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by novariation 2y ago
Hell no, tech is a really hard job, and the legacy in-house software I've seen the french public companies use were definitely a machine to convert heaps of tax money into mediocre software that became obsolete a few years later. A tax
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by novariation 2y ago
Overfitting happens when you have more parameters than datapoints, what's currently happening would be closer to underfitting , but the reality is that we were very far from underfitting, we just didn't want to invest the compute
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by novariation 2y ago
Niskanen Center my friend ! They do it all: 1) libertarians accepting (reasonably) big government is good https://www.niskanencenter.org/freedom-government-part-one/ 2) why ideology and utopia should not be part of you
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by novariation 3y ago
> 39000 rental units That's 1.7% of the total of rental housing units in NYC. NYC builds roughly 22k units per year. In comparison, Austin, which has actually seen rents become more affordable, also built around 22k units in 2023. T
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by novariation 3y ago
You can add Gare Saint Lazare in Paris ! https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gares-services/paris-s... Reportedly 51 french train stations have a piano according to the SNCF official website :) https:/&#x2
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by novariation 3y ago
Have you been living under a rock for the last 20 years to think that regulations can't result in outcomes that are opposite to what was intended ? I'm not sure it will backfire, but it's absolutely not mental gymnastics to t
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by novariation 3y ago
The reason the Guardian now uses "linked to" instead of "responsible for" (which Oxfam used half a decade ago and got ridiculed for years for) is precisely because of what you call "whataboutism" (which it real
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by novariation 3y ago
This is nice ! Lots of these games I honestly don't feel like playing, but for some reason I liked yours. It's simple and the animations are good ! I'm curious by the way, how do you handle the randomness of starting position
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by novariation 3y ago
Amazing. I have Aphantasia, and I also happen to have a STEM college degree, have no autobiographical memory, and not remember people well. Oh and I also have an autism diagnosis. In my opinion it's quite logical that someone who'
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by novariation 3y ago
The number of people who've read LTG and think the world3 ressource usage predictions are accurate is crazy. The authors themselves say it's not accurate and overly simplistic. By very far the threat to humanity is global warming,
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by novariation 3y ago
I had no idea degrowth was a thing on hackernews
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by novariation 3y ago
> The efficiency of government is inversely proportional to its size This is arguably false, which the libertarian centrists at Niskanen were forced to accept: having an efficient government is key to prosperity, but [most efficient gove
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by novariation 3y ago
I've used and read about many concentration inequalities in machine learning and other applied math disciplines (Hoeffdings, McDiarmid, etc). Talagrands' results seem to generalize those, but I haven't had the chance to see t
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by novariation 3y ago
I tried it quickly on my company (some IT consulting multinational) to find competitors, and I was wondering if there was an easy way to do the following: - for each company, find their main product lines and their respective market share (
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by novariation 3y ago
Just so I understand: Does that mean this person doesn't have a phone, or that they use another more niche mobile OS that's not supported ?
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by novariation 3y ago
This article pretty openly embraces degrowth through citing Jason Hickel > Many commentators have drawn attention to the environmental need to limit economic growth and instead prioritize sustainability and well-being[6,7] If you think s