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by jwilber 4y ago
Depends on your definition of nothing. Cheaper than America, obviously (which country isn’t for medical care?). It’s pricier than Vietnam, where I spent $500 for 2 nights of hospital stay in a private wing for a super bad fever.
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by jwilber 4y ago
I have some interactive, visual articles about various concepts (mostly stats or ml-related) on my site: https://www.jwilber.me/ Even though these heavy frontend-style articles are often different from the ml stuff I do for
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by jwilber 4y ago
Imagine working 10 years and having someone come in for less than 1 year, completely fail in their role by all metrics, yet have the ability make millions of your work, at the direct expense of your compensation. Should be criminal.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Another recent example of interactive articles explaining machine learning concepts (this time from AWS, not google): https://mlu-explain.github.io/
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Taxis suck. But Uber sucks now, too. I’d still rather ride share than use a taxi, and use door dash over Uber (lest we forget Uber’s previous lawsuits), but all of the choices in the market are kind of grim.
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Their parents will still likely wake them up when they go off to work.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Reddit should prioritize their site working on the browser. Clicking a nested thread seems to crash whatever browser I use 1/10th of the time, the videos never work, and the time it takes to open a thread is almost unbelievable in 2022
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by jwilber 4y ago
Awful comparison. Your number of $500 isn’t possible to live on in much of the world. It’s an artificial floor - a fair comparison would be one that everyone could live off with ease, not just your false dichotomy few. Never mind that a bil
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by jwilber 4y ago
Compass’ stock was trading at $4.42 per share midday, down from a 52-week high of $17.70. Redfin’s shares were down to $8.16, compared to a 52-week high of $65.41. Its market cap is $874 million, while Compass is currently valued at $1.885
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It shows M2 for me. Then I sent the link to a friend and it somehow reverted back to M1.
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Elements of Statistical Learning
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The article itself is in Copenhagen? You’re just going to completely ignore that?
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by jwilber 4y ago
Here's a visual explainer on Precision vs Recall (in the context of ML algorithms): https://mlu-explain.github.io/precision-recall/
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by jwilber 4y ago
It’s well-known everywhere. http://www.whatwouldmyharvardgrade.be/ isn’t live anymore, but it was for years. (It just showed a giant “A”).
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Each article's specific resources are listed at the bottom of the articles, but you're right - right now the articles are made using D3, IntersectionObserver API (for scrolling), and vanilla js. Newer articles use svelte instead o
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by jwilber 4y ago
Here’s how I’m reading the scenario: Rather than admit that the wording of your comment is easily taken out of the context you intended (that is, taking accountability for your previous statement), you claim that I’m “twisting” your comment
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by jwilber 4y ago
“Don’t point fingers at us boomers!” One sentence later: “None of you young folks have accountability.”
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None of these make this stay meaningless at face value. Almost all of your points apply to non-crypto as well, but nobody is denying wealth inequality there.
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by jwilber 4y ago
Given the mention of IntelliJ I’d assume Java or scala (probably the former).
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by jwilber 4y ago
You’re being downvoted but it’s true - R would be dead today if not for the tidyverse (both because of ease-of-use and fostered community). The experience between using the two is night-and-day. I would rather use the cli than base R at thi
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by jwilber 4y ago
Are you saying you did fast or did not fast?
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I guess the point I’m trying to make is that location change and culture change are two different things. It sounds like you friend just didn’t like living in a swamp - understandably so!
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by jwilber 4y ago
Not a fan of Texas at all myself, but I would hardly describe moving from one part of the US to another as a large cultural change. Political differences may exist between small cities and large cities, but most aspects of culture (language
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by jwilber 4y ago
As one counter data point: Amazon has plenty of programs that promote people from warehouse roles into tech/corporate.
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by jwilber 4y ago
GUI autocomplete seems… counter using a terminal in the first place? Maybe that’s too critical, but can’t see myself migrating away from iterm2 for somerhing proprietary.
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by jwilber 4y ago
These are called ocular migraines. I’ve had them since a kid, roughly once every two months or so. what’s really interesting is after having heart surgery, I would have like 10 a day for weeks. Others in post-cardiac surgery message boards
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by jwilber 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. Another issue: home owners are incentivized to see their assets appreciate. Makes passing meaningful legislation hard, especially if it will actively hurt a substantial number of voters (and every politician).
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by jwilber 4y ago
Doesn’t starting someone at 13 fly in the face of the whole “prerequisite experience learned on the job” bit?
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by jwilber 4y ago
Huh? Two whole years and the exact day is supposed to be meaningful? Why? That’s basically the exact definition of a coincidence. I noted in the previous thread: Here’s a previous article David (the subject of the tweets) wrote about Val fo
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by jwilber 4y ago
Title makes it seem like foul play, but I personally think not given the tumultuous history of the man being discussed (rip). Eg: There was a similar HN post when the same man went missing (almost exactly one year ago to the date): Deutsche

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