siavosh

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   by siavosh 9y ago

   A prime example of all this are AI black boxes like neural nets.
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   by siavosh 9y ago

   I'm curious if anyone can quantify the creation of new financial products and compare against GDP growth? My recollection is post 2008 many economists were concluding that the hyper financialization of the economy was a detriment and w
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   by siavosh 10y ago

   https://faqt.co We're closing down on April 30th.
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   by siavosh 10y ago

   I'd love to grind my own mirror, but are there health concerns with the fine powder for the skin and respiratory systems?
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   by siavosh 10y ago

   I think there's truth in what you're saying, it's just a bit dubious when that illusion is also used to generate billions in personal wealth. It raises the cynic in some observers.
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   Catalog of Galaxies, Plotted by Redshift(github.com)

   2 points by siavosh 10y ago|0 comments
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   China Gains on the U.S. In the Artificial Intelligence Arms Race(nytimes.com)

   2 points by siavosh 10y ago|0 comments
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   by siavosh 10y ago

   On a domestic flight I sat next to a physician. During our chats we talked about the opioid epidemic and he pointed to a push by pharmaceuticals to make pain a distinct item that needs to be treated. And how this in part led to the runaway
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   by siavosh 10y ago

   But his #1 bottleneck was a poorly indexed tags table. I would imagine most people don't setup auto-scaling distributed databases for relatively simple site like this. His bottlenecks weren't application logic or static content se
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Kind of depends on the db and engine being used, but for MySQL, this book has been very good in helping me optimize sensitive queries: High Performance MySQL by Jeremy D. Zawodny
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Curious if this is part of a larger trend in IPOs across industries? And if something is driving it other than unique founder celebrity status'. And if I were to make a bit of a leap, if this is an anti-democratic trend we're witn
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Hah yeah I was surprised by the downvotes. My point was that if you were in finance, these sorts of numbers generate massive bonus'...but not in other fields sadly.
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I hope these engineers get a few million $ bonuses.
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I don't doubt that significant progess has been made in the last five or so years. Meta papers just make me curious given my past experience: the field had ended up with so many tunable parameters that no one understood, it gave rise t
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I'm curious to hear from current researchers: Back when I did some work in neural networks (10-15 years ago), the field had become saturated with 'meta' papers on topology generation, and also on optimization techniques, (sli
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Some thoughts: - I can also imagine a world where the 0.01% continue to accumulate wealth, they will certainly have a growing ability to protect their position. The world has finite resources, when "immortality" is discovered will
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I'm curious if proponents of 'immortality' do not fear a world where there are tremendous social (not to mention environmental) consequences to significantly extended life/health-spans? If you are under a certain age in
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I'm curious if there's a small population of people (with the means) that buy these robots for private/hobby use, and if so, what they do with them in their house/workshop? Cause honestly, I would love to play and experi
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Over the last 30-40 years, particularly post 2008, many people with college degrees can't find meaningful work in their chosen field--say biology, chemistry, business etc. In other words, they may have made a very reasonable decision o
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Regarding Hillbilly Elegy: I read it after another post-election book list recommended it, and found it to be a very mixed bag and generally a disappointment. The valuable part was the depiction of his home life and the disintegration of th
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Thanks, yeah, already in the middle of Streeck's essay collection. Jarring.
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Have you found any notable economist that critiques his work?
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Not yet, but it's on my list. I've been watching a lot of Yanis' talks on youtube, very compelling perspectives.
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    My personal picks as I continue to try to understand global economic trends since the 1980's through the prism of the 2008-crash: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis [1] The Pri
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    Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal(nytimes.com)

    13 points by siavosh 10y ago|8 comments
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    Are there any good articles/resources that address the challenges of Bitcoin becoming anything more than a security vs a currency given it's similarity to being a restrictive Gold Standard like currency? Recently I've seen so
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    Court Rules IRS Can Seek Information on Bitcoin Customers(wsj.com)

    99 points by siavosh 10y ago|104 comments
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    The new road to serfdom: The coming real estate collapse (2006) [pdf](michael-hudson.com)

    4 points by siavosh 10y ago|0 comments
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    If you look at the post-war period, from 1946 till 1970s/early 1980s, the US has a much more progressive tax rate, and there was more bank regulation. It was also coincidentally the golden age of American economics. Since the 1980&#x27
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    by siavosh 10y ago

    I think that was indeed a silver lining, but the scary question is does that make any difference in terms of inequality in America? His economic cabinet is mostly old faces of industry, his tax plan is a continuation of trends since the 198