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by sidlls 3y ago
It's satisfying to (continue to) verify existing theory. If we perform an experiment which may shed light on the gaps and flaws in our current models and it simply confirms them, it's unsatisfying. We know our current models in
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by sidlls 3y ago
I didn’t realize Bing had a map app, and I’ve never heard of NaviExpert of Yanosik. Granted, sample size of 1 (actually a half dozen or so—my immediate family haven’t heard of these either).
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by sidlls 3y ago
The song itself is ironic.
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by sidlls 3y ago
A very large quantity of discoveries in science are a combination of "well, that's odd" and the "sheer luck" associated with the circumstances producing that statement. (This isn't a commentary on the truthfuln
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by sidlls 3y ago
It remains to be seen whether that’s a benefit. This tool replaces experience junior engineers have needed to become better developers. Its future value is dependent strongly on the assumption that AI tools like this will evolve quickly eno
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by sidlls 3y ago
His point wasn’t about whether the “grunt work” is enjoyable or not, but that it is necessary work for juniors to do in order to gain experience. I’m not sure. If these AI tools become sophisticated enough it might be better experience to
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by sidlls 3y ago
Tools like this will be useful for small shops that don’t have a genuine need for a junior-to-senior pipeline. It’s going to create a (an even more?) two-tiered community of developers: one tier that knows the AI tools/tricks to produc
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by sidlls 3y ago
Most of my early programming work was with C and C++ (after I left academia, where it was mostly Fortran). I am, simply put, a better programmer for it, objectively so when compared to my peers who've never touched it, at basically eve
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by sidlls 3y ago
The priest (or equivalent) generally serves this role in kind, and for some sects degree. Religions include the same kind of inoculation with respect to belief, exclusion, and suspicion of outside influences that cults have: it’s just expre
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by sidlls 3y ago
The difference between Mormonism (or any other religion) and a cult is one of degree, not kind
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by sidlls 3y ago
It's (likely) much less expensive (in many ways, not just financially) to employ a larger number of python programmers than a smaller number of them skilled in a language more appropriate for the use case. Engineer flexibility, salary
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by sidlls 3y ago
They’ve made their money through a combination of information asymmetry and gray-area or outright illegal practices (e.g. tax shenanigans). Their returns are literally unbelievable if they are operating within the bounds of regulations.
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by sidlls 3y ago
While I agree that TA is an invalid method for investing, I disagree with your take on it. What you describe are, charitably, outlier events. Statistical models generally aren't useful for predicting singular events, even if they aren&
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by sidlls 3y ago
Technical analysis is based on statistics the same way astrology is: that is to say, it incorporates some of the jargon and features shallow, surface-level incorporation and features. TA is worse because it affects more people.
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by sidlls 3y ago
This happened in the Bay Area, too. Prior to everyone adopting "RTO" (return to office) policies, my commute to the office regardless of the day was about 20 minutes (leaving from SF). After, on Tuesdays through Thursdays, it can
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by sidlls 3y ago
Is this article journalistic dramatization or do we have actual PIs in a field saying nonsense like "be careful what you wish for?" Was that taken out of context somehow? Maybe it's just the difference between physics and thi
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by sidlls 3y ago
The people GP was talking about--keeping super complicated Excel spreadsheets and whatever--are almost certainly not investing . They're day- or swing-trading, playing "technical analysis" games, and engaged in all manner of
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by sidlls 3y ago
The difference being that in two of the alternatives you list skill has a role to some non-trivial degree, while retail trading ( not traditional long-term investing) is dependent almost 100% on pure luck. Even with traditional long-term i
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by sidlls 3y ago
> But retail trading: They’ve figured out how to plow a field with a spoon. Have they, though? Or, perhaps a better question, who is "they" and how do they make a living retail trading? Aren't most successful retail trader
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by sidlls 3y ago
> Or it's a realistic view from outside your bubble. This doesn't negate my point about propaganda. There is a long and deep history of the wealthy classes pitting the lower classes against each other in this very way, primaril
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by sidlls 3y ago
I think you have it backwards: targeting "equality of outcome" necessitates policies to pick winners and losers. Specifically, it requires policies that aim to minimize both. Equality of opportunity doesn't mean hobbling tale
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by sidlls 3y ago
Alternate view: the lady behind the counter is obscenely underpaid, and the ICs are merely underpaid. This meme that tech workers are obscenely overpaid is just an example of how the propaganda of the truly wealthy elite works. Instead of s
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by sidlls 3y ago
It’s more that wave functions are ubiquitous in all areas of physics. It generally falls out of the fact that we can model tons of stuff with second order differential equations, which often result in models that have oscillator/wave-l
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by sidlls 3y ago
That's how I was around 40 (though my children were 6 and 3 at the time). I'm definitely going through a midlife crisis. One thing I've learned about myself in this period (it started last year) is that there is nothing wor
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by sidlls 3y ago
Same, except they started us in 1st or 2nd grade. I (mid-40s) have vivid memories of the computer lab, with Apple computers lining either side of the wall and the lighting and everything. That segment in my early education left a bigger imp
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by sidlls 3y ago
No my oldest’s school didn’t require that. I don’t recall that either, but I was in 4th grade in the mid-80s so my recollection may be off. They do a fair bit of writing, but not as rigorous as what I had in 5th grade. We had to write legit
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by sidlls 3y ago
I've been absolutely enraged at the approach to mathematics instruction my children (who have just finished 2nd and 5th grade) have had to-date. It is an absolutely mind-bogglingly inflexible system that seems designed to frustrate any
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by sidlls 3y ago
awk is a fantastic command line application that is useful for filtering, basic computations and transformations that other basic utilities (e.g. cut, sort, etc.) + grep don't (readily/easily) provide. I suppose it might be a bit
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by sidlls 3y ago
There’s no good reason for any team of 2 or more to not do code reviews.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Periodic doesn't mean perpetual, perfect, constant periodic motion (in general).

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