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by woopwoop 3y ago
I know you're being facetious, but there's something to this. Both reading and listening are passive. They're indistinguishable from each other, but both are quite distinguishable from writing, or reading the way you would &q
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by woopwoop 3y ago
Imagine you learn about some new conjecture in mathematics, and you try to predict when it will be resolved. Your prediction says that there is a 50% chance that the conjecture is resolved in the next 25 years, and a 90% chance it is resolv
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by woopwoop 3y ago
The article was about consumer goods in general, so data about cars overall is more relevant than a single brand. Nonetheless, the Toyota Prius is, by reputation, a very reliable car. Here a used car website used it's data to estimate
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by woopwoop 3y ago
They were simpler and easier to repair, but they absolutely did not last longer.
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by woopwoop 3y ago
So this article implies that a number of things that we buy previously were built to last longer, and indeed did last longer. The first few examples are kitchen appliances. In this case I don't really know, but I'm at least willin
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by woopwoop 3y ago
The guy wants her to buy or found a music company. That's the point, I'd you were wondering.
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by woopwoop 3y ago
I don't think that is true? As far as I know the grokking phenomenon was first observed (and the name coined) in this paper, not in any blog post: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177
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by woopwoop 3y ago
The average American spends about an hour a day driving. You are awake for about 16 hours a day. So truly self-driving cars, where you can fall asleep or pull out your laptop and work on something else, give you 1/16th of your life bac
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by woopwoop 3y ago
Is he short microsoft?
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by woopwoop 3y ago
This is from the GMU economics department. I actually agree with a lot of the worldview of the people there, but it is clearly a political project, not an academic one. Noteworthy wealthy political activists have donated enough to the depar
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Yes
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by woopwoop 4y ago
The model is open source https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything/
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by woopwoop 4y ago
In this context does the word "system" have a different meaning than "thing"?
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by woopwoop 4y ago
They've flagrantly violated her right to infect strangers with a deadly respiratory disease.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
The point is the update method they use is the same one you'd get from using Newton's method to find the roots of the function f(x) = x^2 - 2.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
A copy of the classic "Mathematics Made Difficult" (which by the way is perhaps the pinnical of human literature) is saved to my desktop as mathhard.pdf
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Is it even a new evaluation? The article is really unclear.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Badly. It can't do math, to an extent which is honestly surprising given how well it produces code. I suspect that this will improve significantly in the next couple of years, but I kind of hope I am wrong. I am a mathematician by trai
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by woopwoop 4y ago
No, this statement is true for every graph that doesn't have constant degree. It's not really to do with random graphs. Rather it's the fact that a random neighbor of a random node draws from a different distribution than a r
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by woopwoop 4y ago
The first thing I tried was "Lipschitz selection", a somewhat overloaded phrase that I encountered a lot in graduate school. I guess I had in mind a summary of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00325 but
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Do any of those applications use neural nets in any non-trivial way? I'm pretty sure that kind of stuff is all classical statistical modeling.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
> They literally designed this entire thing for dads that couldn't get the hang of T9 I had a phone like this, although not that model. It was great, T9 sucked. In fact, it was much more pleasant to type on than a touch screen.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
That seems fine to me. What's so sinister about that?
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I feel like the phenomenon of people in their twenties living with their parents should only be attributed to deep cultural currents after we're 100% sure that it's not the exploding cost of housing in the most productive, well-pa
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by woopwoop 4y ago
One example I can think of is the use of the phrase "current thing" to pejoratively describe when a certain political issue that no two reasonable people could disagree about, such as a dictatorship waging a brutal war of imperial
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by woopwoop 4y ago
What is the point of reading? Most people would say "learning". So, to be provocative, I will make the following, slightly exaggerated, point. I have never, not once in my life, learned something important by reading about it. Eve
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Not sure about the existence of 10x engineers, but I'm quite certain of the existence of -10x engineers.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I'm not sure we're really disagreeing at this point. Density has a bunch of effects. It creates congestion. But it also creates opportunity. Without the people in New York, there would not be opportunity there. People _wish_ their
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Agreed. My point was that the reason you can finance such high-density construction in Tokyo (and New York) is exactly because so many people want to live there, which in turn is because of the network effects created by the people who do l
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by woopwoop 4y ago
This is pretty far afield at this point, but while Chicago may not be a developer's paradise, it's substantially better than New York. In any case, though, the original question is whether population density actually makes a place

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