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by tqi 1y ago
It's also a sign of intense hubris - the idea that thousands of labor economists have never considered something they thought of after 30 seconds of reading means that either a) the economists are all idiots or b) the reader is orders
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by tqi 1y ago
Mostly to social security (21%), net interest (14%), and healthcare / insurance (27% combined): https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
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by tqi 1y ago
> ... more than fifty students from universities around Boston were split into three groups... According to Nataliya Kosmyna, a research scientist at M.I.T. Media Lab and one of the co-authors of a new working paper documenting the exper
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by tqi 1y ago
What's the process of vetting people for loans in your current country?
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by tqi 1y ago
As long as managers want to be senior managers, senior managers want to be directors, and directors want to be vice presidents, this will not happen
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by tqi 1y ago
China's population is also 1.4B, ie 4X that of the US.
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by tqi 1y ago
You mean like NPR?
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by tqi 1y ago
> Humans are also naturally curious and I think it's unlikely that no one tries to figure out how the machines work across an entire population Definitely agree with this. I do wonder if at some point, new technology will become suf
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by tqi 1y ago
I'm curious - as someone who hasn't been paying super close attention to the space, what does it mean to be a full data platform? Is it just having all the different flavors of DB you might need all from one vendor, or is there al
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by tqi 1y ago
Is it? IANAL, but it seems like the concept is actually quite ambiguously defined[1], by design. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
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by tqi 1y ago
Rinse and repeat across hundreds of components and your team "pays for itself" "We found $X cost savings" is the easiest path the promotion. It's measurable, cleanly attributable, and immediate, while the downsides
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by tqi 1y ago
These aren't like the laws of physics, there's obviously a lot of post hoc interpretation that happens.
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by tqi 1y ago
Adding indexes to support a one off query seems like bad practice? In general I prefer break out columns that I expect to have/use consistently, especially for something as stable as email headers. Maybe schema changes are a bit easier
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by tqi 1y ago
What does this actually mean for customers? Is are we going to have to rebuild our Census syncs in Fivetran or will the product continue to run as-is? Will plans / pricing change?
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by tqi 1y ago
What staple items would it make sense to stock up on now, ahead of the stock depletion?
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by tqi 1y ago
If one were to assume there will be shortages in the near term (similar to early COVID), what staple items should one stock up on?
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by tqi 1y ago
Complaining about "the optics" is the worst because it basically says "there is no substance to my complaint and yet I will persist to complain"
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by tqi 1y ago
Ok... what would you do differently? Keep in mind you have to educate millions of students across an enormous spectrum of abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and interests.
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by tqi 2y ago
What if they're right, and at a certain point engineering is a commodity?
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by tqi 2y ago
> Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have mo
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by tqi 2y ago
(I have not taken a biology class since high school so please bear with me if this is a stupid question) For this treatment to work in people, does the targeting peptide have to be tailored specifically for the individual receiving the trea
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by tqi 2y ago
Give me a break, I read the article, I'm not convinced does anything to further his specific claims about the community. Frankly the whole thing is just a rant about how things were better back when. "But the tradecraft is slippin
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by tqi 2y ago
It's been less than 3 years, yet this guy is already able to confidently predicting a "collapse of critical thinking." I'm sure that is the product of rational analysis and not confirmation bias...
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by tqi 2y ago
"The answer isn’t just about fashion or materials, but is rooted in a much older understanding of the relationship between color and truth." Nah it's just fashion and materials. Even if you just look at apples product line, y
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by tqi 2y ago
> I don't think AI will have much of an impact on management consulting, since it's really just executive insurance. If anything, management consulting might be the perfect use for generative AI in its current state. I think yo
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by tqi 2y ago
"you can’t just make a new bat and ruin over 100 years of baseball" If this jabroni was in charge of sports, there'd be no forward pass, no three-point line, no fosbury flop. Sports should be frozen in a specific moment of th
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by tqi 2y ago
> It’s impossible to reason about and debug why the LLM made a given decision, which means it’s very hard to change how it makes those decisions if you need to tweak them... The LLM is good at figuring out what the hell the user is tryin
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by tqi 2y ago
Who said Ted Bundy was a serial killer? Never murdered me, so...
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by tqi 2y ago
By the government of this country and many others.
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by tqi 2y ago
> I saw someone saying The irony...

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