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by wenc 4y ago
That never happens and I wear my Apple Watch all day and all night (for sleep tracking) except for when I shower -- I plop it on my charger once a day when I shower and it charges to full during my shower (it doesn't take that long for
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by wenc 4y ago
Just got them in the mail (4 hour shipping). They're essentially like AirPods except without any electronics haha. They're way more comfortable than any polyurethane foam earplugs and still manage to block out quite a lot of ambie
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by wenc 4y ago
At $25 a pair they’re worth a try. Just ordered a pair. Thanks for the tip.
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by wenc 4y ago
I’m a side sleeper and earmuffs press against the side of my head which might not work so well for me but thanks. And good point about the alarm clock — I wear an Apple Watch to bed for sleep monitoring so my alarm is haptic. It works great
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by wenc 4y ago
My stress levels decreased after getting a pair of AirPods Pro 2. It literally creates a cone of silence around me. I wish there was something similar I could wear during sleep comfortably. I tried earplugs but somehow my sleep is less rest
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by wenc 4y ago
I speak 7 (4 acquired as a child, 1 in school, and 2 as an adult) and I find I'm able to understand understand cultural nuances better, which helps me to bridge cultural gaps and have multi-perspectival views on most things. (this is q
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by wenc 4y ago
Not sure about that. A lot of us non-photographers do care about taking nice pictures and videos but don't really want to get into DSLRs because you never seem to have them around when you need them. These days though most people don&#
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by wenc 4y ago
> Global optimization techniques which don't rely on gradients seems theoretically superior in all instances, except that we haven't found super fast ways to run these kinds of optimizers. Did you mean "Global optimization
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by wenc 4y ago
I don't think that is necessarily so, because I don't lead an active life at all, yet a lot of my weak ties anchor me to a sense of place and to my own humanity. For instance, the cafe owner I meet every morning, the receptionist
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by wenc 4y ago
Yes. The most cited paper of all time in the field of sociology is Granovetter's 1973 paper entitled "The Strength of Weak Ties" [1] The basic reasoning is that humans can only form limited number of strong ties, and the stro
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by wenc 4y ago
I have a connection to both American and Dutch cultures and the the feeling is very different. People have tried to describe it in words but it’s a feeling that is contextually inferred and hard to completely describe in words without being
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by wenc 4y ago
I have Precheck and typically clear security in under 10 minutes. That said, 45 mins is cutting it close for me. Typically I arrive an hour before so that I have a buffer against uncertainty (Precheck lines can be surprising long sometimes)
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by wenc 4y ago
I think it depends how you look at it, but night trains in Japan are actually not that popular -- so much so they had to reduce routes so the Sunrise Seto became the only surviving night train (as pointed out in your linked article), which
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by wenc 4y ago
Oh yeah 16k per year is not unheard of. I was offered that in 2012 (which I promptly turned down for a 30k stipend).
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by wenc 4y ago
If the take home was 490, it was a very bad deal and basically a bursary (which meant you had to have a part time job to support yourself) and not a stipend. Check out Ph.D. stipends (search for chemistry). https://www.phdstipend
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by wenc 4y ago
Not really. A matrix derivative is just a derivative -- it doesn't have to be part of an equation. The derivative of x² is 2x (where x is a scalar) The derivative of vᵀv is 2v (where v is a vector) There's no differential equation
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by wenc 4y ago
If you google "matrix derivatives" there are a ton of cheat sheets, like this one: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/courses/sntn/sntn-2017/... I used matrix derivatives in grad school a lot
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by wenc 4y ago
I know the linked article is about making actual money rather than spending VC capital but choosing profit is actually not what most businesspeople with acumen do. Profits are important, no question. But most companies run with acumen look
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by wenc 4y ago
Yep. 16k is $1.3k per month before tax. Taxes vary but 16k usually falls in the lowest tax bracket. The marginal federal tax rate at that bracket is 10%. Minus various deductions your take home is still 4 figures.
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by wenc 4y ago
490 a month? No it is not.
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by wenc 4y ago
So habits are different from practice (I meant it in the sense of “application”, not so much in the sense of practicing the piano). Habits refer to repetition, which implies you already know what to do so you’re just trying to get better
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by wenc 4y ago
So for me, it's all about instrumental rationality -- do the thing that works, not the thing that ought or ought not to work. It's important to put things into practice. Social science is full of hypotheses that are difficult to m
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by wenc 4y ago
I went to Meetups and talked to strangers. I want to say I had a specific practice routine, but the fact is I just went out and did it. At first it was awkward and tiring, but because I truly wanted to get better at being a conversationalis
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by wenc 4y ago
Can I ask where you're coming from with this question? (just want to understand the context before I answer)
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by wenc 4y ago
I came across the idea on this website ( https://commoncog.com/start-here/ ), which I feel is far more "applied" than the Farnam Street blog ( https://fs.blog/ ). The latter is a distillation of
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by wenc 4y ago
I actually changed my mind based on some simple ideas. Carol Dweck wrote a book called Mindset, which talks about two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. The idea is super simple, and you don't even need to read the book to
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by wenc 4y ago
Yes since 2015. Did not lose weight but didn’t gain any either.
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by wenc 4y ago
You can use DuckDB (SQL syntax) then just convert to Polars (instantaneous). The method chaining syntax is unwieldy in any language. Magrittr + dplyr (tidyverse) pipeline syntax is beautiful syntax but there’s a lot of magic with NSE (nonst
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by wenc 4y ago
I use DuckDB because I can express complex analytic queries better using a SQL mental model. Most software people hate SQL because they can never remember its syntax, but for data scientists, SQL lets us express our thoughts more simply and
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by wenc 4y ago
I don’t know if it’s still true but Wes McKinney’s (Pandas author) rule of thumb for Pandas was “have 5 to 10 times as much as RAM as your dataset”. But he wrote this in 2017 so things may have changed. That said, this is a 2023 comparison

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