kyleschiller

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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Why wouldn't automakers just license self-driving technology from the big players?
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yes, this is marketing.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
That's a good point.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Can we please not let "cyber" become short for cyber security?
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, that's wrong, being an investor in a company doesn't make you liable for their actions. It does mean that Alphabet stands to lose something if they win the lawsuit, though whatever stake they do have in Uber is obviously neg
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I'm sure people are tired of hearing this, but it's equally tiring to continue seeing it. Accounting for non-binary people doesn't even require a huge dropdown or open field, just add "Other" if you don't want
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
There’s a reason that no one can tell you exactly how Google’s search engine or Facebook’s news feed works. Sure, the PR folks will tell you that it’s proprietary code. But the ugly truth is that the code has been patched to smithereen
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, he references some good resources, but the post doesn't go into any technical detail. I don't think this article hurts him in any meaningful way. It's not like the basic idea of ML for trading is novel.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, that's true, I do dream of a future where more people are creating toy apps for their friends and family with no intention of scaling. Udacity has strayed a little bit from this with their focus on ML courses, but SMBs are absolu
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
It's funny how we attribute human qualities to animals that literally lack the neurological capacity. Sharks are not ferocious, dogs do not love you, cats are not independent. There's nothing wrong with reasoning by analogy, and t
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, luckily Google has promised to start punishing this, but it does feel like growth hacking has made my browsing much less pleasant.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Publication bias is a gigantic problem for amateur FinTech. How many hundreds of engineers tried the same thing and won't get an article on the front page of HN because no one wants to read about mediocre performance? I don't want
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
It's nice to have a private notes app, my bigger concern is about what happens as the entire ecosystem becomes increasingly monopolized. Any platform enhanced by ML powered by proprietary data will create huge barriers to entry for pot
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, not everything branded as progress is, but archaism goes against every kind of progress.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I loved this when I first read it in high school, mostly because it mocked academic english for relying on pretentious jargon to obfuscate itself. My second reading years later, the whole thing felt very pretentious itself, if not downright
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Sets aside 20% of the annual allocation of H-1B visas for small and start-up employers This is great, I was worried with the $130k requirement candidates would be stuck at huge corporations, but 20% is fairly generous.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Say Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) files for 13k visas for in 2016. If the total number of applications were 236k, then the expected number of visas TCS is going to get is (using probability) => (13,000/236,000)*65,000 = 3,580
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Chinese students are products of an educational system that, for all of its high achievers, is built to suppress intellectual curiosity, creativity and individuality – the very qualities that American admissions officers value most.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I don't think Uber necessarily needs a monopoly to win, if Lyft wants to compete on price it's free to due so, but if Uber has thin margins as it is, undercutting them is just a shortcut to death. I might be unreasonably optimisti
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Oh, not actually. I just mean that people have benefited from the existing system will naturally be incentivized to legitimize it. In this case, that entails promoting the narrative that we live in a meritocratic society where talent and ha
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
In the current system, yes, properly implemented, UBI would end poverty in America while still allowing for massive inequality. It sets a floor, not a ceiling.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Ok sure, it could be rephrased as we systematically fail to develop the full human capacity of millions of people and make the same point.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
While Google pays itself for the ads, the strategy does have a cost: Google forgoes potential revenue from ads it displaces. I'm worried about the Google monopoly, but this in particular feels pretty reasonable to me. I don&#x2
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
If every biological norm is a non-term, we might as well stop talking about desire and fear while we're at it. I buy you argument that self-segregation is in some ways our default, but this doesn't mean we can't exacerbate, a
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Any other recommendations? I enjoy reading Dan Ariely but ended up feeling like a lot of his studies ended up veering into anecdotes and then overgeneralization.
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
I think the disagreement is even more fundamental than that. Even if you consider luck to be a major factor in determining success, there's still the question of what the government should reward. I'm socially and fiscally liberal
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
This just pushes the question back one step. How many people have the opportunity to buy a cello at a young enough age to practice enough hours to become the best? I'm not saying it always ends in luck, actually I just don't think
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, probably one of the strongest arguments for both Progressive Tax and Basic Income is that the current system is deeply broken, and despite doing a lot of good, carries a solid amount of waste along the way. I do think it's import
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
At the risk of sounding too Paul Graham, how much of what you're talking about is due to poverty more than inequality?
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by kyleschiller 10y ago
Yeah, that's probably part of it, but remember also that the people controlling narratives are by definition in power, and that people in power have strong incentives to justify their position.

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