srean

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by srean 5mo ago
Same here but was curious about stats of broken heart syndrome anyhow.
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by srean 5mo ago
Thanks.
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by srean 5mo ago
> So a story which paints a very real picture of life (rather than constructing a narrative) might just be unpleasant. May be, but to someone going through similar life experiences an honest story might give their internal emotions some
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by srean 5mo ago
Has there been any study that analyses the frequency of natural death of one shortly after death of his/her partner. How different is that compared to what one would expect assuming statistical independence and based image and health a
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by srean 5mo ago
The data is the code. Training algorithm is the compiler. The weights are the byte code produced to run on the inference VM.
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by srean 5mo ago
I know, right ? But there isn't.
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by srean 5mo ago
> because the people trading with you thought the exchange was of equal value, or they wouldn't have engaged in it If this was true I would have emphatically agreed with you on all counts. But it simply isn't true. Many find th
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by srean 5mo ago
That's too naive. Laws work differently once you have billions of dollars. They can and will be bent and politicians will be too happy to do that for you. It's win win for both. Ignoring this aspect of the way the world works is l
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by srean 5mo ago
Almost in violent agreement. Disagree about the billionaire bit. Accumulates too much power too narrowly. Then one can subvert the market and rule of law. It seems the line lies somewhere between a hundred million and billion dollars at the
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by srean 5mo ago
I accept the criticism in name but cannot invalidate a lived experience just because it has not been quantified accurately. > majority of that middle class moved on to the upper class Is this true in the US in inflation adjusted terms ?
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by srean 5mo ago
Come on, no way you can claim that. Let's take a Principal Engineer. A bad choice to make my case with, because among others, they do pay rather well. For a Principal Engineer, it is sort of a job requirement at that level to save or g
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by srean 5mo ago
I would agree with your statement regarding politics that rests solely on wealth distribution of the populist kind. Wealth needs to be created so that one has something to add to everyone's bag.
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by srean 5mo ago
Indeed. It has rarely (if at all) worked out for any other country though. One or the other super power will make sure that does not happen. US scuttling Iran's nationalisation of their oil being one example. Even without geopolitical
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by srean 5mo ago
For what it's worth they are my words not Picekty's. It does not matter what it's called. The buck stops at the basket of goods and services I can buy. As long as this basket of goods and services is evaluated in inflation ad
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by srean 5mo ago
> My point is that the pie is growing and all are benefitting. This is the main point of contention though. Earlier generation middle class seems to have been larger and more financially secure. That would be our parent's generati
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by srean 5mo ago
> laborer gets paid for the value he creates Not true at all. Most labourers have nowhere close the pricing power necessary for this to be true. Information is obfuscated (legally of course) on purpose.
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by srean 5mo ago
Counterfactuals no, but one can make good-faith scientific attempts. We don't because we are locked by ideologies.
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by srean 5mo ago
Too much latency in information flow. Too high a variance. Worse is that one can double bet on the same underlying asset on different exchanges (like taking out multiple insurance policies on the same car with payout on one policy not neces
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by srean 5mo ago
That's money and not wealth and its a flow not stock and denominated in something that can depreciate, has it even been priced correctly ? I grant you that it is very hard to measure ownership of (wealth generating) assets, hidden behi
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by srean 5mo ago
Another way is to learn from what Norway is doing right and see what can be replicated. Norway is not a sole example though, just a prominent one.
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by srean 5mo ago
Grain prices are today set by derivative markets that have very little connection to actual produce.
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by srean 5mo ago
In a hypothetical free market yes. But we don't have one. We have k-polies for small k. I have come to doubt whether free market is even possible. The rich will use their wealth to ensure (by corruption or otherwise) to bend the laws i
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by srean 5mo ago
Norway seems to be doing swell.
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by srean 5mo ago
I agree that's the theory. It used to be mostly true in the past, but given current valuations it does not look true at all. My worry is that we are not creating enough new wealth but just distributing it lopsidedly.
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by srean 5mo ago
Let me address the second part. If we define wealth as it's often used colloquially -- the amount of liquid cash one has -- then your potential share of the pie of goods and services shrinks. This is true unless the pie itself grows pr
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by srean 5mo ago
Would have loved a post on working out the geometry of the projection, especially if it accounted for transitions of ceiling to wall. That would be fun. The surface through which one is projecting is a flat rectangle. Had it been a hemisphe
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by srean 5mo ago
There was a good blog post on how the category theoretic ideas behind this applies to data frames What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames https://mchav.github.io/what-category-theory-teaches-us-abou... Discussed o
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by srean 5mo ago
Individual choices is what I try to make but that's not enough.
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by srean 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352666
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by srean 5mo ago
I agree with you. Acts of terrorism are black swan events. Question is do we as humanity have the stomach to not act on low probability cues and eat the one off consequences. I don't think we do. I think the only way to play this is

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