jmount

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I Am Tired of Praise of Byproduct(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jmount 9mo ago
Hence Plato's hatred of the rhetoricians.
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StackOverflow Best Before Dates by Bass(win-vector.com)
4 points by jmount 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jmount 9mo ago
I fit a Bass product lifetime model on earlier related StackOverflow data, it looked bad at the time. https://win-vector.com/2025/03/02/best-before-dates-by-bass/
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by jmount 9mo ago
They are no longer HOV lanes. They are toll lanes with a minor HOV discount beard.
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by jmount 10mo ago
I think that is the problem. LLMs for mental health are going to very bad, but for most people that is all that will be available.
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by jmount 10mo ago
That is a key point: they are fabrications, not hallucinations.
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Text as a "Market for Lemons"(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 10mo ago|0 comments
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by jmount 10mo ago
You would need a mechanism to extract that value- i.e. the ability to strip the company apart for parts. Buying a non-controlling portion of shares doesn't give you that ability.
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Sam Tucker tries to replicate Apple Intelligence demo [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jmount 11mo ago|0 comments
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The Fermi Paradox Just from Rarity(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 11mo ago|0 comments
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by jmount 11mo ago
The original Agrawal, Kayal, Saxena "Primes is in P" paper is actually an amazing effort in clarity https://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-... .
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by jmount 11mo ago
Tons of companies survived the dot com bubble pop. Corrections are when the market does some sorting.
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by jmount 11mo ago
In my opinion, BPP (one of the major topics of the book) is such a weird complexity class. It seems both an easy and hard class. Roughly it accepts inputs that have at least 2/3rds of witnesses accepting and rejects inputs that have no
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by jmount 11mo ago
That is the point. Much clearer than I was. Thank you.
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by jmount 11mo ago
Effective Altruism and Utilitarianism are just a couple of the presentations authoritarians sometimes make for convenience. To me the code simply as "if I had everything now, that would eventually be good for everybody." The argum
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by jmount 11mo ago
For a introspective view of "aha" I really recommend the enjoyable Hadamard "The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field."
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by jmount 11mo ago
Very few objections to Jupyter that are not addressed by `nbconvert`.
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by jmount 11mo ago
This if the case where you introduce the test after the failure.
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by jmount 1y ago
Is this trying to deal with that git history can be replaced?
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by jmount 1y ago
Hopefully I am not too naive, but I think aircraft safety redundancy remains above retail car standards. Also, in aircraft they "have time to solve some problems", versus freeway bumper cars.
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by jmount 1y ago
Isn't it often even worse in that many of the "models" are intentionally inflicting a condition superficially similar to a symptom, and then showing some treatment blocks or reverses that? So sometimes nothing to do with the
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by jmount 1y ago
It won't keep. The UI hides so much behind modals, hamburgers, indescribable gestures (swipe, press, hard press, hold, corners). A user interface used to be a describable map from desired actions to low-state inputs (press this key, cl
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by jmount 1y ago
None of that was even the abstract stuff. It is all models of sizes, order, and inclusion (integers, cardinals, ordinals, sets). Not the nastier abstractions of partial orders, associativity, composition and so on (lattices, categories, ...
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A Fairly Hostile Subtext(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 1y ago|0 comments
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High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 1y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 1y ago
Strongly agree. I even searched to see I wasn't missing it. I mean yeah "SVD" is likely singular value decomposition, but in this context you have other acronyms bouncing around your head (like support vector machine- just ne
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by jmount 1y ago
Very wrong headed. If all of the routers and checks worked: you could transmit pure noise into them and get safe useful actions at some rate. I.e.: the check system as least as hard as the original problem.
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by jmount 1y ago
Puzzles are definitely odd birds. I myself have gotten into a literal screaming match try to push my belief that they never should be used in interviews. The bulk of that was an interviewer said the interviewee was "clearly confused wh
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by jmount 1y ago
Peter Winkler shares some great variations of this: "Boy Born on Tuesday" (p. xix) and "Men with Sisters" (p. xxii) in "Mathematical Puzzles". "Mrs. Chance has two children of different ages. At least one

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