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by tchalla 5y ago
> The Germans and people from eastern Europe are usually straightforward in their communications. May be, Germans (and most Europe) are "straightforward" from an American perspective. I find Europeans with their own shade of &q
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by tchalla 5y ago
> for complex topics I’ve found that a face-to-face conversation is often much more effective because it allows both parties to have a rapid back and forth to resolve misunderstandings or gaps in the conversation. Face-to-Face conversati
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by tchalla 5y ago
US has and continues to do the same.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> The new iPhone operating system, iOS 15, can digitise text in photos, enabling users to copy and paste text from an image, or call a phone number that appears in a picture. Scanning nearby buildings with an iPhone will make Maps recogn
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by tchalla 5y ago
> This is what I like to call "engineer thinking" (and I say this as an engineer). By this I mean it's absolute. Ironically, you called my thinking as absolute and went ahead to do the very same thing you called "Engi
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by tchalla 5y ago
What do you think the point of the article is? The title say that the playing field is levelling, not that it has levelled. It's not binary or a target - it is a situation which is happening. The article offers both for and against the
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by tchalla 5y ago
> I'm not sure fining a company billions of dollars and putting executives in jail is the outcome anyone really wants if a 17 year old uses Tinder. A provider offers a service is responsible to ensure it functions within the law. T
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by tchalla 5y ago
I mean, I get your point in principle but in this case the paper quotes Bezos verbatim in an "anti-trust investigation in front of the Congress. It's also incredible easy to verify that Bezos did make that statement from multiple
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by tchalla 5y ago
Bezos has been pretty honest that he can’t guarantee employees haven’t violated Amazon policy. > “What I can tell you is we have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private-label business,” Bezos replied. “But I can’t
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by tchalla 5y ago
There seems to be no winning with the government actions : Act early and they’re accused of stifling “innovation”, act late and they’re accused of “ineffective ness”.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> would not be surprised to see this style of writing becoming a standard as a local dialect over the years. :-( I want to address the ":-(" in your comment. Languages evolve like humans decide. English is not what it was toda
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by tchalla 5y ago
> It's interesting that German also has widespread use of acronyms and they're totally different from the English ones (both in terms of what the acronym is, and which concepts are denoted with an acronym). E.g. WG = shared apa
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Machine learning is not nonparametric statistics(argmin.net)
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by tchalla 5y ago
Over the years, the best way to identify someone from the US is if they use an obscure acronyms (or brands) and expect others to understand it. It happens all the time on HN. “I went to my RN” “I always try to do things via Colosia” (made u
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by tchalla 5y ago
"Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome." ~ Charlie Munger
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by tchalla 5y ago
Very simple - if they have fake reviews, they should be fined. If they can't do anything about it, they can innovate a "Customer Obsession" business model. It looks like Leadership Principles go down the drain when it affects
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by tchalla 5y ago
In addition, reviews are a prime example of sub-optimal communication by us. A lot of people don't write reviews for others but for themselves and thus, many of them are just unhelpful to me. "Great restaurant, food was lovely. pr
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by tchalla 5y ago
> But instead of just saying that, the message from the vast majority of public health officials (and media types like Sanjay Gupta) was that "masks don't work for the public". The CDC never really said that "masks do
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by tchalla 5y ago
If by understand, you mean understand and not regurgitate it when asked as a trivia question - I agree with you. However, there are different interpretations of the chain rule.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> my argument is, if you can not understand what the chain rule is, you will not understand more complicated mathematics in ML. Are you sure about this?
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European Parliament backs ban on remote biometric surveillance(techcrunch.com)
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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2021(nobelprize.org)
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by tchalla 5y ago
One of the concepts that many people don’t get is differentiation between risk and uncertainty. These same people will then attempt to “model risk” and end up with (ironically) an “uncertain estimate” https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by tchalla 5y ago
Flipping the question within a restricted variable is my favorite hack. Overlords - “How much money do you need for this project?” Me - “How much money can we spend?” / “How much time should we spend?” Friend- “Look at how much money t
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Robots Take over Italy’s Vineyards Due to Covid-19 Worker Shortages(wsj.com)
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by tchalla 5y ago
In their heyday is about 30-40y of holding period. So, it seems we have to wait another 20y or so to see single digit FB returns.
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4. WhatsApp hasn’t been completely monetised yet.
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by tchalla 5y ago
Stock prices can be right or wrong. Here’s the interesting question - What should Facebook financials look like to justify its stock price now? You can read “Expectations Investing” to find out the approx “correctness” of $FB current market
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by tchalla 5y ago
In your analogy of smoking, the returns of smoking companies like Philip Morris have been astronomical.
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AI can predict if it will rain in two hours' time(bbc.com)
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