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by wjnc 1y ago
You have to balance that with how low can you expect human beings to lower their standards when faced with bureaucratic opposition. No backups on a key system would increase the likelihood of malice versus stupidity, since the importance of
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This post is downvoted but intruiging to me. Because a large part of this thread is people explaining what their pet can do, has learned, has been willing to learn. The thing that came to my mind is that we are interpreting the dogs behavio
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Most likely answer, based on [1] is that this was investigated and not a contributing factor. I infer this from thinking that investigators know for sure that the operational awareness of the watch can be impacted by watch schedules. Traini
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"If you know Rebecca (many reading this won't), you know how amazing she is. She's worked with many cancer patients, though her work at Commonweal, and her numerous award-winning cook books. She would call me her "rock&q
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I think I can follow this artikel, but am unsure. Are these mortgages backed by the underlying real estate? “ Among the newly delinquent multifamily mortgages was the $62 million mortgage on Park West Village in Manhattan. The 4.65% fixed-r
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Question for the Deutsch HN-ers: Is this readable to your modern eye? Letter for letter I can see the relation to the handwriting I was taught in Dutch in the 80s, but as a text it looks like sanskrit to me. Obviously learnable, like learni
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Read it kindly, not literally. The missing word is probably “[persistent] consumption” and measurement in standard units of alcohol (not mmol or pl).
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I even think there are a lot more geeks 'out of the closet' now. Gaming, board games, reading scifi/fantasy, programming and general tech interest - I think they've all massively increased in popularity when compared to
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This is a great question. Have been in insurance for 20 yrs now. Cannot phantom why f.e. insurers don’t hold manufacturers responsible for losses due to cloned car keys with inadequate protection. I do know that insurers are generally very
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People are average on average. OP is measuring LLM succes based on a super human test which most of us would likely fail. Creativity is just longer context and opinionated prompting. (For discussion purposes. I’m on 70% true.) Average Joe L
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(I am not an AI bull.) I'd say current AI is already there. It's just that the personality of LLM is not what we would have expected from scifi. It's like an average IQ person with pleasing problems, problems being fair, trou
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Over the holidays I built a plan for an app that would be worthwhile to my children, oldest son first. That plan developed to several thousand words of planning documents (MVP, technical stack, layout). That was just me lying in the sun wit
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Thanks for your replies. I understand the worldview. We differ on a few points of view. Large scale farming releases hands for more specialization. Specialization leads to interdependence and (in my naïveté) peace. ‘We’ did get a very large
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Why? I see no arguments, only propositions. (I will bring little arguments myself below. Not flaming.) Technological advancement is in my opinion unrelated to the way current “social” technologies impact “social relations”. Things are not g
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I read this as a poem to the French culture.
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The absolute classic would be Hal Varian, afaik still chief economist at Google. Still proud of working through Microeconomic Analysis. He has an introduction into micro as well. His books are so full of worthwhile thoughts. Micro introduce
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by wjnc 1y ago
The article is missing some key points about insurance. An ideal book balances mortality and longevity risks. This cancels out the risk GLP-1s or many other actuarial shifts in mortality. Insurers swap risks, reinsure risks etc to move towa
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This should even hold for non-US salaries? This is a machine that enables you to work for about four years. What’s that 200k € in /median/ EU wages. Penny pinching. The thing is that consumer and prosumers vary and everybody wants
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First introduced in 1914! Suppressing a current practice is way harder than suppressing an innovation via buy-and-die.
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First law of dentistry: Any innovation that does not increase dentist margin, will not reach market. To expand on this argument. I think even medical health care is more open to innovation that mainly benefits consumer health. Doctors are k
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“ How can a thinking person not understand this is beyond me.” Measurement theory is not a subject taught pretty much anywhere? I have a masters in economics and the only reason I have more than an inkling of understanding of these things i
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Claude gave a great answer at the link, at least for me. There might be a plus in learning as well since the answer is well structured with a recognizable style. Say, the scientific article above, has a distinct style and really was not hig
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This article could be so much better: How large are the estimated stores of ore that underwent natural fission? How much energy did it release and over how much time? When? Would this be noticable (and to whom)? So many questions, so little
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Data drift is real! I’ve recently restored sanity in a medium sized enterprise where there were three concurrent financial data flows. Including people not understanding each other, projects to find out ground truth and triple the workload
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Future: Cycle the power when profitable, replace the batteries when depleted enough? Batteries in cars are many times the domestic demand of a given home, at least in temperate climates.
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About the weather patterns. We live near a large area of natural dunes. In school we were taught that the natural dunes reflect sunlight, leading to rising air. Although I can't remember the exact meteorology (rising air generally lea
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Any thoughts into the Why? Culture, finance, …? I get your point. Also thinking about Sony or Nintendo. Billions more to be made if only those firms where more technically-commercial (make accounts and buying stuff for parents Easy).
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Can anyone explain me the economics of why a novelty hardware supplier would Not invest in drivers / software in parallel? There must be a good reason for this to happen, it even happens at the other end of the scale, but I would think
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As a child of a scientist and teacher from the ‘40s and ‘50s I think there is some romanticism in your opinion. Can’t argue with your personal situation, but I know for a fact that writing notes, copywriting, stenciling, multiplying and dis
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Combine this with a -/- 10 km/h per speeding ticket for a year or two and you’ve got a pretty optimal situation!

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