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by pmichaud 9y ago
I stopped using the BART recently because it's dangerous. Several people I know personally have been held up at gunpoint on the BART, or in the station. That's not counting the various news reports, like one [1]. I'll go back
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by pmichaud 9y ago
I need something like this, but I'm not willing to bet on a google product that will get shut down in a year. It's not worth it, I'd rather do a little extra work to build something custom that will exist as long as I need it
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by pmichaud 9y ago
We were probably in the same room at the same time then. The internet is weird sometimes :)
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by pmichaud 9y ago
I've been watching tutorial videos on software packages recently, and one really nice use case for annotations is that if there is out of date information in a specific sentence, they can just annotate it with the newer info instead of
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by pmichaud 9y ago
I used to think this, and I still think it'll happen in urban centers, but there are pretty big swaths of rural or just low density areas that wouldn't be well served by this, so it'd take a while (a couple decades extra mayb
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by pmichaud 9y ago
Yes, they laid off a bunch of people.
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I've looked heavily into implementing this. It would take some years, even with a team.
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by pmichaud 9y ago
Strictly speaking vegan is obviously a more limited subset of omnivore. But in a practical sense, it would surprise me if vegans didn't have more variety in their diet. I was vegetarian for almost a decade, basically my 20s, and what b
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by pmichaud 10y ago
Additionally, in a "memetic genealogy" sense, Zoroastrianism didn't die, it evolved into modern Christianity.
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I did ignore that mostly, you're right. My basic claim is that on average this is actually true: > The only time avoiding the certificate entirely is when the signal it provides is negative. And further, I think all your examples ar
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by pmichaud 10y ago
> There's no reason someone can't have both skills and certifications Of course you're right that it's not impossible. But here's why it happens anyway and why the heuristic of them being roughly mutually exclusi
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I have one eye. It's worse than 2d because you pay more, and have to wear ill fitting, uncomfortable glasses which obstruct the movie both with the frames and the lens. The glasses don't make it 3D for me, they just mean it's
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by pmichaud 10y ago
A lot of education isn't a very strong signal in places where education is trivial to access.
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I don't think people are primarily concerned about this outcome. They are more concerned about outcomes like "all the matter and energy in our light cone have been repurposed to maximize the total number of paperclips".
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That's assuming that there is a surplus of high level talent that would work if the pay were higher. I don't think this is true.
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by pmichaud 10y ago
This is a good question, and I actually don't know the way they calculate this exactly (except what my sibling said about GDP vs workforce). What I can point out is something in your analogy that I think generalizes, and demonstrates p
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I think it's fair to say that regardless of the historical precedent, the way we measure unemployment now is not representative of the situation out there. Huge numbers of people are chronically underemployed, and an unprecedented numb
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by pmichaud 10y ago
It seems like you're imagining a different situation than I am. I'm talking about a large volume of outside email, the equivalent of fan mail, essentially. We have other methods of communication for internal stuff, like Slack. I s
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I like your tactical suggestion at the bottom, but I wanted to say that I rankle at the top. Philosophically, I don't think a request for my attention creates an obligation to give it. Practically, if I responded to every email I recei
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I have no skin in this game, but it seems to me that you're being unfair. There's a story that goes around the nonprofit sector about activists stopping sweatshops in developing nations. The wages there are terrible, the working c
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I agree that those are useful words to distinguish. I also think it's worthwhile to have a thing called "rationality" which maybe means "doing the best possible thing with your brain given your goals," which has to
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by pmichaud 10y ago
This is a classic problem. You have a situation where the quality of the thing (in this case teaching) isn't easily known ahead of time, so the success of the organization isn't dependent on the quality of teaching, but instead is
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by pmichaud 10y ago
It says on the page that the assets are custom for the project and have a liberal license, but it doesn't say what the license is in the spot I was reading--I assume MIT.
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by pmichaud 10y ago
I don't think that poster is talking about Hogan.
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by pmichaud 10y ago
Hey, thanks for playing :) I'm glad to hear we're basically in agreement. For whatever reason I still want you to understand how fucked some people are, through no fault of their own. re: 2.2. I can trivially counterpoint. Hopeful
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(This reply may come across as harsh. I don't think you're bad or dumb for your views. I think you haven't a chance to experience some of this stuff from the inside so you're making reasonable guesses about what's g
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by pmichaud 10y ago
Man, this is great. When I lived in Florida, I had a chance to hang out and cowork with Steve a time or two (this was perhaps 7 years ago?). Incredibly nice, very talented. I'm super happy for them!
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by pmichaud 10y ago
My wife also is amazing at this game and destroys me every time :)
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by pmichaud 11y ago
I think it's unfair to call it greed. It feels like a strawman dismissal. It's actually hard to make money from content, and the best content creators almost certainly aren't also the best monetizers. So people do the default
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by pmichaud 11y ago
I don't think this is really why AlphaGo is a big deal. He's not wrong about the ways that it works vs. DeepBlue, but there's a much simpler way to understand why AlphaGo is a big deal. (I am not an AI researcher, but I work

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