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by leplen 2y ago
I think one of the biggest differences between comp benchmarking providers and RealPage is that two companies given access to the same benchmarks often make very different compensation decisions. Some companies decide to pay at the 90th per
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by leplen 2y ago
English sentences need a subject and a verb. Often a sentence fragment missing a verb (like this).
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by leplen 2y ago
Price discrimination in the form of scholarships and the "show us exactly how much money is in your wallet" scam they call "need-based-aid" allowing universities have essentially perfect price discrimination and to gobbl
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by leplen 3y ago
If a hurricane kills a thousand people is it evil? It's not really clear whether we're better off trying to treat corporations as moral actors and constantly being surprised when they aren't, or whether we should treat them a
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by leplen 3y ago
The state of Mississippi ran Parchman Farm on this principle for decades, but as you might imagine it looked a lot like slavery. A lot of people suddenly got arrested for loitering come harvest time.
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by leplen 3y ago
This is actually pretty interesting. Generic drug manufacturing has relatively high barriers to entry, but relatively low margins because there's no way for brands to command a premium. Standardized insurance costs work to prevent pric
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by leplen 3y ago
The theory behind invite only is that it increases the density of the network. You invite people with similar interests as this the network can nucleate around some niche, rather than being 10,000 people with nothing in common. It's on
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by leplen 3y ago
American options can be exercised at any time at the investor's discretion. This means the instrument has a maximum duration, but the actual duration is up to choice of the option holder, which you can't model with an equation.
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by leplen 3y ago
The safety problem with Li-ion batteries is the electrolyte is a flammable organic solvent. It is unrelated to the amount of energy stored in the battery under normal operation.
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by leplen 3y ago
The data is only useful in aggregate, but different people/use cases require different types of aggregations. Using pre-aggregated data is difficult, because it almost certainly hasn't been aggregated in the way that's conven
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by leplen 3y ago
It looks like there is a theory that dermal bone in early tetrapods was used this way, but it's still fairly speculative. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47176272
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by leplen 4y ago
If you don't want to do something, why is it on your to-do list? It feels like people have multiple competing systems trying to set priorities, and this is arguing that one of those systems is the only one worth listening to. I procras
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by leplen 4y ago
They never found the plane. Most likely the lead pilot crashed it intentionally, but we don't really know. The person writing this blog post is more certain about that than the Malaysian authorities, but bloggers are allowed to specula
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by leplen 4y ago
The linked paper doesn't obviously support the claim you're making here. Maybe I've missed something? "The median age at menarche was 14.5 years (95% CI=14–15; Nindividuals=128; Nobservations=199), which is within the ra
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by leplen 4y ago
I use jupytext for this. For the cost of some header boilerplate I have python code that is seamlessly mirrored as a notebook.
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by leplen 4y ago
A lot of the stuff described here sort of doesn't make sense. It requires idiot savant AIs that can figure out how to manipulate humans, but that we can only train with simple integer based reinforcement learning techniques. The introd
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by leplen 4y ago
It shows that you bounced off one of the artificial rails openAI added to minimize PR risk. The underlying model is certainly flexible enough to answer that question, it's just been deliberately crippled to try and make it seem less an
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by leplen 4y ago
There's a lot of convergent evolution towards the crab body plan, a phenomenon known as Carcinisation. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation )
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by leplen 4y ago
Data science as a title has bifurcated several times. A lot of the engineering heavy DS roles are now data engineer or machine learning engineer. Probably those are the roles you should be looking for. Many of the DS jobs now are essentiall
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by leplen 4y ago
Technically most Li ion batteries are created in the discharged state, with the lithium in the battery provided by the cathode at the time of construction, and then moved over to the LiC6 anode via charging.
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by leplen 4y ago
The description in your link has the thickness: Freestanding unpolished diamond single crystal synthesized by heteroepitaxy on Ir/YSZ/Si(001). The thickness of the disc is 1.6 ± 0.25 mm and its weight is 155 carat.
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by leplen 4y ago
Was anyone under the impression that Eric Schmidt wasn't investing in AI companies? Tech billionaire invests in tech companies seems pretty expected to me, even if he was doing consulting work for the Feds during the same time period.
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by leplen 4y ago
A negative feedback loop is one that tends to keep things in a steady state. The thing being described here is actually a positive feedback loop with negative consequences.
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by leplen 4y ago
This article is 5 months old, and talks more about NFT trade volumes than NFT prices. Having volumes decline from peak speculation is more a sign of market maturity than a market crash.
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by leplen 4y ago
Blind copying is highly adaptive behavior and is the engine of human culture. Inventing things and reasoning correctly is really difficult, and copying widely adopted behaviors is usually much safer and more efficient. Reading 'Not by
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by leplen 4y ago
Technically the speed of light in fiber is 2/3c because fiber has a higher index of refraction. Some HFT funds have actually moved away from fiber in some instances because they can pick up a few microseconds by going through the air i
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by leplen 5y ago
Lithium batteries typically explode because the electrolytes we use are highly flammable. It's actually entirely incidental to the amount of energy stored in the battery. A Li-ion battery with a different electrolyte material could hav
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by leplen 5y ago
Primarily the app store, which has a number of placements with sponsored content.
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by leplen 5y ago
Maybe this transmutation by nostalgia is the true miracle of Christmas. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-12-03
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by leplen 5y ago
I had assumed FB bought Giphy in part because Google bought Tenor. It's interesting that the FB acquisition has seen more antitrust scrutiny relative to the Google acquisition.

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