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Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs(ft.com)
110 points by mandelken 5y ago|165 comments
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by mandelken 5y ago
Should have (2017) in the title. Indeed cool to program julia directly on the GPU and Julia on GPU and this has further evolved since then, see https://juliagpu.org/
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by mandelken 5y ago
> that bear looks like a walking nightmare Here's an excerpt from my chat with Teddy just now: You (20:26): Teddy, do you have lithium ion batteries inside you? Teddy (20:26): Yes I do You (20:26): Can lithium ion batteries malfunct
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by mandelken 5y ago
Thanks. Note it’s an opinion piece published on bloomberg, not an actual bloomberg article.
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by mandelken 5y ago
Perhaps it’s more than just calories or energy intake, but as well doing the breathing, immuno responses, digesting, filtering blood etc. for both mother and baby?
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by mandelken 5y ago
GBDT have their own set of hyperparameters such as learning rate, number of trees, min samples per bin, l0, l1, etc. So you could definitely also create an appropriate cocktail to optimize on, although GBDT are typically more robust wrt h
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by mandelken 5y ago
Probably because for written text the words identify the content while the hash relates more to the digital carrier format (pdf vs epub) and id number can change between publications, countries, etc.
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by mandelken 5y ago
From my experience this is true for bank clients in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Austria and Spain (but the latter only at your own bank). When I withdraw money with my Belgian debit card in the Eurozone at any ATM (including Berlin),
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by mandelken 5y ago
Depends on your background and experience, I guess. In many European countries ATMs are free, even outside your own country. It is considered an elementary part of the banking service that you don't have to pay to withdraw your own mon
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by mandelken 5y ago
Clever analogy. Let me quickly give some background on actual the use of gold as a store of value, besides the obvious point that gold does not rust (decay) and that it is somewhat rare. As you know, gold is also shiny and has been used for
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by mandelken 5y ago
Could you provide some background (or links) to your claim (I thought the inventor(s) of Bitcoin were anonymous)? Thank you.
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by mandelken 5y ago
TL;DR [CITATION NEEDED] ;-) Wow, you can actually pay your bus fare and phone bills in Brazil with crypto? That sounds either very impressive or totally unbelievable. I could not find anything on Google, so if someone could you link/ci
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by mandelken 5y ago
Wow, blast from the past! I actually got a check from one of those pay per hour ad services more than 20 years ago, and to this day it's still the only check I've ever received :-) (It was 15 USD so costed almost as much to cash i
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by mandelken 5y ago
Thanks for sharing your point of view. What is unclear to me, is how these remittances work in practice. I get that in the US you can exchange USD to Bitcoin with a credit card and then send that to a person in, say, Venezuela (or share the
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by mandelken 5y ago
No, most private companies are not monopolies (although many would not mind I guess). It seems online advertising has a strong network effect[1], where website owners use Google ads because that's where most advertisers are and adverti
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by mandelken 6y ago
Yikes, that sounds pretty harsh. So how would a new player be able do enter? I thought only the hardware could be patented, not the software, and so SDR would level the playing field, but that's perhaps too naive?
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by mandelken 6y ago
Care to expand? Is that why Software Define Radio is still so much a niche and expensive?
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by mandelken 6y ago
You could try it on a quantum computer, but you'll have to wait a decade (at least) the see one with enough bits to solve a problem of practical size ;-)
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by mandelken 6y ago
I doubt that. Giving out (free) money indiscriminately will not immediately pass a direct popular vote. A good case is the Swiss referendum on universal basic income a few years ago that was voted out. And the Swiss have the money to pull i
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by mandelken 6y ago
Perhaps in China? I support your sentiment, but most countries with strong software communities appear to have strong software patents (US, EU, Taiwan, SK). Maybe the only outlier is Russia (and possibly India)?
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by mandelken 6y ago
(This is from April 2020 -> could use (2020) in the title)
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by mandelken 6y ago
Especially the figures do such a great job of illustrating and clarifying the subject. Wonderful paper!
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by mandelken 6y ago
It is unethical because the US is the only country to have used the atomic bomb and by far the largest missile threat all over the planet today. In contrast, Iran, China and Russia do not on a daily basis assassinate civilians with missiles
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by mandelken 6y ago
I think he's referring to putting satellites into space for civilian use, but I could be mistaken.
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by mandelken 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/810/
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by mandelken 6y ago
Europe is far too big a geography to pin down beer, it's mostly concentrated in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Czech where you find the right climate for the ingredients and hence the beer culture (of course you fin
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by mandelken 7y ago
As a European, reading these articles on arbitration, no-compete, required licenses, 'right-to-work', tipping, "gig work", firing over zoom, and so much more, it seems U.S. workers could really use some collective bargai
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by mandelken 7y ago
If you can recreate (part of) a human brain through stem cells or any other way , then why would this not be a human? People with half a brain (after an accident, say) are still people. Cloned people (twins) are still people. Babies born f
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by mandelken 7y ago
I wonder how this might work with NLP workflows that use a custom embedding? I have not found a documentation or blog describing such a memory intensive step in the pipeline without running a custom instance/docker. In that case I can
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by mandelken 7y ago
I would happily take the other side of the bet on EVERY item here! But I do appreciate your boldness in predictions.

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