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by jmalicki 3y ago
> I know this feels like being given a teaspoon and told to excavate a cavern --- your mental health struggle sounds like it has its roots in life challenges that are genuinely stressful, rather than the putative 'chemical imbalance
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by jmalicki 3y ago
You can't crypto loop to $500k in outside funds. Let's say you can borrow fraction (1-r) of deposits (for some small r, could be 0 - in fractional reserve banking monetary expansion, r is the "fractional reserve"). At t
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by jmalicki 3y ago
This is how IKEA has been operating forever. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/012216/how-i... .
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Gatorade wasn't pure research - it was scientists directly trying to solve a problem for their football team, so they already had customers before they finished their science - the customer problem prompted the research, vs. the other-
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by jmalicki 3y ago
"Starve the beast" [0] is the very popular strategy among conservatives to force spending cuts through such dysfunction... it is quite a few nihilists who feel that way. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
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by jmalicki 3y ago
In investment banking, for one example: 0-3 analyst 3-7 Associate (mid) to Vice President (senior to staff/manager) 7+ if they're good, Managing Director (staff to senior staff/manager to senior manager)
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by jmalicki 3y ago
The people above have their tech chops perfected on day 1 of their professional employment. They get the economics, politics, staffing, real world design constraints polished while most juniors are learning about algorithms, design, and uni
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by jmalicki 3y ago
> Of course, those aren't hard rules, senior with 6 years is ok too, but let's dont be ridiculous with seniors BELOW 3 years. I've seen it legitimately happen quite a few times, but these are rare. Examples of the sorts o
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by jmalicki 3y ago
> Splitting the socket fully into two separate file handles would mean that users could close one of them without realizing it, and thus be able to write a new sort of bug where they would be able to ask stack overflow "I'm abl
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by jmalicki 3y ago
> It would add new states to the already complicated TCP set of states. Huh? Half-closed connections already exist. The complexity in the state machine is there, and more TCP users should be aware of it (the source of soo.... many... b
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by jmalicki 3y ago
You're of course unlikely to get the same read, but I find it crazy that their source of cryptographic entropy is on public display from the street!
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That you're talking about both collision detection and economics is very telling for the issues a lot of people have with things like these. When an economist predicts a heightened probability of a recession, people believe the economi
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It is saying "this person has a promising career and has success a lot of people would kill for, would have retired very comfortably, but got greedy and threw it all away." It's not specifically about Amazon, it's saying
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Science is just fooling around with data until you get a result a journal reviewer likes.
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The Enron dataset was not leaked - it was made public by the US government as evidence from an investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. https://www.ferc.gov/electric/industry-activities/addressing
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Even in the latter case it's still more like 50/50, which is still quite interesting.
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by jmalicki 3y ago
In the US, leave no trace means pack out everything... Including even used toilet paper. For wilderness areas biodegradable isn't enough to avoid causing damage to the ecosystem, creating wildlife used to feeding off humans, etc.
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by jmalicki 3y ago
I've destroyed two yubikeys in a 2017 MBP that would occasionally send excess voltage out of USB (I guess it was a bugged first-generation USB-C chipset), and one from leaving in on my keyring in my pocket in the laundry. It's pos
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by jmalicki 3y ago
os.sendfile
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A huge part of it is less about the gigabit download, and more that gigabit fiber is symmetric and has fast uploads... In the age of being remote, several people can be on HD or even UHD webcams without much lag or hiccups. 12Mbps upload o
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by jmalicki 3y ago
No it's not. There are many different US government measured indexes of consumer price inflation. The linked article discussed CPI-W (used by law to adjust social security payments), CPI-U, chained CPI-U (used to adjust tax rates), a
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by jmalicki 3y ago
Usually it's called velocity, not speed, but point stands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
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by jmalicki 3y ago
If you're not just running it all on one db, why do you have to have all of your different DBs be on the same DB software? I used to work at Yelp, and at least at that time, a big use case of Cassandra was basically for what were essen
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by jmalicki 3y ago
Sure, but first they have to root the bastion box. If you root the bastion box, you have user credentials for anything inside the network. Controlling the user's laptop seems unlikely to be your most profitable next step.
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Using fundamentals is misunderstanding the term. When investment analysts say fundamentals, they're talking about things like demonstrated business performance. You're using the word "fundamentals" to mean what investors
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Correct that it doesn't include capital gains, but it does include business profits... and in the long term those average out to be the same. Similar to how it doesn't include housing appreciation, but does include imputed rent...
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by jmalicki 3y ago
panic is also a linux specific term. When rust panics, it shuts the program down. When linux panics, it halts the machine - for fundamental things like data corruption detected, and we can't continue to operate and risk corrupting the
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Softmax in attention is, well, a smoothed max function, so it gets you branching kinda... You're choosing which memory cell to use.
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Microsoft Research published results with 1-bit gradients. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/1-bit-s... int4 (fixed point) has already been popular for inference https://develope
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A vector database is used for things where you're trying query "I have this image, give me a list of the 10 closest images and metrics of how similar they are." You use a machine learning model (like word2vec, OpenAI, etc.) t

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