polygamous_bat

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by polygamous_bat 4y ago
Short sellers push the price down, so on the chance he does go through with the purchase, he is seen like a fool who overpaid for the stock. And we all know how much narcissists like looking like fools.
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by polygamous_bat 4y ago
There's no reason to go through every single account to find the true number of bots. At the scale of Twitter they could just randomly sample a set of accounts, run detailed analysis on them, and statistically extrapolate onto the enti
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by polygamous_bat 4y ago
In what part of the US Constitution are the white Americans identified as the essential majority for the country? This is a country that was founded through immigration, unlike China or India, so turning around and crying about becoming a m
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by polygamous_bat 4y ago
That is exactly what was so Ponzi about UST/Luna in the first place. It all works well and fine as long as the value of Luna keeps going up, since you have excess backing for every UST created. However, soon as Luna starts going down,
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Could you explain what part of this was nonsensical? It seemed pretty sensible to me.
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Discouraging home buying as an investment, which seems to be behind the crazy rise in home prices over the year, would be a good start.
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
That is a logical fallacy: owning a home != buying a home, inheritance is a thing.
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
> based on my experience interviewing people, students from top (Tsinghua, other C9) universities in China are basically equivalent with the Ivies + Stanford + MIT Your experience may be further confounded by the fact that you are only i
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
> Lastly, I'm delighted that they acknowledge their influences from the cryptographic community with respect to rigorously quantifying notions of "hardness" and "indistinguishable." Fun fact, that is because they
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Chainlink does not solve the oracle problem. In the best case, they put a "price" on fabricating truth in the blockchain world. If the "source of truth" is distributed, what stops somebody from running a worldwide botnet
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
So, the blockchain bros have reinvented... dark pools, which has been around since 1979? Because that's what you just described.
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Ah yes, I forgot, number goes up in the short (10 years) term is the necessary and sufficient condition for any good investment. /s
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
This is a common misconception, money is not valuable in and of itself, but only as much worth as it has as the "grease" that keeps the gigantic economic machine rolling. Value is being created all the time. The "total value&
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
I would like to second that! I converted multiple of my lab mates into Einops just by having them browse through the tutorial in https://einops.rocks/ :)
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Not necessarily; I myself and a lot of my friends in academia are here because we really do care about the research we are doing, and believe what we are doing here is really going to impact society in 10-20 years in the future. I'm su
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
> Funny aside, did you find my thesis? :D. Not particularly, I gave that example because I was TAing that class last semester. Incidentally, it seems we have more in common than I thought! > But I'm not, you are literally not pai
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
Sure, you switch out four calculus TAs for calculus with professional TAs. Who is going to TA deep reinforcement learning, or under-actuated robotics, or any of the major-specific courses that takes a lot of relevant knowledge to actually t
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by polygamous_bat 5y ago
As a current graduate student, the sunk cost can sometimes be too high just to up and move advisors. In small places, you will simply not have someone else whose interest align with yours, and even at a place like MIT, the advisors have the
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MIT's student newspaper criticizes MIT's convenience-based ethics(thetech.com)
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