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by knuthsat 6y ago
Well, 34k after taxes in Zagreb, Croatia is about 50k after taxes in Vienna. Given the increased cost of living and quite similar bureaucratic and regulation heavy state I'd say the self-employment is very aggressively taxed. For 50k a
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Excluding all confounders in a study like this is statistical error. You cannot do that stuff mathematically with such noisy data. Similar mistakes happen when someone tries to show meat is cancerous or increases all cause mortality.
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Well, having a GmbH does not really allow a clean profit extraction without having employees, so when you eventually employ yourself you'll get to around 70%. Austria is one of the worst countries in the world to do any kind of small b
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There's a nice talk by Yann LeCun where he goes on to explain really well why deep learning has such fast progress. [0] He goes on to explain how theory always comes later. I thought that information theory came before practice but tur
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Well, so is, in varying degrees every US president. I'd say Obama outperforms Bush in that regard.
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I do not own anything substantial. Saving for a house in the capital city would take about 15 years of frugal living as a programmer. I could also take a loan. What I also dislike is the tax prepayments for business owners, which is basical
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Not cheap if USD keeps falling compared to EUR. My income dropped about 12% since the last peak. Not that I'm complaining, but given the current USD circulation I'm thinking it might lose 50% of value in the next years.
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In Croatia the total would be about 63%. If you go through capital gains (no paycheck just profit after corporate tax, capital income tax and VAT) it's 53%. It could go down if some company expenses can be used for your life expenses.
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by knuthsat 6y ago
Looks like the tournament is still ongoing. I was referring to the last few. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCEC_Season_18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCEC_Season_19
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by knuthsat 6y ago
This is very nice. Reminds me a lot of tricks used for simple linear models. And it seems to work, given that Leela Chess Zero is losing with quite a gap. Most of the times one would learn a model by just changing a single feature and then
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Exactly. It's a research vehicle. Not everything in Haskell is useful for business or productivity. The reason I stopped using it is because of performance. Despite having state of the art optimizations there it's still too slow f
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I'm definitely humble when it comes to assuming consciousness and would rather consider it a spectrum than a binary thing.
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I don't know why but I never encountered issues using npm.
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virtualenv makes things a breeze
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Interesting, the first thing that I assumed was that it's easy to compare one solution to another and get a nice finegrained comparison. For example, a set of solutions with some parameter is always inferior to another set with a bette
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I thought that mussels and bivalves are like plants, there's no central nervous system and nothing else allowing them to be capable of consciousness.
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I used Intellij years ago on Linux, nice to know that they improved font rendering. It was really ugly back then.
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Why isn't it possible to go through some kind of a search tree and prune the solution set? I guess to parametrize the theory it takes something other than masses of elementary particles and a few constants? If I had that big of a solut
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by knuthsat 6y ago
Another lovely fact is that more plant mass is eaten by the animals grown for food than humans, so the plant production problem is non-existent. At least when it comes to human consumption.
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Does it have like random chords for reading practice? I'd enjoy just getting a single chord or a chord sequence and going through it as quick as possible.
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Yep, I was mind blown when I started using futures years ago with this coloring. But then I realized it’s all about types and monoids and applicatives and it started to get clear why I just can’t get the value out of a promise.
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by knuthsat 6y ago
I use jq for processing XML files. Recently I used https://github.com/fiatjaf/jq-web to support some of the conversions in JS. It was wonderful.
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Yep. I've watched the video that @BreakfastB0b referenced and must say I do not see how this can't be done with new hooks/effects. I can easily have all the user settings accessed inside a small effect and react to events or
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by knuthsat 6y ago
But the state is not mutable, the state is inside a React.Context that provides functions that manipulate it. It's practically the same as redux. You still need to have async actions with redux and use these actions. mobx on the other
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I think hooks and effects are really good. You can test them separately. You can write global reactions to state changes very easily. I find hooks/effects better than mobx or redux. hooks/effects, redux, mobx would be my preferenc
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I always found it a bit confusing why US citizens don’t just get their degrees in EU, should cost much less.
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I don't know if I remember this correctly but it sounded to me like these patents are just regurgitation of open source efforts. A bunch of algorithms just stolen from the open source codebases.
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Parser combinators allow elegant implementations of parsing but are ridiculously slow compared to some Knuth-optimized parsers.
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yes, on Nexus 5X that I've had since 2016, chrome and firefox are very slow until they render the page, then scrolling works ok. on iPhone 6 everything is still pretty responsive.
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It sounds like they were solving the lottery problem. [0] From my own research, the sets of tickets that give you the best chances still have negative expectation of reward. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_ma

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