orasis

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by orasis 7y ago
Autopilot on my Tesla Model 3 has already solved highway driving for me.
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by orasis 7y ago
The fix is to not pass the law in the first place. Regulation generally favors incumbents.
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by orasis 7y ago
Is it “zipper cooter”?
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by orasis 7y ago
1 additional bit of information allows exponentially more complexity to exist. Digital scales very very well.
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by orasis 7y ago
Exponential growth can continue in virtual realities as the physical reality maxes out.
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by orasis 7y ago
Products exist in human reality not some science paper. There are no absolute truths, everything dead-ends eventually. It’s like trying to prove that one set of genes is better than another for future survival - an impossible task.
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by orasis 7y ago
AB testing doesn’t eliminate time based biases such as novelty of new features, special events, pay day, tax day, etc.
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by orasis 7y ago
I clicked on an ad for women’s yoga pants once. The retargeting makes the web a constant stream of delights.
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by orasis 7y ago
Call it a genetic algorithm if you like. I’m looking for incremental wins in a world of infinite possibilities, not truth.
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by orasis 7y ago
Yes, of course. You can use a contextual MAB and include the traffic source in the context. Contextual MABs are much more complicated and expensive to implement though.
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by orasis 7y ago
Different demographics, different intent, and different mental context all play a factor.
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by orasis 7y ago
From a workflow perspective, MAB is a bit difficult to find radical improvements from. The radical improvements come from fundamental design changes, of which it would be very expensive to create a bunch of radically different variants. MA
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by orasis 7y ago
Sure it’s post-hoc reasoning, but it doesn’t matter because I’m not trying to invalidate a hypothesis. I’m looking for variants that win. When I find one that wins I look at it and try to add more of the same flavor to the product. This pr
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by orasis 7y ago
I disagree. I’ve spent a lot of time staring at bandit outcomes and usually they match some sort of intuition of why a variant might be exceptional.
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by orasis 7y ago
Power isn’t zero sum. Through complexity, power can be manifest along new dimensions.
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by orasis 7y ago
If it’s a consumer’s vehicle then the tunnel operator doesn’t care about the tire wear and tear.
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by orasis 7y ago
LOL. $3M in index funds in any place that doesn't have a bonkers cost of living provides a very comfortable life.
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by orasis 7y ago
Fairly low quality article
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by orasis 7y ago
At $55M in funding they won’t be undercutting anything - quite the opposite, they’ll need to turn a healthy profit or die.
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by orasis 7y ago
Having a higher end ($350+/night) house on AirBnB was pretty fun. The higher price plus AirBnB screening kept out the rifraf so we had very few problems.
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by orasis 8y ago
Amen. HN hates any taboo thought crimes.
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by orasis 8y ago
The most important thing is to realize just how damn simple they are. As you get mired in the literature everything will seem overwhelmingly complex. Just grok the very very basic idea of them and it will come easier. Also, they’re just a
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by orasis 8y ago
Great job guys!
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by orasis 8y ago
Boo on the round up to 100ms. I wish they would have put some pressure on lambda by going for 50ms.
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by orasis 8y ago
How did the employees get screwed? Hardware is expensive and the company was sold for basically pennies. If anything is screwed here is people's expectations of how employment works.
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by orasis 8y ago
If they fail there will still have been a massive amount of learning, so it won’t be a waste.
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by orasis 8y ago
I’m with you. I’m putting off switching away from Inbox until they kick me off.
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by orasis 8y ago
This seems to be a contextual bandit where the previous reward is included in the context. I can’t come up with real world examples where the behavior of the reward function is changing like this to warrant making different decisions based
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by orasis 8y ago
Work theatre absolutely drove me nuts. It’s an insidious form of dishonesty.
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by orasis 8y ago
Firms are not people.

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