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by poslathian 2y ago
It seems this muscle has atrophied in nearly every niche it once thrived: neighborhood kids self organizing play, multigenerational households and family run businesses, boarding houses where personal spaces are shared with strangers, parti
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by poslathian 2y ago
Edit - the article (first I’ve seen on this story) hints that the Australian government is the biller. Did they load the plane up with ultra expensive per hour support staff? Was this plane their Air Force one equivalent or something?
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by poslathian 2y ago
Can someone knowledgeable explain how it’s possible that a 500k charter was his only option? I would have thought for 10k/hr you can charter pretty much whatever to wherever you want.
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by poslathian 2y ago
Several such pilots for this have been in flight the last couple years.
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by poslathian 2y ago
One problem with owner occupied tax breaks is that it incentivizes cities to find their revenue elsewhere, namely building office/commercial and apartments.
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by poslathian 2y ago
309fun!
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by poslathian 2y ago
I once wasted several months of schedule and payroll wrestling to improve a DNN model - which resulted in that model getting much much better thanks to tons of creative and interesting work. We swapped the learned model for a perfect a orac
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by poslathian 2y ago
MS had yet to fully stabilize that lead a full decade after they had won the os platform standard for ibm compatible pcs. A platform standard moat goes way way beyond a brand advantage. Azure, while significant, has no similar monopoly to s
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by poslathian 3y ago
Came here for this comment. I’ve always kept an eye open for anyone who has applied this insight to something. There is something also satisfying about how accessible accounting is vs any other domain you encounter invariants (like noethers
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by poslathian 3y ago
Thanks! This is a really great demo of how to bootstrap spatial volumes starting from just ordered pairs on a discrete set. So cool. Hope to see more around this corner.
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by poslathian 3y ago
And the next paper will be this but with Gaussian splatting as the representation ;)
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by poslathian 3y ago
Weird, right? I couldn’t tell if they are trying to rebrand 2019’s yoloact model as a “foundation model” for marketing, something else with ultralyrics, or if there is hide-the-ball happening.
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by poslathian 3y ago
I thought I understood that the speculator highlights and view dependent color problems you mention are massively improved via adding spherical harmonics into each ellipse?
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by poslathian 3y ago
Beautiful. Agree. The juniors come in with a lot of technical education that would have been near impossible to learn on the job. Effective teamwork in this setting is just as foundational as skills they acquired in school but they only beg
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by poslathian 3y ago
Is this any different than a beginner musician who learns to play their favorite songs but also write their own?
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by poslathian 3y ago
This is truly the wisest comment on this otherwise very questionable thread. It is hugely challenging - and rewarding - to try and solve a constraint satisfaction problem that balances the risk, cost, upside that are a function of the huge
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by poslathian 3y ago
Reddit.com/r/fuckcars Reddit.com/r/suburbanhell It’s not the sad isolating culture leading to cars it’s the reverse. Who wants to sit outside with cars driving nearby?
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by poslathian 3y ago
Such an interesting principal to carry, I never thought about it before. Now that I am, it seems kinder to fail people early out of paths they are ill suited to follow, no?
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by poslathian 3y ago
Why is this downvoted? This whole thread is scratching it head as to the “real reason” behind this. Here you go. Infrastructure is way too expensive to maintain for stuff you don’t really need.
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by poslathian 3y ago
OP, just to balance out these comments, you hooked me with the readme. DNNs have been moving way faster than pedagogy can keep up and these sorts of learning experiments are super helpful.
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by poslathian 3y ago
I think it’s way more likely that being desperate prevents you from innovating. That’s why people support the UBI… Desperate people get myopic and risk averse. Stress focuses you on the next step at the expense of the long view. If escaping
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by poslathian 3y ago
That last bar seems way too high. UBI might become low enough to be practical with a mix of changing attitudes around living “the bare minimum” and motivation to fix absurd expenses when possible. Living in a dorm room in a rust belt town w
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by poslathian 4y ago
Thanks for this, well distilled. I used to be anxious about how the handful of folks I knew running breakout companies all leaned heavily towards asshole. Was it a necessary but not sufficient trait to achieve great performance? I’ve come t
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by poslathian 4y ago
I always assumed the key word here was “indoor,” and not “vertical.” Indoors is a place where it is much, much, easier to automate and control growing conditions. Both could add up to faster better cheaper. Given how amazingly huge; dense;
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by poslathian 4y ago
The spreadsheets go and so do all the types of jobs that use them and similar. This could be a great outcome - all of us spending more time in reality — if someone can clearly articulate a vision for exactly we’re supposed to be doing there
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by poslathian 4y ago
Best comment. And one you don’t hear nearly enough from typical product and eng managers.
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by poslathian 4y ago
I often wonder how we might estimate how much of the surplus created by economic growth and technology has been hoovered up by “alarp” in its many forms. I’m scared of the answer, and of the people who wouldn’t see a problem with it.
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by poslathian 4y ago
Super! Makes sense since Skydio is also amazing. How much data is used for fine tuning? Since spectrograms are (surely?) very out of distribution for the pre training dataset, how much does value does the pre training really bring?
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by poslathian 4y ago
Maybe you can get a better deal from the neighbor than from Comcast.
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by poslathian 4y ago
FYI interest rates were 4-6% during the dotcom boom.

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