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by sytelus 6y ago
Which exact variant are you using? Could you please copy past your setting line?
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by sytelus 6y ago
Take a look at TrueSkill, a much better mathematically grounded, created at Microsoft Research and being used at scale in Xbox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill
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by sytelus 6y ago
You are confusing pattern matching with reasoning. If your brain was replaced by GPT-3 model and you were cast away on a distant island, I highly doubt you will be able to perceive, plan and prosper during your survival against all the cala
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by sytelus 6y ago
SFUSD's defense: http://www.sfusdmath.org/secondary-course-sequence.html It basically says that they are including more stuff in 8th grade curriculum so Algebra 1 gets pushed out to 9th grade.
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by sytelus 6y ago
Price was exactly the issues but bigger issue was Chinese copy cats. Segway focused on business deals instead of consumer market and by the time copy cats caught up with them, prices were slashed to 1/10th with no real differentiation.
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by sytelus 6y ago
The story is quite stunning. So a child molester convicted in 1997 and in prison for 20 years wants to get out of jail. So he seems to have hired some extra ordinary attorney who simply couldn’t find any way to get him out. And one day he f
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by sytelus 6y ago
Wait, so congress can throw away promises at its whims that was supposed to last until perpetuity? And SC will be fine with that as long as promise was thrown away explicitly?
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by sytelus 6y ago
The lawsuit will be strong if they say online classes are temporary in order to not to violate governor order and will be in-person as soon as governor allows. I don’t see any reason ICE can argue against that.
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by sytelus 6y ago
In the case of health care, consolidation has probably made things worse by muting competition. There are now five big insurance companies, three big wholesalers, three large pharmacy chains and three big benefit managers. In the case of h
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by sytelus 6y ago
You don't have to be perfect every day, you just need to be better than everyone else averaged over some long period of time.
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by sytelus 6y ago
This version is oil paint on canvas, whereas Leonardo’s version was painted in tempera and oil on a dry wall – an unusual use of materials – so has flaked and deteriorated badly. It probably didn’t help that Napoleon used the original Last
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by sytelus 6y ago
Euro isn’t a reserve currency because of absence of true military powers and dependable justice system that is overly complicated and fragmented to the whims of individual countries. Further, Euro is always risk of countries leaving it and
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by sytelus 6y ago
In broad terms, USA is largely funded by global economy. This is done by setting US$ as master currency, so in effect, America's biggest export is dollar that gets consumed by rest of the world. When Fed prints out $6T, the inflation t
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by sytelus 6y ago
E-waste could be reduced by offering charger for free, if customer wanted. The thing I always liked about iPhone was to open up the box and you have everything you need to use the device,
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by sytelus 6y ago
Language is infinite but the generating process (i.e. our brains or computers) are finite. The generators come in two flavors: rigid rule based (like Chomsky suggests) or stochastic (more modern view). The stochastic generators are obviousl
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by sytelus 6y ago
Amazon is the biggest logistic company in the world. It has never seized to surprise me that they don't have any presence in this space. Even if things are 10 years away, you want to be in this space if you were claiming to be biggest
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by sytelus 6y ago
FaceID is one of the most important technology invented. Imagine if Apple somehow was open to license it and make it universal like Bill Gates wanted to make PCs universal. It can make driver licenses, passports, credit cards, student IDs,
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by sytelus 6y ago
I hate sponsorware concept OP is proposing. It seems to work for him but it’s opposite to the spirit of open source. His idea is that keep code secret until you find N sponsors. Further, he will hide important tutorials if you are not spons
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by sytelus 6y ago
Usually these comparisons are not very fair because it’s done by currency exchange rate conversion. For example, a person with mere $800 per month income in India can have superior life style than minimum wage worker in USA.
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by sytelus 6y ago
I think every high school student should have one day class dedicated on following topics and so many lives would be saved: 1. Folies of investments, how you can lose everything. 2. Folies of marriages, divorce laws and how you can lose eve
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by sytelus 6y ago
One of the key why stocks of bankrupt companies like Hertz go up 500% in matter of days is so called “river of money”. Globally, there is massive amount of cash sloshing around through people’s retirement accounts which ends up at places li
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by sytelus 6y ago
I think you live in cities and look at everything from those lenses. Car rental is still thriving for business travels. Hertz actually served business customers more than Budget etc. When you go to places like Bay Area, Hawaii, Pudget Sound
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by sytelus 6y ago
Natural language search is approximately $100B business. This might be first AI application that changes the search landscape from 1990s and finally puts an end to the question “where is money in AI?”.
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by sytelus 6y ago
In a way, science is a process of creating a model . To create a model, you first need evidence (i.e. data) and then you form hypothesis which your proposed model. Then you make prediction using your model that wasn't known before. If
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by sytelus 6y ago
Antitrusts haven't been good in 10-20 year timeline but on more longer term may be overall good for society. In short term it stifles and extinguishes the innovation contrary to belief. Classic case is Ma Bell which ended Bell Labs. Bi
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by sytelus 6y ago
Biology had always been red herring. Lot of biologists actually are careful about making big claims until they understand the mechanisms. There is an evidence based clinical science but that's been made very watertight through structur
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by sytelus 6y ago
Each search costs 0.0003 kWh of energy in Google infrastructure. That's just energy bill. Now think about massive infrastructure that is out there giving you sub-second results for 40,000 queries each second all over the world. Think
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by sytelus 6y ago
How much of a connection of this with Trump's pledge to bring on antitrust after the videos of Google leaders in distraught got leaked> I understand Trump can't decide to bring on antitrust just like that but Republican machine
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by sytelus 6y ago
I call these hard science vs soft science. Please do not get me wrong, I shuffle from math and art quite a bit these days and get to take a look at various approaches in both areas. There is a trend of applying hard science approach to soft
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by sytelus 6y ago
By that argument it should have never went down back in April :). These are self-comforting arguments in the same line of "oh, it's all priced in".

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