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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Facebook's M has had limited success, but on the other hand, News Feed, the core of Facebook's business, is build entirely around AI. And Google, of course, has had plenty of success with AI outside of Allo. I wouldn't say &q
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Derek Parfit's Persons and Reasons deals with this question a little more formally, resolving the tension with the concept of "rational irrationality"[0, p12] I think what Nielsen is getting at here is the idea that a commitm
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
With Homejoy, you could build a relationship with a single housekeeper, and arrange for them to come once a month. If you're using Uber to commute, it's absolutely the same and very worth cutting out the middle man. The rest of th
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
The problem with 2, is that psychology is happy to acknowledge that many of its results are context dependent [0]. The entire field of cross-cultural psychology is founded on the understanding that psychological findings may not generalize
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
The article linked this https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/why-preregistr... explaining exactly why declaring studies before you perform them isn't the whole answer.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Some friends have really enjoyed https://jetprogramusa.org/ , you pretty much just need a college degree. I'm not sure in general, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243572 from the last Who&#x2
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It's not really terrifying for the rest of the world, but Japan has a huge social welfare program[0] and the world's second highest life expectancy[1], which means this generation will be tasked with providing for an aging populat
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It seems like learning is just generalized copying. In this case, the arm still has to be shown the specific task, but is able to generalize across different block locations, textures, lighting etc.
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
The Liar Paradox is famous because it seems to break the foundational tenant of classical that all statements are either true or false. Your example is also interesting, but doesn't really break things in the same way. I don't nec
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
There's a huge difference between the theoretical ability to learn something and actually having access to education. I completely agree that we're living at a time when anyone with a decent laptop and internet connection has acce
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
Are you willing to sponsor VISAs for the Business Systems Engineer position?
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
There's plenty of great authentic Chinese food in the U.S. (and China) that has nothing to do with tendons or organs. I have nothing against those cuts, Chinese food just really doesn't need to be exoticized any more than it alrea
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by kyleschiller 9y ago
It really depends on what you want to accomplish, if you're an engineer, love your job and would be happy doing it for the next 4 years, there's probably not too much to gain. If you're an investor, your network is everything
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Agree with other comments about similarity to interviews. Norvig seems to think it's a negative signal though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmyUZCl75s
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Honestly I don't remember, it's 1-(1/e) if that helps. EDIT: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/82034/prove-that-1-f...
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
As a pretty good rule of thumb, a system that fails 1/nth of the time and has n opportunities to fail has ~.63 probability of failure, where n is more than ~10. Graph: http://www.meta-calculator.com/online/?panel-1
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
The article fails to mention that U.S./Global Fund/Gates Foundation are willing to spend exorbitant amounts of their own money on Ethiopia's humanitarian crises [0][1][2], so there's a pretty strong incentive for Ethiopi
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, that's why I opened with "Not that it's the same scale". My point is just that arguing "don't spend money on X, Y is more important" only makes sense if X is literally the least important thing. But
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, I agree that countries shouldn't start space programs purely for the sake of spending money domestically, but there are actual benefits to having a space program, and as long as you're doing it, there are benefits to doing i
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
> But at a time when 5.6m Ethiopians need emergency food aid because of a drought, it seems an odd priority. Not that it's the same scale, but U.S. has ~.5M homeless [0], and I'm very happy that NASA still exists. Saying that
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Thanks for the hard data. I'm a bit confused because the study counts SF, Silicon Valley and SF Mid-Peninsula without defining them well, and there's no mention of South Bay at all, unless that's what they're referring t
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Was hoping this was an April fool's thing. What's with tech's obsessive use of Japanese culture? As if the ubiquitous "zen" prefix wasn't bad enough.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah! Givewell does exactly that http://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I'm not endorsing this, but here's PG's explanation (which likely influenced others) http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
The great majority of the recruitment for the study was done through social media associated with Freakonomics... in the recruiting for the study, I emphasized that I was only interested in people who were having a difficult time makin
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Sounds like Guillermo Rauch likes Inferno but isn't convinced yet, anyone have experience with it?
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I think you meant bare bones.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
To be clear, the "wage-fixing" was a no cold-call agreement that involved Apple and Google, not the rest of the companies mentioned. [0] I'm all for criticizing giant companies but can we at least get our facts straight and n
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
2016 ( https://designintechreport.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/design-i... ) 2015 ( https://designintechreport.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/design-i... )
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Is this city specific? It's nowhere near this bad in south bay. I'm in Mountain view, close to Caltrain and getting a private room in a large house (sizable backyard, garage, hot tub, kitchen, living room) with two other roommates

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