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by kgwgk 3y ago
Ok, maybe the as-of-2024 product is living up to the 2018-horizon expectations from 2017 (as long as your expectations were not at the high end of the range at the time).
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by kgwgk 3y ago
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/report-waymo-aiming-to-... "Even if Waymo's schedule slips a few months and it introduces a self-driving car service in the middle of 2018 instead of late 2017,
873.
by kgwgk 3y ago
We’re not even talking about an independent country. Tourists could still arrive via internal flights.
874.
by kgwgk 3y ago
Most people who doesn’t run a Mac don’t care much about “models that don't fit into VRAM on macOS.”
875.
Tesla Is Running Out of Time to Deliver on Self-Driving Promises(wsj.com)
6 points by kgwgk 3y ago|1 comments
876.
by kgwgk 3y ago
https://twitter.com/Tuckerpete/status/1569478529892646913
877.
by kgwgk 3y ago
More likely top 10 - if it’s indeed a typo.
878.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> In the US an apartment is assumed a rental Not everywhere though. Not in NYC at least.
879.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> a 2000 sq ft unit is 50% larger than the 1000 sq ft unit Ok then.
880.
by kgwgk 3y ago
Note that in some places most people will consider that an “apartment” cannot be owned by definition. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an “apartment” - they would use a different name for it.
881.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> The incremental value of the first 1000 sq ft is nowhere near as much as the next 1000 sq ft Note that - intentionally or not - the parent comment said 50% larger and not 100% larger which is what they could buy for the same price if i
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In Continued Defense of Non-Frequentist Probabilities(astralcodexten.com)
2 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
883.
by kgwgk 3y ago
They could alredy be choosing the rarer name for the couple and the children.
884.
by kgwgk 3y ago
I guess the error was to take ideas for family activities from the intro of a crime series called Miami Vice.
885.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> it looks like even jai alai is corrupted by gambling You may be joking but for those who are not aware betting has been prominent in jai alai since the thirties. CS Professor Steven Skiena has a book about it: https://www.am
886.
by kgwgk 3y ago
There is also unavoidable subjectivity in making the choice of model, data, etc.
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Spurious Scholar(tylervigen.com)
2 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
888.
It took Starbucks a little too long to realize coffee NFTs aren't it(engadget.com)
2 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
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Abraham Lincoln and Confidence Intervals(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
1 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
890.
by kgwgk 3y ago
Ah, you may be right. It's not clear in the story that "Average and p95 latency actually increased after shipping the work to production." means average of Indonesia and ex-Indonesia and not just Indonesian average.
891.
by kgwgk 3y ago
How does "Average and p95 latency actually increased after shipping the work to production. How does an objectively good change make things worse?" relate to Simpson's paradox again?
892.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> One of the most famous people in probability theory even claimed that it's the ones with finite moments that are rare in practice. (But I couldn't find this quote back, I thought it was Poisson or Laplace) That sounds more li
893.
by kgwgk 3y ago
> many things we want to measure are not well-distributed to allow the CLT to hold I guess that may be true for some values of "many" and "we" but most things we want to measure have finite variance.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> [flagged] [dead] Why can't we talk about this? (karadansky.substack.com) Why indeed?
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> Implied volatility is really the standard deviation of the price over time. Maybe you mean that “implied volatility is really the implied standard deviation of the price over time”.
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Glasgow's Sad Oompa Loompa Isn't Gonna Sugarcoat This(vulture.com)
1 points by kgwgk 3y ago|1 comments
897.
by kgwgk 3y ago
Even better if you pronounce the 4 in ChatGPT4 as “for[t]”.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> We don't actually care at all about what happened in the two experiments per se, we care about the information provided by the experiments about future or other events. How can the experiments provide relevant information other th
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> Coincidentally in the example the results are the same , but they need not be. The questions is whether we should draw different conclusions when the results are the same. I don’t think that anyone has any issues with drawing different
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by kgwgk 3y ago
The question is whether we should draw different conclusions from one set of observations depending not just on what we are observing but also on different ways to define "what are all the worlds that I might be in that are consistent

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