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by t_mann 4y ago
That might actually be interesting, because then there'd be actors who could give Google and the other BigTechs a lot more heat than any individual user can over unjustified account deletions (to avoid having to pay out the insurance p
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I once ran a trial comparing two FitBit models (one quite recent at the time) to a medical heart measurement device and manual counting. My conclusion was that FitBit's numbers were pretty much garbage: the manual and medical measureme
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You're right about the backup situation, but I would still say that even just having your personal data in a flat file backed up with OneDrive - which a lot of users probably have set up without even fully realizing - still beats the a
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Turns out time and time again that the most sustainable way to store your personal data (health, financial, notes,...) is in flat files on your harddisk, not some startup's cloud service. Not that that will stop them from collecting, b
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Cool! I haven't tried, but thought I'd just let you know: it should be "Text Generator provides competitive ly (!) priced AI text generation..." you don't want people starting to question the grammar of a text gene
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Are you claiming that EU officials are illegally pocketing the collected fines for themselves, or do you just not know how government budgets work?
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Wouldn't Hotelling's law just predict that wannabe-SVs would try to copy every aspect of the original SV? I don't see how that alone explains their failure. I'd attribute the difficulty of creating the next SV partially
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> if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future meanwhile, in the real world: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-30/venice-is...
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Rule of thumb: when you hear about any X as "the next Y", or "the Y of Z", it's fairly safe to assume that Y is in better shape than the commenters would have you think.
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The probabilities of bad things happening are vastly different for an undercover operator than for ordinary people, that's why it doesn't make sense to blindly apply the model of a 'knowledgeable expert' for everyone. I
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> What's the downside and carrying a doorstop with you and using it from the inside? I would love to hear. You're not only making it harder for bad guys to enter your room, but also for good guys, and for yourself to exit, in
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My impression of sites like brilliant.org or Khan Academy (or the Math Academy mentioned in another post here, which sounds like an absolutely brilliant resource for curious high school students) is that they're geared towards "pr
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The only useful advice in there is to know the escape routes from your room, the rest sounds like it would have a net negative effect for the average person. Choosing your hotel room based on maneuverability in the event of an attack is not
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No, afaik that's not the case everywhere. Switzerland, which has the best unis on the continent, is pretty open registration for all nationals, in others it's sort of a mix. Selection happens during the degrees, exams aren't
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> As I understand it, those are mainly concerned with reduction in labor costs. Where does your understanding derive from? Reducing macroeconomics to "reducing labor costs" is akin to reducing classical mechanics to "compu
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Similar thoughts here - just make public universities (almost) free and stop giving out loans, and you'd be where most European countries are. I guess the thing is that once you've added all those extra layers it's hard to ro
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The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_interest_rate is defined as the nominal interest rate minus inflation. So with your numbers, nominal rates would have to go a lot higher than you suggest to result in positive rea
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by t_mann 4y ago
The fields are macroeconomics and labor economics. I don't understand your other question, so it's hard to answer. What do you mean by "discovered"? Discovered by whom, the employer or the the employee? But you may be in
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Even more so it is appropriate to point out that this victory is strictly limited to the specific terms of this particular bet (and strictly speaking not even that, since the terms were changed after the bet was placed), and do not provide
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His point that the test as described - with multiple statistical issues piled on top of each other - does not allow much of a meaningful inference in any direction is completely valid and independent of what hypotheses were being tested.
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I bet most humans would fail this test on images that everybody agrees are adequate portrayals. Answering a short query with an image is a highly non-injective mapping, you simply don't know what aspects of the scene were specifically
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by t_mann 4y ago
Haha, that's my fun fact of the day that there is a serious philosophy article on holes (on the Stanford encyclopedia of all places, one of my two favourite philosophy resources, the other being Existential Comics). On topic, I was act
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> but I believe no one has succeeded So stop trying, or what is your point?
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> However, there are a great many smaller businesses in the United States that still rely on being able to swipe the customer’s card. That's why you usually need an external push to advance security. Manufacturers/businesses di
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> so they don't have to feel bad about withholding powerful painkillers due to society disapproving of them little reality check for you: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
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with anything involving AI/ML, like the shoes-app, you'll likely still have to create or train a model to achieve exactly what you want it to do.
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fully agree. I remember at one point I studied the Perron-Frobenius theorem because I was analyzing a problem in a different domain but mathematically not completely dissimilar to PageRank, and it was crazy to think that a trillion-dollar c
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try a side project? when I think of fun ideas, I always notice how easy it is to bump into computationally hard or complicated stats/ML/math problems left and right, even if it's just a simple game. I remember one time when I
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by t_mann 4y ago
fair enough. also useful for (both sides of) job interviews, I guess. do you keep up to date about relevant research as well? I see a lot of Stable Diffusion posts, but that's arguably not because of the paper but because the published
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Impressive person overall. I guess that's the kind of free mindset that also made him a succesful uni dropout and entrepreneur.

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