jgalt212

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by jgalt212 9mo ago
Ukraine sorely misses their nukes.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
becuase - it's tiresome - and the only less useful than making predictions is making predictions about predictions.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
This comment or something very close always appears alongside a Gary Marcus post.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
How does a vector processor of yore compare to SIMD of the late 90s to the current day? Are they two words for the same thing?
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
We use mercurial and are happy with it. I hope we never move to git, but I can see us eventually moving to whatever is next.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> promote maximum employment and price stability (low, stable inflation, targeting 2%) The dual mandate says nothing about asset prices. The only prices it mentions are those involved in CPI calcs.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
I dislike that the Fed operates as if the happiness of the investor class is their number one priority.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
and remind themselves there is way too much cash sloshing about for a broad-based and lasting market retreat. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
Trump is, of course, wrong. But the independence of the Fed being at stake is a myth. Since the bursting of the dot com bubble, the Fed has operated as if the well being of the investor class is their number one priority.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
True, but it would certainly reduce litigation risk in so much as copypasta is ipso facto proof of copyright violation.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
I think U of Florida used to give full rides to the top n of each high school's graduating class. I think n was something around 5.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
What did it say about who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
preach
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
The beatings will continue until the stock price goes down.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
Scrooge
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
Adjacent: Our biz uses Quickbooks, and while I'm not a fan in general, its pattern matcher does a pretty good job of matching credit card transactions to expense categories and accounts. I have no idea what the deterministic / pro
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
They should build microwave towers between the Nordics and the Baltics.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
Gresham's Law of Information
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> each offer usually comes in as a 10–20 page PDF. When sold out vacation home, we had multiple offers, but I seem to recall the offer letters being 1 pagers. Does offer letter length vary by region?
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
C++, The Good Parts
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
china = the west is a false equivalency
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> and to some extent, almost any company in the world This is weak sauce.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
The serious piece, that wants to be taken seriously, is written in a serif font. That's my takeaway.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
I came here to recommend this fine book as well.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
The incentives here, though, are much stronger. If I make it just as easy for my customers to use 10X tokens as 1X token, the world is my oyster.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> US agents fell from 132,000 to 74,000, retail locations from 34,000 to 13,000, total jobs down 70% by 2021 What does the author mean by total jobs? 132k > 74k is -44%.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
You must have had a lot of fun when the "peak oil" crowd was dominating the conversation.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
mea culpa!
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> ozempic's more powerful younger brother, Isn't one of the major complaints is that it works too well? i. e. The emaciated look of those taking it.
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by jgalt212 10mo ago
> Many work primarily on mobile devices I hope they mean tablets here, and not phones. I can't imagine any artist being more productive or effective on a tiny screen vs a large screen.

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