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by ozb 3y ago
You're right, I was thinking of this in the context of an English-speaking country/institution (mostly since I do often see this demand in those contexts as well; to be clear, I think it's a reasonable request, but not a reas
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by ozb 3y ago
> relatively common I'd love to see some links, all I see used in practice (including in the OP blog post) is semantic search and a bit of clustering > adding a pair of glasses Actually that (and generally all the SD/VAE stu
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by ozb 3y ago
Has anyone actually used embeddings for anything other than Approximate Nearest Neighbor and clustering? Some speculative possibilities that come to mind: - projection, indexing and sorting on arbitrary axes (eg "hot minus cold",
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by ozb 3y ago
I never really understood the insistence on diacritics. My name is properly written in Hebrew characters, and contains sounds not present in the English language. Many more people use CJK, Cyrillic, Arabic, or other characters. The writing
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by ozb 3y ago
Robbing a bank is more likely to set you back substantially (infinitely?) via a stay in prison, which is not likely to average out in your favor. But in some cases, ethics aside, it could conceivably be the rational choice, and that doesn&#
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by ozb 3y ago
That formula assumes that you always have investment opportunities with multiplicative returns. This is not true in practice for many people. To illustrate the difference, assume the following (simplistic) model: an agent has an income of $
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Tell HN: Buying a lottery ticket is rational
6 points by ozb 3y ago|7 comments
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by ozb 3y ago
So roughly $100k/(5*120 tons CO2) + 2 million kWh/(5*120 ton CO2) --> 5*2300 Mcf Ie $167 + 3333 kWh will turn 1 ton CO2 into 19 Mcf At $0.10/kWh, this is equivalent to paying $500 to remove 1 ton of CO2 from the atmosphere
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Path to AGI as Ally(lesswrong.com)
3 points by ozb 4y ago|0 comments
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by ozb 4y ago
See my other comment. I'm less concerned with converting between a lump sum and an annuity, and more concerned with insuring systemic risks.
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by ozb 4y ago
Yes, moral hazard is an issue. But in general a 10% cut doesn't eliminate the incentive for people to work, and the legal system makes "disappearing" non-trivial. That's also why I've included the possibility of aut
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Ask HN: Income Share Agreement for high earners?
5 points by ozb 4y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Can/should we create an actual working version of the Unix Pipe game?
3 points by ozb 4y ago|1 comments
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by ozb 4y ago
Perhaps, but 0.6% core inflation MoM is still a more updated metric than 8.2% (overall) YoY, which is explicitly ignoring that overall inflation has subsided in the last few months. That is, I agree with the OP if all we have are the non-co
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by ozb 4y ago
Note core inflation (excluding food and energy, which are generally more volatile) has been at least 0.6% (annualized >7%) for 5 of the last 6 months https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm So arguably the narr
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by ozb 4y ago
Just bought the Personal Pro plan (even though I don't really need it), and will be recommending Tailscale to friends and employers whenever possible. This really addresses the potential lock-in / privacy concern, and more general
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by ozb 4y ago
Sure, you'll get to m6g.16xlarge; but how many companies actually have oltp requirements that exceed the limits of single servers on AWS, eg u-12tb1.112xlarge or u-24tb1.metal (that's 12-24tb memory)? I think these days the issues
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Fiscal Theory of the Price Level: Inflation as the cost of government borrowing(johnhcochrane.com)
2 points by ozb 5y ago|0 comments
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by ozb 5y ago
My analysis can also account for eg supply chain failures: if the overall supply of goods and services in the economy is reduced, that translates to the expected government revenues as well, and therefore yields on government debt. Obviousl
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by ozb 5y ago
I do have an econ education from a reputable university, so I have some idea of the traditional narrative. But inflation in particular always seemed a bit poorly explained to me (obvious printing-money cases aside), as evidenced also by the
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Ask HN: Is inflation just the cost of government borrowing?
3 points by ozb 5y ago|6 comments
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by ozb 5y ago
Speculation: in these countries it's more common to segregate educational programs by gender. So there will be dedicated institutions for women, including institutions or departments that focus on computer science. In this context, it&
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Ask HN: Could we create and scale a low-/no-cost scientific publishing platform?
6 points by ozb 5y ago|3 comments
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by ozb 6y ago
How about: store the otp secrets as well as the backup codes in an encrypted file/hashicorp vault/keepass (not with other passwords)/Authy, with the encryption keys being stored on USB flash drives and yubikeys, which can be