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by t_mann 4y ago
Maybe look into stablecoins a bit more closely, what you say only applies to a subset of them.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Pension funds still have no mandate to act as ultra high risk VC investors. There are other funds for that.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The points are all well taken, but it's also a bit reminiscent of how we keep shifting the bar for what makes humans supposedly unique among animals with every new paper in behavioral biology (some of which with questionable reproducib
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by t_mann 4y ago
> CEO Elon Musk has often claimed that accidents cannot be the fault of the company, as data it extracted invariably showed Autopilot was not active in the moment of the collision. > NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instanc
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, I saw that after writing the post. Really funny that his supervisor is such a wunderkind of his own. Or maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I find it hard to believe that anyone working as a programmer / software engineer wouldn't be using any actual computer science (as in data structures, algorithm complexity,...). I could believe that most people working as enginee
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by t_mann 4y ago
In this specific case the guy has 16 other published papers already, so if he'd wanted to walk away with a PhD he probably could easily have done so already. That being said, I'd imagine that Oxford would be one of the places that
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by t_mann 4y ago
Can we also talk about how this guy is in the third year of his PhD and has no less than 18 papers listed under "major/recent publications", all but two of which are published, and one of the latter 'shocked' the ma
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sure, but are those hours really wasted if they make you feel refreshed? Sleeping is very important in terms of long-term memory organization, health etc. I always felt that those life hacks of trying to learn new skills or solving difficul
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, I don't have much of a technique to it, it feels more like the conscious decision is the most important part. It also feels like I could go back to remembering dreams if I wanted (maybe not as well as people who have been practic
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, it totally is (see also my response to user dorkwood). I used to have very unpleasant dreams up until I was a teenager and now all my nights are 'turned off', like you describe. When you wake up and your dream is still presen
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by t_mann 4y ago
Curious, I've been doing pretty much the opposite, deliberately forgetting my dreams. Most dreams I remembered weren't pleasant, and forgetting them created a sort of 'blacked-out' period of genuine recreation. Like, I u
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by t_mann 4y ago
Exactly. Even considered on its own it's a really bad example of rapid collapse. Roman civilization lasted for about 1000 years until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (250 more if you include the pre-republican period
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by t_mann 4y ago
'of which few actually work' could also have been phrased as 'several are already working' - how many do you need? Even if the current offering isn't enough for your needs, how can 'there's not enough of i
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by t_mann 4y ago
It's happening in China, it's happening in arguably the most 'well-mannered' 'Western' country - at this point it's naive to assume mass data collection won't be coming to your country (and they might
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by t_mann 4y ago
New markets, new players, of course. The thing is that Binance is not going to replace Goldman Sachs, but if it becomes a viable alternative at some point, then we would have more players overall.
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by t_mann 4y ago
All cartels exist mainly to the benefit of the insiders. I don't see why crypto should be inherently more prone to scams (after all, the use of funds on the blockchain is actually fairly transparent). Most instruments that are now co
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by t_mann 4y ago
The US administration brazenly forced TikTok to move its US business to the US, it's fair play if the EU uses some subtle regulatory nudging to incentivize European companies to store their data inside the EU.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The zero knowledge stuff is actually fairly cutting edge (it's not often that academic papers make it into production systems within a few years).
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by t_mann 4y ago
Right now, IPOs are done at the whim of investment bankers. Look at the league tables [1], there's effectively a cartel of a handful of (mainly US) banks that basically dominate how corporations can raise money. They exert an amount of
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by t_mann 4y ago
since you're so outspoken about it, you may be interested in learning that fractional reserves is not how banking works (someone with an Austrian econ bent might be tempted to say it's actually worse than that): https:/&
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by t_mann 4y ago
recessions are usually jolly good times for all sorts of restructuring consultants and lawyers. good news for MBA students, they can ditch their Python classes, it's back to cost cutting /s
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting experiment! Here's a suggestion for a new protocol: set up a stand at some busy places (stadiums, train stations,...) and ask random passers-by to toss a coin a few times 'for science'. Should be easier to get to
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by t_mann 4y ago
No, the article actually says that sufficiently precise machine tosses can be considered deterministic. The randomness comes from humans.
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The only objection I have with this article is the implied notion that record labels going out of business because they are no longer needed would be a bad thing. Not that I like the idea of TikTok being their de facto successor, but the
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by t_mann 4y ago
> the factors that were in place 2-10 years ago are still intact not all the factors - the relentless quantitative easing is no more. people seem to have forgotten that pre-2008 it was common to have cycles of booms and recessions.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Because csv import into Excel can be a bit of a nightmare if the data is formatted in a way not covered by the import wizards. I've written Python scripts before to format data so that Excel would parse it correctly (which tbf was most
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by t_mann 4y ago
Blockchain technology cannot, and will not, have transaction reversal mechanisms It's true that it'd be antithetical to their 'spirit', but smart contracts can most definitely support transaction reversal (they can sup
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Isn't the whole point to have a lightweight system for viewing and basic manipulations of csv files, so that you could safely import them into more powerful systems that let you do complex transformations, visualizations,... ?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Definitely consider it! Financially, you'll barely break even in the beginning after accounting for commuting and how much work it is to set up a course initially, but emotionally it's very rewarding. As a nice perk, sometimes stu

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