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by j7ake 3y ago
You know servers in California are paid better than servers in France? Does that help you feel more comfortable?
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by j7ake 3y ago
Just write zero as a protest for the dark patterns. Zero is common in many countries outside of USA by the way. In California and other states you cannot claim workers are being paid below minimum wage.
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s not just about how many people watched certain TV shows, it is that people who didn’t own or watch TV would know about such shows through daily conversations.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Read the top 10 list, and I haven’t heard of any of these shows. Is the world segregating such that there are fewer shared activities in a community to talk about? Growing up 30 years ago, everybody knew the top 5 TV shows even if you didn’
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by j7ake 3y ago
Society thinks of math as technical and functional, rather than beautiful. The math used in jobs are also to “get things done” rather than for the sake of their beauty. A very tiny fraction of population will ever be pure mathematicians. Mo
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by j7ake 3y ago
Not sure about calendar shape but obsidian has weekly notes you can use to structure and plan your weeks. Visually for me it would be a vertical list that starts from Monday to Sunday. https://github.com/liamcain/obsidi
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by j7ake 3y ago
Why is losing data better than “giving” it (an encrypted version if you care about privacy) to others?
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by j7ake 3y ago
Looking back on photos, what I found to be precious were photos of people. Photos of things (food, scenery, wild animals) have very little sentimental value looking back. Take pictures of people, not things.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Japanese culture has a particular attraction to westerners. But it’s an illusion from marketing than reality. It may be true that many aspects of Japanese culture are better than the American stuff, but doesn’t mean Japan has any global adv
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by j7ake 3y ago
I love this field. Paper include a nice website, examples, and videos. So much more refreshing than the dense abstract, intro, results paper style.
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by j7ake 3y ago
For many readers, the point is not to get information as quickly as possible. It’s about spending time in somebody else’s mind (non fiction) or in somebody’s world (fiction). Analogously, meditation is about the act of being with yourself a
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by j7ake 3y ago
But there are almost zero papers in glamour journals (high impact journals) from finance or mining/oil.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Salaries at openai already make them millionaires.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Yeah it’s crazy how much the tech community is defending this random CEO, considering the relatively unsympathetic response to the tech layoffs over the last year.
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by j7ake 3y ago
I’ll take 20 minutes in a car over bike on a cold rainy day every time.
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by j7ake 3y ago
I feel these criticisms are analogous to the early days of Wikipedia. Surely you cannot rely on Wikipedia for knowledge, there’s no algorithm to check the facts! Anybody can write anything! I imagine in 10 years these BS text generators wil
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by j7ake 3y ago
So the end result is that you live in a society where the average quality of education and health care slowly plummets to zero? That is not a sustainable solution for society.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Intuitions are better and more concisely communicated through images and spoken word, rather than written text. If all technical details are necessary to get the big picture across, then I agree one should move to text and equations. But th
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by j7ake 3y ago
When I spend time studying a topic, I make PowerPoint/keynote slides. They are better than texts for three reasons. (1) Slides are more concise, forcing me to digest the material into high level sections. (2) More diagrams and less tex
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by j7ake 3y ago
This masochism also applies to classical music (eg violin). Decades of rote before you’re allowed to express your own musical thoughts.
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by j7ake 3y ago
If I get locked up maybe I would finally get to doing the exercises from the art of computer programming.
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by j7ake 3y ago
PhD can be like this but for a limited time.
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by j7ake 3y ago
AI is clearly the hottest field right now. Are there any other fields where a high fraction of the high impact papers (perspective or otherwise) are coming from industry rather than academia?
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by j7ake 3y ago
This article is not meaningful without more context. What the boss should say to employees needs to be at a high enough level (eg overarching goals) so that a capable employee can create their own plan to achieve it, but not so high level t
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by j7ake 3y ago
Looks “great-ah”!
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by j7ake 3y ago
Apple computers are reliable for 5 plus years. The additional few hundred dollars to upgrade the memory or storage is peanuts once amortised over the life of a computer.
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by j7ake 3y ago
What’s the advantage of using Stan when now there is numpyro and pymc. The newer frameworks seem much more flexible and performant than Stan.
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s why copilot is such a game changer. It can fill out chunks of code faster than any typer alive. Latency is about one second.
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by j7ake 3y ago
Thefts at train stations and bike thefts are very common in Switzerland. Japan is by far much safer than any European country.
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by j7ake 3y ago
It’s sad to see so many person/hours wasted spinning their wheels to please a narcissist.

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