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by sxyuan 6y ago
The only thing worse than a free product that manipulates you, is a paid product that still manipulates you. The height of irony in The Social Dilemma was the shot where LinkedIn and Google (separately from YouTube, which is fair game IMO
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by sxyuan 6y ago
You're right. My point wasn't that one should blindly follow Google's style guide and avoid using C++ exceptions, only that there is an alternative to the C/C++ dichotomy that the author presents. It's possible to w
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by sxyuan 6y ago
It seems like the author's main complaints are avoided if one follows the Google C++ style guide, which says: - Don't use C++ exceptions - Don't do work in constructors (prefer "Init" or factory functions instead)
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by sxyuan 7y ago
Your first paragraph makes a good point, but given that in the US capital (i.e, being paid for owning wealth) is taxed at a much lower rate than income (i.e., being paid to work), I'd offer the following correction: UBI intrinsically t
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by sxyuan 7y ago
I see some commenters saying that preventing price gouging will take away the incentive to produce more of a certain good when the demand increases. This doesn't make sense to me. If, under normal market conditions, producers already m
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by sxyuan 7y ago
From the article this statement is responding to: > Companies that make up the S&P 500 index had an average effective tax rate of 18.1 percent in 2018, down from 25.9 percent in 2016, according to an analysis of securities filings. M
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by sxyuan 7y ago
Thanks for the response. Many fine points, here and in sibling comments. There was one point I did want to reply to: "It's satire and satire is meant to provoke and challenge thought, to raise questions." That's a good w
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by sxyuan 7y ago
For all the commenters laughing at those silly religious folks who protested the film, consider this: is there anything you hold sacred? What if a film came out that satirized, I don't know, science, or abortion, or same-sex marriage,
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It’s Not Always Excellent to Be Jamie Oliver(nytimes.com)
1 points by sxyuan 7y ago|0 comments
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by sxyuan 8y ago
By "small group", GP is presumably referring to those within Google who are digging up information about the project and leaking things to the press.
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by sxyuan 8y ago
> Israel is not bombing Syria to defend itself. Syria never had and nor will have the capability to do anything to Israel. You're forgetting about the Six-Day War [1] and the Yom Kippur War [2]. Yes, there are controversies around t
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by sxyuan 8y ago
What I find interesting about this article (since it could easily turn unnecessarily political): 1. The use of data to discover an anomaly 2. The impact that poor UI design in one county in Florida (if you consider the ballot part of the vo
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Something Looks Weird in Broward County(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by sxyuan 8y ago|2 comments
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by sxyuan 8y ago
The Bush tax cuts began in 2001. The effects depend on who you ask, but the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office "estimated in June 2012 that the Bush tax cuts (EGTRRA and JGTRRA) added about $1.6 trillion to the debt between 2001
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by sxyuan 8y ago
I realise I am late to the thread, but to set the record straight, you sir have got your math wrong. 5 months is not 1/5 of a year, but 5/12, so the correct annualised growth rate for Feb-July 2018 is (27.05 / 26.74) ^ (1 &#x
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by sxyuan 8y ago
As a young, relatively healthy someone who has also experienced both Canadian and US healthcare, I much prefer the Canadian system. In the US, my insurance was billed 14k USD for a simple diagnostic procedure (stress echocardiogram) that no
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by sxyuan 9y ago
I was confused when I clicked on the article and could not find a video. The title is misleading, and while it would be nice if we always had the time to carefully read every article we come across, the reality is that I (and probably many
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by sxyuan 9y ago
I had a similar problem where I was stuck in automated response hell for several months. I finally decided to threaten legal action in the support ticket and surprisingly enough, I was put in touch with a human within a few days.
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How Watsi built Watsi Coverage without stable electricity, WiFi, or email(blog.watsi.org)
2 points by sxyuan 9y ago|0 comments
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by sxyuan 9y ago
[Another non-expert commenting] Your comment didn't make sense to me at first, but I think I get it now. Even if you were able to fit the entire dataset into memory, batches are still a good idea, because optimizing on the entire datas
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by sxyuan 9y ago
I believe the $8b figure is actually referring to just wage theft via minimum wage violations, in the 10 states analysed in the study. The totally amount lost to all forms of wage theft across the US is likely much, much higher. From the ar
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by sxyuan 10y ago
That sounds plausible enough - except the authors also undertook a follow-up study to determine the cause of the difference. The attorneys they surveyed could have pointed to a lack of competence displayed in the resume writing, as you sugg
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To Obama with Love, and Hate, and Desperation(nytimes.com)
58 points by sxyuan 10y ago|64 comments
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by sxyuan 10y ago
In case you're curious, the five systems in the article are mentioned by the original paper, and correspond to the ones described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mathematics#The_big_fi...
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by sxyuan 11y ago
Not the direction I was expecting either, but interesting nonetheless. Regarding modelling molecular potentials with neural nets, do you have any recommendations in terms of recent papers on the topic?
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by sxyuan 11y ago
One related work that came to mind was Neural Turing Machines, which augments the LSTM network with a (fixed size) memory [1]. I did see a brief reference to the Graves et al. paper in the paper linked to in the original post, but I'm
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by sxyuan 11y ago
Seeing the face of a dog just means that the network has learned a good representation of dog faces. I don't think that has anything to do with the generalization ability of the network. I'm not clear on the details of this halluc
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by sxyuan 11y ago
> Where my bright students might have been used to high Bs and low As on tests, they were now breaking my scales. You could see it in the multiple choice, but it was most obvious in their writing: they were skillfully working in terminol
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by sxyuan 12y ago
You might be interested in this paper, if you haven't seen it already: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6247
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by sxyuan 12y ago
That's a good point. Say you fill half the hole with containers of water. Let's assume it's 1km deep. Say we have a circular hole that's 2m across, that should get you W = m * g * d = (3.14 * 1m^2 * 500m * 1000kg/m^

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