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by zmachinaz 2y ago
Just zooming into the tail section photo one can find on main stream media shows very suspicious signs of possible shrapnel hit ...
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
The selling point is not absolute return, but uncorrelated return. If that is really the case, is a different story ...
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
One could equally say that mainly the mediocre people are excited, while the smart people actually see the limitations. For people doing non-trivial things, the output of ChatGPT seems currently rather far away from being of any deep value.
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Not sure that I would recommend actually hiring that guy. He does not seem to understand that modelling is only one part of the equation. If you model something non-trivial, usually you can not just hand over your R scripts to someone else
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Do you think research equipment was cheap during the time of "aristocrat scientists" ? The point being here "after they succeeded financially".
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Might go back to this model over time. Guess it is no secret that academia is in strong decline. Lot of excellent people just don't bother anymore to enter that circus. They might do their own independent research after they succeeded
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
At its start, the quanta magazine was a good read. But, it degraded very quickly after they started to use it mainly to put scientists from under-represented groups into the spot light. Nowadays not worth any attention.
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Regarding 1) I am not sure if you are not trading "high human efficiency" against increased risk of blowing up at some point. Good luck doing forecasting without thorough understanding of priors and statistics in general.
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
In order to get admitted to University of Tokyo, you have to be top on the common national university entrance examination, and then be top on the University of Tokyo entrance examination. So only the best of the best in Japan gets admitted
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Problem is, there is a big divide in user base: For a normal user, 8 GB is mostly sufficient. If you have a lot of chrome tabs open, 16 GB makes your day. But, if you are any sort of a creator, you can not have enough ... my 256GB is barely
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by zmachinaz 4y ago
Article misses the point. By now, the good students and post-docs know what is going on: The system is already so broken that there is a high chance that you end up with a PI who got his job because he/she/* is good in making frie
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
The article totally misses the point. Yes, for the digital morons (their turks) google may work perfectly fine. However, for people who actually look for real content google gets worse and worse. All the good material gets far lower ranking
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
If you try to connect via VPN, Discord insists on a phone number for verification. That says all ...
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
The current version of the python lib seems to be extremely badly written code. Or is the algo so bad ? Takes something like 21s to compute the correlation for just 10k samples.
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
There has been work of similar spirit going on since at least 2017 in mathematical/theoretical physics. With similar limited importance. But the ideas are floating around already for a long time. But if DeepMind gives it a go they make
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
I have been using ROCm for 2y+. The investment in this infrastructure was a big mistake. The biggest burner was the need to do a clean install on each new ROCm release. Clean here means manually finding and deleting all traces from the prev
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by zmachinaz 5y ago
I always thought that the top talent is actually leaving Germany to seek better opportunities elsewhere (already since 20y+). Main destinations Switzerland, UK, ...
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by zmachinaz 6y ago
I think its a good summary, but one should stress a key point: All this QE, aka money printing, can only be removed in a "nice" way if the additional liquidity is to a larger extend used to create additional value rather than cons