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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I'm glad someone else noticed this. The whole thing felt really strangely phrased. It's possible that it was written by committee, (i.e. everyone editing a Google doc), which often leads to this kind of writing. Alternatively, may
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DMV Issued Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permits(dmv.ca.gov)
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Sort of, it uses Monto Carlo + a bunch of other things. [0] [0] https://medium.com/@karpathy/alphago-in-context-c47718cb95a5
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
One factor largely absent here (and actually obscured by their choice to interview investment bankers) is the huge amount of financial anxiety facing young people in America.[0] Crippling student debt, a lack of savings and inability to fin
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
If the whole "apocalypse" thing seems alarmist, consider that Japan's birth/death ratio has been <1 for a while, and is now a matter of national concern.[0] Of course, that's only a real problem if our immigratio
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Missing (2015) tag. It's easy to read this as another shitty "millennial are ruining X" article that piles anecdotes on top of popular stereotypes, though it is maybe worth noting that marriage rates really are declining pret
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=amazon&utm_... Lots of press, most of it good, couple harsher criticisms: Why this group is trying to stop Amazon from buying Whole Foods https://www.wash
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah I'm with you on this, the moment we call self-care a "competitive advantage" it stops being self-care entirely and reverts to just being another "productivity hack"
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I'd recommend switching over to the singular "they" for referencing candidates, otherwise you lose a lot of benefits of anonymity.[0][1] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/is-bl
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Really curious what about an address tells you that a company is a front for the Chinese government. Do you mean it's an address in Beijing?
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
If you're going to comment about the "Chinese takeover" please take 2 minutes to at least read the first paragraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril 'The Yellow Peril (also Yellow Terror an
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
"seems like a Chinese front if you look at the team." ...you mean it's Chinese people? What on earth makes this a "Chinese front" rather than just a company with a Chinese team?
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
The article is subtitled "Its deep pool of data may let it lead in artificial intelligence" for a reason, you can't just pull a "well trained" model out of thin air, and proprietary data is absolutely defensible.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
'It's all just computer code' Are you saying no software has trade secrets? Sure, you can go through some tutorials and learn to build a CNN, or even read more recent research papers and hit bleeding-edge ImageNet benchmarks,
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
We (Zenysis) are a recent YC startup using technology to help Ministries of Health prevent epidemics and distribute vaccines in developing countries. Happy to talk if you want to learn more! EDIT: We're in public health, but compensate
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
In the original student, Karen Arnold went to great lengths to highlight this counter-intuitive phenomenon as a gendered issue [0] in which women, who tended to get better grades then men [0], would still end up less successful. It's s
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
"Valedictorians often go on to be the people who support the system they become a part of the system, they don't change or overthrow the system." I really don't buy this explanation at all. Valedictorians might tend towa
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It's worth noting that millionaires who inherited their wealth had much less of an incentive to care about their GPA since wealth was more or less guaranteed. Also, children of millionaires will be able to attend top colleges even with
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I don't know, that's kind of like saying we shouldn't be bothered by slavery if the slaves in question were "bred" for that purpose and wouldn't have existed otherwise. Of course, the fact that line of reasonin
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, 1 is exactly right, but hopefully Ethereum will be able to move to Proof of Stake [0]. [0 ] https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
An example from the article, Sheryl Sandberg, has hardly become a thought leader by trying to become one, there's nothing about the achievement that requires an intentional pursuit.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
In my experience, Influencers at least have some kind of mass social media following they can use for marketing, Thought Leaders tend to lack even that.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
The huge problem with this is that patients might choose it over medicine that does work. See Steve Jobs.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what Parfit is trying to deal with. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonidentity-problem/
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
I don't know, it mentions that she had "little control" over the investments, but then goes on to explain that: managing those investments was a key reason that Yahoo’s board hired Ms. Mayer. Mr. Loeb had accused Yahoo’s
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
There are a lot of good points here, but it feels like most of her compensation is explained right here To lure Ms. Mayer from Google and compensate her for options she forfeited there, Yahoo’s board offered her a lucrative employment a
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Why can't AI tell you you're missing data?
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, isn't this exactly what Sternberg is saying? It sounds like he's done a lot of work precisely on improving the assessments.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, I don't think Sternberg is advocating for ending standardized testing: "My colleagues and I developed assessments for creativity, common sense and wisdom... we doubled prediction [accuracy] for academic performance, and with
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Yeah, people with law degrees are probably overrepresented in politics, but pre-med?

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