failure over 5 years is around 90%, so they say. With how much hype surrounds LLM wrapper startups this is still an astounding amount of novel busine
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I think it's right in practice. Your first users are the kind of people who need something new and don't care if it's unscaled. They just need the new solution. You have to find the 1 person who needs the new thing you have,
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It's more concentrated in the middle class now. There are this year lots of underemployment opportunities for the lower class, and with MediCal and other welfare you can make ends meet. I have worked in both economies.
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As a person of grayscale the contrast is undeniable.
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Let me guess, you went to an elite university and you worked in Big Tech? I think you should be proud of your success, but it's not indicative of the larger American economy or the tech industry in general. There are reports that new g
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We should conceptualize it the way the Ancient Greeks did, which is the belief that human ingenuity can somehow overcome the will of the gods.
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A lot of terrible people are self-aware, well-read and ultimately concerned with doing good. All of the catastrophes of the 20th century were led by men that fit this description: Stalin, Mao, Hitler. Perhaps this is a bit hyperbolic, but t
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I find this hand-wavy "I am smart and you are dumb" argument to be lazy and too common on HN. What if I told you I've taken intro to evolution? What if I told you I'm an expert in human evolution? What would you have to
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The genetic basis of sexual reproduction means that over a long enough time span the people who are happy not having kids become irrelevant because they no longer exist.
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TFR should be considered the basis of economics rather than GDP. It’s no longer difficult to imagine a society in which GDP is growing year over year through an automated economy of AI and robotics. But the humans who are supposedly consumi
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This is a great test because it’s something you could teach an elementary school kid in an hour.
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Does this mean AGI is cancelled? 2027 hard takeoff was just sci-fi?
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Drones are most effective as tools of psychological warfare I think. Infantry in a trench can maybe disable a wave or two of drones before becoming overwhelmed, but the drone operator can remain safe and calm in their bunker kilometers away
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It’s a security deal. They are asking the Taiwan government to trade cutting edge semiconductor manufacturing for defense against invasion. You might call it a racket in other contexts. TSMC is already considered national security infrastru
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For infantry it is now as indispensable as an automatic rifle, grenades, radios, and so on. Fighters in Ukraine without drone support are at significant disadvantage.
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Duplicate or near-redundant functions are either no problem or even useful. But duplicate or near-redundant data structures are a plague on any codebase. The prophet Perlis declared: "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one d

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