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by j7ake 4y ago
Here is a thought experiment: count the number of west, south, East Asian CEOs in top companies or political positions (local to national) and ask whether North America or Europe have more of them. To be Asian and also the face of a very pu
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by j7ake 4y ago
Whatever benefits people say Europe has over North America, it is undeniable that Asian expats in North America feel more integrated than Asian expats in Europe.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Is it any different to podcasts, concerts, and books? People will choose what they listen, see, or read heavily based on who the performer is. A performer who has consistently given good content will obviously have a bigger pull than a nobo
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by j7ake 4y ago
Very cool. I guess the takeaway is eating a big meal right before sleeping is not ideal for losing weight (but could be a good strategy for those looking to gain).
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by j7ake 4y ago
For example, attaching fluorophores to molecules so you can track them in a microscope.
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by j7ake 4y ago
People learn math so that they can learn more math. If you don’t want to use math in your day to day life then don’t learn math, there are ways around it. There are probably non-calculus ways to explain and do things such that in a “real jo
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by j7ake 4y ago
An analogous scenario would be that Magnus Carlsen can look at a chess board where pieces are well advanced and know when that historic event happened. Steph curry can tell you the dates and plays and sequences from one still image of a vid
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by j7ake 4y ago
Problem is it is fragile. If it works then great. If it doesn’t, it’s difficult to know why a need even more difficult to fix it. The fix might involve retraining with better data, retraining with different architecture, regularisation, end
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by j7ake 4y ago
Love Paabos work, but spinning the work as giving “huge insights into human physiology” is a bit of a stretch. If the bar were insights in human physiology there would be a lot more people who have done more important work.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Our ancestors definitely didn’t eat three meals a day punctually. They probably went for days with no food, then feasted after a big kill.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Also in some cities space is limited. Having space for a 6 foot piano in NYC should account for the increased rent that would cause.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I’d happy take a 35k Steinway B if available. Quick search says model B is almost 100k https://bradfieldpiano.com/steinway-piano-cost/#:~:text=Mode... .
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by j7ake 4y ago
Also one can quickly switch between baroque tuning, Pythagorean tuning, to modern tuning at the touch of a button. You have access to a wider palette of sounds. Key actions can be just as good as uprights or grands, it’s a matter of how muc
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by j7ake 4y ago
The shocking thing with some of these articles is somehow the author asked “why do people use radians” and ended up with an answer of “it was an arbitrary decision and the world would be better of not using it”. I feel a bit of humility wou
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by j7ake 4y ago
Because the demand for talent is global. And as supply of that talent increases, companies can pay less for that talent due to more replaceable workers competing for the same job.
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by j7ake 4y ago
How’s the battery life though compared to MacBook Air ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
I guess it depends on the publication record. But a bad publication record from someone who came from a prestigious place gets an extra negative from someone who came from an average place. On the other spectrum, someone from nowhere solvin
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by j7ake 4y ago
Congrats to DeepMind! But why did they give the prize to just two members of the alphafold team rather than everyone on the team? By contrast, the breakthrough prize in physics was awarded to the entire event horizon telescope collaboratio
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by j7ake 4y ago
All else being equal eg publication record, a candidate A from a less prestigious place is ranked higher than candidate B from a more prestigious place. This is because the candidate A did the same stuff with much less support than B. The i
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by j7ake 4y ago
Is the Twilio CEO going to step down and have someone else with less privilege take his place? It's always good to lead by example.
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by j7ake 4y ago
It’s not normal because insects have historically been associated with disease, pests, and pestilence.
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by j7ake 4y ago
What was once thought impossible is now possible. Incredible work.
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by j7ake 4y ago
What kind of sociopathy and antipathy did JK Rowling have in creating her Harry Potter books ?
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by j7ake 4y ago
How does Nokia solve free long distance calling/texting, maps, finding restaurants, scanning barcode for covid checkins, taxis in foreign countries… Countless use cases it’s better to just have more will power to use smartphones respon
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by j7ake 4y ago
Historically the upper class in places like UK had private tutors. This individualised form of education may be making a return over the next years as apps and material become more personalised.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Elites from where ? Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and China all pushed for masks. Usa and other Western European countries were much slower to adopt. When there are discrepancies in the global adoption, then one can look into politic
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by j7ake 4y ago
One reason is that a bachelors degree in many sciences (eg life sciences) does not lead to many good jobs. In life sciences, getting a job after your PhD is an entry level job.
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by j7ake 4y ago
One anecdote about increasing competitiveness: some paths to phd sciences involve now “post bac”. You spend a few years after your bachelors working in a research lab to get your name on a paper and a reference letter to get you into a top
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by j7ake 4y ago
Does anybody really know where the overhead money of top places end up ? Some institutions (eg famous ones) have near 100% overhead. Overhead sounds reasonable for example to maintain IT and core facilities, but I have a suspicion that a lo
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by j7ake 4y ago
With digital pianos, I imagine it is easy to switch to different tunings so that you can play each piece in a tuning that fits the key? Would be a major advantage over acoustic pianos.

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