mooneater

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by mooneater 6y ago
Killer article here by Karen Hao, hard hitting ending. Wonder what fb thought they were getting into here with MTR!
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by mooneater 6y ago
like graphviz does
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by mooneater 6y ago
And here I was thinking probabilistic graphical models were finally getting the spotlight :)
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by mooneater 6y ago
> accepted her resignation immediately In saying "resignation", CNN is presenting the management framing -- as many people have pointed out, she was fired. Bloomberg states both sides of that: https://www.bloomberg.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Qbert would be stoked
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by mooneater 6y ago
I want to know how republicans that take it feel.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Which book should you read? https://www.bradyneal.com/which-causal-inference-book
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by mooneater 6y ago
Does anyone think that the social advances of the recent centuries would have ever happened, if there was no death? If we had the same society with the same people with the same prejudices? Womens rights. Democracy. Anti-racism. Religio
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by mooneater 6y ago
Death is the one great equalizer between billionaires and the poor. Remove that and we would get Eternal Robber-barons, which would be the new dragons.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Is the diagram a joke? That's total ERD spaghetti.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Lets see an open social graph, Mark
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by mooneater 6y ago
I'm surprised by a lot of the suggestions (learn C?). I mean sure, everything is interesting, but what is the goal here. There are many paths, I suspect you could use more exploration to know which ones appeal to you. From my pov: - g
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by mooneater 6y ago
Because good fake video is now possible for the first time, good video was nearly impossible to fake. Because people believe certain leaders who are willing to use false evidence. Because the populace is not prepared to be that discerning.
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by mooneater 6y ago
You never know who is going to buy who, data leaks and hacks are rampant. Over time this adds up. So its safest to assume any digital data anywhere will eventually be in the hands of any significant actor who really wants it. Its just a ma
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by mooneater 6y ago
Its not all mortgages though. What do you tell the property owner who paid off mortgage, and uses the rent as primary income? Should the govt pay these people? I suppose they could get the banks to loan the money interest free...
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by mooneater 6y ago
I dont have access yet. But we want something more subtlety: "Will it rain in San Francisco on July 5 2025?" -> "I cant know". "Will the sun rise in San Francisco on July 5 2025?" -> "Yes, of course
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by mooneater 6y ago
Awesome! Could you share a bit about business model?
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by mooneater 6y ago
Love postgres. But for fdw don't you have to spell out the schema? That makes it hard for quickly accessing arbitrary data. Would be nice if it would deduce the schema.
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by mooneater 6y ago
If you step back from modern fullstack web development, it is stunning how much accidental complexity is needed to accomplish anything at all.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Randy Pausch was of CMU not MIT as stated in the article
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by mooneater 6y ago
The farmers with 2000 acres are not the ones I'm most worried about
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by mooneater 6y ago
Im sorry for your loss, and I can relate to wishing to share things with my Mom, she was a great listener. I try to explain that to my sons when they ignore their Mom, that one day she won't be there, but its very hard for teens to ima
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by mooneater 6y ago
Glad to hear you were close. Smoking is very hard to quit, it was not your fault.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Thank you for your kindness, friendly stranger ^_^
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by mooneater 6y ago
You are right that she would forgive. Yet we can make it harder to forgive ourselves. I will try to stay conscious of this. Thank you for your kind comment.
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by mooneater 6y ago
Thank you, you are very kind. Im doing pretty well and have supportive friends and family. Are you a counsellor or generally like helping people through issues? I've always felt like I wanted to do that, though I'm not sure I hav
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by mooneater 6y ago
I was 22, that was the last mothers day my mother was alive for. Of course I didn't know at the time, but I didn't call. Im 44 now and its one of my biggest regrets. Dont be like me. Call her.
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by mooneater 7y ago
In this case, that's great news
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Csaba Szepesvari of DeepMind on TalkRL(talkrl.com)
2 points by mooneater 7y ago|0 comments
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by mooneater 7y ago
We as a society are in need of a long-term, detailed collective memory of evidence of credibility. But that is only useful if credibility is highly valued. Neither are true of our society today. People both forget what someone said yesterd

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