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Generally, for people who are not accredited investors, the best investment is human capital -- your own education -- so that you can increase your lifetime wage income.
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A big enough neural network could have, for example, a Python interpreter baked in. Would it then be reasoning about Python code? What does reasoning mean?
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I think the point is that you wouldn't be. The network, from your perspective, will be quite small.
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It's long past time that we turn the streets back over to pedestrians. Communities are much more enjoyable when car-free.
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I might be out of date. When searching for links to the policy, I found some notes about changes to the policy in 2015: https://congressionaldata.org/open-source-software-now-permi... The instance I'm mildly familiar
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If open source software is a public good, then it should be funded like other public goods. Unfortunately, there are some laws in the US that prevent government organizations from creating software that competes with software created by pr
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The credit card companies have built trust with merchants around the world that they'll settle up eventually, and that anyone (or most people) carrying their cards will pay their bills. If a cryptocurrency system were to try to suppla
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My interpretation of Gladwell is simply that he's very good at the standard method of finding a relatable example to illustrate a theory. His problem (a common problem) is that he tends to ignore counter-examples.
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Why is being a hack necessary to his effectiveness as an author? Do you think that it's impossible to be as effective with a more correct thesis?
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Abbreviations are good to the extent that they're commonly used. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. At the time Guido picked `def`, I might have argued with him. Now, it's the standard. If I were writing my own langu
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Ugly, confusing naming choices: ``@par`` instead of ``@parallel``.
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Numba doesn't market itself very well.
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It used to be Arthur Anderson, but they changed their name after Enron.
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> medical professionals typically study statistics, epidemiology doesn't really figure out itself on its own. Having tutored medical professionals trying to pass their epidemiology classes, I would not make that claim. From my obse
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I'd extend the joke with, "You're wearing it upside-down." It's never ceased to amaze me how incompetent large organizations can be.
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In the 70s, there was widespread misunderstanding of what artificial intelligence would be good at. Take a look at Hubert Dreyfus' _What Computers Can't Do_ (1972). To be fair, he was correct in some respects, but I think with f
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There's a possibility that all the particles in my body might leap simultaneously one foot to the left, or that I might transform into a bowl of petunias. The question is how likely playing chess or riding in a car might squash me lik
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I remember people saying no computer could ever beat the best humans at chess.
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> hired a bootcamp grad for a junior role and had a great experience. Yes, but most interview candidates from bootcamps couldn't pass the tech screen, and most of the hires were mediocre. One was stellar.
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Theory has the longest shelf-life. (That's the name of a class, in many Computer Science curricula.)
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At the margin, it's very hard to tell the difference between advertisements and other media. Today I listened to an enjoyable podcast with 5 speakers, 2 of whom are employed by the same company. During the episode, they discussed a p
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Most of us think we're normal, I assume.
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I used to follow the "I should keep everything private!" mantra that so many software engineers keep. Then I took a gig in advertising and realized how much information companies have despite my privacy efforts and learned to &qu
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I think you're conflating two different kinds of surveillance. The article is incrementing a counter to track the number of unique visitors. If one is worried about blackmail or violence, especially from a government, then one should
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Who's "we"? I don't mind it. I want advertisers to give me more relevant advertising.
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Evidence for processing meat doesn't transfer well as evidence for processing beans.
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Median is sometimes more relevant than mean.
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Google Photos search is magical.
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Poor work performance hurts everyone.
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> Do those make you actively deeply angry? On occasion, yes. > I don't know how you have the energy for that. My wife asks me the same thing. > [M]ost people in the world haven't faced disasters like those. I think we are

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