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by solveit 7y ago
> It’s just poor quality planning and execution. Potato potato. If you can get away with "poor quality planning" in person but not in remote, it doesn't matter what you call it.
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by solveit 7y ago
Fields where you have to start very young. For instance, it's very unlikely that you'll become world class in gymnastics, chess, or piano unless your parents were at least knowledgeable enough to get you very good teachers by the
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by solveit 7y ago
I think the point was that you probably couldn't rehabilitate him by teaching him maths.
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by solveit 7y ago
> I had the displeasure of working in a startup that ultimately folded once, all of the teammates I considered to be competent got new jobs within a week or so, all of the stragglers struggled immensely. This says good things about the i
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by solveit 7y ago
Bookkeeping needs to be accurate to the penny. Estimating growth for the next quarter or last years GDP doesn't.
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by solveit 7y ago
The difference I'm seeing in the comments seems to be between actual Quora users and people who just keep stumbling on Quora via search. My impression is that Quora does well at tailoring content for its users while being obnoxiously a
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by solveit 7y ago
I maintain that there still exist things that you can only learn via osmosis. Sometimes, books and MOOCs just will not do. Also, > It's not as if the alternative to 4 years of undergrad and $100-250k in tuition + living costs is jus
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by solveit 7y ago
I would strongly recommend against neural enhancing for identifying faces. There's a good chance the face will get "enhanced" into somebody in the training set that kinda looks similar to the blurry photo.
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by solveit 7y ago
> Absolutely nothing you learn in a college education you can't learn yourself for free on the internet. This is categorically false. Face-to-face time with an expert is incredibly valuable and incredibly expensive outside of an aca
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> I’m not sure how comparable a professional athlete is to a CEO. I agree that this is a difficult question. But why in the world is the government , with all it's perverse incentives, trying to figure this out? The shareholders, t
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by solveit 7y ago
It depends. DL models have legitimately achieved super human accuracy on many tasks. Part of this is because deep learning is incredibly effective for a certain class of problems. But part of this is because humans are remarkably bad at
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by solveit 7y ago
People who say such things seem to think that abstraction and reduction to components inherently carry a moral valence. They don't. People think that if you think of love as a chemical reaction it must mean that you think it has no val
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by solveit 7y ago
> Math class is dealing with intense focus on a poorly documented thing. I like this and think it's accurate. Funnily enough, it gets better if you go on to major in maths. The quality of pre-university maths teaching is just uncons
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> I agree w you mostly but you extended this form of systemic analysis to "making a date happy" which I think is a fundamental misunderstanding of relationships. To everyone reading this: please don't go around treating ot
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by solveit 7y ago
You're being downvoted, but this meta-level problem really is the problem to solve. How do you identify experts? How do you choose when to defer to experts and when to play it by ear? More generally, how do you decide how to make dec
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by solveit 7y ago
Southeast Asian drug laws are far more draconian than American drug laws and the only reason nobody talks about intergenerational poverty there is because single-generation poverty doesn't exist. Imperialistic powers took turns colonis
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by solveit 7y ago
My argument that leaving your home town is costly stands regardless of what your definitions are. For a similar example, tall people tend to both be more intelligent and to come from richer families because malnutrition as a child negativel
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by solveit 7y ago
Do they become mostly useless, or do they act erratically but effectively, as some sleepwalkers are known to do? For instance, some people are capable of driving while asleep. I imagine it's not outside the realm of possibility that a
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by solveit 7y ago
> there was a period during which SAC had their bombs set to an arming code of all zeros, so that they could drop them without authority from higher. Did they know that the codes were all zero? I mean, terrible security either way, but
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by solveit 7y ago
I am not sure this is true. Meals in other countries are not getting bigger and bigger, and so the reason is likely to be something particular to the US and not universal human nature. So we have no reason to think that human nature incenti
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by solveit 7y ago
> Seriously? As someone in a rural area who is [...] NO. You cannot say that. Sure but you're just one person out of millions. We're trying to compare populations. And obviously the prior poster didn't mean that every rura
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by solveit 7y ago
It's incredibly interesting that unsent emails were used to support a case. Were they used to prove intent of some kind?
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by solveit 7y ago
Under/overpaying has nothing to do with how much any particular firm has and everything to do with what other companies are willing to pay. If there's a bidding war, then whatever that produces is the fair market rate.
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by solveit 7y ago
Yeah but OP says they were only promoted once, so they're probably not on track to make L6 in six years.
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by solveit 7y ago
The title also fails to even type-check. Models don't prove things, scientists using models do. While this may sound pedantic, it's not. A good part of the title's shock value disappears if you replace it with "Scientist
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by solveit 7y ago
It's not hubris, it's showboating for internal politics. Not only will Norway not comply with such a ridiculous request, the ridiculousness of the request is the whole point because "only a true believer could request somet
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by solveit 7y ago
Because UBI is the point of his campaign. His and his supporters claims to the contrary notwithstanding[1], Yang is a single issue candidate trying to draw attention and support for UBI. I would be very surprised if he really thought he cou
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It is however, a highly effective tool for political purges.
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> It seems easier Setting aside ethical issues as you clearly don't care, it really isn't at all easy. It's not like people haven't tried.
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by solveit 7y ago
Starting your argument with "in general" and following up with a self-admittedly extreme example is... not good argumentation. The fact that Softbank threw money away in a rather spectacular fashion doesn't at all speak to wh

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