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by jmalicki 5y ago
That was my initial understanding, which left me confused. But they're taking the top n according to the model, then taking the top according to the proxy , not actual, objective. This avoids the Winner's Curse problem of top mo
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by jmalicki 5y ago
The other huge thing a ton of people miss when repeating is that the undecidability is between "definitely terminates" vs. "definitely does not terminate". A ton of useful stuff (for instance in compiler optimizers) can
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by jmalicki 5y ago
(2013 - had to check, there was no way talking about LSI could be recent)
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Just like Sergie Brin and Larry Page couldn't quit their jobs and become millionaires because search engines already existed, or Mark Zuckerberg couldn't quit his job and become a millionaire because social networks already existe
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by jmalicki 5y ago
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166683-Massachusetts... This is based on IRS earnings data, not surveys. The median salary of a CS grad 3 years after graduation is $163,496, I assume Z is also represented (tho
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by jmalicki 5y ago
In the US a medical formulation was not approved until 1998, but as the sibling notes it was used in the Vietnam War by US medics. Medical studies in the 1980s showed it to be superior to stitches [1] Cyanoacrylate is just (a very - the mo
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Federal budget is $6.8T, the 45% includes state and local government spending as well. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=8fX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... .
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Every google hit for "UberPage" seems to be your writing, is there standard ZFS terminology that would be found in ZFS documentation to what you're referring?
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Corporations are people, at least within the United States [1], with all rights available to (groups of) individuals. Just not natural people. [1] https://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-person...
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Exercise (mostly I've seen more intense than walking, but cardio like running, cycling, rowing, etc. - I haven't come across much for resistance training like weightlifting) has been very well studied to improve cognitive ability,
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by jmalicki 5y ago
In large samples the error bars for the median are sqrt(pi/2) times the error bars for the mean if the underlying distribution is normal (the link gives more general results, but that helps give some intuitions about being directly com
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Can't speak to insurance, but fwiw the M/T tropical breeze has DWT of 750 [1], whereas Wikipedia considers 30,000 DWT to be on the smaller end [2], so this is likely a much smaller tanker than one would envision when one first rea
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by jmalicki 5y ago
I wish someone wrote this in 2005 when both were coming up as popular languages!
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by jmalicki 5y ago
To paraphrase my reading, he noted a problem of waiting trucks with empty containers that can't unload the empties, thus can't pick up new full containers. Stacking empties higher will (in his opinion) allow getting more full cont
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by jmalicki 5y ago
There is something inherently wrong with that - it's why exponential backoff exists.
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by jmalicki 5y ago
If you're in traffic, the right kind of mask protects you against breathing in pollution, which is an immediate annoyance/harm, vs. helmets and masking to protect against COVID, which are more statistical harms, so it does have so
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by jmalicki 5y ago
Actually, the CDC defines the 5ug/DL as high based on being the 97.5%ile [1] in children... so you're not kidding... But if only 2% of children have lead levels that were originally defined based on the worst 2.5%, that's a 2
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by jmalicki 5y ago
The machine is generating the counter-factual baseline, the body bags are very real and only counted.
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by jmalicki 5y ago
If you look at the architecture diagram for Wav2Vec-U, the "generator" is doing exactly that - generating waveforms from the vectors. All GANs work this way, and is how websites like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com&
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by jmalicki 5y ago
We do allow society input. They are called laws. A corporation must consider laws and the fines and punishments involved in its metrics. In Facebook's case, they have repeatably been fined billions of dollars, but the gain more than
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by jmalicki 6y ago
He is already testifying before Congress. He's not exactly hidden.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
What is YC about it? It's called a predatory private student loan.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
What issue is that?
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by jmalicki 6y ago
If the stock is worth a lot, they can sell more to raise cash, to pay off any debtors, and close all the stores. Then GameStop is just a corporation sitting on a large bank account.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
They did get new investment (the story isn't clear if it's a bridge loan or equity) https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/robinhood-raises-1b-after-...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Is there any evidence that RH's collateral requirements specifically are increasing? The DTCC typically has a restricted list of specific securities with higher than usual collateral requirements, usually because of volatility - it see
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by jmalicki 6y ago
" I guess you invent a short by entering a contract to sell someone gold 6 months from now for a given price." - i.e. a short futures^H^H^H^H forward contract (oops, futures are on exchanges and forwards not, I forgot that being e
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by jmalicki 6y ago
The fraction became 100% on GME, which is typical for highly volatile stocks. That's why they had to disable trading in it - they could cover the small fraction, but not 100%.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
At least special margin requirements have always existed, and usually day traders know to avoid them or how to deal with the special requirements with a broker that allows you a more sophisticated view of the market. e.g. for Interactive B
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by jmalicki 6y ago
The people YOLOing on meme stocks is what makes their orderflow so valuable to Citadel. Why would they be willing to pay so much for it if not for that flow? (At least until the past few weeks, where maybe now it's considered toxic)

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