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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
The challenge of modern academia in certain fields is not to publish but to be read by others. Everyone is so busy publishing that very few papers get decent readership (retweets and citations happen mostly without reading the substance). I
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Thanks. So I go for a haircut, if I pay in EUR the hairdresser forwards the VAT to the government. If I pay in the local currency for the same haircut, the hairdresser keeps the VAT. Same if I buy fruits from a local producer (how is that &
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
How is VAT paid? The government is clearly not accepting the local currency. So VAT must be paid in euro for purchases in the local currency? I am wondering how this eventually works out, especially the day when selling your local currency
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
National security. Why would the EU let some foreign country have access to all their citizens' private and work email, social media profiles and e-commerce purchases? Especially when it has been proved that that country's intelli
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Can't wait the EU force FANNG to sell their EU activities to native EU firms
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
The next problem is the testing infrastructure. Few labs (if any) do PCR tests with results guaranteed in the next 72h in major US cities. What if test results are late? Should you delay and take the first flight after getting the results?
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
And the cherry-on-top: Once you are part of a research unit at big corporation, your annual bonus depends on your number of publications. Or why the pursuit of incremental but well marketed results never ends. Or why papers with 6+ authors
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Broadband and mobile prices are far more reasonable in Europe than in the US. Unlimited data+calls for <20EUR has been a thing for several years now in Europe, and broadband for <30EUR as well. Also the EU banned roaming fees and GDPR
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
There is a lot of anecdotes in the comments about these interview processes. The ones with the best data are the company themselves, especially those who interview thousands of candidates a year. These companies (e.g., all FANG) have enough
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Indeed, if you wish the sequence to be defined at 0, eru's solution is better (and appeared earlier while I was typing)
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
The "better" recursive solution computes fib(n) and fib(n-1) at the same time. Linear time recursion! def f(n): if n<=2: return (1, 1) else: a, b = f(n-1) return (b, a+b) def f
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
There should be much smarter moves to work with porn sites towards better sex education. Force porn websites to do age verification on their models (most high traffic site currently do). For all videos and especially those that display acte
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
We only paid $6k from HSA (maxing out the out-of-pocket) but that Mt Sinai hospital charges $80k (after adjustments) and the insurance pays the rest. I should add there was a C-secyion that barely added $10k to the bill. I know, couldn&#x27
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Private hospital in NYC: Just the hospital "room and board" line is north of $40k: $13k per night of "enhanced nursery" for the newborn and around $10k per night for Mom. That's before all the doctors add their serv
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
2 nights at the hospital for delivering a healthy baby may cost $50k-$100k to the insurance for healthy baby and mom. The fact that hospital/physicians charge as much and insurance accepts to pay is not due to some unhealthy habits or
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
To add some context, the "critical" reviews of the product [1] describes multiple instances of the problem. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Aquaphor-Healing-Ointment-Advanced-Pr... Edit: Searching with "yellow&qu
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Before calling the AG on this, how do you make sure that fake is fake in the first place? The major hurdle is that you do not even know and cannot know. Maybe the product is actually legit and the visual difference comes from temperature or
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
I ordered a well-known baby-bottom cream. The product gave her never-expanding rashes for a few days. Then I realized the color slightly differs from the same cream bought at the local pharmacy, and that many 1 star reviews also report knoc
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Some reference is Exercise 84 (Cantor function) in Tao's lecture notes at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/245a-notes-5-diffe... The results before/after that result have other niceties: a
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
If subgradients are enough (-1 is correct subgradient at 0 in your example) then there are valid approaches for AD subgradient, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08530
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
I am wondering if the NSF program officers responsible for overseeing the grants should be contacted as they would be in power to make the University and the PIs accountable and/or start their own investigations. They can be easily fou
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
This does not make sense. Before scientists started reviewing each other, who at the journal was judging the work of scientists to be published? Scientists?
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
It's even easier to trick the authors into believing you (the reviewer) is someone else. E.g: ask the authors to cite two papers of another researcher (as was mentioned somewhere in the thread as making it easy to guess who the reviewe
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
It's not in-class interactions (party? Networking? Labs?) versus being alone in a room watching lecture videos. If students don't have to live on campus to get the credits and the degree, it opens a world of possibilities. They ca
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
There are two NYC studies with likely over-sampling phenomena: - the NYC antibody study one you mention, done at shopping centers, indeed likely over-represents people going out. 20%-21% of that population has antibodies. - the SARS-CoV-2 t
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
I am simply trying to slow the spread of non-sensical numbers. The total population divided by number of deaths provide a factual lower bound and arguing against that is not sensible. Flaws in the Stanford study has already been highlighted
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by throwawayiionqz 6y ago
Number of deaths in NYC divided by total population is 15,000/8,000,000. This already puts the fatality rate at at least 0.2. But the consequences are far from over and the number of deaths will keep climbing, so your "fatality ra
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by throwawayiionqz 7y ago
The derivative of x->x (identity) should be 1 regardless of your definition of derivative. Subgradients are only applicable when summing convex functions. Here relu(x) - relu(-x) is a sum of a convex function and a concave function.
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by throwawayiionqz 7y ago
I am wondering what is the state of things for fixing gradients are kinks, or if there is no hope for general automatic differentiation libraries. import jax.numpy as np from jax import grad, jit, vmap from jax import random
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by throwawayiionqz 7y ago
I teach my regular class as you did: sitting at the desk, facing the students in the room, writing on a tablet whose screen is projected behind me. 1) I get a lot more eye contacts with the students this way versus using the blackboard, bec

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