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Why we need Lisp machines(fultonsramblings.substack.com)
221 points by otacust 5y ago|215 comments
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by otacust 5y ago
Though one could argue that it does stop congressional insider trading, or at least reduce it: https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/migration/case_do... Though this article makes some good points: - T
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Limits of Data Analysis: STOCK Act Data Can't Stop Congressional Insider Trading(innerjoin.bit.io)
3 points by otacust 5y ago|1 comments
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How Fast Can We Write a 10M Row CSV to a Postgres Database with Pandas?(innerjoin.bit.io)
3 points by otacust 5y ago|1 comments
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by otacust 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with everything in this article, but it does make a good point that a lot of the current reporting is decidedly ahistorical. "Record numbers of resignations" don't mean much once you know records wer
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How Great Is the Great Resignation? A Primer on Labor Turnover Data Sources(innerjoin.bit.io)
7 points by otacust 5y ago|4 comments
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by otacust 5y ago
It depends heavily on the job, particularly on management. I will work more if I have a selection of tasks to work on and some choice throughout the day on what to work on. This is especially true if I was part of the decision-making proces
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by otacust 5y ago
The Washington Post article referenced in this post is really interesting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti... The yearly revisions of the GHG emissions estimates are really striking.
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by otacust 5y ago
I used fastai quite a bit with PyTorch and ended up feeling the same way. Great for spinning up an effective model in a few lines, but really tough to make it do exactly what you want it to do.
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by otacust 5y ago
I agree. Trust has a very limited place when dealing with data, and I don't think you can extend the benefit of the doubt to sources that are not consistently reliable. Though in this case, it looks like the U.N. is aggregating self-re