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by parpfish 1y ago
Here’s an advertising model I’ve thought about but never seen: The app itself is 100% ad free and runs on credits. You get credits through se other portal by logging in to watch ads whenever it’s convenient for you. Good app experience for
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by parpfish 1y ago
A big part of that is having payment methods on file so the transaction is as frictionless as possible. If somebody has never purchased an app, setting up payments in the app might be seen as “too much work, especially just for this one app
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by parpfish 1y ago
Or that the error distributions are equal across groups. That way you could still detect that one group is committing fraud at a higher rate, but false positives/negatives occur at the same rate in each group
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by parpfish 1y ago
I feel this. I can’t help but feel like I’m being some soft and prissy when I switch jobs after a couple of years. Previous generations worked jobs they hated for decades and got paid way worse than I do. Why can’t I just deal with it? It’s
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by parpfish 1y ago
stop it. you're overloading their system by doing three things at once. let the rest of us have a turn.
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by parpfish 1y ago
no. we understand everything that a transformer does at computational/mechanistic level. you could print out an enormous book of weights/biases and somebody could sit down with a pen and paper (and near-infinite time/patience
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by parpfish 1y ago
how degenerate
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by parpfish 1y ago
Back when I was calculating eigenvectors for my linear algebra homework, I had no idea I should've been taking the matrices well being into account. Those math professors are downright barbaric with their complete disregard for the wel
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve always thought it was funny how the two situations for listening to edm were so different: - alone doing intensely focused work - in a huge crowd dancing and definitely NOT doing work
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by parpfish 1y ago
Thorough. Might as well keep it going: Any thoughts on Al? I assume he always felt like a bit of an outsider because he was the only non-family member
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by parpfish 1y ago
... now say something nice about mike.
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by parpfish 1y ago
i worry that i've job hopped a bit too much and have a series of 2-3yr gigs on my resume. part of my problem is that I get unhappy (or bored) with a job but sit in denial for too long. so by the time I start looking for a new position,
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by parpfish 1y ago
Check out “Magic Transistor Radio” from their album Holland. It’s a story-song about a magic radio that comes alive at night to visit a kid (if I remember correctly)
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by parpfish 1y ago
Heineken?! HEINEKEN?! Pabst. Blue. Ribbon.
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by parpfish 1y ago
not a cold one. for those two, you should celebrate with a cup of coffee from a diner and a coca-cola from the drive-in
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by parpfish 1y ago
> He was America. The idealism, the bizarro suburban sincerity, the descent into late-century darkness, the total mastery of the form I often thought that Brian Wilson and David Lynch were like mirror images of each other and now they&#x
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by parpfish 1y ago
I think early American settlers had a little extra moxie because there was excitement about how they were in a new world (to them, literally) and they were thinking big and creating something new. It used to be that every American was basic
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by parpfish 1y ago
I didn’t say depression was bigger than adhd. Depression is bigger than “I just need a little productivity hack to get started”
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by parpfish 1y ago
If somebody had “lifelong procrastination” and was routinely overwhelmed by simple tasks, my first thought would be to see if they are actually dealing with depression because it sounds like something bigger.
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by parpfish 1y ago
But if your natural key is the thing that changed you’d never know that airport x was renamed to airport y. You’d just have two different keys. And when you renamed the airport, you’d need to add new entries in all the other tables that use
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by parpfish 1y ago
Sometimes I can trick myself into getting started that way. The trick is to come up with a tiny goal and give yourself permission to quit once you reach it so it’s not like your overwhelmed by the full task. The smallness of the task is imp
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by parpfish 1y ago
What’s an example of the kind of advice that doesn’t work? (I’m always curious to learn other potential diagnostic markers for adhd)
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by parpfish 1y ago
I’ve heard this called “park facing downhill”
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by parpfish 1y ago
The uuid keys make it easy to change some value, but won’t solve the issue of keeping a record of historical changes. UUID keys PLUS some form of versioning with creation dates will let you change an airport name and let you know what the a
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by parpfish 1y ago
What if the app had you drop some amount of your own money into an escrow account, and the. You get it back when you demonstrate “healthy” behavior?
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by parpfish 1y ago
I can see some benefits to in-person sports betting. Putting money on a game you don’t care about can make it exciting. Getting a bunch of people watching a game together with money on it is a way to drum up a crowd of enthusiastic temporar
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by parpfish 1y ago
If you bet your shirt, you should only be allowed to win other shirts. Or maybe a matching pair of pants.
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by parpfish 1y ago
Too many people are willing to do sketchy stuff if you can frame it as solving fun math/ML problems, and I have to admit that a sports gambling company would have a lot of fun data to play with. But too often the ability to turn everyt
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by parpfish 1y ago
It feels like gambling talk has largely replaced fantasy team talk on most broadcasts, and I wonder what role fantasy sports* played in all of this. Did fantasy sports have a causal role as a gateway that slowly normalized gambling, or were
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by parpfish 1y ago
I feel like if there were a sustainable business in this, Amazon would just do it themselves and set up outlet stores. But instead Amazon takes the easy money of just auctioning stuff off. that should be a red flag for people starting these

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