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by mjn 4y ago
Chase is also more restricted in how the investment banking side of the business can use funds from the retail banking side, precisely because banks in the 1920s did play fast and loose with investing customer deposits, which caused a bun
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by mjn 4y ago
This is the reason UBI was historically popular among (some) libertarians, even though most current proponents in the U.S. probably come from some variety of left-liberalism or market socialism. Milton Friedman supported a version of UBI as
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by mjn 4y ago
In the general case you're right, it's equivalent to the halting problem. The outline of the proof by reduction: set up two communicating processes in a way that will deadlock iff a particular loop in one process fails to terminat
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Operator Precedence by Textual Substitution(kmjn.org)
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by mjn 4y ago
> If you're using a dynamic language, then _by definition_ the language will not enforce your static hints at runtime. I don't think this follows by definition. It's common not to check the static hints at runtime, but a d
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by mjn 5y ago
I read that as being about what language industry uses to write ML applications, not about technical feasibility of integrating machine learning methods into a codebase. Put differently: industry most often uses Python (especially in ML), t
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by mjn 5y ago
There's an earlier blog post by the same author where they discuss three possible ways of moving away from the Fortran/C status quo towards higher-level models. They mention Julia as one of the routes, but not the one they decided
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by mjn 5y ago
I believe this does work for German (or at least I can't think of an example where it doesn't). But a case I can think of where it doesn't work is with standard modern Greek. In all-caps words, accents are omitted, while at l
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by mjn 5y ago
Even when they don't have such a ledger, it's not clear that blockchains do much to solve that problem either. The hard part is not the ledger, but the agreement on who owns what, with detailed surveys that are agreed to demarcate
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by mjn 5y ago
It really varies. Normally the author themselves has to come up with the money somehow though. At least where I've been, you can't just bill it to the university. If you have research grants, you can often pay out of those (this i
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by mjn 5y ago
I'm normally skeptical of journals funded by article processing charges (APCs), but this policy is pretty good: > no author of an accepted paper will be denied publication due to lack of funds Most APC-charging journals (like the Na
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by mjn 5y ago
You can break out of the network effects with some effort. One of the top journals in machine learning nowadays is a community-run open-access journal that does not charge authors, JMLR ( https://www.jmlr.org/ ). There's
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by mjn 5y ago
On that practical level, public libraries in some of the places with the most need for public computer/internet services also, unfortunately, end up rationing them pretty severely. For example, the Los Angeles library's computer u
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by mjn 5y ago
To be honest this is probably in the top 3 reasons why I haven't investigated leaving academia for industry with any seriousness. A private office with a door and windows is very nice to have, and I don't think I'd want to do
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by mjn 5y ago
The Xinhua article on it (which I think is fairly authoritative) is clearer that it applies only to online games: http://www.news.cn/english/2021-08/30/c_1310157673.htm Specifically, > Online game provider
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by mjn 5y ago
As relevant to the linked post (written by someone who later died of ALS [1]), there are a lot more mainstream medical research organizations who treat "death as a problem to solve". Treating deaths caused by ALS, cancer, heart di
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by mjn 5y ago
This is one reason I hope it continues to be socially acceptable in the U.S. to wear masks. I've wanted to wear one even pre-covid for pollution and pollen, but you would get very weird looks, or even stopped by security in some cases.
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by mjn 5y ago
> good work gets the attention it deserves I'm not sure I'd go that far with the optimism, at least in my field (artificial intelligence). Some obviously bad work does immediately fade into obscurity, and better work probably d
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by mjn 5y ago
> The whole point of journals is peer review. That's what distinguishes them from random blog posts. So why can't reviewers just start working independently? It's happening slowly in some fields. Well, not quite independen
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by mjn 5y ago
IEEE 754 doesn't really have anything to say about which semantics you should choose for int/int division. If you choose the semantics of casting both operands to floating point and then dividing, IEEE 754 specifies both 1) how
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by mjn 5y ago
Same here. I won't spend money anywhere where it seems likely that I'll have to encounter unvaccinated people, especially without masks. They can infect each other if they want, but leave me out.
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by mjn 5y ago
In particular for larger amounts of money. Many countries have deposit guarantees for smaller amounts, so for most individuals it wouldn't make any sense to buy negative-interest bonds. For example, someone in the U.S. who wants to sto
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by mjn 5y ago
That was unfortunately short-lived. ACM announced on March 30, 2020 that they would open their DL for 90 days due to the pandemic [1]. I don't believe there was an extension, so it expired on June 30, 2020. [1] https://www.a
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by mjn 5y ago
It's simple compared to modern machine learning, but linear programming [1] was initially developed by Leonid Kantorovich partly with the goal of automating central planning. Most of his ideas weren't implemented in practice thoug
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by mjn 5y ago
My first paper as an undergrad measured MIDI round-trip by tapping the input and output MIDI wires and then looking at how the signals were offset: https://www.kmjn.org/publications/MIDI_ICMC04-abstract.html For keyboa
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by mjn 5y ago
Interesting, I had missed that. The language allowing remote searches when computers "have been damaged without authorization and are located in five or more districts" seems to be recent, added by Congress in a 2016 amendment: h
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by mjn 5y ago
I think this is the relevant court record: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1386631/downl... The mechanism seems to be a search warrant. The FBI applied for a warrant to "search"
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by mjn 6y ago
That's a good point; this system certainly didn't come from nowhere! The protein datasets they used also mostly came out of various NIH-funded projects. What I meant to focus on was that I think DeepMind has less of a pure money&#
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by mjn 6y ago
Even if you try to account for the overall R&D cost, DeepMind isn't that large an organization by the standards of biomedical research. It's very big and well funded for a computer science research organization, yes, and m
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by mjn 6y ago
As a current example: the highest-scoring entry that has an associated notebook at the moment is basically a clean example of how to apply XGBoost [1] to this dataset. XGBoost ends up being tried in nearly every Kaggle competition, so the p

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