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by woopwoop 4y ago
There's some sort of "benchmark" pun lying in the open here, unexploited.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Are there any estimates on the welfare effects of forbidding buyers from reselling tickets? This has always struck me as one of the more outrageous market distortions one encounters on a regular basis.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
This thread conflates "boo higher education" with "higher education is on the verge of collapse". If institutions of higher education are discriminating massively against Asians (and it's pretty clear that they are)
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by woopwoop 5y ago
It is possible to look at someone's track record on a subject and decide it's best to just ignore them. It is not the case that this is never appropriate.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Did Huxley or Bradbury write essays about contemporary politics? Orwell wrote some fascinating ones that I think are more worth reading than 1984, and cover much of the same ground. In particular I'd recommend the essays "Second T
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Necessary throat clearing: modern NLP, and GPT-3 in particular, is incredible, maybe the most exciting scientific field of our time. You have to be incredibly invested in nay-saying to pretend otherwise, and that's coming from someone
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I don't understand what you don't like about that problem. It's not very computationally intensive. Basically it tests if you know what these matrices look like, if you know how matrix multiplication works, and if you know th
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by woopwoop 5y ago
It really depends on what we assume about "natural" data. If it looks "positively curved", e.g. the uniform measure on the boundary of a convex body, or the a gaussian, or something, this holds. But if the distribution e
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I'm a man, and would have answered no to degauss, although I'm 32 (so old enough to have had a crt tv in college). I remember the word upon looking it up though. Gauss I would have assumed was a trick question (he's a person!
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by woopwoop 5y ago
If you are going to pay for something, you want to pay for it in money if at all possible. Social problems arise when you pay for your spot on the road with your willingness to sit in traffic instead of a congestion fee. When you pay journa
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Do you feel the same way about pirating music or television shows?
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I would imagine (but note that I'm totally ignorant here) that this bound depends pretty poorly on the degree of the polynomial defining the expression (and pretty reasonably on the coefficients). Then when you sum two algebraic number
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by woopwoop 5y ago
> Don't just read it; fight it! Ask your own question, look for your own examples, discover your own proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the converse true? What happens in the classical special case? What about the degenerate ca
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I'm completely unmoved by all of these, except for (f), sadistic pleasure. In my opinion this one is poorly presented, because it doesn't highlight the real problem well enough, since it is so shocking. The issue is not so much th
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Vitali Milman apparently drew high-dimensional convex bodies as "spiky" to try to get at this intuition. So the n-dimensional cube in this case would look like a starfish, with the balls inscribed in the subdivided cubes way out i
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Your assertion is that a bill which would have cut legal immigration by 50% was meant to raise immigration in the long term?
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by woopwoop 5y ago
During the last administration, a leading Republican senator brought forth a bill to cut legal immigration by 50%. Many, many Republicans, or at least their elected representatives, want to restrict both legal and illegal immigration. [0]
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by woopwoop 5y ago
The use of the word "prosocial" in the abstract is very confusing to me. They seem to be using it to describe actions which sound good but result in much worse real-world outcomes, right?
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by woopwoop 5y ago
When I was in grad school, I took over a month to go through a single paper [0]. I wasn't taking long breaks, I was trying to make headway almost every day. This wasn't procrastination or me being a slow reader. I don't need
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by woopwoop 5y ago
Is your typical verbal description of a face you remember as sparse as the one I gave? Are their other things about the face you remember that you cannot put into words, or is everything you remember verbal?
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I remain very confused about what aphantasia is. Let me give a concrete example. If you ask me to describe my mother's appearance to you, in as much detail as I can, the output is pretty meager. She's a woman in her early 70s. Tal
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I'm much more pro-leetcode-style-interviews than the median HNer, but I agree with this criticism. It's a very unnatural way of working, and really dilutes the skill signal. In principle, you are learning about how they communicat
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by woopwoop 5y ago
This is the most beautiful formula in mathematics, because it includes all the most important constants e, i, pi, 0, and 1: (ei)^0 = 1^pi
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by woopwoop 5y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking reading that section as well.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
There was a similar concept with a similar name at the same time in jazz music: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheets_of_sound Sheets of sound was more an consequence of Coltrane's unique style and technical skil
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by woopwoop 5y ago
It's very easy to argue that the United States is wealthier than it was in the past and wealthier than China is today, because these things are unambiguously true.
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by woopwoop 5y ago
The governor of Montana battered a reporter for asking him a question he didn't like [0]. There exist a number of politicians who feel that these are reasonable responses to adversarial press, and apparently a large number of voters wh
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by woopwoop 5y ago
When I took algebraic topology, the professor asked us if two topological spaces were the same. Then he looked at us for a moment, and said that actually, that was a "Bill Clinton question: it depends on what the meaning of the word &#
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by woopwoop 5y ago
All of their arguments for why deep learning is reaching its limits seem to me to be arguments for why its future is bright. The fact that we have no even halfway plausible theory of why deep models generalize well, or why training them via
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by woopwoop 5y ago
I agree air travel is not a great space for startups. I still think competition there has been great for consumers.

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