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by nerdponx 3y ago
How about temporary housing for immigrants and refugees?
902.
by nerdponx 3y ago
I love a good spicy legal opinion like this.
903.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Obviously a close cognate, but not really the same word.
904.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Other than running up too much debt and getting bailed out (is that functionally different from getting outside funding?), I don't see any reason why these things are bad business. Even if you're a steely-eyed capitalist, you have
905.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Any tips for getting started with it myself? It seems very different from other languages.
906.
by nerdponx 3y ago
The focus on AI having "agency" is a distraction from the issue you describe, which I think is much more interesting and relevant to society. To what extent is the output of a generative model patentable or copyrightable? Do we
907.
by nerdponx 3y ago
This situation is portrayed in the "bell curve" meme format, a ternary extension of the "go brr" meme format. Dimwit at the far left side of the bell curve (somewhat offensively portrayed as a disfigured drooling person)
908.
by nerdponx 3y ago
> Why advocate for a poorer experience when it's possible to achieve a better one? > But it's clearly possible to make changes to software without a bunch of lead time My argument is that it's often not possible, at l
909.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Because we should have a high "index of suspicion" whenever we see incumbent corporations pushing for regulation that would suppress competition. If we want to have good regulations and effective regulatory agencies, we should be
910.
by nerdponx 3y ago
I thought the trick with Rebol is that it's "stringly-typed" like Tcl, so you can invent whatever syntax you want because it's all just strings anyway.
911.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Because ChatGPT is somewhere between "subtly" and "totally" wrong on most topics related to statistics and machine learning that I've tested it with. Maybe GPT 4 is better than 3.5, but I don't really trust it
912.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Prophet isn't necessarily new either. It's "just" a linear model, with some specially-crafted features that work well for the specific problems that Facebook/Meta had at the time when they built it. It's also n
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It might not be that important to fully capture the autocorrelation structure within X. Usually our models are doing something like "Y = f(X) + E" where E is some unknown random noise and f() is the relationship that we are trying
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Right. But this is not a thread about the general merits of government regulation in business. This is about something specific, and this principle is essential to keep in mind when evaluating any specific new regulation.
915.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Correct. Although the term "regression" is a misnomer anyway, and often when people say "regression" they mean "linear model". And by "linear model", we mean specifically a model in which outputs&#x2F
916.
by nerdponx 3y ago
If you have any kind of functional physical model of part where and eventual failure, you have a huge head start. That said, there can be a pretty big gap between detecting individual sensor anomalies (undergrad homework) and predicting com
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Correct. In terms of what "kind" of model it is, it's all just a variation of the same linear model, y = bx. That said, there are a lot of special considerations involved with timeseries data. There is a large number of speci
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Yes, it is. A time series model is any model where the data varies over time; that is, a time series model is any model of time series data. And timeseries data is broadly anything where the data for a single thing/entity varies over t
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Apparently, AMD can remain irrational longer than retail investors can remain solvent.
920.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Sort of. I've only done a small amount of consulting, but when I did, change requests from the business side of things were the start of a conversation, not direct unchangeable instructions. I would never knowingly choose work in an en
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's worth keeping in mind the well-known principle in economics that incumbent market participants, with large economies of scale, have a strong incentive to pursue regulations that increase fixed costs but don't substantially af
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> Requirements will always change, full stop But that doesn't mean you have to stop what you're doing and go chase those requirements. Why did the requirements change? Is it mandatory that the change happen right now? What rese
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I'd hardly call it "cruft". Git has a lot of features. Not all of them are useful for all combinations of projects, workflows, and people. In my use case, independence would be an anti-feature. git-worktree fulfills a specifi
924.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Also true, but I think maybe that's a great example of what I and OP are saying here. Do you really need it? Or do you just think you might need it one day because people are talking about it on Medium, or because you had a nice chat
925.
by nerdponx 3y ago
Or engage with stakeholders early in the process and work with them to actually elicit something resembling a stable set of preferences. Maybe you need to even iterate through a couple rounds of prototypes to figure out what they actually w
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I don't think it's about deducting expenses , otherwise this would be entirely moot because they'd deduct for expenses no matter whether it was a hit or a flop. I understood the article to be about deducting taxable income f
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by nerdponx 3y ago
There is no "the" data stack. Some organizations have complicated orchestration requirements, some don't. Some organizations have large amounts of heterogeneous data, some don't. Some organizations need to run large dist
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Buying the Mona Lisa for $200m is not at all the same thing as netting a $200m profit. Better analogy: you buy a big museum collection that contains some lost Rembrandt paintings, widely regarded as his worst, but still considered valuable
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by nerdponx 3y ago
We don't need to draw any line. Larger corporate entities should get progressively smaller caps on deductions. Hard cutoffs breed adverse incentives.
930.
by nerdponx 3y ago
If $15m of taxpayer money is being paid out as a write-off for a finished movie, I feel like I as a taxpayer should have the right to see the movie. Nobody is forcing anyone to sell anything.

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