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by kmod 4y ago
Disclaimer: developer on Pyston, which could be considered a competitor My concern is: there have been a few projects already that are, from the outside, more or less the same approach and set of tradeoffs as this. And they haven't bee
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by kmod 4y ago
$100m future dollars , which are less valuable than present dollars.
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by kmod 4y ago
Many types of institutions have to mark to market on a ~constant basis, so it's not impossible. Yes there are certain asset classes (private companies, for example) that don't have easy or reliable marks (but people still do it an
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by kmod 4y ago
Welcome to a non-zero interest rate environment. "$100m equivalent today" is not $100m -- the term to search for is "net present value". These considerations are precisely what marking to market captures
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by kmod 4y ago
IANAL, but here's some FTC guidance on this, which I read (again IANAL) to say that the transactional-vs-marketing determination is not up to the sender but up to the recipient and if they "reasonably... would likely conclude&quot
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by kmod 4y ago
It sounds like you're saying "if you don't sell you can't lose money"
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by kmod 4y ago
IANAL but I think yes and no? I think you're still obligated to pay your loan payments, but there's also a concept of "netting" where in certain circumstances you are entitled to what you describe. Definitely don't
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by kmod 4y ago
I don't think anyone is saying this? The decrease in value is due to wrong-way interest rate exposure, not due to a fire sale
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by kmod 4y ago
These statements seem pretty contradictory: - "it had reserves in excess of its liabilities" - "They can't unwind that position and cover all possible demands" I'm guessing that you're thinking of some sor
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GPT3 will recite Harry Potter if you ask it(twitter.com)
2 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments
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Extending Python with AI: Semantic APIs(kmod.substack.com)
3 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 4y ago
I mostly think this is a good thing, but there are some fields where I feel like employers will have to take other precautions that are not as nice. Most of us here are in tech where "ideas are cheap" is mostly true and commonly t
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by kmod 4y ago
Having worked on this for a while, one way that might be helpful to understand this is that Python jits (such as the one I work on, Pyston) do in fact make Python code much faster, but the fraction of the time that is spent in "Pytho
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It’s worth spending one CPU-hour to save one second of your time(blog.kevmod.com)
4 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments
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Generally Intelligent(generallyintelligent.com)
2 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 4y ago
Agree to disagree, I suppose. Another comment in this thread suggested using the value of pi to demonstrate intelligence, but you can imagine alien civilizations without the same reverence of pi as we do (if they are large enough). I mentio
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by kmod 4y ago
Again, talking a bit outside my comfort zone, but I believe our universe's physics say that circles only have a fixed circumference-to-radius ratio at "small" (astronomically) scales. At large enough scales space is curved an
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by kmod 4y ago
I really like the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. In this case: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
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by kmod 4y ago
It's turtles all the way down -- we don't know what "truth" is, or how one can come to "know" truth (as opposed to just believe it). I'm less informed on these topics so I avoided them, but I've heard
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by kmod 4y ago
As much as I like PG's writing in general, this is him dipping his toes in waters that are already well studied and coming off as ignorant and/or presumptuous. His very first premise "The truths of mathematics would be the sa
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Halting Problem == Russell’s Paradox?(blog.kevmod.com)
3 points by kmod 4y ago|2 comments
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Biden Pardons People Convicted of Marijuana Possession Under Federal Law(nytimes.com)
36 points by kmod 4y ago|12 comments
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Pyston announces Python 3.7-3.10 support and a new direction(blog.pyston.org)
10 points by kmod 4y ago|2 comments
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by kmod 4y ago
> all this while the productivity they generate is at an all time high I see this claim repeated a lot but you didn't say where it comes from so it's a bit hard to discuss. In particular, you are making a claim about the produc
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A new age of AI centaurs(blog.kevmod.com)
3 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments
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by kmod 4y ago
Streamlit has completely replaced my usage of Jupyter -- I find it to have the quick iteration speed and visual output of notebooks, but it's just normal python so all the normal tooling works (there is no "git problem") and
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by kmod 4y ago
I don't think it's the cable length: 0.5ms is 150km in fiber or about 100km in copper. Cable length is important in HFT where you are measuring fractions of micro seconds. It's really quite amazing to me that HFT reduces RP
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by kmod 4y ago
Fyi "this language has been under design for a long time" is not always perceived as a good thing since it can be associated with navel gazing. IMO I'd advertise the language based on the core benefit you think it provides
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by kmod 4y ago
I'd say this is because the term "AI" has been redefined, not because the same work is being done in a different way
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“Do AIs think” == “Do submarines swim”(blog.kevmod.com)
4 points by kmod 4y ago|0 comments

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