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by kgwgk 1y ago
> doctors dont look at costs because they dont really know them They know enough to prescribe only the pre-approved drugs and they know that things will happen at due time when the already budgeted people and equipment are available.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> private insurance companies are incentivized to make things cost as much as possible > will arbitrarily reject a percentage of procedures that they know they should be accepting in order to keep their profit margin in the right rang
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You wrote "If the librarian's 'call for' meaning was indeed the one originally intended" I doubt that "the librarian's 'call for' meaning was indeed the one originally intended" (not that yo
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Why did the wild “called” that dog in Jack London’s novel?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
That’s a big “if” when the only support for that theory seems to appear a decade later than the “call in” meaning.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Index cards are not different from index entries in a book. Index is “indicator” or “pointer” in Latin (hence the name of the finger).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Another answer also in the article is that you call them like you call a doctor to your home, so they do something for you, or how people are “on call”. The “call number” in that story comes after the “call”. Not the other way around.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> poorly managed suppression of a rebellion Or a too well managed suppression. “ We have been blamed for not making a distinction between guilty and innocent Armenians. [To do so] was impossible. Because of the nature of things, one who
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The “need” of beating the system. Good developers may or may not have a lower deficit of “it”.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Being a good developer and being a scammer are completely uncorrelated variables. One could expect good developers to be less inclined to fraud as they may not “need” it as much. That also made me thing of Berkson’s paradox: https:&#x
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The post we're commenting on makes a clear claim: an LLM hallucinating entire APIs You made a similar claim: LLMs invent APIs that don't exist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461381
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Even worse, in some cases it may be decreasing the writing time and increasing the reading time without reducing the total work.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> I don't think this cursory look at the abstracts and first pages of these papers is achieving the effect you intended. The only effect intended was my own amusement. I doubted anyone would ever read the comment. > Jurafsky, Lec
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by kgwgk 1y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.5673 > Decision making – When people are given a chance to play a particular gamble twice, if they think they won the first play, or alternatively if they think they lost the first play, t
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You lose the reversible behavior when you describe the system ignoring almost every degree of freedom.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> [Quantum Cognition] is a real field with dozen of collaborators and even a textbook. Flat Earth is also a real field, with conferences with hundreds of attendees.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The former. Diffusion in gases is similar.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
The ellipsoid can rotate around its minor axis (more stable), around its major axis (also stable) or around its medium axis (unstable, the direction of the axis will “flip”). The three axes go through the center.
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Robinhood Launches Stock Tokens, Reveals Layer2 Blockchain, Expands Crypto Suite(newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Given the choice between working 20% less for the same money and earning 20% more for the same work many (most?) people will take the latter. I hope that working more for less wouldn’t have many takers but there may be a few.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Because people would rather work more to get more money.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
They don’t lie! When they say “We value your privacy” they mean that your privacy is valuable to them. Of course, they need to convert that value into money.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Real estate has been an investment vehicle used for capital preservation for millennia.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
U2, F1, there is a pattern.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
That doesn’t really say “renewables bad”. The report actually says that there was a drop in solar generation.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> But if we're talking about a workflow for evaluating many products, and we're prepared to consider a probability model that says some products are better than the alternative and others aren't, then the author's ver
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by kgwgk 1y ago
There are a few good explanations already (also less good and very bad) so I give a simple example: You throw a coin five times and I predict the result correctly each time. #1 You say that I have precognition powers, because the probabilit
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Setting a p-value threshold of 0.05 is equivalent to saying: "I’m willing to accept a 5% chance of shipping something that only looked good by chance." No, it means "I’m willing to ship something that if it was not bette
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Users are randomly assigned to one of the four layouts and you track their activity. Your hypothesis is: layout influences signup behavior. > You plan ship the winner if the p-value for one of the layout choices falls below the conv
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by kgwgk 1y ago
>> the chance at least one is noise is 1 – 0.95⁵ ≈ 23 % > The chance of each winner being genuine is still 95% Not really. It depends on what’s the unknown (but fixed in a frequentist analysis like this one) difference between the

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