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by phreeza 7y ago
I don't doubt that there are residuals in recycled paper, I'm doubting that they outweigh the downsides of using fresh wood. It just seems like a convenient thing to tell yourself to calm your conscience when buying extra-fluffy T
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by phreeza 7y ago
Citation needed...
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by phreeza 7y ago
Isn't that due to mucus buildup in the nose? I think Covid doesn't have that.
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by phreeza 7y ago
Why do you think it's inevitable that there will be a deflation? Genuine question, it seems the money supply is going to be increasing?
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by phreeza 7y ago
So could an asteroid impact, or Yellowstone volcano erruption, or thermonuclear war. The question is how likely is it.
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by phreeza 7y ago
I would argue the opposite is the case. The disease affects basically all countries, so what matters is the global supply of these goods. So we are better off if countries can specialize on their respective competitive advantages. In the sc
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by phreeza 7y ago
Given the dynamic nature of this situation, maybe this needs a [Feb 18th] tag.
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by phreeza 7y ago
I recently learned that it is possible to buy shortwave airtime on reasonably strong stations for around 30€/hour. I don't have a concrete project yet, but I think there could be some fun projects to be done with this. Here is an
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Covid-19 Scenarios(neherlab.org)
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US stock trading halted again after S&P 500 drops 7%, hits circuit breakers(cnbc.com)
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by phreeza 7y ago
In the SIR model, a factor 1-1/R0 of the total population end up being infected over time. That means with a reduction of 0.1, you will prevent about 0.1/R0^2 from ever being infected, so something like 2%. Of course there are oth
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by phreeza 7y ago
Reaction in Switzerland has been quite intense. All public events above 150 people require cantonal approval, above 1000 are banned outright. The government is recommending wfh for everyone who can, and many employers are following this.
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by phreeza 7y ago
Many production and logistics workplaces can probably implement distancing policies. Care, not so much...
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by phreeza 7y ago
Could it be that the E part of the P/E Ratio is currently also significantly inflated? For the tech sector I could definitely see that happening due to the influx of VC money, causing unsustainable b2b spend on cloud&ads, which cur
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by phreeza 7y ago
While I agree that this advice is better than picking stocks, something always rubs me the wrong way when it is repeated like it is an absolute fact. Like they say in the commercials, Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results. I ca
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by phreeza 7y ago
The counterexamples that have been brought up elsewhere on this post are Gold (still below 40 year high) and the Nikkei (still below 30 year high).
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by phreeza 7y ago
Maybe they should change to a ranking-based system. You don't get asked to rate on your first ever Airbnb booking. On all subsequent stays, you get asked to compare your stay to some randomly selected previous place, better, worse or a
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by phreeza 7y ago
Just to point out that this was already being well reported at least a month ago [0], and that at that point people on HN were projecting millions of deaths by yesterday [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167157
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by phreeza 7y ago
Of the resolved cases, the recovered are only those that were reported. Very likely there are many more recoveries with a mild trajectory. Much less likely that there are many unreported deaths at this point (at least in Wuhan where the vas
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by phreeza 7y ago
> There used to be a saying: "If you don't know how to do it, you don't know how to do it with a computer." This is a tautology in the narrow sense, but in the broader sense I think there surely exist things that huma
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by phreeza 7y ago
This exact thing was said about Brexit, too.
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by phreeza 7y ago
After high school I spent a year in rural Zambia as a volunteer, and one of my tasks was setting up a computer lab with donated computers at the local high school. There was no internet of any kind, but the computers had Internet Explorer i
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by phreeza 7y ago
I wonder if in the past maybe the plural of kunst as in the specific mechanism was Kunsten, and the plural of the genre/knowledge was Künste, and only the latter has survived. That could explain why Stangenkunsten seems to be used in t
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Invariant Risk Minimization: An Information Theoretic View(inference.vc)
2 points by phreeza 7y ago|0 comments
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by phreeza 7y ago
Care to share the regression you did? Just eyeballing it on a semilog scale, looks like it is plateauing already.
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by phreeza 7y ago
Infectious disease, I think.
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Xilinx cuts 300 jobs as San Jose chipmaker sees weak 5G business(mercurynews.com)
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by phreeza 7y ago
Or a subreddit
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by phreeza 7y ago
"The training objective is to minimize perplexity, the uncertainty of predicting the next toke"" SSA is used as an evaluation metric. It is generated by human raters, and as such is not differentiable, making I hard to direct
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by phreeza 7y ago
Yea, perplexity is ~exp(entropy)

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