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by photon_lines 2y ago
Those visuals are directly pulled from Grand Sanderson (3Blue1Brown). I gave him full credit and linked the videos at the end of the article but in case anyone needed a reference you can view the visuals here: https://www.youtube
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by photon_lines 2y ago
If you haven't had a 'humbling' moment, I recommend you read about Euler. He really was the master of us all :)
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Thanks a lot man - I'm really happy to have this kind of feedback. The reason I wrote this is because I found most of the modern explanations lacking in intuition behind the equations - along with also not explaining what the actual eq
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by photon_lines 2y ago
I don't disagree with you - but this also explains the determining factor in which product wins and why today's markets or sofas are lower quality than they were 30+ years ago. If price doesn't matter - what's going to b
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Yes but this is once again where the free-markets and economics come in: if the mass-produced ones match the custom-made ones in price, consumers will start switching to custom-made sofas. The mass-production suppliers will either have to 1
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by photon_lines 2y ago
'The point of the article is that the big business model is "continued growth", which depends on constantly increasing sales, which means products necessarily get shittier so that they must be replaced more frequently.'
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by photon_lines 2y ago
Yeah - most of the online descriptions aren't even remotely accurate nor close to explaining how LLMs like ChatGPT actually work. They are not simple 'next-word predictors' and most of the online tutorials / info don&#x2
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Having a portfolio definitely does help and I can attest that it doesn't take all that long to build a solid one. I spent a few weekends on most of my Github projects, albeit I did clean them up and some of them luckily took off on Hac
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Lol...great one. When you put the joint down - what is it? What is the chemical reaction which makes you feel what you feel and is it real?
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Why Does the World Exist?
5 points by photon_lines 3y ago|10 comments
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I'd say the biggest reasons recently are: 1) The approval of various ETFs (so demand is heightened). It's much easier to invest in it than in was in the past. 2) Traders expecting the supply to tighten (see bitcoin halving which i
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Sorry I know this is a relatively late comment, but I recently did a summary on Sam Altman's recommended reading list and I had a great time reading 'How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success In Selling (by Frank Bettger).'
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Information compression (edit sorry you said no one knows why the need to symmetry groups and I provided the answer).
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I made a little write-up on getting an visual intuition behind calculus / the derivative here, although I'm not sure that it's really that well done and I should have maybe provided a few more examples: https://pho
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: I’m generally language / technology agnostic and love learning new things. I have a huge interest in anything relating to machine learning and automation!
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I'm still a bit confused on how this replaces databases. Your write-up claims that this solution is a replacement for modern DB systems, but I've seen a need for all 4 transaction isolation levels
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Sorry, but can you elaborate on what type of transaction isolation-levels your solution supports (i.e. read committed, repeatable read, serializable, read uncommitted)?
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by photon_lines 3y ago
The same to you. If you feel like you're best contribution to tell someone to 'not engage' - then you should look at not engaging at all yourself :) My comment tries to give the PCA to what contributes to males taking more ri
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by photon_lines 3y ago
It may not impress women, but there are lots of studies which show that men expand a lot more energy in engaging risk-related behavior when other females are around. Whether this is biologically adaptable or not may be a question which need
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I edited my comment thanks to you. If you have refutations or other arguments - feel free to write about them in LONG detail and I'll do my best to get back to you. Otherwise the explanation I provided above is the best I could do give
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by photon_lines 3y ago
It's not a single hypothesis. If you want me to write an essay on hacker news on all the behavioral differences between males and females - it's tough luck :) If you have counter-arguments - post them so I can refute them. Cheers.
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Yes, because they have more to gain from taking the risk. Think about it for a moment.
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I don't feel like there needs to be a discussion on 'why' they take more risks. Females expand way more energy in having and raising kids than males do (within the human species). In other species (like sea-horses) - the fema
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I didn't finish these in the last year, but some of my favorite ones are provided below: Economics of Money and Banking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretica
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Haha...I'm surprised to find this on HN. Just to comment on a note made in this study: "While MIT provides a parsimonious explanation of differences in idiotic behavior and may underlie sex differences in other risk seeking behavi
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by photon_lines 3y ago
James Baldwin as a writer is master class. He writes incredible stories and incredible prose. If you like him, I'd also recommend Fernando Pessoa and Primo Levi as well.
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Intuitive Guide to Merge Sort(photonlines.substack.com)
34 points by photon_lines 3y ago|2 comments
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Understanding Newton's Method(photonlines.substack.com)
1 points by photon_lines 3y ago|0 comments
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by photon_lines 3y ago
I'm not debating whether it's useful or not -- I'm debating whether it brings a net positive to society. So far, its been used to avoid sanctions and currency loss by nutty regimes running countries -- as well as massively us
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by photon_lines 3y ago
Credit default swaps: were initially created as a way for banks to manage their exposure to credit risk. They were essentially insurance contracts against the default of a borrower defaulting so they played and to this day play a huge role

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