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by unishark 5y ago
I think they're actually similar technologies and wattages. So really I think people are comparing using a room unit (being a dehumidifier) versus a central AC systems cooling the entire house.
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by unishark 5y ago
Having your thermostat monitored by some random tech company does feel a tad sinister to me. Are they selling the data to ad companies?
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by unishark 5y ago
> (fortunately, most of us do not live in a feudalistic or caste-based or apartheid society, where this would be literally the case) It's great that you agree with me about barriers, but you might mention it to the posters in this d
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by unishark 5y ago
Harvard is the richest university in the country. Yale and Princeton are also in the top few.
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by unishark 5y ago
It's traditionally three generations, not six. And it's just human nature to look at things in a relative sense. If you are living a lot better than when you grew up, you are very likely to be comfortable and stop there. Similarly
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by unishark 5y ago
The govt gets an unrestricted license to use the technology produced by SBIR funding. The "R" in SBIR is research. By the end of govt funding (phase II), the company is supposed to commercialize it on their own. The money maxes ou
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by unishark 5y ago
> I'm just wondering where the patents in this pool are coming from, I assume the administrators are not going through the research papers and file new patents on the researchers' behalf? Your assumption is correct in my experi
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by unishark 5y ago
> An actual human being, A, must be paid to drive down to a store and deliver something for B who is too lazy to get off his couch for a burrito. The only way that would work is if A is being paid the bare minimum or if B has plenty of c
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by unishark 5y ago
Universities also add prestige and provide protection for the IP. It may be a good deal or not depending on the price.
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by unishark 5y ago
I'm just trying to aid someone who was tantalizingly close to understanding another poster's joke. But your comment does read to me like a criticism of "universities" as a broad class, not only of certain wealthy schools
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by unishark 5y ago
And what set of universities would form the least representative sample possible?
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by unishark 5y ago
My guess is they're trying to classify behaviors like glancing off in some direction repeatedly to look at a cheat sheet or a phone, the same things human proctors watch for. Presumably the system can fail to accurately estimate the ga
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by unishark 5y ago
> Athiesm is to religion what not collecting stamps is to a hobby. I believe the point of the article and discussion is the particular atheists "collecting stamps" with more ideological ferver than the hobbyists.
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by unishark 5y ago
Also prestige whoring wasn't always as pervasive as it is now. Even as recently as the 90's when I was applying to college, the ivy league proudly proclaimed their lack of merit or athletic scholarships... so I didn't even co
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by unishark 5y ago
I think is especially true of MS programs in technology areas. Schools compete to require the fewest courses possible while including capstones and internships to pad resumes. They basically operate like immigration agencies that will get y
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by unishark 5y ago
> Less selective colleges with smaller endowments that need the money from fees more are not going to be more economically diverse if they can possibly avoid it. Why does it matter? They are less selective so anyone has a better chance o
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by unishark 5y ago
Elderly people often can't sleep much if they tried. I guess the "sleep pressure" side of the equation just weakens progressively. The average at age 70 may be around 6-7 hours anyway. So 4 hours probably isn't particula
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by unishark 5y ago
That sounds like me. Whenever doctors have asked me when I normally go to sleep, I don't have an answer. I'd say sleep hygiene is necessary but not sufficient. I'm guessing you are aware of the reddit forums for N24/DSPS
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by unishark 5y ago
> ...extreme night owls (who might naturally sleep, for example, from 2 to 10 a.m.)... Uh what's the next adjective after "extreme"? This reminds me of companies with so-called "flex time" where you have the opti
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by unishark 5y ago
Certainly my point about was to argue a different meaning than the parent commenter's. But I don't follow your second sentence. Without the FDA there were no regulations to capture, hence no regulatory capture to worry about. A ru
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by unishark 5y ago
This is basically how the law currently works. If you are terminally ill you can apply for compassionate use from the FDA. And/or join a study. I think I read a while back that some large percentage of people dying of cancer were membe
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by unishark 5y ago
This is more like the opposite of regulatory capture. Patients are free to use the drug or not.
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by unishark 5y ago
A lower chance of getting to use the pension means better benefits. Actuarial math.
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by unishark 5y ago
Yeah it's lame. Also they might prohibit shorting of the stock (always), preventing employees from locking in their stock option gains.
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by unishark 5y ago
If you are an insider at a company you work at, they tell you and you have to adhere to additional rules and blackouts around announcement and earnings time. This is not common. In the story, the guy's wife worked in finance so had con
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by unishark 5y ago
The key is to use anything not just efficiently but sparingly. The heat may not be on at night, you can use thicker covers. But the cost of wood isn't bad. The worst winter bills appear to arise from heating oil from what I've hea
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by unishark 5y ago
whereas I'm saying it's not an externality even in the absence of manipulation by specific regulations, which you apparently agree with given your second sentence. I find that people have a tendency to be overly narrow in consider
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by unishark 5y ago
So it's bad to be the cake? I assume he means it's the foundation one falls back on when the more specialized categories of methods are not applicable. You might not like my analogy either. I think of supervised and unsupervised l
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by unishark 5y ago
I'd say it's even less than that. They seem to be summarizing the ways the problem of teaching an agent to do anything (including be generally intelligent) can be formulated as a problem of maximizing a reward (hence the title). A
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by unishark 5y ago
When multiple regions are actually needed to work together to support a function as a network, then this shows up in the lesion and injury data also. There's also a lot of data from surgeries to address severe seizures. There's so

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