slavboj

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by slavboj 4y ago
Yes, that was the intention - to admit more "diverse" students without embarrassment, at the expense of kneecapping themselves with crappier heuristics for the general admissions pool.
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by slavboj 4y ago
You don't need "AI" to deploy the cutting edge "hire the black fella" algorithm.
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by slavboj 4y ago
"Diverse" doesn't mean "diverse", it just means "left constituencies". Thus certain races are "racially diverse" (blacks most, whites of course least), certain income strata are "economical
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by slavboj 4y ago
In most wars until comparatively recently it was common to have 25yos in charge of 100s to 1000s of men, including on occasion general officer rank. Even with modern peacetime career trajectories it is possible to have a 25yo captain comma
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by slavboj 4y ago
I have no idea whether they think it's "okay", but Chinese students are vastly overrepresented.
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by slavboj 4y ago
Astonishingly, nothing about the demographics of the students involved, just a vague implication towards "international students". It's not exactly a secret who is taking advantage of Australia's efforts to diversify fr
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by slavboj 4y ago
People have been managing garbage collection schedules for decades now. It's quite possible for many systems to have completely deterministic performance, with the allocation/deallocation performance made extremely fast, gc restr
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by slavboj 4y ago
Historically it has been to move to the US for higher wages. This happened for instance when US ag subsidies combined with opening Mexico's ag market priced out small farmers.
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by slavboj 4y ago
It is quite possible to own property in a given county while having no actual income in that area. If you wanted to get deep into the economics, you can consider a property tax as a tax on imputed rents (which is a standard appraisal metho
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by slavboj 4y ago
People miss the most direct application of language model based AI, IMO - a ton of sales and CSR jobs are fundamentally numbers games following a script with escalation paths, with the existing scripts targeted at cutting your losses becaus
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by slavboj 4y ago
Some high-end Smith and Wesson revolvers use scandium-aluminum alloys in exactly the same way to reduce weight. It does seem to be an alloy that is restricted to high end consumer goods in hobbies where consumers are willing to pay to avoi
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by slavboj 4y ago
Machine learning will generally swallow as much RAM as you can throw at it, assuming you're not just using a nvidia coprocessor with its own memory (and even in that case, you have to keep it fed).
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by slavboj 4y ago
Berkshire's ability to commit to long-term planning (at least currently) instead of levering up to boost short term returns to equity gives them an advantage over the traditional conglomerate model.
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by slavboj 4y ago
The difference is that Buffett uses subsidiaries to reduce Berkshire's long term cost of capital for other projects, rather than trying to squeeze returns from them directly.
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by slavboj 4y ago
Buffett's MO for subsidiaries is businesses that generate low cost free cash flow that can be leveraged to fund more speculative paper investments. It's very similar to the conglomerate model - arranging for an internal cost of c
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by slavboj 4y ago
The legal term of art for this is "fraudulent conveyance". "We strip off all assets and then declare bankruptcy" has been a known failure mode for like 500 years. cf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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by slavboj 4y ago
Default risk (either outright or de facto) is also extremely present. Most countries (including the US, cf Roosevelt's abrogation of gold-denominated debt) have defaulted at various times.
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by slavboj 4y ago
An "accessed at" field is a trivial use case.
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by slavboj 5y ago
Because blacks have lower average scores on them.
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by slavboj 5y ago
On jurisdictional grounds, not the DOJ interpretation of the CFAA.
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by slavboj 5y ago
Surprisingly, despite "a willingness to use them against police", they didn't use them against police, so it's likelier than not that the story is made up or mischaracterized.
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by slavboj 5y ago
Taking the roof off is not possible, the structure is not designed for the required amount of drainage or freeze-thaw cycles.
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by slavboj 5y ago
At a minimum the entire idea of "white collar crime" disproves the notion that people don't steal once they hit subsistence.
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by slavboj 5y ago
"Terrorism" expands to fill the resources available for "countering" it.
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by slavboj 5y ago
The favored solutions for "equity issues" usually involve jobs for left activists or NGOs - "defund the police" transmutes into "we need half a department worth of various flavors of social workers".
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by slavboj 5y ago
Surely you're aware that this literally and explicitly happens in the context of college admissions. "We already have a couple tuba players, try Yale."
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by slavboj 5y ago
A quarter of Harvard's entering class is Asian (vs about 6% of the US population and less in the youth bracket). What proportion would you like?
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by slavboj 5y ago
A large insurance company as of X years ago implemented iteratively reweighted least squares in pure SQL running against the claim database to fit their risk models. Honestly their implementation was impressive, in a WTF way, but doing lit
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by slavboj 5y ago
If I did my calculation right, based on my usage, including miscellaneous egress and API fees, I could store about 1.25 TB on B2 for 7 bucks a month. I would bet their median personal backup customer is under that.
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by slavboj 5y ago
IME it is vastly more robust to use your backup client of choice (eg Duplicati) wrapping Backblaze B2, their S3 competitor. As a bonus it becomes much easier to migrate to or from them once your data is accessible in an open API, particula

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