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by sooheon 6y ago
> like doing said editing smoother with fewer dropped frames than far more powerful Intel machines with a lot more RAM Just noting Zen3 is not Intel.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Yeah, if you move around OSs I'm sure the nonconformity is annoying. I'm in the camp that HCI is better when it's personalized rather than globally standardized, so I heavily rebind and use non-standard keyboards anyways.
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by sooheon 6y ago
> it has substantially different keyboard shortcuts compared to Windows/Linux Not just different, substantially better, in my opinion. The addition of the command key is a 2x+ increase in modifier-space (2C1 + 2C2 vs. 3C1 + 3C2 + 3C
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by sooheon 6y ago
Taleb makes great points here. The only counterargument I am aware of is Nick Bostrom's "Vulnerable World" hypothesis[1]. Taleb assumes that negative outcomes may simply be abandoned at zero cost, and therefore reducing resea
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by sooheon 6y ago
> human evolution itself turned away from high-mutation, high number of trials convex exploration to a more conservative exploitation of existing benefits. > Are we already that close to the best we genetically could be? Well nature a
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by sooheon 6y ago
It's an essay against the common pattern of "architecting expensive highways to the destination" (teleological) as opposed to "cheap meandering towards payoffs" (convexity, optionality). > Things have costs. Bein
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by sooheon 6y ago
> use a financial model like Discounted Cash Flow for finding companies that are "objectively" severely undervalued -> buy them -> wait X years until they reach their "fair price" that you calculated at the star
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by sooheon 6y ago
If it's possible for them to earn money on float via investments or otherwise, the float must have higher NPV than their expected payouts, no?
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by sooheon 6y ago
Interesting. Any examples of the 2nd?
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by sooheon 6y ago
Which is a form of hostage negotiation. Promise breakers are incentivized to profit as much as possible from broken promises as long as they can hold the system as a whole hostage.
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by sooheon 6y ago
I guess this is where the sentiment of "let's break it so they fix it" comes from.
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by sooheon 6y ago
> back tested it shows significantly lower variance Not sure what you're using as the measure of variance, but Morningstar found DCA has higher variance in IRR: https://www.morningstar.com.au/learn/article/
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by sooheon 6y ago
> Does everyone truly ride the crash down and back up or will some of them panic and leave the market before it recovers? This is an orthogonal issue. If you DCA for 12 months and then a crash immediately occurs, you suffer the exact sam
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by sooheon 6y ago
I mean, it is kind of a law of nature, like gravity wells accumulating, that power and wealth beget power and wealth at a greater rate than the global mean. But yes, I agree, the whole idea of pointing out r > g is to advocate for policy
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by sooheon 6y ago
> the lump sump has a higher probability of failure For this to be true, you must be a successful market timer. Whatever your DCA period is, at the end of the period, you are fully invested -- a crash at that point in time would hurt you
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by sooheon 6y ago
That page is inaccurate, according to historical data the downside risk is always greater with dollar cost averaging: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/lump-sum-investing/ This is because there are always two downsides, the
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by sooheon 6y ago
> I'd rather take a small hit to the expected value of my returns in order to reduce risk of being on the wrong side of that average. This is a common fallacy. That is not actually the tradeoff you are making, in fact you are taking
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by sooheon 6y ago
Return to capital > growth of economy. This is the central dogma of Piketty's Capital.
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by sooheon 6y ago
The parent project, LabML, looks interesting. Anyone have any experience with how this stacks up against Weights and Biases?
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by sooheon 6y ago
Nice. Love this because principles should always be judged in relation to other principles. "DRY is good/bad" gets you going in circles, but "DRY but prioritize KISS" is a lot more practical.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Connecting ideas in a historical narrative is not equal to alleging conspiracy. Reading that into his documentaries says more about your perspective.
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by sooheon 6y ago
I didn't know what that did so I googled "marquee html", they have a nice little easter egg for it. It's been a while since I've seen anything like that from google
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by sooheon 6y ago
"$$$ closed at the end of the period" causes negative externalities at the expense of value delivered in the long run (overpromising, misleading, mispricing). This isn't unique to sales/engineering, I've heard of it
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by sooheon 6y ago
Now that you understand this piece of information, would you choose to learn more about this problem, or erase memory of this knowledge from your self?
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by sooheon 6y ago
> I have no idea to this day how macs became the premier development environment. s/macs/python s/development environment/scripting language
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by sooheon 6y ago
> A better comparison would be the swine flu vaccine in 1976. I don't see how we can know that this is representative of the worst possible outcomes.
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by sooheon 6y ago
Which scihub provides. Journals are their own silos and require multiple exorbitant subscriptions.
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by sooheon 6y ago
> Information overload will cause great harm and push people to the extreme ideology, as we've seen in social media (facebook, twitter, google etc.) the self-reinforced bubble Now that we understand this piece of information, is the
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by sooheon 6y ago
That hardware advance may be closer than expected: https://www.graphcore.ai
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by sooheon 6y ago
Linked paper is focused on node classification, parent is asking for whole graph prediction.

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