ironSkillet

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by ironSkillet 15d ago
That is one of the core strategies in the private equity playbook.
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by ironSkillet 21d ago
Something cool and interesting for its own sake. A rare find.
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by ironSkillet 29d ago
I am not familiar with the standards of publishing in machine learning, but as someone trained in a mathematics background, this paper seems relatively light on details and heavy on exposition. Is that typical? Is this a really novel idea?
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by ironSkillet 2mo ago
The entire thing is so generic and full of wise sounding things with no deep concrete content. It screams "an AI wrote this and a human thought it looked ok and pushed it".
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by ironSkillet 3mo ago
I think we can agree to disagree here. I don't see how a company needs to have an $8000 increase in revenue to justify a $240 software purchase. You are assuming that the current operating cost for every dollar of revenue is also appli
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by ironSkillet 3mo ago
I understand that. The AI software is meant to be a productivity enhancer for the employees using it. Other than the licenses, some training etc, there are no operating costs associated with it. Just by using the software, I don't sudd
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by ironSkillet 3mo ago
I'm not an MBA over here, but this math seems wrong. If they are spending $240 in increased costs, then they only have to make about $247 in additional revenue from that spend to preserve a 3% margin. That seems much more reasonable if
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by ironSkillet 5mo ago
I interviewed someone recently who worked at Meta a couple years ago. He was a software engineer, was paid a bunch of money to mostly up dashboards all day, and eventually quit because it was neither interesting nor challenging.
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by ironSkillet 6mo ago
No that's not true either. A quick Google will reveal many examples, in particular the "Cantor set".
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by ironSkillet 6mo ago
It is not determined by the derivative, it's the antiderivative, as someone else mentioned. The derivative is the rate of change of a function. The "area under a curve" of the graph of a function measures how much the functio
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by ironSkillet 10mo ago
This is some high quality content. Love the visual animations to go along with the mathematical ideas. Did a great job helping to tie the algebra to geometric intuition, but I think the importance of commutators could have gotten a little b
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by ironSkillet 10mo ago
The disk model of hyberolic geometry is made to map hyperbolic 2 space (which is infinite in area) into the finite interior of the disk. In order to capture this, the normal euclidean notion of distance is distorted by a function which allo
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by ironSkillet 10mo ago
Binary search minimizes the number of expected moves until you find the target. If you are already ahead, this is a natural thing to want to do. The reason why this doesn't work when you're behind is that your opponent can also do
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by ironSkillet 11mo ago
I think the user means that bullies in school face little consequences, but a bully at work may get called by HR and potentially disciplined.
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by ironSkillet 1y ago
In my mind that is a problem with your lazy developer colleague, not AI as a whole. You can't expect it to be right on the first try (just like human code), you have to iterate with it and have the experience to know when it's off
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by ironSkillet 1y ago
I don't know about other use cases, but AI is definitively a game changer for software development. You still need to know what you're doing and test/think critically about what it's giving you, but the body of software
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by ironSkillet 1y ago
It seems like there is a universal sense in which statements like 1+1=2" or "7 is a prime number" are true, no?
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by ironSkillet 1y ago
Almost certainly a Western intelligence operation to send a message to Putin.
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by ironSkillet 1y ago
I have found that the dependency injection pattern makes it far easier to write clean tests for my code.
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
You and the article are both correct. The disease does present itself differently as a function of these other characteristics, so since the training dataset doesn't contain enough samples of these different presentations, it is unab
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
This is a popular science article, not a scientific paper.
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
The "richness" definition also seemed hand wavey to me so I looked at the referenced paper. The actual definition of "richness" of an algorithm is that for any arbitrary partition P of your original data (singletons, one
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
I am a mathematician by education but programmer by profession for many years now, so the significance of this result is over my head. Could someone elaborate on what makes this is an interesting problem?
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
Rather than just making a conspiratorial post, could you explain these alternative theories and why you see this article as strong evidence against existing mainstream theories?
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
You can have unrealized losses since it's possible that the value of your items is less than the value of the goods you paid to receive them. To repeat this strategy the next day, you need to convert your items back into gold and reali
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
Do you have any recommended references on this subject? Seems like this sort of system would be able to obfuscate a lot of metadata that can be used to deanonymize activity. Very interesting.
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
You'd be surprised at how many people I've interviewed over the years have been unable to hide the fact that they would be terrible to work with. In programming circles at least, I think the ability to socially manipulate and mask
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
By reading through the code, understanding how they've laid out their abstractions and user interfaces. I am in the field, and in my experience, the most impactful design decisions for libraries like this are related to how researchers
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
I love finding old internet style websites like this. Simple, fast, packed full of information.
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by ironSkillet 2y ago
Please give examples of how the authoritarian, repressive, conformity-demanding CCP is less awful and soul destroying than Western democracy, as flawed as it is.

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