mikraig

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by mikraig 7y ago
I think if anything, the suburbs/exurbs are what is preventing what you're describing. Right now it's too costly to blanket a city with public transportation, for example, because the density isn't there. The same issue
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by mikraig 7y ago
> I don't think we should be striving to turn the entire Earth into Kowloon. Oh of course not, that's an absolutely extreme example. Yes, advanced societies tend to have a decrease in birth rates. Yet, they still keep getting d
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by mikraig 7y ago
Why should we avoid density? Societies get more urban as they progress. Density is the way of progress. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be smart and thoughtful about it, but ultimately density should be the goal.
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by mikraig 7y ago
...what's $631M - $621M? I agree that they're losing money overall. But just the ridesharing part is making enough profit to cover the entire Corporate G&A line item.
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by mikraig 7y ago
I just think that you're focusing on the wrong things here. Towards the top of the article they say: > One of the difficult tasks was to schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several ema
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by mikraig 7y ago
I have to agree with the other commenter, I think you're definitely overthinking it. A keyword search is clearly what they meant for the user to do. They're not expecting 5% of the population to train a word2vec model and produce
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by mikraig 9y ago
In Bayesian analysis, it's possible to actually accept the null, rather than just the reject/not reject that is common to frequentist statistical inference.
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Emoji2costume: How Warby Parker Used word2vec to Recommend Halloween Costumes(medium.com)
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by mikraig 10y ago
A lot of great suggestions already (especially regarding index funds), but I'd add that one of the best things I've done is get a Wall Street Journal subscription. Reading the business and markets section daily really helps. I kno