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by xapata 3y ago
I'm a Microsoft shareholder. So is basically everyone else who invests in broad index funds, even if indirectly, through a pension fund. That's "many" enough for me.
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by xapata 3y ago
Startup success is random enough that it'll be correlated with a great variety of interesting things. A good scientist makes a hypothesis based on a casual model first, then constructs a test for it. Data mining for correlated things
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by xapata 3y ago
Gygax? The history books don't think much of his business skills, starting with the creation of AD&D as a fiction to avoid paying royalties to Arneson.
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by xapata 3y ago
What's up with the lowercase I's? They'd have to intentionally edit to write i instead of I, because of autocorrect. Right?
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by xapata 3y ago
Better. The hyperbole didn't help your comment. I think you'll find people more interested in engaging in serious discussion if you write with a tone that invites thought instead of reaction.
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by xapata 3y ago
"Primordial" and "US" don't really go together. The USA is only ~250 years old.
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by xapata 3y ago
We don't have enough data. There's only one universe, and it's helpful to train on counter-factual events.
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by xapata 3y ago
I'm not a Rustacian, but so far I much prefer Python's packaging to Go's. Italicize all you like. I don't find the emphasis convincing. When I receive a Python program that I'd like to modify, I can. When I rece
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by xapata 3y ago
Universal basic income might cleanly solve that problem. Might, because the addict might spend the weekly income on the addiction instead of food and shelter.
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by xapata 3y ago
I haven't found it so. I've stuck with pip and adopted venv when it showed up, and haven't needed anything else. I use Docker for "pinned" builds.
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by xapata 3y ago
Not exactly. To be comparable to the good air filter products, you'd want to build a cube of air filters and attach the fan so it pulls air through the cube. Fun DIY project, but it's not for everyone. There's a good YouTu
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by xapata 3y ago
Some of that "shit" was also a competitive advantage in the early days of the language.
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by xapata 3y ago
To be fair, the typical French person has a thick accent in English. While the "n" in "bon" isn't strong, it's still there. Or half there. Hard to describe. I'm not familiar with IPA either.
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by xapata 3y ago
> The phrase is "bon mot" (pronounced "baw mow", roughly) You pronounce either "bon mot" or "baw mow" differently than I do.
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by xapata 3y ago
Can you make some money with that bet?
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by xapata 3y ago
A jury gets to decide whether the evidence proves the crime. Do you think a prosecutor could convince the jury that no reasonable person would make that bet without insider knowledge?
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by xapata 3y ago
Comparing my cheap spice chopper and my cheap burr grinder, I noticed a clear improvement. Maybe that's because the spice chopper was so bad at chopping coffee beans. I doubt the fancy burr grinders make much difference, but then aga
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by xapata 3y ago
Contracts can help. Knowing that marriage is at least somewhat likely for happy couples, site users could sign an agreement that they'll pay the site $1k in the event that they become married to someone they meet through the site. Of
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by xapata 3y ago
Because they're finding it's easier to give people a monthly bill credit for 24 months. They're not ending the discount, they're ending the way it's marketed.
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by xapata 3y ago
If tree cutting were also taxed appropriately, that specific example wouldn't be a problem.
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by xapata 3y ago
I did say, "on the whole." I was specifically thinking of the idea that large formations being idiocy after the invention of gunpowder. Brett Devereaux's 4-part series "The Universal Warrior" had an excellent discu
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by xapata 3y ago
Your gunpowder and large formations metaphor doesn't hold. People aren't idiots, on the whole. Do a little more military history research.
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by xapata 3y ago
Unrelated or incomparable? I'm offering a comparison, not a relation.
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by xapata 3y ago
You could have spelled out the abbreviation: reinforcement learning with human feedback. Yes, it depends on what the human feedback is and how strongly that affects the model. My point was more that the researchers started from the positio
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by xapata 3y ago
Yes, but that's as or more defensible a position than that the researchers' spectrum is unbiased.
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by xapata 3y ago
> The platform was asked to impersonate individuals from across the political spectrum while answering a series of more than 60 ideological questions. So, the researchers defined _a priori_ a political spectrum? Seems like flawed method
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by xapata 3y ago
No, the likelihood is unknown, but the hiring process includes a model to estimate it. Of a sort.
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by xapata 3y ago
Have you watched _Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery_ ? Is it possible SBF is actually quite stupid, except perhaps for some cleverness with math?
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by xapata 3y ago
> could've If someone is 83.7% likely to provide good leadership, how would you evaluate the choice to hire that person as a leader in the hindsight that the person failed to provide good leadership -- was it a bad choice, or was it
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by xapata 3y ago
It's somewhat like metaclasses. As the joke goes: If you have to ask, then you don't need metaclasses.

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