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by woopwoop 4y ago
We are in agreement. In the past, natural resources were important for New York's population growth. Today, they are irrelevant, and the value of New York is in the network effects, which are due to the large population. "This is
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Everything I said is not true of Chicago. Chicago has not underbuilt housing for almost a century.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Manhattan does not sit atop some massive pile of natural resources. Opportunity is great there exactly because there are so many people. Network effects are large. By the way, I do not think New York is expensive because it is desirable. It
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by woopwoop 4y ago
If this were true, I'd think Manhattan apartments would be cheap.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I, for one, appreciate the points you are making here, and the doggedness with which you are making them. I basically feel the same way, but I don't usually comment on these discussions because of the general shrillness of the discussi
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Undergrads are mostly not exposed to research in mathematics.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
It's always interesting how on this website the economic news is actually worse than what the indicators say. Good or bad news, they're always lying to make it seem better than it is.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Probably there isn't anyone who wasn't an author who can vouch for it yet, but this is a different situation. These guys have been working toward this problem for a long time in much closer touch with the mathematical community, w
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Oh man, 912 pages, they almost beat Almgren's big regularity paper.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I have experienced this with NWA's "Gangsta Gangsta". Another delightful thing is that the volume is system volume * speaker volume, so that if you turned up the system volume because you were, e.g., using a quiet pair of hea
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by woopwoop 4y ago
If your reading speed is the limiting reagent for your understanding a piece of writing, you should read something else. It's like if the limiting factor in your programming speed is typing. The thing to fix is probably not your typing
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I like this quote from an otherwise terrible Chris rock movie: "Some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You&#x
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I've never heard of this person, but I read most of their article. Kind of defeats their point, no?
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by woopwoop 4y ago
But going from grocery delivery to walking to the store is not integrating it into your everyday activity. That's restructuring your life. Sure, I could walk to work and back every day I go to the office, but it'd be 45 minutes a
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Probably won't get you the equivalent of 8-10 miles a day, but you can buy some dumbbells, put them by your desk, and do a set of something every hour or so during a break. I aspire to do this, but often forget/get too lazy to do
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I've also started using an under-the-desk treadmill lately. Agree it's awesome. I have no idea how people get in 10,000 steps or whatever without it. But holy crap you're walking 8-10 miles a day!
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Fungible + trades at greater than one usd also includes, for example, aapl shares. Still well short of the mark.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
> Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD. Ford F-150s are successful at being money. If you don't bel
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Having your learning be rate-limited by your reading speed is like having your coding output be rate-limited by your typing speed.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Leetcode is great for avoiding the bottom left of the von Manstein matrix.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Colleges got paid up front before as well. The loans were not originated by the universities, they were originated by financial institutions.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
I feel like this article doesn't support it's thesis at all. Why does the government lending directly result in less downward price pressure than guaranteeing loans? The only hypothesis I can imagine is that people anticipated som
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by woopwoop 4y ago
My toyota Corolla has a touch screen for interacting with audio. It has the following delightful features: - latency - it has a boot procedure when you turn the car on. While this happens, the controls have quite substantial latency. Howeve
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Yeah I didn't mean to imply "Why does SGD result in lower training loss than the initial weights" is an open question. But I don't think even lolcatz would call that a sufficient explanation. After all if the only criter
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Even if it were practically useless (which it is not, although the practical applications are less impressive than the research achievements at this point), it would be magical. Deep learning has dominated imagenet for a decade now, for exa
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Honestly at this point it kind of is magic. These things are knocking out astonishing novel tasks every month, but the state of our knowledge is "why does sgd even work lol". There is no coherent theory.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
For context for those outside of mathematics, Gowers is a preeminent mathematician who won a fields medal for his work in functional analysis. He has advocated and worked towards computer-generated mathematics for a long time, mostly along
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Seconded. It is so seemless that it is literally possible to not notice which machine you are on if you are just firing up something new for quick exploration.
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Thanks, this is great. Poorly thought out morning spitball coming. One of the reasons approximation theorems are so unsatisfying is that they are always of the form "for function class X there exists an architecture A of complexity O(N
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by woopwoop 4y ago
Using the "royal we" is standard in mathematics. If you ever see someone do this in ordinary writing you can bump up your odds that they're a mathematician. Another giveaway is using "modulo" to mean "except fo

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