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by ripe 4y ago
Yes, I think this kind of price-reducing auction would work and would be fair and not user hostile. For Taylor Swift’s tickets, I wonder what the starting price would need to be at a typical Northeast venue like Gillette Stadium…
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by ripe 4y ago
> the anger over what happened yesterday is overblown Much of the anger is about Ticketmaster’s terrible website, which made it impossible for fans to reliably buy tickets even when they spent the whole day hitting refresh. There can be
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Ticketmaster online disaster for Taylor Swift fans(nytimes.com)
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by ripe 4y ago
I don't know which entity is responsible for the poor user experience buying these tickets online: the TicketMaster monopoly, the venues, or the artist's own decisions, but there's no excuse why the site should make it so har
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by ripe 4y ago
I believe most of these applications are based on statistical methods, but not what is commonly known as AI/ML.
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by ripe 4y ago
Thank you for posting that essay. Relevant para: NOT… A way to make more money While we haven't heard any statistics for the past couple of years, graduate students used to estimate the ``payoff'' using the starting salaries
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by ripe 4y ago
I see you are frustrated you can’t convince others that government is the root of all problems. Have you considered that you might be wrong? Serious problems require serious efforts to understand and solve. Calling people names like “statis
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by ripe 4y ago
My Bank of America credit card lets me dispute charges online, with a simple series of web forms. Very convenient.
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by ripe 4y ago
No, he isn' spot on. Printing presses spread ideas and misinformation at a much more human speed than today's Internet based platforms. So, they're a poor analogy for the problem we're discussing. (I didn't down vot
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by ripe 4y ago
> tensors multiplied by tensors This argument is ignoring the problem. What a neural network cannot do is to explain which invisible "rules" it has learned. For example, when trying to classify movie reviews into good and bad [
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by ripe 4y ago
I really like this way of explaining ML and its limitations in practice. Yes, things are sometimes oversimplified, but that's exactly what you need. I would say it's good not just for managers, but for anyone. Great job!
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Visual explanation of Google's income statement(substackcdn.com)
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by ripe 4y ago
This investment newsletter called "App Economy Insights" displays each company's income statement as a graphical diagram. I've seen such flow diagrams before, in fact I have generated them myself in Javascript. But this
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by ripe 4y ago
I agree. Musk's key talent is sales: * Convincing investors to lend him money. * Convincing talented people to come work on his projects. And he lies convincingly. His methods sometimes do get results (Tesla electric cars, SpaceX), so
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by ripe 4y ago
> I use github copilot every day - its not perfect but good enough to add value to my workflow. Could you please share an example? I saw a description of copilot but couldn't imagine what it might be useful for.
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by ripe 4y ago
> There is no such thing as “scarce workers”. The problem is scarce salaries. Well, yes, and the point is that workers are more scarce at any given salary than they used to be last year, or in the last decade, etc. At the same time, robo
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by ripe 4y ago
> Still, it’s impossible for me to shake the feeling that [Gary Marcus] just likes to hear himself talk and doesn’t want to see progress in AI. He says he wants to see progress in AI. He wants people to get their heads out of the neural
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by ripe 4y ago
You might be right that these "multimodal" transformers, by integrating additional data from non-text sources, would be more capable than GPT-3. But I don't think that invalidates Gary Marcus's point. The word "mode
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by ripe 4y ago
> Conspiracy-theory-isation exists because people resent being told what they are supposed to believe by an authority they do not trust. I keep hearing this theory, but it just begs the question: how are these people deciding which sourc
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by ripe 4y ago
Love your analogy! Very visual. Makes sense, too. "Stand clear of the explosion," lol!
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by ripe 4y ago
A little off-topic, but: Am I the only one who finds the repeated incorrect spelling of "heterogeneous" annoying? The worst part is, the way they spell it, "heterogenous", actually means something else. Just not what the
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by ripe 4y ago
Is there a back button? Honest question. I thought iPhones didn't have one. When I pick up my wife's iPhone I always feel a little lost.
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by ripe 4y ago
Lol, "was" versus "were" usage is a pet peeve of mine. Looks like some time im 2016 they got an English major to fix the headline.
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by ripe 4y ago
Interesting tech, though I can't help imagining it's solving an auxiliary issue and not the core problem with many call centers, which is that these workers are usually unable to solve the customer's problem but are there onl
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by ripe 4y ago
Immigrants come in many categories. I immigrated to the US as a highly educated engineer from a poor Asian country. My country was poor, but not terrible, not a dictatorship, etc. If I had never immigrated, I would still have done fine, alt
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by ripe 4y ago
In many countries SMS can get expensive, especially for international use, depending on the phone billing policy. In poorer countries people often use free wifi areas for data-based messaging. Hence the popularity of WhatsApp. Even if you h
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by ripe 4y ago
Essay by Yann LeCun and Jacob Browning. The title as it appears is: "What AI Can Tell Us About Intelligence", but this title is misleading. The authors say that the central disagreement between skeptics like Gary Marcus and themse
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Does symbolic manipulation need to be hard-coded, or can it be learned?(noemamag.com)
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by ripe 4y ago
Side note: I love the HTML format of these IETF RFCs, as in TFA. Over the decades, I was used to seeing the old text format (which I like), but this one is particularly easy on the eye, especially on my Android phone.
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by ripe 4y ago
What's with the hate for DMVs? Maybe they're bad in some US states, but in mine (Massachusetts), I really can't imagine a better-run business, private or public, that accomplishes so much with so little investment. You can do

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