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In some way, Warren Buffet is a nerd. He enjoys accumulating money in the same way other people enjoy programming. They don’t do it to get something done or reach a goal. Rather the work itself is enjoyable. This way, other things in life b
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It’s pretty obvious that it can not correctly represent arbitrary transition tables: Just construct a Turing Machine that has a larger transition table than can be encoded in the language model. On the other hand this is just a theoretical
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Longitudinal analysis reveals high prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus associated with multiple sclerosis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222 I think this was a major breakthrough in recent years but
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I have been using Vim for about 15 years now. I'm not really opinionated about Vim, Emacs, or any other IDE. There are many great tools out there. Also Vim emulators are really powerful in IDEs. There's however one thing I don&#x2
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> The researchers caution that while the results of this preliminary study are interesting, they raise more questions than they answer. This is true for many studies I see here. So always read carefully.
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I see two points: 1. scientific curiosity, and 2. people might enjoy seeing these animals. Also, humans are terraforming this planet anyway so I don’t see a reason not to do it in a way to make room for previously extinct species. Some othe
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My initial thought was that the effect is visible during the test period because the employees are especially eager to make this work shortterm. As the period was quite long, there might be a real effect.
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Could it be that such a term has a well-defined (as far as it's possible in the respective field) meaning in the humanities?
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You’re on the right track. Many people including economists don’t get this. It’s a very useful way of thinking economically. (See also my other comment here).
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I don’t fully understand the point the author is trying to make. I appreciate that there are boom and bust cycles for some sorts of assetes I would have liked to author to talk more about wording. What is actually liquidity? Today’s money a
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Let’s refuse the entire concept of consciousness. Everyone experiences something that we call consciousness and that’s why it’s reasonable to assume that a random stranger does as well. Sure, some organisms have more elaborate information p
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Yes! During his lifetime, he was mainly seen as an artist. He probably earned well but still magnitudes lower than what he would have needed to get something done. Just imagine if there would have been something like venture capitalists. I
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This discussion on GitHub reveals the mindset of the Homebrew people: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745
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There’s much more to this: Someone needs to decide on the ESG rating. Usually, these are elaborate sets of rules. The people who decide one these rules have an advantage of buying/selling affected companies before the rules change. Al
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I think you are. If you buy a stock, you support the value of the company on the stock market. This, in turn, increases the likelihood of the company to raise more money. (Same as if you’re against killing animals and buy used leather. You
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I've developed a little app (mostly for myself). After one week, I encountered the same and was a bit annoyed. I'm waiting now for the new EU regulation that should open the apps store. I hope this also includes side-loading self-
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Some $OCCUPATION make over 100k/year in New York City With stress on the first word.
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No, I edit it by hand and use Vim's search functionality. But I've used simple scripts to aggregate information.
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I actually track things in my life. I have an inventory.yml that contains a list of all things in possession. I keep the value or price, a description, and the date when it came into possession. Sometimes also a reference to the manual and
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Personally, I switched to Asahi Linux on my M1. It’s becoming the perfect experience for me: Apple hardware with an OS without bloat. (Yes, many things don’t work yet. For personal use it’s fine though)
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If released in the right way, this will have a huge benefit for education. Students will have to focus on the innovative ideas and concepts. Wordsmithing is annoying and not really productive work. A machine should to it. Sure teachers have
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Beforehand, I should say that I'm neither a doctor nor a medical researcher. So my expertise is low. However, I have some understanding about science in general. Probably, medical research is flawed like many other disciplines. If peop
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If there are people who like gaps, it's not useless. It has value for them.
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I like the idea of repetition compulsion. Most probably keeps people going once they started this way. But why do people start in the first place? I think it's some kind of uneasiness with actual work. Actual work is hard, not exciting
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Bayesian probability or Bayesian thinking in general Like many, I learned Bayes' theorem for an exam. I even did well. But it clicked only when I was reading The Scout Mindset (by Julia Galef). I cannot really tell why. I think it help
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One can learn a lot about writing well from this. For example, it starts with an interesting and somewhat neutral question and guides the reader to more hotly debated questions. To me and probably many people on HN, this might just be a nic