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by pedrosorio 3y ago
If you’re curious (many HN readers are) and have basic math literacy (ditto) once you come across the concept, grokking interest rate risk takes about an hour at most.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> if I own a 3 percent bond but the GSEs are selling 7 percent bonds “The SVB conundrum”
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Doesn’t the bank have the right to refuse to grant a mortgage in the first place, depending on the asset? It’s not like you tell them you’re buying a house worth x and they give you a mortgage for 0.8x, right?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
What is a BigTech consulting department?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> But what is really unacceptable to me is how you dismiss their viewpoint because they are a 2nd-year CS student! > Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem This is not really about
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> I don't think making humans comfortable is the goal with respect to AI According to whom? AI in games, has historically been all about human comfort/enjoyment. Extremely good AI that seems "unnatural" to humans is u
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> half way through elements of statistical learning If you're able to make it that far on ESL, mathematical background certainly won't hold you back when learning anything "neural networks" related. Specially not a sp
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> I think it's fair to say that alcohol does far more harm to the user than psychedelics I agree but also think that’s a very different statement from “alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than most”
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
What does Portland (Oregon?) have to do with Portugal? > Crime — including robbery in public spaces — spiked 14 percent from 2021 to 2022 I wonder what else changed between 2021 and 2022 that could have caused robbery in public spaces to
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> alcohol, a much more dangerous drug than most The overall impact of alcohol on society is not because it is “much more dangerous than most”, but because it is consumed (and abused) by orders of magnitude more people than almost every o
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
For those reading who may not remember or have played the original FF7, here are links to pre-rendered backgrounds in FF7: https://www.jmeiners.com/pre-rendered-backgrounds/img/ff7.jp... and the image in the artic
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> but it empirically performs the worst with a roughly 50% correlation to on-the-job performance. You’re better off flipping a coin because at least then you’re not biased. I was going to point out that a correlation of 50% is pretty goo
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
What is order/connectivity in R^n?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> It's like the difference when somebody gets hurt. (...) The older kids tend to scatter and disappear as quickly as possible. Definitely not my experience growing up. I'm sorry.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
In a blog post about integrating LLMs into the notebook paradigm, going back to the invention of notebooks by the same company is irrelevant?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Yep, in many situations intelligence beyond a certain threshold isn't the limiting factor. That's the qualifier missing from the first comment that I addressed. In some situations (that HN members may be disproportionately inter
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned a specific name. The point is, some things are impossible to do unless you are extremely smart. So, in response to your first comment, "it doesn't even matter how smart you are" is not
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> it doesn’t even matter how smart you are If you care about being "happy"? Sure. But plenty of things require a bit more than "a surprisingly low threshold". You're not going to be Jeff Dean (for example) if you
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> one in a thousand That's probably way too high of a threshold. Many standardized tests lump everyone who is in the top 5-10% of ability, as long as they prepare sufficiently well.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Parent didn’t suggest returning them to the streets after rehab. They said give them free housing after rehab. That being said, addiction is not easily cured with or without free housing, if the substance of addiction is easily available
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Are you just going to ignore that the parent invalidated the whole first paragraph in your previous comment? “that cannot be grown in most climates except for a very few select regions”
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Take a look at this old, commonly referenced article, might be before your time: https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Yeah, I am aware of Nintendo's fame of not being particularly friendly to fans and defending their IP in ways that seem excessive. But to be clear, the statement in your original comment that I quoted > you can just look at Nintendo
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> you can just look at Nintendo who to this day still goes hard after Youtubers who just cover their games > They're extremely protective of their IPs, especially when it comes to foreigners or people in Japan whom they have no p
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> I wonder if this replicates to things like chess/go - for a computer trained on the same number of games that a human is, is the computer still able to outperform a human? The first computers to beat (and completely surpass) the b
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Logical nitpick: you argued “A does not imply B”, by providing an example of (not A, B). You need (A, not B) to make that argument.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Tell us more about this “EU police”.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
And yet, the US seems quite happy to engage in partnership with at least one of those: https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-vietnam-relationship... So communism clearly isn’t the issue.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
To be fair, killing people is a lot easier in the USA…
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Is this “The Power of Habit - Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” by Charles Duhigg?

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