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by jmalicki 2y ago
Gut flora are just the bacteria that live in your gut. Some are good (e.g. what you take probiotics to get more of), others are detrimental (e.g. h. Pylori, candida)
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by jmalicki 2y ago
Some taller apartments I've seen are built with steel frames on the first few floors, then concrete above - is termite resistance the reason?
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by jmalicki 2y ago
> exception of potential drowning victims Or children - in children respiratory distress often is the cause of cardiac arrest.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
> Retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist here. Have things changed over time? > In-hospital arrests are almost universally fatal. IHCA stats: "During the pre-surge period, 24.2% survived to discharge in 2020 vs. 24.7% in 2015–201
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by jmalicki 2y ago
The highest federal bracket is 37%, the highest state bracket in the US is California at 13.3%, Medicare at 2.9% if you're self employed, NIIT caps out at 3.8% - so even earning well into seven plus figures, with punitive NIIT, only pu
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by jmalicki 2y ago
So in other words, the offer is non-negotiable? In that case you could still work for that company, but would your company offer a higher salary with any other negotiating strategy?
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by jmalicki 2y ago
They're also a delicacy in the US, just marketed as squab to avoid the ick factor many might feel. Appears on many a Michelin star menu.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
For point 2, wouldn't the reflections off the sidewalls create more issue with chop on the outer lanes than the middle?
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by jmalicki 2y ago
The operation is `tolower` Capital a is 0x40, lowercase is 0x60. The addition of 0x20 needs to happen when is_upper is true.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
They're not saying that "construction of public housing or financial support for private investors engaged in social housing development" is not beneficial. They're saying that the "null hypothesis" of "ma
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by jmalicki 2y ago
None of the above are brute force search.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
> It is normal to blame a paper map if you sail off the edge of the Earth where the map says there ought to be more sea? That's what the US Navy does (in part) when a $3 billion submarine hits an underwater mountain. https:/&#
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by jmalicki 2y ago
Another analogy might be the NYC subway, where in Manhattan you have lines like 1/2/3, A/C/E, B/D/F/M, N/R/W etc. that share a number of stops in southern Manhattan, so along the 1/2/3
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by jmalicki 2y ago
It wasn't YC, and the company is around in other non-handset markets, but Nokia phones sold today are made by an unrelated company that merely licenses the brand name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global#Produ
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by jmalicki 2y ago
"headway through the core area" The core area of West Oakland, SF, and Daly City has service from all lines, so it's the sum of tph of all lines. Of course, that does not help you at all for commuting outside the core area -
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by jmalicki 2y ago
$14k is $1.4e4, times 1e5 people, equals $1.4e9 in debt, or $1.4 billion. The article is correct, it's $14k per capita
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by jmalicki 2y ago
Also, if this is affecting you, get a sleep study! The money will be well spent if physicians can find possible reasons for poor sleep that can be improved - a lot of people suffer from various kinds of sleep disorders, and treatment is be
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by jmalicki 2y ago
Which is why no smart competitor would enter into that market - you'd never make back the profits from the price war.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
There are local versions - a veterinary emergency hospital with veterinary oncologists and cardiologists in a smaller city without other metros for hundreds of miles, for example.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
These days, you don't really need to support CUDA, just PyTorch gets you most of the way there. You have Google TPUs, Amazon Inferon, a ton of smaller players that aren't quite getting traction - but there's a ton of investme
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by jmalicki 2y ago
Natural monopolies due to high capital costs are businesses like TSMC and ASML - you're not going to get a "small new entrant" with 4nm lithography for making high-end microchips.
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by jmalicki 2y ago
This is sort of the chef equivalent of fizzbuzz or "reverse a binary tree" - there's no gimmicks, something "everyone" should know how to do, it's nothing fancy, just the basics of "can you iterate over da
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by jmalicki 3y ago
For very large models, the weights may not fit on one GPU. Also, sometimes having more than one GPU enables larger batch sizes if each GPU can only hold the activations for perhaps one or two training examples. There is definitely a perform
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by jmalicki 3y ago
As a Californian, I experienced a lot of trouble getting quotes for collision and comprehensive in the past year for reasonable prices, if at all - everyone was happy with liability, but it sounded like general property damage (fires, flood
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by jmalicki 3y ago
See contrastive losses and siamese networks, like here (where they use L2 distance): https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-05-31-contrastive/ If documents are similar, you want the two embeddings to be close to
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by jmalicki 3y ago
If you have e.g. cosine distance as the final layer, if the label is 1 you reward the cosine distance being close to 1, if the label is 0 you reward the cosine distance being close to 0. The finetuning here is specific to optimizing for ret
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by jmalicki 3y ago
The simplest way of building an MLP on top of the embeddings is simply to concatenate the embeddings and put some dense layers on top. However, if you use a "two towers" approach and have several additional MLP layers on top of ea
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by jmalicki 3y ago
On Linux, fpenableexcept(3) lets you do this.
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by jmalicki 3y ago
What happens when a person gets burnt out and makes mistakes? Like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_C...
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by jmalicki 3y ago
> As an engineer, my view on days/hackathons is pretty simple: you don't pay me enough for my good ideas. That depends on how you interpret hack days. A lot of great hack day projects I've seen aren't introducing a ne

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