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by screye 4y ago
Which maps directly onto Japan's Lost Decade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
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by screye 4y ago
I highly recommend you go read a summary of the Indian constitution before reading comments on here. I will offer my own opinions on the matter, but you'll likely find that my answers are in stark contrast to some others on this thread
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by screye 4y ago
Altnews the left wing version of Tucker Carlson. I'd go as far as to say that if Alt-news told me there was no Earthquake in my house, my first instinct would be to find cover. Local and politicized news in India is notoriously biased.
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by screye 4y ago
The one that blow my mind the most was the simultaneous invention of calculus. Modern Calculus can be reasonably thought of as the most important mathematical leap forward of the last 1000 years. If there was ever an invention that can be c
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by screye 4y ago
small AI model != cheap AI model. It costs the same to train as these giant models. You merely spend they money on training it for longer instead of larger.
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by screye 4y ago
> Who is claiming this? I was replying to the grandparent comment that was claiming exactly this. > panda Twitter account you linked to looks to be straight propaganda It's a map of US and China's bases. It's publicly k
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by screye 4y ago
I've seen this up close during my time in ML research. I'd often jokingly mention an idea, only for someone to get a state-of-the-art paper out of the exact same idea within a year of that. It annoyed me at first, but with time, I
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by screye 4y ago
Which is a (apologies for the insult) brain-dead claim. The US is practically impossible to invade, even if it did not have a massive navy. The only ways into the US are Eastern Ocean, Bigger Western Ocean, Economically dependent southern n
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by screye 4y ago
On the other hand, I feel like it takes an incredibly public tragedy for a platform for HN to tolerate any discussions around SF crime. People want to talk about crime, drugs & homelessness all the time. It is only in high profile cases
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by screye 4y ago
Universities are about a few things: 1. Education - Inspiration and job training 2. High-achieving peer groups 3. Prestige and signalling 4. Fun and independence Online courses do #1 better than CCs. Dorms are essential to #4, so CCs miss o
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by screye 4y ago
Wealth inequality is order of magnitudes higher in developing nations, and we do not see this sort of violence on the regular.
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by screye 4y ago
The worst affected cities have the widest safety nets. These kinds of crimes are fairly low in towns in Mississippi ravaged by worse poverty and with their own (painkillers) drug problems. The nature of the drugs (fentanyl), the manifestati
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by screye 4y ago
The worst affected cities have the widest safety nets. These kinds of crimes are fairly low in towns in Mississippi ravaged by worse poverty and with their own (painkillers) drug problems. The nature of the drugs (fentanyl), the manifestati
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by screye 4y ago
Crime in East Coast NYC/Boston/DC and West-coast-cities (SF/Seattle/Portland) is very different. The remarkable thing about SF and Seattle, is that crime is highest in high desirability/high-foot-fall areas. Many fo
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by screye 4y ago
It is hardly a seed round. Langchain is the most mature tool (not saying much) in this new LLM revolution. Like a market leader doing a seed round.
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by screye 4y ago
Stripping down seemingly disparate problems down to their bone will often reveal the wisdom behind certain 'rules of thumb': More rules disproportionately benefit those with the resources to navigate said rules. Be that
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by screye 4y ago
It is to be expected. No intersecting tectonic plates with landmass = no mountains = no rivers. The biggest rivers come from mountain ranges that sit on huge inter-continental plates. large Indian and Chinese rivers come from the Himalayas
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by screye 4y ago
We are currently mining just about all the internet data that's available. We are heading towards a limit and the AIs aren't getting much better. The entire realm of video is under-explored. Think about the amount of con
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by screye 4y ago
> Skyscrapers also have a footprint that might no be immediately obvious - it's their energy, water and food demand I am not sure I understand. Wouldn't all these statistics amount to roughly equal or lower consumption as compa
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by screye 4y ago
> keep immigration controllable And a lottery is the best way to do it ? Points based systems, merit based systems or even seniority based systems make a lot more sense. How is complete and utter randomness (lottery) the best answer ? &g
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by screye 4y ago
All fundamental research is odd like that. Someone has to make significant progress on a 'useless' topic before some semblance of usefulness starts becoming visible.
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by screye 4y ago
To be clear, I am not against the H1B. I am on an H1B myself. I am opposed to the vagueness around everything having to do with legal immigration. If you want to import the top talent of the world permanently, then make it easy for them to
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by screye 4y ago
The H1b is the blunt all-purpose-tool of the era, but having more specific policy objectives is more productive. The murkiness of the current H1b allows anxiety which companies can exploit. A dual-intent, 5-50 yr green card wait-times, lott
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by screye 4y ago
At the end of the day, a union is merely one of the ropes that workers can tug at to maintain leverage. Doctors don't use unions. They instead artificially limit supply by erecting massive barriers to enter their workforce. This keeps
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by screye 4y ago
Amazon has been unable to hire LLM/transformers talent for a good 5 years now. They might have terrific data, but Amazon has always been a little behind on NLP research.
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Does this effectively confirm the hygiene hypothesis ? The hygiene hypothesis suggests that a newborn baby's immune system must be educated so it will function properly during infancy and the rest of life. I'm weighing th
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by screye 4y ago
> net worth would fix homelessness in San Francisco I know this wasn't the point of your analogy. But the ill-conceived idea that money can fix homelessness in San Francisco is exactly the reason why we got here in the first place.
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by screye 4y ago
> human translators, medical transcriptionists, court reporters Yes, they will be all called 'ai data labellers'. For a long time, "People don't just want jobs, they want good jobs" was the slogan of industries t
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Thanks !
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by screye 4y ago
You read my mind. I have a JDS Atom + Sundara setup, and I can hear the difference vs my Galaxy Buds 2 pro (Crinacle's best wireless IEM winner). But, I have been wondering what percent of it is placebo, given the effort it takes to us

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