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by rajman187 4y ago
Agreed but not feasible overnight , and the time frame for this new tax is much closer to a sudden change than the required infrastructure overhaul. Adding a new train line cost $2bn over budget and about 5 years longer than planned.
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by rajman187 4y ago
You don’t seem to get it, these aren’t schools in central London. The residential neighborhoods and schools are both in the boonies. But sure, people should all cram into a congested and extremely overpriced housing market that is run by fo
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by rajman187 4y ago
You overestimate the public transportation. If you live in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of Epsom, or deep in some residential neighborhood in Surbiton, you’d have to walk 2+ miles just to reach a bus stop, and then a long journey
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by rajman187 4y ago
This zone would extend as far as Kingston, and some people don’t live near their school or a reliably serviced bus stop
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by rajman187 4y ago
Interesting time to introduce a measure that effectively means needing to buy a new car for taking kids to school, getting groceries, etc. given that the economy is tanking and for all intents and purposes the country is facing a long reces
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by rajman187 4y ago
I read her book Lost in Math [1] which I have to say was quite a laborious endeavour. It is essentially a long-winded argument that is better summarised in this article and her YouTube channel, though she got to visit many scholars across t
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by rajman187 4y ago
one wonders where to start with so much revisionism here. but > Zoarastrians were persecuted mercilessly just as they mercilessly persecuted the Manichaeans and all but wiped them out, ensuring the elite ruling class remained Zoroastrian
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by rajman187 4y ago
As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as the “Royal we” [1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.25
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by rajman187 4y ago
I played about 10 of them and got them all right. It’s very impressive, but I just happened to know that ears and teeth are particularly problematic for these generative models (for now).
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by rajman187 4y ago
I have used CXX in a project where I had to use a library available only in C++. There were Python bindings but somehow they were very slow. I could have rolled out my own pybind11 but wanted some of the Rust guarantees. It was probably mor
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by rajman187 4y ago
While I’m certainly not a good C programmer by any means (I have been exploring Rust more recently as an alternative my use-cases), I find this piece very interesting “Some People Were Meant for C” https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/
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by rajman187 4y ago
Yeah 2020-21 was wild. Revenue is not profit, though.
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by rajman187 4y ago
> FB is making $30+bn a year profit, and is laying off people to reduce costs by $2b. They could continue to pay these people. The quarterly revenue was about $27bn but net profit $4bn, so you're off by a factor of 7 or more on the
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by rajman187 4y ago
if reports are to be believed, large swaths of these layoffs were in business and recruiting units, much less so engineering, so not exactly 15k+ new applications coming in
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by rajman187 4y ago
One way I found I could read FT was to search the article name in Google and the link actually takes you to the full article. Not sure if a bug or feature that works for everyone though
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by rajman187 4y ago
For all its use of the term time, for example “backward in time” or “does consciousness flow linearly with time,” there is no definition of time itself provided in the article. I had hoped the Definitions section would at least acknowledge
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by rajman187 4y ago
Amazing text indeed, this was our textbook in some graduate courses I took in numerical computation. Machine error epsilon still haunts me at night
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by rajman187 4y ago
Huh, WFH cull? Zuck himself works from home (or his Hawaiian island compound) half the year now and the company expanded the WFH option to the majority of employees and may even consider shrinking offices (or certainly stopping real estate
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by rajman187 4y ago
As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as the “Royal we” [1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.25
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by rajman187 4y ago
RL has been there since 2019 [1]. Aside from the previously-mentioned (and not necessarily incremental) React, CassandraDB, PyTorch, etc there is work in terms of egocentric data which is far larger than existing datasets [2], even more fun
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by rajman187 4y ago
RealityLabs is a $10billion initiative with only about $2 in revenue (Quest 2 headsets come from here). RealityLabs Research is a large component and indeed the major R&D investment. This was spun out during the 2021Q4 earnings call whe
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by rajman187 4y ago
If you’re using it at work then license of the training datasets absolutely matter, at least as far as lawyers are concerned (note that I am not a lawyer, I’ve just had to share this information with them in the past)
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by rajman187 4y ago
Two major issues are generalizability (or lack thereof, sometimes pretrained weights can even be detrimental to your specific tasks) and licensing (pertaining to the data used in the initial training)
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by rajman187 4y ago
This is quite a distorted retelling of history. Nobody voted for the IR. There was a very powerful leftist movement (en vogue at the time, thanks in part to the USSR) that sought to remove the pro-west Shah and his perceived corruption. Sur
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by rajman187 4y ago
That's right, GPS error can be on the order of 10s of meters, worse in urban environments. Google (and presumably Apple) use WPS to enhance location data, meaning a triangulation (simplification here) or location based on known WiFi ro
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by rajman187 4y ago
Suffering has been normalized for some, unfortunately, and any devastation striking that region is glossed over almost as if calamity is expected to befall. See for instance the outcry and support for Ukraine (not diminishing their dire cir
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by rajman187 4y ago
I have AdGuard installed for Safari on my phone and it seems to do fine. Also have a pihole on home network (which unfortunately due to the router I can’t block ipv6 traffic but whatever is left going via ipv4 is at least blocked)
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by rajman187 4y ago
> I challenge anyone to find a more enjoyable _writing_ experience than Medium in the world of online editors, barring Google Docs I was responding to to the bit about online editors, and Quip has a very nice collaborative editor that ha
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by rajman187 4y ago
Dickens published his works in serial format so that was pretty cool ( https://www.uvic.ca/library/research-teaching/collections/se... )
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by rajman187 4y ago
have you tried Quip ( https://quip.com )

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