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by johnsimer 5y ago
Based on OP's detailed-orientedness, I'd assume he was tracking his total monthly food expenses.
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Java is great. Performant. Great libraries and data types. Huge community. Can use Kotlin if you want concise syntax and the interop is pretty seamless
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by johnsimer 5y ago
LFP*?
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by johnsimer 5y ago
His high school valedictorian speech was about going to space: https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-space-travel-life... .
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Best time to raise capital is when you don’t need it
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Elon has tweeted that he doesn’t want service side of the business to turn a profit, as it sets up a bad incentive, i.e to make unreliable vehicles
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by johnsimer 5y ago
There are plenty of ways for your gains to be X multiple of the % change in the underlying stock
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Tony Seba from RethinkX claims that declining costs of Precision Fermentation will replace animal farming within 10-15 years
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Zuck'd have a shot at running if he had more than three facial expressions.
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by johnsimer 6y ago
lithium is now barely used in the latest battery tech. See Tesla
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Yes. We are near levels of inequality that caused the French Revolution to go violent.
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by johnsimer 6y ago
> The Peter Principle is wrong for the simple reason that executives aren’t that stupid, and because there isn’t that much room in an upward-narrowing pyramid. They know what it takes for a promotion candidate to perform at the to level.
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Zuck from the beginning has lied to people and made bad faith apologies. Repeatedly
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Would you not classify the tabless battery as a fundamental breakthrough? That is not just economies of scale
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by johnsimer 6y ago
I made my own, that IMO is a lot more flexible and elegant than these heuristics/look up tables - you just store a Strength s value for each memory in your db/storage system. Then using Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve formula, g
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Language is just the shadows of reality, and studying the shadows perfectly still doesn’t give you enough info to understand reality Cf. Plato’s Cave
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Neocortex-hippocamp ratios of above 90 enable supra context free grammars(arxiv.org)
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The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization(arxiv.org)
195 points by johnsimer 6y ago|71 comments
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Not to critique your selfless efforts too much, but try to instill an intrinsic love of learning in him. Developing an extrinsic motivation for learning ( a video game) is likely to back fire
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by johnsimer 6y ago
Imagine if a dictator rises to power, but this time s/he has power over the entire world.
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by johnsimer 7y ago
Care to share any anecdotes?
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by johnsimer 7y ago
I’m a host. How do I do this? I’ve never had the ability to hide reviews
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by johnsimer 7y ago
I saw a bioxriv preprint that said the virus has trouble surviving outside the human body above 75deg F
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by johnsimer 7y ago
A Network’s value actually usually grows n log n, not n^2, if you assume the values of the nodes have a Gaussian distribution.
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by johnsimer 7y ago
I’m a professional Airbnb host in Columbus and know some big hosts - 20+ properties. Any way I can help bring this to Columbus? I run into the storage issue every few days
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by johnsimer 7y ago
I love that identity crisis metaphor
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by johnsimer 7y ago
Could mean there are few startups out there seeking SB types of money that are actually good startups
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by johnsimer 7y ago
Nope, that business insider article had no sources, and according to Musk is false
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by johnsimer 7y ago
rewards increase performance for basic and mechanical skills. But for complex skills, e.g. learning, they decrease intrinsic motivation, and thus performance.
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by johnsimer 7y ago
FWIW the gut is often referred to as the "second brain", and the microbiome wrecks havoc on the gut

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