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by topper-123 4y ago
I read that article. After a few paragraphs it goes: “ And here’s 275 words about printers I asked ChatGPT to write so this post ranks in search because Google thinks you have to pad out articles in order to demonstrate “authority,” but I a
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by topper-123 4y ago
Followup assignment: Are those actually Charlie Munger quotes or did the GPT make them up? I'd be impressed if the GPT it can supply sources for quotes (ok I'm still impressed, but sources for facts is a weakness of it).
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by topper-123 4y ago
I play chess and like it, even though the computer in my pocket can win every human player.
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by topper-123 4y ago
Even if if doesn’t fail, the shareholderd might be wiped out though.
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by topper-123 4y ago
> there are crypto exchange on every corner. I don't use cryptocurrencies, could you explain how corner crypto exchanges work? I didn't even know that was a thing.
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by topper-123 4y ago
Stablecoins must be the must crazy investment in the modern era, right after NFTs: by buying them, you’re essentially betting that the stablecoin can maintain its peg. By not buying them and keeping dollars, you get the same outcome except
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by topper-123 4y ago
> $400-600 soon imho. Revenue growth is stopping, no way they’re going to that level anytime soon. Also, if a recession is coming, as some say with interest rates rising, ad expenditure will fall, affecting Meta greatly. OTOH, it has a m
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by topper-123 5y ago
According to wikipedia their fleet is 95 % Airbus and Boing. I’d assume the sanctions (lack of parts/service) may make it not possible to operate those. In that case the sanctions are very effective. It will also be very interesting to
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by topper-123 5y ago
This is actually easy to know: Did you say something positive (judged by the state)? It is not fake news. Did you say something negative (judged by the state)? It is fake news. It is a simple erosion of citizen rights, giving the state vast
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by topper-123 5y ago
Sanctions obviously isn’t a viable deterrent against Russia, so sanctions at this point is just giving the optics of action. The underlying problem is no doubt the dependency on Russia for energy. Europe will have to fix this problem as soo
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by topper-123 5y ago
> Black is opinionated so you don't have to be. This is a very nice quote and sums up my own view on black (and code formatters in general) nicely. Thera are things you don´t really want to have an opinion about.
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by topper-123 5y ago
Yes, corrected.
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by topper-123 5y ago
The timeline of this is very strange: - in august he had been put on administrative leave - he was imprisoned on the 9th of december - on the 13th of december an independant commission set up by parliament (consisting of three judges) expon
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by topper-123 5y ago
A fun alternative time line to think about would be if the romans had progressed, had depleted all coal and oil resources, leaving us today in a postapocalyptic wasteland, having the knowledge how to build an advanced society, but lacking t
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by topper-123 5y ago
In that case it was an incredibly stupid move for car manufacturers to wind down orders for semiconductors, even in the face of covid. The down side risk is huge.
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by topper-123 5y ago
This doesn’t serm right. The car manufacturers would surely just buy their way into the front of the line, if it was just this. Chips are a fraction of a car’s value and the cost of stopping car production lines must be a lot higher than bu
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by topper-123 5y ago
> Evergrande, the world's most indebted developer … grapples with more than $300 billion in liabilities, $19 billion of which are international market bonds. Sounds like this is mostly domestic debt, so they cant make this go away b
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by topper-123 5y ago
> sold a small portion of its equity stake in Tencent in April for $14.6 billion. Personally I would never use “small” to describe anything worth 15B… Anyway, Tencent is worth 850B and these guys own approx. 200B of that, so they’re quit
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by topper-123 6y ago
Just letting it implicitly be the first parameter would be good enough IMO, and a nice symmetry to self` in methods. That'd be very simple, which would be a plus in my book. Pandas allows the first param in a pipe to be a tuple[callabl
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by topper-123 6y ago
I'd like to have a chaining operator in Python, like R is getting. Then the example could be: > a |> zip(b) |> map(func1) |> filter(func2) |> forall(func3) The advantages would be that this would work with all lists&#x2F
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by topper-123 6y ago
I can't imagine that `.to_parquet` takes any time at all, relative to `groupby.agg`. But yeah, It would be nice to get seperate benchnmarks for the two parts of your benchmark. Maybe one-factor groupbys are faster in pandas, while two-
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by topper-123 6y ago
I'm a pandas core developer and this is very interesting to me. That `groupby.apply` is a lot slower than `groupby.agg` does not surprise me at all: `groupby.apply` can do a lot of things that `groupby.agg` can't do, at the cost o