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This particular case took place in Canada :)
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Banning legacy admissions is a coordination problem. Try to eliminate it at one school and parents (re: donors) will raise an uproar. It would need to be eliminated at the whole cohort of peer schools to eliminate parents’ exit option. Semi
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Robin Hanson makes this point in better babblers http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html "After eighteen years of being a professor, I’ve graded many student essays. And while I usually try
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I think that's what they sell to writers . Does a reader experience this? I sure don't
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Sure, Substack is better than Medium. But for a reader, it's worse than, IMO, Ghost, Wordpress, etc. Anything where, when you click a link to a blogpost, the first thing you see is the blogpost
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Substack Sucks(setharielgreen.com)
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Her essay is from 2019, and I quoted it mainly to say that I am not making an original point, this has been a known problem with LLMs for a while (and I presume it will continue to be).
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Absolutely, for statistics and visualization I think R and its packages are (sometimes) superior. But GPT responses don't generally offer those kinds of nuances; the claim is that the packages are "more mature," period. And i
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As is often true of GPT responses, there's some nonsense interspersed here, e.g. the claim that R has "a more mature package universe" than Python. I think this is false, but if you're reading quickly, it sounds cogent e
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The phrasing centers the workers who lost their jobs. Meta lays off thousands. Mike loses his job.
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but did it have a dancing, evocative-of-social-exclusion-in-middle-school avatar? https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/1/11/23548955/m3gan-horror-...
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M3gan 2: airborne this movie writes itself!
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For a company like GitLab, the widespread perception that macro conditions are bad is equivalent to their actually being bad. The email says that clients are holding off on big software purchases, and that's GitLab's bread and but
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Contra this, I recommend that folks live in DC and commute to those areas if/when needed. I lived in the Columbia Heights area for two years and I found it lovely. Dense, full of amenities, and within walking distance of Rock Creek Par
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Congrats on getting yourself unstuck, OP. I left a job I was bad at and hated in 2021 to hike the Appalachian Trail. One of the best decisions I ever made. > I was driven to actively contemplate suicide due to my boss and his shitty atti
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And a person who designs cars can eliminate the flaw that caused the problem.
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I am with you until the car bit, but I live in Brooklyn and haven’t driven in years. Google Maps is essential for me, I fear
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I long for a dumber phone, but I’ve been thinking about all the supplementary devices I’d need to buy to make up for it — basically a printer (+ ink) for tickets and a GPS device with car ride services and google maps built in for getting a
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My first thought for this thing is to download Linux, Steam, and all the emulators you can and you've basically got a conveniently sized and priced home theater PC that can play any video game from 1990-2010 or so
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And they may never get there because Microsoft can float loss leaders indefinitely if they can justify them in strategic terms.
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I'm not sure how this addresses the fundamental problem, which is that Spotify pays a very low price per stream, so you have to be a huge star to make any money, and Spotify is taking a large part of the proceeds in the meantime. Also
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To ask the obvious question — many musicians argue that Spotify has been terrible for artists [0]. Let’s say you grow as big as Spotify. Will you be terrible for devs? [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_S
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I consider myself a thoughtful person and I enjoyed reading HDM as recently as 2020 ;) There is no need to broadly insult everyone who likes a book. Each to her own. Having said that, I felt ‘the golden compass’ holds up much better than th
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Having recently finished 'Project Hail Mary,' I am of course inclined to see this as evidence for the panspermia hypothesis! If our very distant ancestors evolved to hitch a ride on a comet, they'd probably need a mechanism f
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Cryptonomicon. A classic but deservedly so.
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That makes sense. It would also make sense to have auctions for high-value handles. Or, to take a page from 'Radical Markets', twitter accounts could be associated with a reservation price (a price at which a person would definite
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Funny side-note: @substack is the wrong handle, I assume John meant to tag @SubstackInc. AFAIK there's no formal mechanism for bidding on naming rights, but Twitter could easily set up an auction platform, take a small cut off the top,
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The flipside of that is that if Harvard charged $1M a year, they'd still have more applicants than spots. The sticker price of Harvard is not what the median applicant pays. Some applicants -- e.g. Jared Kushner -- literally do pay m
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Not sure what to make of this, but Austen, who is normally a prolific tweeter, hasn't tweeted about this yet [0]. I have gotten used to CEOs tweeting apologetic stuff when this happens. Perhaps this is norm should be bucked? I don&#x
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"I recant! I recant!" screams Warren Buffett as he runs ashore covered in jellyfish

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