vikramkr

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by vikramkr 6y ago
What bugs? I know of some that are left in for backwards compatibility, but otherwise its clearly working well enough to be the dominant tool for so many industries. And the parts that work are good enough that its easier to just change the
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by vikramkr 6y ago
3 times the amount may be worth it for things where synchronous work matters
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Its not zero sum, but the sum isn't infinite, especially for research without direct commercial applications. It would be nice to fund everything, but scientists have to get lot more politically engages before that sort of political su
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by vikramkr 6y ago
how statistically significant is that conclusion though
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by vikramkr 6y ago
This article does seem a bit P hacking, and certainly wouldn't be enough to make treatment recommendations, but it might help on HN to link to the relevant XKCD and provide some context since I don't know how many other people are
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They tested so many factors and so many data points that you could start to consider it unintentional P hacking. 24 people might also be underpowered. Best to view the findings as hypotheses to study further rather than concluaive results.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Its best to consider the findings here as hypotheses for further testing brother than results. Look at just how many factors were measured - I didn't realize this during my first skim through but for example the "positive mood&q
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Why would it be mentioned? They weren't measuring long term/chronic impacts - they don't have the data to make any inferences about that.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Overall interesting research, but as with any preliminary research, there are a lot of little details that aren't in the headline that are important to know when evaluating it. A couple points: 1) the inclusion criteria include prior u
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by vikramkr 6y ago
5 billion of the cash was from a recent capital raise. Those numbers give you a roughly .2% annualized interest rate, which doesn't seem unreasonable for the current environment.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
So I haven't ever used this service, so I might not be framing the question correctly - but what I guess I mean is: are the alternative integrated services actually the initially intended final form of the product post preview? Or is t
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Yes - but that's not interdisciplinary in the way you think it is. Designing a new enzyme at the molecular level is basically still not a thing that humans have figured out how to do. Her approach was revolutionary in the same way that
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by vikramkr 6y ago
That's not really an unrelated field - thats just bioengineering and synthetic biology. Thats one of the more chemistry related chemistry novels in recent times actually, since the lack of a biology nobel has led to so many biology bre
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It would be cool, but transactions are two way. Its technologically not gonna be too difficult to create a way to buy with stocks (cashapp could probably add the feature tommorow if they wanted) but its also about the other party's wil
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by vikramkr 6y ago
So what you're describing is the complete collapse of our current system of government. If the US becomes a failed state like you describe, turning into a totalitarian wasteland where not even the pretense of democracy is maintained, d
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Unless you want to use them like a currency. Then you probably want ones that trade like a currency. Theres a reason you don't buy sandwiches with fractional google shares.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
When you're tossing a ball into the air by hand, gravity is going to have a far more dominant effect on things than air resistance and friction. Things still fall on the moon...
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by vikramkr 6y ago
So this is more like data storage/some sort of extreme compression than anything? Would it be accurate to interpret this as basically saving the trained neural network into 10 images and reading it back to retrain a model? Or, what rea
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Esperanto isn't actually that universal. It's very European, using a Latin alphabet, grammar and syntax from romance languages, etc. Its going to be very easy for a Spanish or English or German speaker to pick up, for example. Pro
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The problem is that everyone has and knows how to use excel. And enough people in finance and consulting see excel skills as a mark of status that there's going to be some resistance to change there. A new tool has to be equally univer
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by vikramkr 6y ago
To clarify some of the confusion- my point is not that the world is great. My point is that if I free myself from intellectual rigor and data/evidence based claims, and allow myself to focus on emotion, vague statements, and anecdote,
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The point of my post is that I'm also cherrypicking. The point im trying to convey is that if I decide to unmoor myself from nuance and rigor in incorporating data etc, I can make the world sound as good or as bad as I want.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
My position isn't that everything is fine. My position is that everything is nuanced, and that its easy to use anecdotes and emotion to convey an unnuanced worldview to sell a book
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They aren't- that's the point. My examples are equally bad since they're also incomplete. I'm not really arguing the opposite as much as I'm trying to illustrate why nuance and data are important. Some things are ge
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Have I noticed all these things? You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want. Our space program is finally running at a more reasonable cost thanks to some private competition. What services are costing more now outside o
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Right, but I'm getting the sense that people may have done it for years, but all that did was engender a desire to never have to worry about compatibility again
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by vikramkr 6y ago
A blacksmith is a specialized trade. You cant make up a new definition for an adjective and then use the nonstandard definition to make your point. Division of labor is synonymous with specialization. If you don't like it, make up a
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Specialization and division of labor is literally a defining aspect of civilization. Did you forget a couple zeros? The industrial revolution alone was starting around 1760, which is 260 years ago, and evidence for the existence of civiliza
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by vikramkr 6y ago
No the ideal end game is that we specialize into whatever role we want with full autonomy without having to worry about things we don't want to worry about. I dont want to have to know how to build a house or do construction work. Once

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