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by jrumbut 4y ago
Do you think the decline of large corporate R&D efforts is cause or effect here (or is this a false premise)? I am wondering whether we've seen the reverse of the idea I was originally challenging (if research was valuable it would
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I would also say, and I'm surprised this needs to be said in a community that is so connected to the Open Source and startup cultures, that just because something is valuable doesn't mean it's possible to make a business out
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by jrumbut 4y ago
But how do we make sure it resembles Star Trek instead of Philip K. Dick?
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I would agree though for a different reason. If society has to rebuild/replace infrastructure destroyed by more hurricanes, raise ports above new sea levels or build new ports, upgrade the power grid, food takes more resources to grow,
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by jrumbut 4y ago
There seems to have been Greeks like Thucydides who did like that and Greeks like Herodotus who enjoyed the opposite (supernatural explanations of the natural), I wouldn't know enough to make a general claim.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I think this is a fair assessment, at least competent, perhaps not a one in a thousand superstar. What someone in this range earns and their working conditions are going to be highly dependent on what they ask for and their self-esteem. Som
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by jrumbut 4y ago
One of the problems with recommendation systems (or maybe the companies deploying them) is that they lack that urge human experts have to edify those that seek advice and raise their standards a little bit. It would be interesting to figure
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by jrumbut 4y ago
There are a lot of these threads (though I for one welcome more because there are always new resources). It would be cool to see more follow-up posts about how it's going or where they ended up.
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Or habit, it's just your writing process at this point.
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The professor sets up the expectation they are going to come down hard on everyone but ends up putting in an obscene amount of work to give almost everyone a chance to succeed. After the halfway point they tilt strongly from justice to merc
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I've always loved curved classes because they allow very good professors to give real mindfuck exam questions that cause you to walk away from the test with a new perspective on the material. Those exams were often the most edifying co
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by jrumbut 4y ago
It probably exists for cultural reasons, but you can also view it as a form of decentralized decision making. The government is saying to the citizens, if you see a problem so pressing it motivates you to altruism, we'll trust that it
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by jrumbut 4y ago
They felt like they could get away with anything because they could! I think one difference was that you could hide a little friendly community fairly easy and because the meanness and abuse was seen as an expression of real world powerless
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The amounts that mortgage originators will hand out are still pretty incredible. I bought a house a few months ago. The mortgage payment is right around what the more conservative rules of thumb suggest is affordable. After the lender had a
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by jrumbut 4y ago
When I took an AI course in 2009 it was largely about game playing algorithms that use graph traversal (possibly guided by heuristics). Stuff like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm Such algorith
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by jrumbut 4y ago
At some point they abandoned trying to make a single good show or movie (or having a library of classics) in favor of churning out five mediocre ones. Why watch a bad show? The best media is available whenever you'd like (but it's
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Linux phone is getting so exciting! I wish there was a way to dual boot or have something like a live CD to get into it in a low risk way.
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The piece suffered from not having nearly enough detail here. Why did they choose that exact moment? What led them to choose the new design no one liked? I would imagine the fruit juice industry is under some pressure. When I was a kid thei
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by jrumbut 4y ago
A good client can provide more than revenue. All the staff that have contact with them will be exposed to their expertise, inspired by their high standards, and bring back their good business practices. A bad client can poison a company cul
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> calling 70 people to get 70 ad views is a terrible ROI But calling 70 people to get 70 new advertisers is OK, or if it's early days 70 people who can get you some traffic.
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by jrumbut 4y ago
But the average American, or even pretty financially sophisticated ones, don't have experience with an institution like that. I think it's fair to expect users to know the coins they buy might lose value, but this is a bizarre and
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by jrumbut 4y ago
Vim with Emmet and the right tweaks is very good if your job is churning out HTML. I've had a few projects that would have been endless slogs with nearly any other setup get completed at lightspeed. This setup's strength is its ow
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by jrumbut 4y ago
I can't say I've noticed a big difference, though I usually go to YouTube knowing about what I want to watch. I've seen so many people suffer in real life from getting sucked down YouTube rabbit holes I try not to rely on the
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> There was also a lot of stuff where unemployment paid more than working so there were perverse incentives to not work and make more money. I had a family member who normally made about$2k/month. He got $600/week in unemployme
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by jrumbut 4y ago
> What I previously thought as "okay I just leave it in the stock market for a bit of time to recoup" is something I am now realizing would likely have to be 10+ years. I am wondering where you previously got your information?
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> Pliny the Elder adds there that "quibus ... volgus bubalorum nomen imponit", i.e. the ignorant masses call both kinds of wild oxen as buffaloes, even if the buffalo is a different kind of wild ox "which is native to Afri
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by jrumbut 4y ago
What's the turkey supposed to do? It can either starve itself now or die with a full stomach later.
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I did the same thing starting in 2018 (so far fewer programs offering anything online plus I wanted one that offered health insurance because I was contracting at the time). I went to a school that is not at all prestigious but it's pr
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If they didn't care except when they were selling, that makes the effect of them being more consistent voters on zoning issues hard to explain. I think this idea of wanting your house price to be low to avoid property taxes then sudden
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by jrumbut 4y ago
The connection between interest rates and housing prices is weaker than I would have expected (it certainly exists, just not to the extent I imagined) and oddly enough it takes a couple years to show up: https://www.bis.org/

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