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by laxatives 9y ago
Either this is satire, or you've completely missed his point. There is little-to-no hand wavyness in the response; He flat out describes the article as pretentious, bloviating non-sense.
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by laxatives 9y ago
The word aside, he's not wrong. That article is filled with flowery non-sense, making long prosaic paragraphs from thin-air. I like reading long articles, but this doesn't contribute much.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Of all the orgs to have a live demo, I would have guessed Bret Victor's lab to it. Still, looks pretty interesting.
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by laxatives 9y ago
You can eat an avocado with almost anything and it its delicious.
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by laxatives 9y ago
All the complaints about the uncapped ICO aside, the biggest concern for me is the compensation structure. Breitmans et al make out big immediately. So much so that they have relatively small incentive to ensure the success of their coin. T
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by laxatives 9y ago
I never said it starts off bad. DFW just makes a point to make the book inaccessible. It isn't meant to attract a wide audience, but many good things are initially dismissed because they aren't easy.
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by laxatives 9y ago
FWIW, I didn't like it for the first 300-400 pages either. But it very quickly became one of my favorite books. Its worth sticking it out to the end.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Inverse company marketing aggression.
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by laxatives 9y ago
Months and dozens. No leverage, no shorts. It just goes long and reallocates every couple of weeks. So it hasn't really sustained a serious bear market, but its also never had a drawdown more than 0.5% less than that of the S&P500.
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by laxatives 9y ago
I have a very simple algo (like 30 LoC) that is currently performed 9x S&P returns on >100k in initial capital. Granted, this is over a relatively short span of time and it doesn't observe the requirements to be part of Quantopi
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by laxatives 9y ago
Maybe a similar idea would be running those bots as evaluation tasks. I suppose voting would be a decent proxy objective when you are dealing with very qualitative results and don't want to spend a ton of time evaluating them yourself.
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by laxatives 9y ago
There's a massive brain drain to look forward to in the next couple decades, especially in the US. Pretty much none of my best peers went in to a PhD program for many of the reasons you described. One of my roommates got his PhD in opt
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by laxatives 10y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but I believe you should ask for a 1099B with proceeds at $0 and cost-basis at either $0 and marked as not reported, or with cost-basis equal to your expense. If the former is the case (not reported), you rep
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by laxatives 10y ago
This seemed inevitable. People lamented the growth of fake news and niche circles reinforcing extreme attitudes on the internet. Ads exist because they effectively target increasingly small and specific groups of people. Its concerning enou
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by laxatives 10y ago
Strongly disagree. Maybe thats the case the a huge company, but most small organizations I've worked with are extremely top-heavy, filled with STEM PhD's who are very capable, but require 1-3 years to get a useful result and aren&
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by laxatives 10y ago
Whoa I thought John Markoff retired? Is he still active? He's been one of my favorite NYT writers.
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by laxatives 10y ago
The article consists of a list of algorithms with almost no other information. Its posted because it has a link to the OP's own blog.
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by laxatives 10y ago
I've had very similar experiences sailing. Sleeping in a bunk, you get accustomed to the swooshing sound of the water running against the hull and the drone of an engine. After a few weeks, I was certain I could hear the radio on and k
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by laxatives 10y ago
Are patents really a great indicator of success? I have a handful, and honestly its a much stronger indicator of networking/coworker relationships/legal force of a company. There a number of key people missing on many of the paten
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by laxatives 10y ago
This is nonsensical if you don't already have some existing notion of a relationship. These are vectors, not concepts. There a loads of operations that don't have any intuitive notion, yet are well defined in the context of vector
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by laxatives 10y ago
9 women can make a baby in a one month. I used billions of data points to train my model.
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by laxatives 10y ago
LinkedIn's incredible algorithm was reading your contact book without your permission before those kinds of permissions existed or had any sort of granularity between none and complete access.
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by laxatives 10y ago
* Fiction * The Alchemist -- reread one of my favorites of all time Candidate -- reread Infinite Jest -- takes 300 pages to "get" David Foster Wallace's style and 500 pages to enjoy it, but well worth the investment. Probably
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by laxatives 10y ago
Maybe I'm ignorant, but reading the abstract/introduction,I immediately got the sense that this guy (Gwern) was a crank. At the very least, I figured it was some tangentially related philosophical quote, not part of the main body.
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by laxatives 10y ago
Mostly agree with you, but those apps can be handy when the page is formatted with 50 word lines, instead of say, 10 word lines.
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by laxatives 10y ago
OpenAI doesn't attempt to solve problems that even remotely resemble what you are describing. Hardly anyone claims to be working on AGI because AGI isn't a well defined problem. Its something cranks and the media tout because its
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by laxatives 10y ago
There's an article about the writers hearing anecdotes they had to tone down for TV because it was too unbelievable or ridiculous. One that stands out was an angry exec storming out of a meeting on rollerblades, not being able to angri
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by laxatives 10y ago
I tried like 8 queries and none of them yielded a single relevant result. Most of them didn't yield a video at all. Granted, they were difficult/obscure, but didn't make a great impression. If this needs some special syntax o
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by laxatives 10y ago
Manna is an interesting story, but its incredibly poorly written. It starts out great, but the last few chapters feel like they were written by a high school student realizing their deadline is approaching and is still 5 pages short of the
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by laxatives 10y ago
I think its a strange distinction from most west coast folks. I remember at school it was pretty common for people to have huge courseloads who would generally downplay their stress/effort. On the flip side, my friends from the east co

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