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by piker 5y ago
Eric Weinstein is a clown, like, literally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein#Physics
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by piker 5y ago
That may be “intrinsic vitality”
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Activist wins at least 2 Exxon board seats, pushing for climate strategy change(cnbc.com)
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by piker 5y ago
Ransom ware seems like a potential antidote to vulnerable US digital infrastructure. It provides a persistent, material bug bounty which incentivises the C-suite to fix them.
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by piker 5y ago
Actually there is a positive anecdote often cited. The Fore people of New Guinea engaged in ritual cannibalism which lead to the propagation of prions across generations. When they stopped, the generations of disease also stopped. https:&#
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by piker 6y ago
Probably (1) above, no?
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by piker 6y ago
No. The market only cares about Ford's debt in so much as (1) Fords debt service reduces free cash flow and (1) it threatens a potential bankruptcy that could wipe out equity in the worst case. Sure, cancelling the debt would eliminate
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by piker 6y ago
This doesn't make any sense. These companies are valued at their market capitalization -- i.e., the number of outstanding shares multiplied by the price per share. Enterprise value is a metric, but it's not clear why you're p
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by piker 6y ago
"He trains parakeets, so you should not believe his position that the dog salivates because the bell rings" is.
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by piker 6y ago
> I don't think it's ad hominem to note the author's lack of specific qualification in epidemiology or infectious disease If the purpose of such a note is to attack the validity of the author's position, this is what
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by piker 6y ago
It’s just a different sport. In American football, the plays are highly orchestrated and many players are travelling near top speed out of pre-arranged formations and in tightly constrained routes. The forward pass is available, has a much
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by piker 6y ago
Because turnovers are catastrophic in American football, and lateral passes have a high failure rate.
853.
by piker 6y ago
Probably a wasted effort back then, too, to be fair.
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by piker 6y ago
Right, but that was sparse and unlikely to be detected, and the author is talking about the portions of the sphere which travel at near speed of light catching up to earth. If human progress is measured on the scale of reaching near-speed-o
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by piker 6y ago
Huh? > Only when the sphere’s thin outer shell had reached the earth—perhaps carrying radio signals from the extraterrestrials’ early history, before their rapid expansion started. By that point, though, the expanding sphere itself would
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by piker 6y ago
The counter element is interesting: <img src=" http://count.freeyellow.com/cgi-shl/count.exe?df=tamaleking.... " alt="**" nosave="" width="100" height="30"> Interes
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by piker 6y ago
Exactly. The parent is representing the kind of retail thinking that gets wiped out in the dust of events like this.
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by piker 6y ago
It was actually a question somewhat about correlation. I.e., unionization is a symptom that signals the end stage, not something that causes it.
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by piker 6y ago
Honest question: are there good examples of unionized companies that continue to innovate post unionization? Unionization seems at the surface like the end stage of disruptor where stakeholders begin jockeying for slices of a pie that now g
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by piker 6y ago
Noticed in the code no Huffman tree. Then FN2 in the paper: "In this work, we always use the negative sampling formulations of Word2vec objectives which are consis-tently more efficient and effective than the hierarchical softmax formu
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by piker 6y ago
Seems pretty clear.
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by piker 6y ago
...I’m good, thanks.
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by piker 6y ago
Flunked for returning 0 from main() in C? Not sure that's a competent shop.
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by piker 6y ago
Ah, yes, the "beauty" of unaccountable government action.
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by piker 6y ago
This is wrong. Many contracts use cash settlement as an effective way to hedge against an increase in the cost of something. This product provides a hedge for water producers and consumers . To the extent water is a volatile-cost input int
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by piker 6y ago
Not clear from the article if this is worth the effort of purchasing/setting up a telescope from rural SW England, but if any astronomers on can interpret how likely it would be to be visible under perfect conditions that would be real
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by piker 6y ago
> and the virus is now in retreat, a large-scale study of more than 100,000 volunteers showed on Monday. This seems irresponsible by Reuters. Saying the "virus is in retreat" implies that there's some non-zero threshold be
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by piker 6y ago
> The total amount of radioactive waste on the earth is about the size of a swimming pool (or was that the total amount of gold? I forgot, either way in terms of quantity it's not that much) This seems wrong in both places. There ar
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by piker 6y ago
Many in this thread are saying there's no need to upload this information to the cloud because the transform can be performed locally on modern hardware, but that puts significant pressure on the business case. A model in the cloud is
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by piker 6y ago
Given 2323 employees in 2019[1], that's an average of a $32k bonus if paid out to the employees. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)

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