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by jampekka 1y ago
At least in Finland boiled new potatoes are a huge deal every summer and there's definitely applause for well boiled new potatoes.
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Learning to touch-type effortlessly is IMHO one of the most useful thing to learn, for anyone typing regularly, but especially for programmers. It doesn't have to be fast, but just fast (and automated) enough not to cause a bottleneck.
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Don't you get valid JSON success rate of 100% with constrained decoding with any model?
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What's appropriate amount of information in the slides depends on the nature of the presentation. For short focused presentations (<10 min) minimal slides are the best if the verbal presentation is strong. For longer and more compli
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He postulated eightfold increse in economy, though not clear at what working hours. If he assumed 40 hours then and eightfold productivity increse, with 15 hours that would still be threefold increase in living standards. The productivity h
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by jampekka 1y ago
If a worker gets paid working for a state owned company are they taxed 100%? 100% tax on labour clearly indicates the worker wouldn't get any remuneration. Perhaps, with major conceptual gymnastics, state ownership can be seen as &quot
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by jampekka 1y ago
> The heydays of communism in those countries are long gone. Marxist-Leninist countries typically don't have high taxes. Which is kind of obvious as the state doesn't rely on taxes for income. North Korea claims to have eradica
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by jampekka 1y ago
Cuba, Vietnam and Albania have way lower tax-to-GDP than Denmark. They are way below OECD average. Care to share your tax statistics on USSR, Yugoslavia, North Korea and pre-2000s China? The Nordic model was created by socialist and labor m
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> How did it all go so right? The highest total tax rate in the world perhaps?
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by jampekka 1y ago
It's not necessarily about the standard of living, but about production going into the zero or negative sum status consumption. Or as Keynes puts it: > Now it is true that the needs of human beings may seem to be insatiable. But the
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It's utterly insane that people need to work more and longer as technology increases productivity. A truly dystopian economic system. In 1930 Keynes projected that by 2000 their grandchildren could work 15 hours per week¹. Now the proj
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There has been a lot of anti-H1B talk for a long time. And complaining about work being outsourced to India or where ever.
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Another game is to distribute the gains from increased productivity more equally. E.g. in Europe as late as early 2000s working hours were reduced in response to technological development. But since then the response even from workers seems
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Gloating about hardships was and is a great way to ensure things will get worse for workers as efficiency and automation increases. Another option would be to join forces to collectively demand more equitable distribution of the fruits of t
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Running programs.
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> I some responsibility for this, since I was one of the people who basically said, in the 2010s, that we should just give up and use popular languages like JavaScript because they're popular. I regret that now. In 2010s the move wa
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p-value testing is problematic, but frequentist CIs typically map to credible intervals with uninformative priors. In practice in Bayesian analyses tend to use so weak priors that they are essentially uninformative. Maximum likelihood also
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by jampekka 1y ago
Broadcasting is an excellent idea. Implementations do have warts, but e.g. pytorch would be really painful without it. Broadcasting is a sort of generalization of the idea of scalar-matrix product. You could make that less "ridiculous&
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> I don't see much of a compelling reason to go back to Python. Being able to use sane programming workflows is quite a compelling reason.
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It's not (only) about terseness. It's about generality.
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It also means that you don't have to reimplement the same things all over again when your dimensions change.
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Lots to like here but I'm not so sure about this: > In DumPy, every time you index an array or assign to a dp.Slot, it checks that all indices have been included. Not having to specify all indices makes for more generic implementati
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Sure, but einsum needs a syntax and concepts of its own, and more importantly does not work if you need to do something else than a limited set of matrix operations.
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> For instance, in the case of loudness of noise to human ears in air, the unit can be taken to be dBA (in all but rare cases which will be specified) measured with an appropriate A-weighted sensor, relative to the standard reference pow
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The situation was similar to there being a gold ETF that just decides to remove the gold peg and start diluting the shares. Whether that's essentially stealing or not is a matter of terminology IMHO. US for sure didn't do it out o
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Highly unlikely CCP would pursue coercive birth policy, or even could do it if it wanted. CCP is extremely powerful but it still has to rely on the consent of the governed. It has to frequently roll back policies due to public outcry. Curre
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> just handwaving about how USD's status as a global currency somehow makes trade deficits inevitable despite simple facts available that US had a surplus trade balance 50 years ago, when the USD has been considered the global &#x2F
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USD became the reserve currency in the Bretton Woods, when it was pegged to gold and major currencies were pegged to USD. This was pretty much demanded by US in the Bretton Woods conference. In 1971 US unilaterally scrapped the Bretton Wood
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When Robots Take All of Our Jobs, Remember the Luddites (2017)(smithsonianmag.com)
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You are probably meaning that as a slur. In reality Luddites did not oppose technology per-se, but the dramatic worsening of the working conditions in the factories, reduced wages and concentration of the income to the capital holders. Thes

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