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by kgwgk 2y ago
> These all appear to be in rough alignment Do they? What about? “The random variable X is a function mapping each outcome to the age of one of my cousins”? Does that seem like a valid definition of the concept of random variable to you
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by kgwgk 2y ago
“the original one which was not solvable this way” doesn’t seem to fit in that interpretation.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
It seems that they no longer publish an "election day forecast" regarding popular vote - something that they included in 2020: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachael-Meager/publicat...
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Definitely “livable” considering that the average household income per capita is an order of magnitude lower.
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LLMs Can't Be Trusted for Financial Advice [pdf](economics-files.pomona.edu)
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> as a fiduciary (owner or director of a business) An owner has a fiduciary duty to himself and a director is not the one who sells in the end: owners do.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001045810/eb1cf91...
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Nvidia Doesn’t Hold Berkshire Hathaway Stock
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by kgwgk 2y ago
“thing wrong with” - it was a play on the quoted sentence
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> There's another factor that sometimes is in play here: tax treatment. Indeed. I wish I could "insure" my car's maintenance using pre-tax money.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> There's nothing wrong with gambling as long as you are aware of the odds and make intelligent decisions based on them. Essentially if you’re aware of the odds and make intelligent decisions based on them there is no_____ _____ ___
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> Why even consider the insurance as investment (money increasing tool)? Most people wouldn't consider it in that way - unless the risk they're insuring is terribly mispriced or they plan to do some insurance fraud.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_representation_theorem "In economics, a utility representation theorem asserts that, under certain conditions, a preference ordering can be represented by a real-valued utilit
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> This decreases combined utility of you and your counter-party. The counterparty tends to have an edge. Roulettes have zeros, bookies get a cut, etc. I guess on a poker table everyone thinks that they have an edge but they can't al
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Just in case it was not clear, my comment was about > The reality is that the same thing, in effect, happens if you stop paying property taxes. The tax builds up, etc. and in many places worse things will happen to you if you stop paying
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> The reality is that … People in different countries experience different realities.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> Squatters cannot break into your home and take residence. They cannot enter into your house uninvited. No, wait, that's vampires...
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Another BMW-driving serial squatter (having a secondary residence for the weekend is also a human right): https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20240528/maria-okupa-be...
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by kgwgk 2y ago
What makes you think that the problem concerns mainly - let alone only - people who live purely from housing?
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> In Madrid province, there are around 700 new houses+apartments to buy There are many more. That link shows 700 developments, most of them with multiple units on offer.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Headline: « Colleen Hoover Is a Wildly Successful Author. Why Did She Stop Writing? »
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by kgwgk 2y ago
They were for that before the “weren’t”. “The first mass-produced cotton swab was developed in 1923 by Polish-American Jew Leo Gerstenzang after he watched his wife attach wads of cotton to toothpicks to clean their infant's ears.”
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Maybe it was required to get a divorce at all but otherwise it seems that he could have settled on something “fair” without needing to force himself into it.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
You don't see the problem but after companies repurchase shares the company is always owned by the remaining shareholders - who essentially always own 100% of the stock.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> I can see why Feynman became sexually promiscuous afterwards, undoubtedly to numb the pain of losing his wife; seduction allowed him to have a form of that connection, albeit without the depth and love of what he had with his wife. He
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Maybe disappointing is not a good way to describe it but I couldn’t find a better word. I meant that it seems that multiple dispatch won’t be highlighted. I would have liked to see a better S4 - fixing some of its issues and adding things l
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> Why write in CUDA and not just use PyTorch etc? “LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA. There is no need for 245MB of PyTorch or 107MB of cPython. […] A few more words on what I want this repo to be: First, I want llm.c to be a plac
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Nice. This is a bit disappointing though: “Multiple dispatch is heavily used in S4; we don’t expect it to be heavily used in S7, but it is occasionally useful.”
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by kgwgk 2y ago
Hamas counts every Hamas operative younger than 18 who dies as a child.
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by kgwgk 2y ago
> 35,000 people (over 15,000 of which are children) For what is worth, the UN estimates are significantly lower with less than 8’000 children (and 5’000 women) out of the 25’000 identified casualties. Maybe there are indeed 10’000 additi

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