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by vecter 2y ago
Weak probably means too much VC competition relative to the number of good investment opportunities, leading to higher valuations, fewer investments in top companies, and lower expected returns.
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by vecter 2y ago
The point has nothing to do with Elon. It's just the correct way to analyze revenue graphs due to seasonality. Whether or not X is "collapsing" isn't obvious from the graphs either, and I made no such claim. We'd ne
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by vecter 2y ago
That's the wrong way to read revenue graphs. You need to compare quarterly year over year. From that perspective, it's down across the board.
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by vecter 2y ago
Isn't revenue declining according to that data?
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by vecter 2y ago
Confirmed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheif/ From May 2022 - Jan 2023 · 9 mos
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by vecter 2y ago
This is simple but so effective. When I was 5 or 6 years old, my mom would sometimes give me one page of simple math problems. They were all basic arithmetic, things like 12+17 or 99+99 or 8x7, etc. I did them and got on with my life. They
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by vecter 2y ago
The general belief that singularities are “unphysical” and reflect a flaw in our models than actual reality. Hard to prove definitely right now of course.
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by vecter 2y ago
Can you explain why?
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by vecter 2y ago
I doubt it. Finding faster deterministic min-cut algorithms has been an interesting problem for a long time. Programming puzzles have no practical impact on theoretical research.
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by vecter 2y ago
My very rough understanding from reading the article (I could be wrong, I'm not a researcher) is that this is accomplished by the key insight of Kawayabarashi and Thorup (2015), which is that min-cuts must have low conductance. So it s
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by vecter 2y ago
Theoretical CS is basically a branch of applied math
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by vecter 3y ago
"Software", like "science", is a broad term. Just like there are many kinds of scientists and you could be, say, a biologist or a physicist, there are many entirely disparate fields of software engineering. At the end of
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by vecter 3y ago
Why does the proton not meet this criteria?
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by vecter 3y ago
In a very narrow strict sense, yes. But I would argue it's not really venture-backed. For me, venture-backed means that over time, the founders collectively own a minority of the shares, and the board structure is such that venture cap
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by vecter 3y ago
It's just a fingerprint for their chat. It's almost the same as a random four-letter code to verify that you're both seeing the ame thing.
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by vecter 3y ago
What was so fun about Super Mario RPG for me was the sheer amount of Easter eggs. From Geno's Whirl's 9999 damage (only to normal enemies, not bosses, EXCEPT for Exor), to fighting Culex, to all the steps you need to do to unlock
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by vecter 3y ago
How would this computer fare against the top 10 best players collaborating(or even top 90-100)? I would bet it would lose big time. It would destroy them in the same way. The marginal value of each additional human brain quickly app
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by vecter 3y ago
Another fun one: pi * 1e7 seconds is approximately one year.
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by vecter 3y ago
FTA this is an interesting tidbit about Busy Beavers: But the BB function has a second amazing property: namely, it’s a perfectly well-defined integer function, and yet once you fix the axioms of mathematics, only finitely many values o
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by vecter 3y ago
Interesting. How would someone prove this?
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by vecter 3y ago
This is a great list. I could be wrong but I believe that some early version of Dropbox was usable not too long after the demo.
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by vecter 3y ago
In their preprint, the Korean authors note one particular temperature at which LK-99’s showed a tenfold drop in resistivity, from about 0.02 ohms per centimetre to 0.002 ohms per cm. “They were very precise about it. 104.8ºC,” says Prashan
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by vecter 3y ago
I didn't downvote you, but in this very article itself that these comments are discussing, the German scientists talked about how it's possible that even if Germany had developed the bomb, perhaps all they would've been able
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by vecter 3y ago
It must be a compact convex set. The entire reals is not compact.
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by vecter 3y ago
Is submitting multiple applications illegal? I'd have to imagine that you would get caught for doing this once they see the same person in the system, especially if they approve the same person multiple times.
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by vecter 3y ago
That sounds bad for the customer, but how does that play out for the owners? Does this sort of behavior end up working out better for them financially? If so, despite how bad it sounds, it does seem like they end up with more efficient econ
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by vecter 3y ago
This is interesting. Can you share some practical examples of Hobson's choices that you gave your children?
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by vecter 3y ago
This would be true if Sundar chose his own compensation, but he does not. It is decided by the board. I'm not saying it's the right thing for the board to do (if I were on the board, I would've suggested he keep his pay even
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by vecter 3y ago
According to this article [0], you're right: > This property of the strong nuclear force is known as asymptotic freedom, and the particles that mediate this force are known as gluons. Somehow, the energy binding the proton together,
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by vecter 3y ago
Math should really about understanding concepts and developing intuition, not about equations. The equations and formalisms are there to precisely codify our intuition and ensure (through proof) that our ideas are in fact correct, but they

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