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Crop shapes outside of the desert cities: it learned shape and colour palettes separately. Some shapes that seemed like roads but had small river deltas fanning out.
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The game of musical chairs exists at all levels, but at lower levels one has to leverage network, whereas at higher levels it is possible to leverage competence. The advice stays the same, everyone should aim high, but rejection letters are
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By network, I mean opportunities being offered based on established relationships, rather than asking for opportunities or applying for postings. By gatekeeping, I mean the effect achieved when positions are filled like this. I added "
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A counter point; because simple jobs/positions can be filled by almost anyone, they have many applicants and are usually reserved for the network. Aiming higher means fewer candidates, and fewer competitors.
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This is a description of being part of a gatekeeping network - not about sending applications and (maybe) receiving rejection letters. (Which is indeed very rare. Even a rejection letter signifies they feel some minimal level of obligation.
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X is some state. What needs to be true or false for X to be true? Someone might propose that Y is true. What minimum conditions exist for Y to be false? And so on. Time does not need to be a variable in inductive reasoning.
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> because have not enough medicine institutions to heal wounded. They might not care? Significant casualties might be part of the calculation, if it's an all-or-nothing move by their leaders. The existence of their mobile crematoriu
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We can draw some boundaries: Say Ukraine has ~100.000 trained~ soldiers, 10.000s with experience, and ~100.000 further conscripts, and more veterans/civilians. It would need to end when russian military has enough presence in cities to
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The article contains lists with bullet items and then suggests that if these were "easy", ML would be more accessible. Well true, but much of the "difficulty" is in establishing faith that the models are meaningful and v
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> we start operating like lawyers with partnerships One analogy is; lawyering is like singing a never-ending song, whereas software is like a self-playing piano. The lawyer is needed until the song is finished, which is partly up to hims
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> next time you park on a free parking lot? The closest analogy is; if you park without paying, your car might get impounded.
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It can take hours, days, or weeks, depending on data set, to even know if a model is going to work. In these cases, blindly searching for models in the entire space is sort of futile. But then, cheatsheets like these don't help much ei
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> helping children grow up with a sense of agency can reduce intergenerational poverty. "Sense of agency" is tricky without actually having agency. Bad parents is part of it, whether rich or poor.
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Outcome * probability = expectancy, which is the quantity usually maximised or minimized in AI. The problem in this case was defined as reproducing the human scores. Mainly, it's a demonstration of the information content in the data a
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Try to not ask questions that you don't need them to answer specifically. Rather, find answers on your own.
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Maybe it should be: If the work creates value: be easy to work with. If the proposed work destroys value: be difficult to work with.
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Whenever I catch myself believing I have a unique world-changing insight, I just need to think some more to then realise what is ignorant/grandiose about it. (As an example; the actual reason for wars is not ideological, or "hate&
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That is false. Businesses outside EU are not bound by GDPR. The problem is when websites in EU, which are expected to follow GDPR, randomly leak information to businesses outside EU.
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In some universities (my experience is with European state funded universities) the effective goal might not even be to teach at all. Rather, the effective purpose is to function as a filter so that individuals with beneficial circumstances
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> Inflation is a good thing for people with a lot of debt Iff their income increases faster than their interest rate. > I'd like to add, wage growth is outpacing inflation Only applicable if it refers to median income (not mean i
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> If you walk into a grocery store, and cameras record In the EU, this would fall under the same data protection regulation as websites, and other local regulations regarding camera surveillance. In short, a store owner can't just s
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Wut? They are threatening suicide, and hoping enough others are affected adversely?
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Web3 is ~sortof~ the hypothesized future state where apps/services can use decentralized methods of identity, authentication, and payment to interact with users. This would break the network- and mitm-effects that enable current web2 s
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This doesn't indicate "bad practice". At their scale they can run these experiments for no other reason than to let people feel ownership of a project and gain experience. If even only succeeds, that's a bonus.
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They almost certainly had expansion cards with multiple serial ports, one for each modem. I imagine there were something like rack-mount modem boxes too.
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The big mac index is flawed in so many ways. Labour and tax components of the costs are wildly different in countries. Raw materials might be almost irrelevant in some places. Because of this, the quality of the dining experiences are wildl
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The reason is that arithmetic is a muscle memory that atrophies without use, and no one outside of school benefits from doing arithmetic by hand. The same is true for algebra and calculus. Mathematicians who teach keep their memories fresh,
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Not really true. When there was Quake and Visual Basic, we still played around with qbasic in msdos because it was fun and gave immediate feedback. I think the combined editor and runtime environment of qbasic shortened the feedback loop an
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(As mentioned) median, not mean, is the relevant statistic for income. The income distribution is exponential, so mean is irrelevant for individuals. One individual could account for 100% of the income, and the mean would be the same.
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> the only thing backing crypto currencies is an expectation This is, however, true regardless. The value of cryptocurrencies are measured in USD, and it is expectations of this future valuation that backs up the current price. The only

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