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by vaidhy 3y ago
Thoughts occur independent of language is same as saying sentient beings think. The question is does the thought you have depend on the language? I speak tamil and english and can distinctly see how the language drives some of my understand
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I believe the point is that we understand the birds' flight better applying the principles we learnt designing and flying airplanes. Similarly, we can learn more about human brain by applying things we learn from building the ANN back
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Maybe the SaaS model is the right model then?? Why not a desktop app with cloud storage if needed?
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by vaidhy 3y ago
You are right.. I meant comments.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Are you looking at only ex-FAANG employees? I doubt you cannot find anyone to write good golang code worldwide for a reasonable pay.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I did not know you can magically start bread making factories at a whim
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Is this pedantic or pragmatic? A commodity, needed/wanted by all people, used to be available at a price point X, is now unaffordable for a large percentage of its erstwhile consumers is a shortage. If that commodity satisfies a basic
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by vaidhy 3y ago
The original point is that europeans were not great at embracing the culture of the people they ruled over, contrary to what Yuval says. He contrasts mongols with european conquests and in my mind, they were the same.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I never said they were not brutal. I specifically Genghis Khan was a great administrator, nothing about him not being brutal. In my mind, they are orthogonal.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I have no idea why you are getting downvoted. Maybe people do not want to know the truth? You are absolutely right in this. Genghis Khan was not only a conqueror, but also an efficient administrator. The various khanates across central asia
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by vaidhy 3y ago
My first reading of Sapiens was like reading a story. I got pulled into the story telling. On a more detailed reading, I felt Harari is a western apologist. He credits the western civilization and the colonization for all the "good thi
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Depends on who is that that flew across the world and how much have they developed a trusted relationship with me.. Why should anyone trust every busybody's advice? If the volunteers have put their money and started a herd and proved t
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I have moved out of Amazon a few years ago, but if you want, ping me at my email and we can talk.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Unless the survey was biased towards people living in areas of high crime, I am not sure how to draw the conclusion you drew. The last sentence seems to be a dog whistle for something else.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Yes, but you are still looking at data. I never said there are no local variances. However, extreme dependence on your lived experience should not result in policy decisions. I am taking a more extreme example just to illustrate - If I coul
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Is it because superbowl is on sunday or superbowl is on sunday because the viewership is there? I do not know what is the cause and what is the effect.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Just wanted to make sure I understand this right - Since Jeff B made that one statement, anecdotes are a better measure? And the second part of it talks about measurement, not data. People are irrational and we give in to irrational fears.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I would amend that slavery is being forced to work for a single person/corporation with a massive penalty for trying to change it.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-... Is that good evidence?
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by vaidhy 3y ago
As opposed to US disinfo campaigns being not very effective?
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by vaidhy 3y ago
You are correct.. But if you move the deleted record to a different db, you have to follow the chain of relationships and move more records to the "deleted" db. Which means you would have a create a full database to maintain the e
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by vaidhy 3y ago
There is theoretical inefficiency and practical inefficiency. Something might be O(n^3).. but if your n is small (as in backblaze case, where you do it on a file by file basis, rather than for your filesystem), it is still useful. In other
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Yes and no. If you are thinking of a no-sql database, then this is an easy approach. However, I would expect most of the systems to be using normalized tables and this approach would be pretty hard due to relational constraints. You would h
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by vaidhy 3y ago
oh!! I understand what they are.. but the sentence struck me as funny. Maybe juvenile humor, but still humor :) We used to be slabbing and slobbing, but now we are just slubbing and I am blabbing about it.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
This article was written in 2014 and I do not know if the specifics are still true. However, I think mathematicians and biologists work in two different levels of abstraction. One is a lawful good with occasional venture into chaotic good,
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I downvoted this comment because it is not pertinent to this topic and just flamebait.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
My favorite sentence of the year - Linux is deprecating SLAB, following the deprecation of SLOB and will now focus on SLUB. With no context around why we are slubbing when we can also be slabbing and slobbing.
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by vaidhy 3y ago
I think our worldviews are different. While I do not think everything is perfect with FDA, the world without FDA is much, much worse than the one with it. Just because criminals break laws does not mean no laws should be passed. Just becaus
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by vaidhy 3y ago
That is why vaccines need FDA approval in the first place. Everything else you said is true for all kinds of appeal and not just for vaccines. There are horror stories about everything and lawyers not wanting to take things up without upfro
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by vaidhy 3y ago
Where can you get these parts in US? I can probably order the pico, but others seems hard to find. (or is the answer AliExpress)?

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