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by tqi 4y ago
It's only COVID if numbers go down, otherwise it is claimed as impact on self review.
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by tqi 4y ago
> Any less is censorship of the teacher, which, in my mind, is an unqualified evil. I'm not sure if I agree. I understand the intent is that individuals should in turn be able reject those teachings in their context, but that feels
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by tqi 4y ago
> A good educational system should have three purposes: it should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn i
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by tqi 4y ago
There is evidence that people are pretty good at predicting whether or not a study is going to replicate, so they're not necessarily off Ba(ye)se: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/
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by tqi 4y ago
I think the standard error for this survey is only like +/- 3%, which imo doesn't change the narrative THAT much. That said, without more details on the survey design, it's hard not to think issues like sampling and response
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by tqi 4y ago
They claiming a statistically significant hazard ratio within 1-6 years of a single survey response, that covers only the previous 24 hours? No other factors considered? This doesn't pass the smell test.
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by tqi 4y ago
Thanks for responding, and for the cool article! Agree this is pretty tangential to the rest of the article. So (again, I am very much not an expert so please correct me if I'm wrong) I guess my analogy would be if instead of predictin
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by tqi 4y ago
> We started out with the question: How does GPT-2 know when to use the word an over a? The choice depends on whether the word that comes after starts with a vowel or not, but GPT-2 is only capable of predicting one word at a time. We st
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by tqi 4y ago
The most frustrating part of all of these layoffs is that it seems more or less understood that if the fed lowers rates, we'll be back to irresponsible hiring. This belief that there is a sing "right strategy" for the given e
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by tqi 4y ago
You look down, they know you're lying and up, they know you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your weight, look always at your mark but don't stare, be specific but not memor
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by tqi 4y ago
imo Telcos have delivered jack shit in terms of "developments" except extract rent from their monopoly positions.
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by tqi 4y ago
> They still have scars from their failure to capture the value of smartphone applications in the LTE era. That's makes a lot of sense and truly, fuck telcos.
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by tqi 4y ago
I wonder if laws requiring salary ranges on job listings will inadvertently depress wage growth, since companies will be more able to aim for the middle. I know large companies already have some of this data, but having it out in the open m
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by tqi 4y ago
> We want Real People to access Real News the way they want to, in their feed, alongside the rest of their content. People should be able to interact and share through Civil Conversations. Implying what, that other companies don't?
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by tqi 4y ago
> The next pandemic when these articles will be written by these AI will be a lot worse. You can write a thousand very scientific sounding papers in seconds. I think that vastly overestimates the incremental value of more articles. Despi
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by tqi 4y ago
What is the danger?
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by tqi 4y ago
What law are you claiming OpenAI has broken?
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by tqi 4y ago
I think for most folks, this is akin to paying for everyday expenses with fractions of your stock portfolio.
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by tqi 4y ago
Its definitely not 100% true in either direction, but I think an "actual connection" to the product is important. Obviously YMMV on what an "actual connection" is, but to me that just means an understanding of what your
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by tqi 4y ago
Political grandstanding by school board members eyeing higher offices is abhorrent.
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by tqi 4y ago
Totally agree, nothing in the video supports the assertion that "Apple should give users the option to take natural photos." I would go as far as to say the video essentially says the idea that there is such thing as "natural
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by tqi 4y ago
> This all means that, whatever you’re watching on your smart TV, algorithms are tracking your habits. This influences the ads you see on your TV, yes, but if you connect your Google or Facebook account to your TV, it will also affect th
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by tqi 4y ago
"successful" Lego channels are an avg of 9 years old is interesting. It shows difficult it is for new creators to break in. This is why social networks seem to have a natural lifecycle - new platforms offer an opportunity for a ne
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by tqi 4y ago
> boom now you have their answers to security questions to reset their passwords. Are there any example of this actually happening? It seems like an old wives tale. The simpler explanation for why these posts are so popular is that they
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by tqi 4y ago
Mode's SQL school is the best I've seen: https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/
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by tqi 4y ago
Yeah this seems like a Dolan special: petty, poorly thought out, and potentially costly.
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by tqi 4y ago
I think if a business is the beneficiary of a number of public subsidizes and allowances, then they lose a lot of that discretion.
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by tqi 4y ago
Sure, I definitely agree reliability is important, and that just because something can be build exactly to spec doesn't mean that spec is going to be reliable. For me at least, i don't actually think of something like panel gaps a
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by tqi 4y ago
Aren't those cars (McLaren/Ferrari) also horribly uncomfortable and lacking in a lot of other amenities (like sound systems or tech)? It feels like those cars are a completely different category of good, and trying to measure them
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by tqi 4y ago
> I'm generally a very early adopter with these kinds of things Which in turn makes everyone else around your car an early adopter?

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