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by yobbo 5y ago
The wisdom of that curly activation can be debated, since in every extreme-point (horizontal) the gradients are zero, and all activations will eventually be trapped or centered there. Histogram plots can be revealing to understand activatio
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by yobbo 5y ago
But that doesn't mean it is invalid when making sense of observations and phenomena. Stereotype is just another word for "expectations based on experiences". It's not claimed to be finite absolute truth.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Honestly, (young) women in the workplace generally make for a better experience. They typically care more about creating a nice friendly atmosphere. Young men (used to) bring assertiveness and a created an atmosphere of competition. Maybe t
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by yobbo 5y ago
It's not smartphones or "straight to the bedroom". Online communities for teenagers have been around in some form since the 80s. Now everyone is expected to be on social media and it is the main community for a teenager, no
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by yobbo 5y ago
You yourself actually linked to the relevant plot "Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings". If you want to make credible arguments, look for median income. Q3 2001: $338, Q3 2021: $367, so that's an 8% increa
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by yobbo 5y ago
The market price of houses has almost nothing to do with the buildings themselves, and the cost of internal surface materials has essentially no relevant bearing on the price either. To get the market price for housing down; even a supply g
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by yobbo 5y ago
If these were UK participants with median age 60, and the last follow-up was june 2021, more than half would have been vaccinated during the period. Also, the probability of hospital visits (not ventilation) for covid in this group was 1.5%
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by yobbo 5y ago
> I can't think of a German lifestyle product or consumer brand NIVEA, Braun, Miele, Bosch, Birkenstock, various chocolates ... and so on. Lots of marketing in awkward English.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Probably commercial baker's yeast. Otherwise, pizza sour dough does not contain yeast other than what's naturally present in the flour. It's grown and multiplied during the process though.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Given that it is actually possible to implement this idea, I imagine medicine professionals would appreciate it, and there should be enough to make his startup viable. When talking to doctors, he's not selling his idea or service - he
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by yobbo 5y ago
One problem with the walled gardens is they allowed themselves to be influenced/controlled by politics and public opinion "campaigners". The harm thus far caused can of course not be undone.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The whole point is that we don't have to trust contractors if we are willing to let them bear the risk.
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by yobbo 5y ago
In case someone is still wondering about this. A plausible correlation would be; a spike in population growth would cause both an excess of young men, and a shortage of resources (which is a cause for war).
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by yobbo 5y ago
The contractors only need to worry about the contract price, which we arrive at through a market bidding procedure before the project. What happens in reality is that contractors offer unrealistic prices to get the contract; and when the pr
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by yobbo 5y ago
The solution is to pay people only in return for what they deliver, on time. This would mean letting projects and companies utterly fail when they fail to deliver, but this is considered impossible in the current climate.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Differentiating between tactics and strategy illustrates different levels and priorities in the overall game plan. It might still be valid to use these words interchangeably at some level. For example; how to set up an ambush is a tactical
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by yobbo 5y ago
"Squirrel level of manipulation" seems more a problem of building tiny physical robots and giving them appropriate interfaces for AI to control, which is an unreasonably difficult benchmark. A reasonable first step would be autono
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by yobbo 5y ago
That sentence does nothing to explain causation.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> they must shudder at the thought that in the average week the country loses another 2,000 through population decline Anecdotally, it seems a surprising number of these young men are already fathers (of children they could barely suppor
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by yobbo 5y ago
I think so too. Also consider this; for buildings/real estate, the market value of the finished construction may appreciate faster than the negative cash-flow from construction and financing. Just adjust rate of construction accordingl
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by yobbo 5y ago
The Empire State Building was built, from start to opening, in what seems like 14 months. Mary Poppendieck discusses this from the perspective of project management: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/tyranny-of-plan&#
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by yobbo 5y ago
"Children, in contrast, came up with new solutions and often remained in their original position." Basically, kids fooled around and played while the adults tried to complete the task as quickly as possible as get on with reality.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> asking it to give you back something in 1 second, with a lot of constraints, gives back solutions that are not feasible. Try to limit the search to only feasible solutions. > the algorithm makes use of the relationship between vert
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by yobbo 5y ago
AlphaGo is local search guided by a learned heuristic, which is trained in a simulator of the game. The heuristic learns an approximation of the value of moves and board states, and is analogous to the "compute_cost_of_tour()" rou
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by yobbo 5y ago
> As for SAT, optimization, graph neural networks might end up being more effective Learning from data is a different problem from optimization. For example, if facts about cities gave additional clues beyond their location about the opt
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by yobbo 5y ago
Human bodies are not engineered artefacts? And, medicine is based on "best effort".
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by yobbo 5y ago
The easiest way to see this is; count the number of moving parts, and take into account the conditions required for success. Software is the most complex artefact humans produce.
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by yobbo 5y ago
They're trying to solve the problem of too many applicants, hence throwing out random obstacles. > Doctors, lawyers, contractors, plumbers, electricians, accountants, agents Also, the level of complexity/difficulty that a dev
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by yobbo 5y ago
The internet is one of the crucial things that are needed to solve this. They should put on the front page of russian google: "current events in Ukraine", or something like it.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Price per unit is closer to $10k, and they are being supplied from stocks which have a shelf-life anyway. So in terms of cash flow, it's not much of a cost.

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