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by kilotaras 3y ago
Indeed, indexing changing probabilities is very unintuitive for most people. Here's another fun one. There's two coins on the table that you don't see. The only information provided is that a) one of them is tails b) the left
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Scaling laws in terms of loss are well established. How loss translates into higher-level capabilities is anyone's guess.
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> Developers develop because they make money doing it Not all property is owned by developers. I would go even further and say that most properties are owned by non-developers. Some people use land as store of value. We as a society woul
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Someone buys a property: +-------------+------------+-------------+-------------+ | Type | Land Value | Cover Value | Total Value | +-------------+------------+-------------+-------------+ | Parking Lot | 100
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by kilotaras 3y ago
But that's not what artificially inducing means. London for example have buildings which are prohibited of having parking (or getting street permit). Providing an option not pay for parking space when buying an apartment is not that.
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> artificially induced scarcity How is *not requiring* parking to be provided inducing scarcity artificially?
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> similar population density I agree with rest of the comment, but I feel that connection between walkability and population density is misunderstood. It's not "we need XXX people/sq. mile in US to have walkability",
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by kilotaras 3y ago
An acquaintance of mine was looking into the general area of using cheap electricity. The pitch is "Instead of looking at storing energy efficiency, look at things that become profitable if energy is really cheap, but only for the frac
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by kilotaras 3y ago
I can get real time air quality index above ground on multitude of places. The most up-to date information on the tube I could found was this report[0], that only covered a number of stations. Even then, the information provided is not grea
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Step 1 is to measure and declare a problem. To the best of my knowledge there's no systematic measuring of air pollution on the stations. Same with loudness which on some (old) lines is way past safe.
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Meta is also using something similar, see 4.1.1 of "Meta’s Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform" [0] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p3522-mo.pdf
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> This is already a thing, but it works the other way around. Sorry for being pedantic, but charging "bad customers" $XXX and charging everyone $XXX more, whilst giving everyone but "bad customer" $XXX back, are equiv
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UK's infrastructure is too expensive: Railways, Trams, and Roads all cost more(samdumitriu.com)
98 points by kilotaras 3y ago|128 comments
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> Either they are not qualified, which means we are not educating our college students to a sufficient standard, the poverty wages are so detrimental that only foreigners will put up with it. The third possibility is of course that top 1
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by kilotaras 3y ago
You can't have exactly-once in distributed system. Crashes happen, network or power goes down and your ack get's lost[0]. The best one can do is accept that and make your processing idempotent. [0] The most interesting case I&#x27
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Most tools have an escape hatch, see e.g. [0] [0] https://github.com/search?q=clang-format+off&type=code
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by kilotaras 3y ago
See also "Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat" (3 month ago) [0] Manifold prediction market (playmoney, low user numvers, usual caveats apply) puts risk of "malicious LLM prompt injection attack by the end of 2023?" a
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> And then one day someone steals one of their Teslas, and they bemoan the injustice that normal, law-abiding citizens like them face and resolve to hate the poor even more. They hire private security for they gated community, don't
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by kilotaras 3y ago
- A lot of code won't work for types with no default constructors, but that is at least compile error - Using memcpy[0] for arbitrary types is just wrong, see [1] [0] https://github.com/DNedic/lockfree/blob&#x
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> the nuclear power was replaced with wind + solar Between 2021 and 2022 Germany's share of electricity from Nuclear declined from 12.6 to 6.3%, coal increased from 30.2 to 33.3% [0] In a hypothetical scenario where Germany didn&#x2
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> The myth is that Germany replaced nuclear with coal. This myth is false, and obviously false. Starting point: nuclear + coal Option 1: nuclear + renewables Option 2 (selected): coal + renewables While this is true, that yes, Germany d
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by kilotaras 3y ago
Korolev, who was one of the leading rocket engineers during the time didn't have teeth as he lost them in Kolyma labour camp.
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> To find a specific key, we could use binary search on the SST file blocks. I don't think it's possible except when both key and value are fixed size (which is not the case in the example shown).
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by kilotaras 3y ago
> Germany nowadays reduces its emissions faster than France Comparing derivative doesn't make much sense if the starting point is wildly different. When do you think Germany's emissions per capita will be lower than France?
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> But we do have super human chess engines, but those are made in a completely different way from GPT. Suppose GPT-X just dropped and it could both generate text AND play chess better than Magnus Carlssen. How would that change you posit
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> depositors get back 100% up to the FDIC limit Some people, including YC CEO, argue that taxpayers should drop the "up to FDIC limit" part. I've took another look at out conversation and you didn't do that. I was arg
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> Shareholders could lose 100% of their investment, their EV is not +5%. Converting from (EV on bank accounts) to return for shareholders is non-trivial, but as long as shareholders get > 100% RoI in successful case their EV is positi
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> We're not keeping negative score And that's problematic for banking. Thought experiment: for bank functionaries a strategy that has an equal chances of +10% and -40% is better than guaranteed +4% (for them EV is +5%). As a re
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> software can help create an inefficient market where ... suppliers of housing take a 5-20% hit on "volume" for a larger increase in price that more than offsets the rate of empty units. Right, if one can get majority of the l
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by kilotaras 4y ago
> this unfortunately leads to them passing on the taxes to renters No, this is not how this works. Rent is set by demand and (very insufficient) supply. If landlord could increase rent by $X - they would have increased it already (softwa

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