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by namenotrequired 6mo ago
Which part perplexes you?
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by namenotrequired 6mo ago
I may be wrong but I read “moderately successful in academia” as meaning: they have succeeded in gaining some social capital but make little money
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by namenotrequired 8mo ago
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Dr. Adam Smith works at the University of Glasgow?
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by namenotrequired 8mo ago
I’m more surprised we can tell so precisely where wood that spent 600 years under the sea came from
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Interesting! I get a similar effect asking about a windmill emoji
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
It can be the oldest without being the first, if the earlier ones no longer exists
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Quote me the passage where he said they weren’t?
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Why Databricks would do this (rather than IPO) is obvious. When you can raise privately, it’s way easier than IPO. The real question to me is why the investors (new and previous) are going along with it?
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
That’s why the researchers used > … a new open-source computational tool called ZLAvian, which compares real-world observed patterns to simulated ones to determine if ZLA is present.
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
(2019)
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
I agree with you, but a few slight caveats to your point that I think are worth noting. > Not just because of the countless counterexamples of anthropology to everything you can think of in human affairs A lot of anthropological research
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
If I worked on it for 10 minutes 5 years ago then it’s definitely not taking lots of time and energy
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Where I live they say it’s “so everyone can make the bus in time” and it’s always made sense to me. Running to arrive at a bus stop just in time, only to find it passed two minutes ahead of schedule, is way worse
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Wait, am I reading this wrong or did they suggest abortion to avoid a mere 1% risk of Down syndrome?
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
> If you live in Europe, where healthcare is provided to everyone by the government This partial sentence alone has so much wrong with it that this article is going to PETA me into finally deleting my data
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
It means the variation in monarchy is higher. So the best monarchy is better than the best democracy, but the worst monarchy is worse than the worst democracy
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
> the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable. I mean she’s not wrong!
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
The title does literally say she is leaving the platform
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
It’s funny, how people identify can diverge a lot from genetic reality. Even e.g. Brazilians, who are mostly descendent of Europeans, will always say “we were colonised”
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
You didn’t say “if”
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
> LLMs … approximate correctness for varying amounts of time. Once that time runs out there is a sharp drop off in model accuracy, it simply cannot continue to offer you an output that even approximates something workable. I have taken t
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
He’s not just saying he was locked up due to drugs. He’s saying that “all” his “poor decisions and lifestyle choices” in his twenties were related to drugs.
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
Would you say Einstein was not a researcher?
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by namenotrequired 1y ago
I feel the opposite. Work pranks are the best pranks because they only waste time that I was already selling anyway.
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
Many are complaining that this way the engineers are incentivised to carelessly create bugs because they have to ship fast and won’t be responsible for fixing them. That’s easy to fix with an exception: you won’t have to worry about support
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
I don’t think he’s suggesting we can teach how to be a good founder in general. Just that we can study and then teach the difference between managing a team as a founder vs general management practices
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
Is there a recording / transcript of Chesky’s talk or even a blog discussing its main points anywhere?
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
Yep. It's way easier to take a boat to the middle of the ocean - fewer roads than even in the amazon :) and the best starry sky of my life
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
There is also a group of poets who do live off their poetry, though many are more known by other terms such as "singer-songwriter", "rapper", etc
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by namenotrequired 2y ago
They're saying the Big Ring is a neighbor not of earth, but of the "giant arc of galaxies" which "appears in the same region of sky at the same distance from Earth as the Big Ring".

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