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by sytelus 7y ago
Just listening to Jim Chanos on his views on gig economy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StybwIP8O8k ). One point he makes is that companies pay a lot more on top of salaries towards unemployment pool etc that gig economy c
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by sytelus 7y ago
Wave had a huge promise. Today we communicate through various broken, half backed and decades old unimproved systems. Emails have hardly got any new features, even the simple things like "upvoting" in discussion is not allowed. Ch
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Reading and Writing Proofs(win-vector.com)
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by sytelus 7y ago
I actually have happened to delved quite a bit to "really" understand the Maxwell's equations. I've bought original treatise, books with its commentary and plain old "for idiots" sort of books. His original tre
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Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf](damtp.cam.ac.uk)
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Micromort(en.wikipedia.org)
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A Simpler Origin for Life(scientificamerican.com)
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Problem of Time(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sytelus 7y ago
Capitalism is itself a pure unadulterated implementation of Matthew's effect. If you have capital of $X, you automatically are entitled increase in that $X. If you have $0 then you work day after day to find your share of global weal
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by sytelus 7y ago
What your schhool didn't told you was that if you have super sized credit card, you can make friends in government and then you do get a free bailout provided you have few minimum wage workers you can threaten to layoff.
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by sytelus 7y ago
So apparently police there would make you take off your mask if you are wearing one!
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by sytelus 7y ago
Huh? Is this mobile only? Value of such apps are mostly on PC for information workers. IPhone already has screen time etc.
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is bad, very bad. A complete and utter disrespect for people who poured in their blood and sweat in creating the content for them and for free. Migrating only "top" content is insufficient and so ignorant. The value of wiki i
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'm very familier with these views and staunchly opposed to them. Here the idea is that only a small portion of the population is "college worthy" and only those elites should be going to college. This then implies we don&#x2
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by sytelus 7y ago
This whole evolution looks more and more like expert systems from 1980s where people kept adding more and more complexity to "solve" a specific problem. For RL, we started with simple DQN that was elegant but now the new algorith
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by sytelus 7y ago
Demand is decreasing because prices have sky rocketed. This is very similar to private hospitals working in concert for price gauging. The only way to get this under control is state jumping in and introduce some real competition. Education
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by sytelus 7y ago
They will need to think about this out of the box. One way is to select, say 500 employees, test them and have them live as well as work from the office building. The building is empty anyway so plenty of space to make some living quarters.
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by sytelus 7y ago
US should create 100 more universities. Each university campus lights up the economy of otherwise sleepy written off towns. The state operated universities can help lower the tuition and in turn reduce the student debt burden - one of the b
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by sytelus 7y ago
It was a great website and very usable back in the day. However then you have to have "growth". Which means folks are forced to find every possible way to "monetize" it. You take big money from investors and now investor
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by sytelus 7y ago
I don't know much about this guy but when I hear a founder CEO cutting his pay to $0, I have to roll my eyes. Vast majority of CEO comp is in equity so cutting base pay to $0 has no material meaning. In addition, successful founder CEO
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by sytelus 7y ago
It seems there is a ritual of articles every 6 months for finding a microbe to degrade plastic for past 5 years now. I wonder what is the real story.
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by sytelus 7y ago
This. The paper I want to cite, I actually make an effort to go to its author's website and grab bib from there. That's the only definitive source of how the author wants to be cited. Grabbing bib from automated tools has create
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by sytelus 7y ago
Yes - try diigo.com. All my links + references lives there.
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by sytelus 7y ago
I'm using diigo for the same purpose. It seems to have similar features and more, especially easy tagging instead of having to deal with folders. Diigo also allows annotation, offline copies, search within text, export whole collection
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by sytelus 7y ago
This looks very interesting but whitepaper is completely offputting. It's filled with terms you would have never heard elsewhere but authors use them without much explanation. It's really not even a whitepaper, just bunch of half
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by sytelus 7y ago
You are not alone! I've come across enough of CS folks who wanted to be a physicist but ended up "downgrading" to CS. Within physicists, there are enough folks who wanted to be mathematicians but ended up "downgrading&qu
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by sytelus 7y ago
US military is actually extra-ordinarily inefficient. It's a vast graveyard of massive projects that were either failed or went as much as 10X over budget and/or ran 10X late. In a book called Skunkworks there is some great storie
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by sytelus 7y ago
One of my enlightening experiences has been to visit the Einstein's house in Bern and walk on the same path that he did every day to get to the patent office. The question in my mind had always been how Einstein suddenly started thinki
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by sytelus 7y ago
The cruise ship with a higher level of density and socialization than New York City is not really comparable with regular townships. Also, the cruise ship population is very biased towards the old population.
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by sytelus 7y ago
A large source of it is the vast majority of government agencies. Do you want to repair X in a state park? You are looking at the arduous process to cut through. Do you need to extend your project with government grants by a month or ran ov

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