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by woeirua 6y ago
Eh... Look I get that everyone wants to publish exciting results, but to call this unequivocally "better" than quick sort is a big stretch. The profiling results are unconvincing at best. A small, < 10% improvement, could easi
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by woeirua 6y ago
Eh... I'm not sure about that. When Democrats had control of both houses + the presidency in 2008, they actually got some stuff done (which included the ACA). The problem with the 115th Congress is that Republicans have done a good job
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by woeirua 6y ago
No one is denying that the lockdowns are having serious repercussions throughout all of society. There will definitely be many unintended deaths from other causes that would not otherwise have happened without Coronavirus. That said, you a
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by woeirua 6y ago
I think it really depends on the specifics of your situation, which no one online will be able to help you with... At the very least, you could probably drop to a part-time student, which would maintain your scholarships and student loan s
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by woeirua 6y ago
Even at 0.3% IFR you're still talking about ~700k total fatalities in the US alone, assuming 70% of the population needs to be infected to achieve "herd immunity" without a vaccine. It's premature for anyone, anywhere, t
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by woeirua 6y ago
Bingo, this is what every college student should be doing right now. Most colleges have a well established process for deferring your education for a year or more due to various exigencies that can arise during those years. I would also arg
817.
by woeirua 6y ago
Seems like an overreaction but some dogs behave very aggressively around cattle and other animals due to instinct. Its entirely possible that the dog was not responsive to commands, and was going after the cattle in a serious way. A 4 mont
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by woeirua 6y ago
I understand that the police need to be reformed, and that they disproportionately police the poor. There are much better options than withdrawing them from all poor neighborhoods though. As we have seen time and time again, when the polic
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by woeirua 6y ago
I'm not naive enough to think that adding more police is the solution, but withdrawing them is _definitely_ not the right answer either. The inescapable conclusion to withdrawing the police is: 1 - response times will go up drastically
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by woeirua 6y ago
Yes, lets further exacerbate class disparities by now only providing safety and security for the rich. At least this way we can stop pretending that we even care about the poor.
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by woeirua 6y ago
If T-bills are in such low demand, and investors are so spooked by the prospect of the US not being able to pay back it's debts, why are yields so low across the board? Oh wait, it's because there is huge overwhelming demand for
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by woeirua 6y ago
You have to be careful with what you look at in the US. The media here is definitely cherry picking the worst of the worst to show people. Were some places hit really hard? Yes. Absolutely. Does the entire country look like NYC? No. Not e
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by woeirua 6y ago
Just look at how much money Amazon is spending on Prime shipping. It's insane. They're never going to turn a profit, because as soon as they stop subsidizing shipping customers will go elsewhere. There is no reason to expect Amaz
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by woeirua 6y ago
This can be true at companies of any size. Sadly.
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by woeirua 6y ago
There are legit startups out there that do change the world. Most of them are not companies that you've ever heard of. I think that companies that change the world satisfy the following criteria: 1 - their work is very hard to replic
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by woeirua 6y ago
Wish I could upvote you more than once. Game designers need to be more focused on getting people into the game, and then progressively revealing more complicated mechanics as the game unfolds. I'd rather play a videogame if I'm
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by woeirua 6y ago
Water is lethal at far less than 100x the normal dose. Google hyponatremia. You can die from ingesting a gallon of water in a few minutes.
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by woeirua 6y ago
Twitter should maliciously comply with Trump's executive order. Suspend his account, and post a banner saying that it was suspended in compliance with President Trump's Executive Order.
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by woeirua 6y ago
At the end of the day, a good manager wants to see their reports progress professionally and personally. They should be helping you get to the next level, regardless of what that is for you. Sometimes that means saying goodbye to really tal
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by woeirua 6y ago
Not speaking with your subordinates at least once a week is a pretty solid indication of a shitty manager...
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by woeirua 6y ago
The problem with this is that NN are in general, overconfident in their predictions, even when they are wrong. This is a well known problem in the AI/ML literature. Using ensembles of overconfident predictors is not the same as getting
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by woeirua 6y ago
Except that in most practical scenarios, most models make basic mistakes that no human would ever make. In most cases, people have a very low tolerance for errors that humans would not make.
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by woeirua 6y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice. This is the exact problem preventing widespread adoption of "AI" throughout most businesses. A model that is 99% accurate is not good enough for most mundane business tasks because they will fail
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by woeirua 7y ago
They'll find some success, the same way that visual editors for desktop applications, and visual editors for web pages, found some success. In the end, these tools all require you to drop the facade once you want to do something too ad
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by woeirua 7y ago
Companies with marginal business models are going to get slaughtered in the next year. Carvana, Opendoor are probably the most well known of these companies. Opendoor's business model was super questionable from the get-go: who's
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by woeirua 7y ago
To be blunt, the SPR is superfluous now. It made sense when we were largely dependent on imported oil as we would have a buffer during a supply disruption. Now that the US is producing so much oil, and seemingly has almost unlimited amount
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by woeirua 7y ago
It should, but the system is not designed to handle the bankruptcies of many companies simultaneously.
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by woeirua 7y ago
This isn't FUD: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-a-blast-from-a-financial-cri...
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by woeirua 7y ago
This is the start of the next Global Financial Crisis folks. It's not hard to see the pieces in motion now: 1 - The Q1 supply shock is going to be a temporary thing. They'll recover alright after causing some companies to miss th
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by woeirua 7y ago
Fossil fuels are done. Even if they get a reprieve for another four years, they'll be done after that. As someone who currently works in the petroleum industry, I wouldn't recommend anyone start a company in it now. It's fa

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