kahnjw

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by kahnjw 8y ago
I'm certainly no expert but I think tiers of battery storage will be necessary. Some collocated with generation sites, some at distribution sites in cities, and probably local batteries in commercial real estate and neighborhoods if no
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by kahnjw 8y ago
Why is iOS a different story?
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by kahnjw 8y ago
The opposite, it’s a massive target. I believe the reasoning is that because it is such a large target the black market doesn’t set the price. It gets set by the bounty price the maintainer offers. I’m not familiar with the dynamics of the
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by kahnjw 8y ago
On the other hand zero days in OS kernels that run on millions of devices worldwide aren’t your ordinary black market exploits. I agree with publishing after 90 days. This incentivizes shipping patches quickly and fixing root causes later.
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by kahnjw 8y ago
Allowing companies to take their time fixing critical security issues puts users at risk. That’s compelling enough for me. As an Apple user I’m a bit upset that they haven’t patched after over three months.
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by kahnjw 8y ago
On the other hand some services from AWS are downright bad. For instance, Elastic Beanstalk is an operational nightmare. The one selling point is that it's easy to get started with, but from there it seems they rely on ops lock-in to p
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by kahnjw 8y ago
Agreed. After looking at the a few videos it seems to go a bit beyond the basics, I don't think that means it's "advanced." This got me thinking: what would an "advanced" Deep Learning/RL course even look
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by kahnjw 8y ago
I agree road and vehicle to vehicle comm is important, but the work being done now by these companies is comparatively much more important. If there is an implementation bug on either side of one of these integrations or if the communicatio
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by kahnjw 8y ago
Corporations use debt to inflate valuations in the short run, so that sounds correct. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTDTEUSQ163N
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by kahnjw 8y ago
FAANG and most other tech valuations have grown enormously over the last 10 years, but they've roughly followed the growth of their revenue streams and potential monetization opportunities. There may be some short term corrections, but
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by kahnjw 8y ago
The author makes a good point, anonymizing data is hard. Unfortunately they don't mention differential privacy, a promising area of research that can help us solve these problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff
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by kahnjw 8y ago
It seems to me that diffpriv is a nascent area of research that has not yet been bastardized by the business community. The complete opposite of a buzzword.
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by kahnjw 8y ago
I agree with all of this, except are you really implementing bayesian models in SQL? I'm not sure that is what the author is advocating in the first place. There are tools for bayesian everything, I much prefer using those over hacking
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by kahnjw 8y ago
Forecasting and prediction. Specific example: given a high quality dataset, forecasting sales is a good use case for machine learning. Of course, you could do this with SQL as well, but again, given a good dataset and a complex domain like
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by kahnjw 9y ago
This seems like a strawman argument. The original reporting from the guardian didn’t call this a hack. Also, the most egregious actions taken by Facebook are similar to actions taken by other companies after large user data compromises (Ube
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I think you are missing her point. She isn't saying that all passionate people are affluent white males. My interpretation is that passion in a swe job description is code for affluent white male. I think she has a point, individuals w
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Passion: strong and barely controllable emotion. "sufficiently non-loathsome...motivate yourself to do it" is a far cry from passionate. Tangentially related @sarahmei on twitter wrote a thread about passion in tech. IMO she nails
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I agree, I just don’t think it matters in the 3rd grade. Find the high performers in middle school and high school. If there are students that really need help earlier than that, or have learning disabilities they can either be pulled out,
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by kahnjw 9y ago
They'd do fine, because for the most part, the students who were placed in TAG math were the same students whose parents were on PTA or whose parents had the time and self entitlement to go to the school and not so politely request the
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I think it is fair, but I think there are ways to give students who need it extra attention without singling them out. Children are smarter than we give them credit for, they know when they're being judged or singled out by adults and
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by kahnjw 9y ago
>gifted kids do benefit from suitable gifted education If you show me that other students don't benefit from suitable gifted education, then you'll have an argument. Claiming that treating children with gifted education increas
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by kahnjw 9y ago
When I was in 3rd grade, I was placed in a remedial math course. My mother requested I be removed from it. I was. Today, I am a senior machine learning engineer working on my third math heavy degree. Needless to say, I am also very skeptica
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I don’t think op is claiming that method is tail recursive, just pointing out you can get away with using recursion and LRU cache.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
From op: >...avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy if you set your mind to committing fraud without getting caught. The experiment is a simple application of the economic theoretic framework to the statement above. Nothing more.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
They are not fundamentally contradictory, everyone would know they are victims, still if it is in their net benefit to participate, they will. Again, this is an experiment with unrealistic assumptions (getting caught is an endogenous variab
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by kahnjw 9y ago
You can be sure exactly how easy it is because in a perfectly competitive economy everyone has perfect information, and the experiment's key assumption is getting away with fraud is a endogenous variable in the utility function. The fr
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I have asked him this. Paraphrasing his words: eventually, the SEC investigates virtually all securities frauds. Some cases are dropped if the act was criminal in nature and the FBI or law enforcement wants it, other cases are dropped if th
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Again, point is not just about SEC investigation. I'm pushing back against the notion that getting away with fraud is as simple as setting your mind to it.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Maybe you didn't carefully read my original post. I'm not claiming the SEC has a perfect record in finding frauds before the hurt anyone (that would be nearly impossible). I am pointing out that getting away with fraud is extremel
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by kahnjw 9y ago
What I'm hearing is "avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy" because "Bernie Madoff." IMO that is naive. He is an outlier. Sort of like saying committing mass acts of terrorism is easy because 911.

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