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by yobbo 5y ago
It's not a tech problem. Google is valued like "real estate", it's the best address. And then you need the advertising network for it be worthwhile. Apple, like Microsoft, can replace google as the default search, but th
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by yobbo 5y ago
In scandinavia, there exists almost only electric and heat-pump boilers. Denser metropolitan areas have "district heating", which means water-transported heat that can be generated remotely by boilers, but there are also heat-pump
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by yobbo 5y ago
These studies do not support any claims regarding how covid spreads. I suspect the main reason covid spread doesn't correlate with mask wearing is due to the size of the particles/aerosols, so few are wearing filtering masks (what
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by yobbo 5y ago
Reality seems to be that very few pairs of people have mutual interest in each other. Matching is just increasing the probability, but it's still random.
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by yobbo 5y ago
> savvy data scientists complain to me "this NN is just approximating SVD/PCA ..." It wouldn't be "approximating" anything. An optimal one layer linear NN "autoencoder" is PCA. There are other le
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by yobbo 5y ago
> doctorate and was a published researcher in his native country. It reveals the actual role of these positions in society. They are not based on demand for a service, rather they are privileged positions awarded through a hierarchical s
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by yobbo 5y ago
301 * 100000 / 5634634 = 5.34 ... 301 is count of cases in population. 5634634 is size of population. 100000 is his choice of scale.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Because performance is linear in time, independent of anything else?
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by yobbo 5y ago
RDBMs have proved to have far more staying power than random ORMs for various fashion languages.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Unambiguity about right or wrong is necessary here. It exists when finding bugs, but not in more subtle things. For example, asking a junior for feedback as a friendly gesture and exposing him to an interesting problem. If he then takes the
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by yobbo 5y ago
This describes glimpses of a "state", not a process. To feel "safe" asking dumb questions, you have to accept that the answer is often an irritated "RTFM". Accept first that the worst outcome is being ignored o
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by yobbo 5y ago
Not making a thought-out argument, just thinking about these things: consider the effort and training required to produce creative videos at that time. Given how few opportunities for creative people then, these were privileged positions. N
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by yobbo 5y ago
The air particles that are visible to you will mostly be caught in your nose and cilia, and either swallowed or spat out. They can still cause plenty of allergies. They are also too heavy to float long enough in the air to pass through the
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by yobbo 5y ago
I think the USA made the mistake of using the communication channels from the health authorities for political purposes. Trust in authorities is weakened and the effectiveness of their communications is now low. Every day they continue this
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by yobbo 5y ago
> unvaccinated covid cases will get zero health insurance coverage Most unvaccinated are probably already without health insurance. Vaccination essentially follows socio-economic status, and has the lowest density in blacks and hispanics
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by yobbo 5y ago
The Federal reserve has been purchasing (among other things) mortgage backed securities to about $40 billion per month since July 2020 [0]. That would be $160.000 USD per nurse in the USA in one year. Total asset purchases count in tens of
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by yobbo 5y ago
Because they need people to work in cheap restaurants (etc.) Btw, the point with 2% inflation is rising wages which then causes rising prices. Furthermore, prices of much stuff is held down by productivity (hours per widget).
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by yobbo 5y ago
It is akin to giving a spelling quiz to an author. There is a level of decorum required when dealing with professionals. A junior verbally pointing out a syntax mistake reveals a naiveté about the competency itself and "the mission&quo
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by yobbo 5y ago
It is disrespectful, but it is a proxy test for how many hours you have spent reading and writing code in that language.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The interview-process is a way for engineers (who might feel underappreciated or insecure) to demonstrate how rare they are, by asking questions no one seems to get right. At one point, why not just drop the pretence and ask "repeat ba
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by yobbo 5y ago
One way of modelling trees in SQL is hierarchical intervals. It allows fast querying entire sub-branches, along branches, and so on. Updating hierarchical intervals is a real pain, so think of them as an index that is built like a materiali
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by yobbo 5y ago
The tools that are inferring the family tree of mutations (for example nextstrain.org) have been helpful. That's also a form of AI.
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by yobbo 5y ago
False. Confronting bad luck with well-prepared diligent effort can be pretty bad, but you can't know if the luck is good/bad without effort. It's like handcuffing yourself to "Schrödinger's albatros". No, luck
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by yobbo 5y ago
> and you let them fail a few times, and you wait until they come back with a readjusted attitude - that's evil. What, no? Letting ignorant people fall on their knives is /doing good/. It's the best way of learning. L
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by yobbo 5y ago
> Then how are multiple infections possible? Time between infections and mutations.
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by yobbo 5y ago
The worst case is pretty terrible. From my experience, the immune reaction to the vaccine after having had the infection is an order magnitude worse than what the brochures and previously uninfected people say.
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by yobbo 5y ago
Wut? In countries that had lockdowns, children and young adults arguably suffered worse than any other group. For a ten year-old, that's 10% of their life "gone". Children, teens and young adults have foregone life milestones
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by yobbo 5y ago
To be fair, infections after the vaccine are so mild that few people notice them, thus will not isolate. And the effectiveness at preventing transmission drops by something like 10% every month after the vaccination. Maybe this is due to de
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by yobbo 5y ago
> How is a $6.5B valuation justified? The hope is to make a locked-in user base and a captive audience. They are probably hoping to create various sorts of "attachments" between users and their "achievements" to drip
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by yobbo 5y ago
> won't achieve any sort of fluency in your target language from taking a course in it For a randomly picked person, yes, but it doesn't matter to apps that specifically cater to motivated language learners. It's like sayi

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