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by yobbo 5y ago
Aside from games, European companies founded by tech entrepreneurs are extremely rare, and are only really appearing in the last decade. Most of Europe's engineers work in large corporations that were created ages ago, and subsisted on
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> Expected Behavior Whether this is interpreted as unfriendly depends on the stance of the reader. I can easily make this sound somewhere between "celebratory" or "intriguing" when I read it. If I were the author and
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> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively… Yes, it might be seen as combative since it a
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The orange car in the picture seems to have already been dipped in coating and maybe "baked", and then painted with orange "aerosolized" paint. The inside of the car has orange overspray all over, and where it is thin we
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The point of the article is not whether 10x factors have been observed, the point is that (in all cases the author has seen) they are dependent on circumstances/environment and not the individual. Implicitly, he invites readers to re-e
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Doppler shift wouldn't help much in this case. The clues required are in the how the thousands of waveforms are affected by the environment, how they change as the train passes different features, and how their volumes change over time
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[citation needed] I'm guessing you have seen reports of antibody levels falling, but that is not an indication of immunity. So far I have seen no reports of natural immunity (as measured in confirmed reinfections) falling.
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You might find what you're looking for if you google "linear systems over finite fields" or "integer linear systems".
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Yes, but normies don't really understand or care. The big difference is the "inviting" experience of installing apps on smartphones. Yes search the name and tap "install app".
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> there are 2 types of engineers False dichotomy. "Problems" are difficult to put in meaningful frames, and the engineering value is proportional to how "meaningful" the problem definitions are. Users experience thing
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> how much can company B copy company A's homework? Not only this, but company B is buying fresh new machines that manufacturers have been competing to optimize for at least one tech-generation. They can build new factories optimize
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> considering I got it under $25K Doesn't this answer the question? Batteries were and are still too expensive.
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> A huge part of my job is to disagree with people. Junior engineers want to reinvent wheels, project managers want to impose pointless deadlines, the (barely) technical co-founder just read an article about grpc; I have tools to constru
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Not only that, democratize would imply that the general public has influence on the project through voting, for example.
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> The banks now will get very little interest on those mortgages Banks make relative profit on rates. Lower rates usually means the relative profit increases. Then, because as rates fall and prices increase, the volume of mortgages incre
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> why wouldn't you hire and promote your friends? Furthermore, do you want your colleagues to be motivated by loyalty or by competition?
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What in your system is doing the text-to-vector encoding, and how did you train it?
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Look for professor Steve Keen in various media. He has explanations for these phenomena, and some potential solutions. In the linked article, the term "economic growth" is used without definition. One of the main causes of inequal
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> Works well enough in meatspace How do we know? How do we know if it's reasonable for someone to complain, or reasonable to reject the complaints? There is no single agreed definition of "reasonable" so it can't be d
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> I despise platform fragmentations It is fair to point out that "platform fragmentation" occurs because of the policies of Apple and Google, not because of regulation. If they had some altruistic care for user/dev exper
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> if your typical response to talking to another technical person is immediately to try to one-up them The psychological reality behind all this is even worse. The interviewer is not looking for new colleagues, he is looking to improve h
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Build a crypto-based peer-review signature/reputation system. Without peer-review and reputation, the journals contribute nothing.
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One argument is that the total revenue of Concorde did not cover its total costs, therefore the program should have been cancelled. But it's more subtle. One interpretation is that past costs don't matter, therefore decisions shou
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If you want to talk about bayes, you could think about causation as a prior for correlation. We can measure correlation (variates), and then we can infer something about the causation (independent variables). "Inference to the best exp
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> but that it appears likely that it will be remarkably difficult to debias these systems They are not using the term bias correctly. If the model learns these different modes, as opposed to a mean between the modes, it means the model h
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It would be encoded in a lookup-table that is populated by an iterating algorithm. The size of this lookup-table corresponds to the state space, hence it can't be too big.
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Assume (as manager) instead that it is the 'default' rational attitude in a high entropy state, and work on ways of changing the circumstances to move out of that state.
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As long as there is disagreement, it's difficult to move forward. Managers could help show where/how value is created by collecting and sharing information. To understand, explain and illuminate how value is created should be one
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Here is some autistic-level honesty that would be impossible to say out loud. It is probably the basic perspective of all disgruntled workers: "I want to be recognized and compensated proportionally to the value I create on your behalf
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> Same for Slack The ux of Slack is essentially screen+irc implemented in JS with emotes. It enabled technical and non-technical people to use the same tool. The key to success is not technical, it's that they tailored the product t

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