peripitea

9 ms·

61.
by peripitea 6y ago
Improving the world's access to information is probably the biggest one? I would guess Google Search is, if you could magically add up all the net positives/negatives, one of the best things to happen to humanity in the last few d
62.
by peripitea 6y ago
I know I replied to a different comment of yours, but this paper also illustrates how this point, while matching common medical wisdom, is not necessarily correct when accounting for altitude: https://www.thelancet.com/journ
63.
by peripitea 6y ago
This is only true for people who live close to sea level. At higher altitudes, saturation even down into the high 80s can be normal: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
64.
by peripitea 6y ago
From what I understand, this is more because having that low of oxygen at rest is highly likely to be a symptom of a deeper problem, not because the 90% oxygen by itself is a huge imminent problem. Afaik you can go days/weeks at that l
65.
by peripitea 6y ago
In my experience this isn't that much better from a discomfort perspective, because (I would guess -- not an expert on physiology) the lower available oxygen in the lungs also leads to a more rapid increase in blood CO2. It might be a
66.
by peripitea 6y ago
In my experience you need to hold your breath for a while (like 2-3 minutes) for blood O2 to start decreasing. Certainly doable (and safe as long as you're lying down away from water) but might take some practice getting used to the di
67.
by peripitea 6y ago
Please don't put words in my mouth. We were paying well over market rate. There simply are not enough qualified Americans to do all of the highly skilled jobs available.
68.
by peripitea 6y ago
O visas are much harder to get than H-1B. I've hired a bunch of people via H-1B that we could not have hired via O. None of them were displacing American workers -- we would have hired just as many (or more) qualified American worker
69.
by peripitea 7y ago
For those interested in data, the COVID Tracking Project ( http://covidtracking.com/ ) doesn't have county data, but it does have test data (both total, positive, and negative). Very helpful given how relatively useles
70.
by peripitea 7y ago
Among others, the numbers are way under-reported. For example, in Iran there's good reason to believe that 1-5% of the population already have it: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/ir
71.
by peripitea 7y ago
Is there any indication this would apply to all ISO/NSOs? Can't read the WSJ article (no subscription), but articles referencing it seem to be saying that it's targeted at highly-paid executives. Obviously this would be disas
72.
by peripitea 7y ago
I actually disagree in both directions. Have you played or coached many sports? I have, and I'm not trying to be an asshole with the question, but it just seems so clearly untrue to me that I wonder if you haven't or if we're
73.
by peripitea 7y ago
Yeah I could be wrong on basketball. I don't play it much but now that I think about it you can be a great shooter without being a great athlete, and that alone can make you quite valuable.
74.
by peripitea 7y ago
There are plenty of sports for which I find this still holds true. A lot of it comes down to how much the required skills to be great are around more innate skills (e.g. speed, height, jumping ability) vs acquirable skills (technique, flexi
75.
by peripitea 7y ago
This is a great post, and it's unfortunate that so many people are missing the point. You may not like the writing, or the layout, or the title, and you may be able to pick holes in the argument, but who cares? That's an easy, bor
76.
by peripitea 7y ago
The point is about improving skills. SAT performance is (largely) determined by intelligence, which is (largely) innate. If you're relatively smart and don't practice at all, you will score higher on the SAT than your less smart f
77.
by peripitea 7y ago
Putting aside whether this is ok for a second: This should not be a surprise to anyone. Of course they are doing this. I would almost argue that it would be foolish of them not to collect this data. The lifetime expected value of the data i
78.
by peripitea 7y ago
>but damn is it frustrating to see so many vulnerable students saddle themselves with so much debt in pursuit of making a stable living. It sounds like you're talking about traditional American colleges with this criticism, not Lamb
79.
by peripitea 7y ago
Yeah you're probably right that VP, rather than SVP, is the more common cutoff.
80.
by peripitea 7y ago
This seems to be more a concern on the terms rather than the instrument. You can structure any financial instrument (ISA, loan, whatever) to be predatory if you're willing to play with the variables sufficiently. I don't know if t
81.
by peripitea 7y ago
Edit: For context, his argument is basically: "If independent learning is not your forte then that's a much larger problem, because you will need to do significant independent study regardless of the bootcamp." It's not
82.
by peripitea 7y ago
I know multiple people who could not have attended a bootcamp if not for ISAs. I also know one who could afford to pay but still chose to go the ISA route. They are all happy-to-thrilled with the model. I would love to know your reasoning f
83.
by peripitea 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly what he's saying -- the "just as well" part is key. Sure, there's an IC track that goes up to the SVP level at many companies, but it's statistically much harder to climb pretty much everywh
84.
by peripitea 7y ago
>The risk-adjusted $ compensation is the same at a startup and at bigco. Startups just have more beta in the comp. I work with startups, and while this may have been true 10-20 years ago I can't imagine how you would think it's
85.
by peripitea 7y ago
Yep. It continues to become more intense as you go deeper. You can wreck your lungs going to even 20-30m if you haven't trained them to handle the pressure.
86.
by peripitea 7y ago
This is because you are artificially pressurized by the air you're breathing when scuba diving that deep. If you held your breath and went that deep, you would definitely feel the pressure.
87.
by peripitea 7y ago
90 seconds is uncommon for complete novices, but most people can get to 2-3 minutes within a day or two of training. It's almost entirely psychological up to that point; blood oxygen levels barely drop for the first few minutes you hol
88.
by peripitea 7y ago
That's very helpful. Thanks!
89.
by peripitea 7y ago
How do you handle progressive overload? Do you have a bunch of different kettlebells of various weights? Seems like that would defeat the space savings. Or do you cycle out the lower weights or put them in storage once you've progresse
90.
by peripitea 7y ago
Yes, that seems like an important problem, but one separate to what they're describing in OP's article. (Again, assuming I'm understanding this right.) Their constrained RL approach is still relying on our ability to enumerat

More ›