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by jyscao 2y ago
Should've done it weeks ago. Utterly shameless.
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by jyscao 2y ago
Does anyone know where the theoretical limit of log(3)/log(2) comes from?
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by jyscao 2y ago
> everyone can, and should, try to improve their mathematical thinking — not necessarily to solve math problems, but as a general self-help technique Agreed with the above. Almost everyone can probably expand their mathematical thinking
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by jyscao 2y ago
go back to building monoliths
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by jyscao 2y ago
Not sure about the many cures that have been buried. But chemotherapy & radiotherapy, both of which do more harm than good, are two huge money makers indeed.
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by jyscao 2y ago
This lecture[0] by Robert Austin, a physicist who has done extensive work in biomedical including cancer-related research, proposes a fundamentally different theory for how cancer develops and progresses. Namely, the mutational theory of ca
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by jyscao 2y ago
You're completely right. The mRNA covid "vaccines" certainly did not remain localized to their sites of injection.
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by jyscao 2y ago
>There are studies that show when we verbally teach material to someone we remember it better. I am convinced that teaching material to other people helps us remember concepts better. Doing it verbally just so happen to be the most com
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by jyscao 2y ago
Hi there, I'm an aspiring Elixir developer, and I'm also located in Mexico City. If there are openings at your company, could you let me know too?
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by jyscao 3y ago
>Words include tabulars (large flat-topped southern icebergs that break off from the Antarctic ice sheet and are usually over ten miles long) You must've derived your username from those trip(s) too I bet.
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by jyscao 3y ago
>I think that, for a given amount of effort (hours and study intensity) you’re willing to spend, everybody has a ceiling that they can reach. I disagree with your disagreement, because simply controlling for total studying time and inten
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by jyscao 3y ago
>Boring tech + customer focus will likely beat most competition, regardless of where their offices reside. Reminds me of this classic post: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology Your addendum on customer service
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by jyscao 3y ago
Yes, in Vim, repeated u's just continues undoing, while ctrl-r is for redos.
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by jyscao 3y ago
>This really only applies to northern Europeans. We are the only cold adapted peoples because of the ice age. Incorrect. Northeast Asians had to deal with arguably harsher cold climates than northern Europeans. Some examples of research
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by jyscao 3y ago
> One is "top down": teach the system some high level principles that correspond to known general concepts, and the other is "bottom up": determine the structure from the data itself and use that to generate general c
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by jyscao 3y ago
>if companies can't figure out who to hire, then the fairest selection method wouldn't be nepotism, it would be random Companies don't optimize for fairness, they try to maximize quality on their end. And many, including m
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by jyscao 3y ago
You misunderstood. Using IQ scores for the purpose of hiring is illegal.
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by jyscao 3y ago
>Having managed over 100+ people, I can say that on average the people from better institutions are better employees - even though I have managed amazing people without college degrees and bad people with amazing degrees. There is a bett
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by jyscao 3y ago
(2018) Previous discussions: 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332638 (80 comments) 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26676625 (88 comments)
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by jyscao 3y ago
You mean Dan Carlin, and his Hardcore History podcast.
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by jyscao 3y ago
Yes indeed. Had a coworker at an old job who worked harder than me, but I'd always have to go back and fix his buggy code. For every feature he added, he'd cause a regression somewhere else. I legit felt bad for the guy. Also one
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by jyscao 3y ago
IMO Tesla would be better if they focused solely on making good EVs, rather than also trying to become the leader in self-driving. I get that they're trying to create a wider moat against their competitors, but if their self-driving so
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by jyscao 3y ago
If anyone wants to take a look into the raw data on their own, I extracted and cleaned it up into TSV files. Full list of occupations sorted by language modelling exposure score - https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubca002ugz74
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by jyscao 3y ago
Carlsen is clearly better than his contemporaries, no doubts about it. But calling the GOAT is a stretch.
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by jyscao 3y ago
I find Botez sisters obnoxious tbh
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by jyscao 3y ago
That's a big if. IMO anti-aging could be similar to self-driving, i.e. harder than it seems.
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by jyscao 3y ago
>how can the father of genetic science be wrong about the influence of genetics on society? - while the truth dashes that credibility That's your own biased judgment. Others may perceive what happened as Watson speaking truth to pow
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by jyscao 3y ago
What I did was to look for good value second hand routers nearby to me on Kijiji (Canadian classified market similar to Craigslist) then narrow them down by OpenWrt support. Using this method, I bought 3 wireless routers 2.5-3 years ago for
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by jyscao 4y ago
I think most people end up doing what he's suggesting anyway, out of necessity. I suppose his key insight is to just stop feeling guilty about not being able to get through it all.
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by jyscao 4y ago
Red Hat deprecated that exam a couple years ago, and the content it tested for (provisioning servers of various kinds and security) simply got scrapped completely. I attempted that exam right before it was to disappear permanently, on RHEL

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