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by t_mann 3y ago
The statistical analysis doesn't seem to go beyond correlations, so this could well be just an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship , ie a statistical fluke like marriage rates correlatin
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Thanks, will check out.
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I already pointed out twice that Anki doesn't work for me, and your response is basically still 'you're holding it wrong'. I know of all the things you mentioned, and like I said, they didn't work for me, which is w
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A fun exercise would be to look up economists' predictions about AI and the future of work from the past decade and compare with the status quo. I'd be surprised if many (any?) papers (prior to the release of DALL-E and GPT-3 open
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Please don't make assumptions about my goals. I was clear about my requirements and asking for recommendations.
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It seems from the description that FSRS still puts an exact review date on each card? This feature was pretty much the reason why I stopped using Anki. I'm not in college and not doing exams, I just want to practice when I feel like it
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> I feel like I never know how to contact someone and can never expect a quick reply MS Teams and similar products have a color-coding scheme (green - active, yellow - inactive, probably afk, red - busy, white - offline) that solves that
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Re your question on economics books, I think Advanced Macroeconomics by David Romer could fit your bill. It goes a lot into why the math is the way it is (arguably more interesting, like another poster said). Modern macroeconomics is also b
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Fyi, on my first try, one of the two episodes was always the same, on my second try, it kept reloading two new episodes before I could make a selection in an infinite loop.
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Really nice work. I could swear there was a similar websire posted here about 1-2 years ago, anyone remember the link?
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We'll know soon, something pretty close to what you're asking for is about to be rolled out in the EU: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
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The alleged kidnapping that may have thwarted early 20th century solar adoption(theconversation.com)
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I haven't said nor implied that, I've made a nuanced statement, but you seem hell bent attacking some strawman, good luck with that strategy and bye.
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I'm saying what data you should be looking at when you're comparing investment opportunities, not doing the work of assessing specific investments for you. Being self-employed isn't a financial investment, it's a form of
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Not defending EMH in any way, but there's a logical flaw in your argument: your wording implicitly pits a cherry-picked example against a broad average: "it's literally impossible [to invest in a small business and beat the m
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The article kind of amplified my regrets/anxiety for not getting a copy of books3 and the likes while it was easy. I didn't have an immediate use case, and I don't now, thought I'd wait until actually need it, but it fee
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It's from May, pity, it would have been really interesting if the author had discussed DeepMind's recent FunSearch paper as well: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6 But it goes to show just ho
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It doesn't really take anyone to run them, though. At their core, they're just a bunch of smart contracts. The web UI is a) optional and b) can be hosted by anyone, even locally. The bigger problem is that providing liquidity isn&
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The button may be 'correct' in its randomness under one meaningful definition of the word (draw the next element uniformly at random from the whole set on each click), but that's not the only plausible definition of randomnes
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The Behavioral Insights Team was and is a unit established to implement the ideas of (now Nobel-memorial-laureate) Richard Thaler on 'nudging'. The tiny problem with those ideas is that the evidence we have is that they don't
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Many URL shortening services actually do offer a way of inspecting the URL before loading it. And the issue of URL shorteners is in no way specific to QR Codes (they originated on Twitter, where they are still most commonly used by my obser
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It's not about the real estate holdings of the companies, but of their owners, which are often to no small extent pension funds and the likes, who are often heavily invested in real estate. It's hard to prove, but seems among the
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The Roman empire may not have much of a legacy in mathematics, though they did continue Greek traditions of philosophy and even had 'philosopher kings' [0], but they were very much leaders in engineering, and the legacy of Roman i
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Interesting critique post, but can you elaborate why you linked the wikipedia bio of a popular scientific podcaster, who apparently has nothing to do with this debate, other than a family connection to an author cited near the end of the po
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I'm not saying that starting 2024, journals should only start accepting formalized proofs. I'm well aware that we're probably many thousands of person years away from being able to formalize research involving modern mathemat
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Real human behavior is influenced by a lot more factors than simple profit optimization. Psychology is not at the point yet where we could attribute exact reasons why someone made a particular decision at a particular time, but I suspect th
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It's not about training the model. You just input the error messages together with an appropriate prompt and ask it to fix it. Iterate until it verifies successfully (or stop after you've reached ~1-2x content window length). Once
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Yeah, while I think some of the tech-related EU regulations like GDPR are a net benefit, the idea that you could become a leader in AI through regulation seems ludicrous to me. In all fairness, there are some genuine European players in the
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On the second point, you were replying while I was updating my comment, sorry about that. I know it's a controversial opinion, but from the perspective of the EU, I think having regulation that effectively only targets US Tech makes se
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I think that having the right to ask companies to tell you what personal data they're storing on you and asking them to delete it is well worth the minor annoyance of dealing with cookie banners, which are largely the result of the ind

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