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Do you think there will come a time when audiobooks are generated via sequence model using celebrity voices? I gave it a go with LSTM's. Each sentence is intelligible, but it feels so dry without the emotion of a human voice actor.
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Watched "They Live" [1] while working as a quant dev at a large bank in '09. Work the next day was super weird. [1] https://signal.org/blog/they-live/
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From [1], which is a fascinating piece: Serge quickly discovered, to his surprise, that Goldman had a one-way relationship with open source. They took huge amounts of free software off the Web, but they did not return it after he had modifi
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The answer certainly includes democracy, but having a constitutional republic like the US is not sufficient. Figure 1 on pdf page 10 [1]. [1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi..
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You can get similar records for deceased people, which will give you a sense of what's in there. Isaac Asimov's FBI file is a case study [1, 2]. People fabricate stories out of jealousy, a desire for retribution, and generic Karen
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> I don't know about New Jersey, but the rest of the USA doesn't do it that way for criminal law. Do you not read the newspaper? People plea out to drug possession when there is video evidence of police planting it, because th
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I'm on board with your logic, but disagree with your conclusion. The Anglo-American legal tradition has two notions of causation: "but-for" and "proximate". The latter asks whether a consequence was foreseeable, an
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It feels like Google has a dog in this fight. Why can't Android devices connect to ipv4-only networks?
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> However for anyone without a duty to keep the information public, you can trade on whatever information you want This is 100% dead wrong. Research the phrase "remote tippee".
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Others would know more about classic CS interviews. I suppose that solving the problems in CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms" couldn't do any harm.
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For Data Science brain teasers, solving math problems that require clever use of the fundamentals. That means calculus, linear algebra, and basic stats. A ninja is not defined by his sword. Reading books gives you new weapons, but you mus
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This medical adherence score [1] is horrifying. [1] https://www.fico.com/en/resource-download-file/3317
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Are there indicators we can use to differentiate people who actually have embargoed knowledge from people engaging in puffery?
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A hard regulatory barrier between the product side and the sales platform side. This already exists in the financial sector. What you would call an "investment bank" is actually a holding company with a number of subsidiaries. Th
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Positive reinforcement for positive steps. Scott is saying and doing good pro-social things.
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> complex technology picked up by cities and counties... will be implemented carelessly and wielded by only the hammiest fists You don't know that. There are almost certainly nonpublic "partnerships" that you are not awar
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"He also noted that her donation had no strings attached, an approach he praised as anti-paternalistic."
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I know people hate PGP, but why don't at least some reporters link signed articles? Writing is such a low-volume activity that the inconvenience isn't a meaningful gate, as it is for say email.
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Figure 1 on pdf page 10 of [1] [1] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
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Fair point. Chomsky has a tendency to exaggerate, but it's a difference of degree. "Continued low levels of inflation and inflation expectations have been a key support for healthy economic performance...Looking ahead, the member
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Alan Greenspan, the economic "Godfather" of this era, viewed growing working insecurity as a positive development and expressed dismay that it may not continue indefinitely [1]. EDIT: Removed suggestion that Greenspan publicly exp
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It's a branding strategy. The psychology of Veblen goods is fascinating. See example below. "Things changed in the 1960s, with McKinsey leading the way. In 1965 and 1966, the firm placed help-wanted ads in The New York Times and
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No. I am saying that money market funds that buy short-term treasuries ("government funds") have the same level of safety as insured deposits. Because of this safety, they have lower yields than prime funds which invest in unsecu
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> Thorpe is epitome of the best of humanity: creative, fearless, and tenacious. I guess we see what we want to see. There are a lot of little red flags littered throughout the book. One thing that rankled me was his assertion that he in
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It is hard to formulate a coherent opinion about the optimal level of activity $W without discussing the concrete details of activity $W. There is a saying in the Beltway, "those who talk don't know and those who know don't t
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For the lazy there are prime money market funds. In this panic and the '08 panic, the Treasury/Fed stepped in to protect prime funds. It's not fair to people who buy government funds, or jump through hoops to spread cash acro
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What you have recommended will tend to stabilize the covariance matrix, but not for the reason you have given. If numerical stability is an issue you encounter, I would caution against using it. Try [1] instead. You imply that any symmetr
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> Namely, it's easier to deal with the consequences of "mistakes" than it is to not make them What we're seeing is a widespread use of "fractional fraud". Transactions and business lines that are 1%-5% fraud
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Even shareholders have a historically unusual inability to participate in corporate governance at Facebook. The closest comparison I have found is the oil trusts from the 19th century. But that's not a good comparison, because they w
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> Let’s not pretend that FAANG employees are like an underclass Depends on your baseline. If you use other workers in the US, then you are correct. If you use a counterfactual in which employees meaningfully participate in corporate gove

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