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by jl2718 2y ago
It’s just astounding to me that people can pay $x00,000 to spend 4-10 years on a single discipline, and still not have the minimal required proof of competence to get a job. And how are these big tech firms spending $billions on recruiting
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by jl2718 2y ago
I am not into cars. Most of the men I know are not into cars. A few of them are very into cars. But an overwhelming majority of the women that I was exposed to at a young age were interested in what kind of car a man drives. Sometimes the s
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by jl2718 2y ago
I can explain. This bit of Melville exposes some uncomfortable truths about the age in which he was living, the "little ice age". First of all, he's writing from the perspective of a whaler, who may never have seen anything o
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by jl2718 2y ago
“Erosion concern” is exactly correct for this particular location on this particular island, a place I knew very well. The rising sea levels are not particularly concerning in this situation. But why is it eroding so fast? Global warming? M
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by jl2718 3y ago
This is an uncomfortable and divisive topic, and as such, shrouds rationality. For instance, if you believe that the subject of this matter is morally wrong, then you should rationally also be able to fully accept evidence that your particu
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by jl2718 3y ago
It seems to me that there is a tight connection between the timing of this IPO and the windfall demand for their data from AI companies. The advertising and subscription revenue business models have not improved. Edit: from the prospectus “
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by jl2718 3y ago
Ummm.., yes? I don’t know how to respond because I agree with all of this (I think). It’s not inconsistent to say that raising high-contribution children is a massive cost to parents and an even greater benefit to society. And just enough o
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by jl2718 3y ago
And yet every article written in this same magazine about immigration suggests that our civilization will collapse without a growing population. Perhaps there is truth to both, but also some unspecified nuance. It’s not just a numbers game.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Or use a C++ linter that disallows raw pointers, non-const references etc. There’s more, but, it’s mostly a subset of the language, although I admit some common syntax can get bloated this way. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1&
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by jl2718 3y ago
This is actually the point, and is analogous to convex optimization, in that systems always evolve along the boundary of constraint, and in the linear case, it will always be an exchange of active parts of the problem.
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by jl2718 3y ago
You should always understand that the reason they are interviewing you is because they are unable to solve their own problem.
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by jl2718 3y ago
True, but then how do problems actually get solved? Perhaps only by agents that would benefit if the problem were solved. For instance, send UNICEF into nations with extreme poverty, and you will get back a bunch of sad stories, a bigger UN
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by jl2718 3y ago
This seems to me as backward reasoning. Maxwell’s equations were descriptive of an observational phenomena, which was electromagnetic oscillation, and Schroedinger’s equations used amplitudes to unify them as an energy conservation law. The
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think emotions are over-classified. There are only a few major neurotransmitters that determine our limbic experience, and there is continuity between them. So, in the Kubler-Ross framework for the experience of extreme adverse events, it
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by jl2718 3y ago
> The researcher's note that the LLM is not really "reasoning," But are the humans?
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think it's time to stop talking about node sizes. This reads as meaningless to me, not because I don't know what nanometers are, but because the nodes are all defined by a set of technological changes that have little to do with
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by jl2718 3y ago
Q: How do they define a 'labor shortage'? A: Companies hiring less. Hmmm... real earnings are down 4-6% every year, so... no. https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Labour/Earnings/Real-Earni...
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by jl2718 3y ago
Imagine a machine learning paper that released no code, and no data, and was funded by public money, and the IP was owned by a startup that was also funded by public money, and the PI was on the payroll. Laughable, right? Generally there is
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by jl2718 3y ago
Who does this benefit in a zero-sum competition scenario, assuming that everybody is affected. For instance, imagine a competition over the AI toaster market. You have Philburn, the broke PhD student with a great idea, Burnright LLC, the to
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by jl2718 3y ago
Let’s recap the problem: Passwords don’t work because people can’t remember very much. Password generators don’t work because they have to store the key somewhere. Might as well just authenticate with the encryption key. Encryption keys oft
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think it’s sad that common sense traditions that work for the vast majority of the population are only acceptable in a religious context, lest they be forced to fit the demands and ideology of every small and intolerant minority, or worse
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by jl2718 3y ago
1. No negotiated rates. 2. No employer mandate. 3. No special tax treatment. 4. No individual mandate. Crazy idea: Convert Medicare, Medicaid, and SSDI to universal medical loan insurance.
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by jl2718 3y ago
I would have thought so too. Then I looked at the data. In the first 11 months of 2023, the treasury ‘printed’ $22.7 Trillion. Tax revenue is about 10% of cash flow. https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-trea
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by jl2718 3y ago
Little gems like this are just vestige of an obviously dysfunctional system of revenue. They’ll never get the details right because the premise is wrong to begin with. It seems to me that the tax system is budget-negative for the US federal
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by jl2718 3y ago
Pull-ups. All the pull-up bars have been removed from public spaces. They all used to have long rows of them from the 50s and 60s, some with iron gymnastics rings, sit-up anchors, parallel bars, etc.
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by jl2718 3y ago
This seems like a problematic patent based on two of the doctrines, both of which the courts have largely abandoned. Firstly, it’s patently obvious. The pulse ox technology in a transmissive mode is very old, and so is HRM in a reflective m
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by jl2718 3y ago
Mark Burnett once warned me about this, saying that it’s been the cause of a lot of his success. In the first Eco Challenge, a team with 4 Navy Seals was beaten by a family that included a 72-year-old grandmother, and he bet everything that
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by jl2718 3y ago
It’s a high-flux isotropic neutron source intended for things that have nothing at all to do with power generation, but, possibly great improvements over spallation sources for certain applications. Or, from the more bureaucratic viewpoint,
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by jl2718 3y ago
> in indian communities you have to marry within the community Is this not evidence for the original point?
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by jl2718 3y ago
Idea: Voith Schneider Propeller with changing blade path and angle such that it has thrust phase on one side and a lift phase on the other. Basically it would be two giant low-speed spinning hydrofoil discs. Heavy low-end torque for a direc

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