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by zzleeper 6y ago
> the media's unintentionally turned it into one if the biggest controversies of the year Maybe in the Republican bubble. Outside of it, no one really cares and sees it as a weird and poorly executed complot
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by zzleeper 6y ago
A year or so ago I was about to donate to the Interept and went to their website to do so. There, together with Bolsonaro investigations I was quite surprised that a lot of Greenwald's stance was quite pro Russia, anti democrats. Not s
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by zzleeper 6y ago
> I can't do any of that right now. I've been feeling like I'm scamming the company, because there have been entire weeks where I literally didn't work. Don't be too hard on yourself. A lot lf people are going th
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by zzleeper 6y ago
A few things: - In my case, my supervisors mostly had handwritten notes which rendered that point a bit moot. However, when I send the almost-complete draft to a professional copy editor, it was indeed a pain to add the comments. Either han
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I'm the author of panflute, and--in fact--wrote my PhD thesis in pandoc+panflute!
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by zzleeper 6y ago
> If the hard drive is a hoax, I think it's important to have an open discussion to shine a light on it. The damage is still done then. NYPost knows the article is fake news, and so does Giuliani and the other folks surrounding the
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Same here. Burned quite a few times trying out Julia stuff. Last time it was because cold start times were unbearable (compared to Python/R/Stata/Matlab). My goal was to compare how regressions in a few software packages beha
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by zzleeper 6y ago
(PhD Finance here) Even classical 70s-era finance is against this article: Rich investors don't need their VC to be super diversified. They can just invest into multiple VC funds and get diversification that way. Also, it doesn't
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by zzleeper 6y ago
> I think an argument can be made the government ordered lockdowns (stay at home / shelter in place) orders were appropriate in March when we knew much less about who was most vulnerable, and did not have a well vetted treatment pro
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by zzleeper 6y ago
What chain is that?? Sounds amazing..
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I was recently re-reading how to solve systems via QR and realized that the key trick was switching basis. But it took me a while to understand that, in between all the extra stuff. Now you are telling me that most of LA is like that and wo
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I would start by either improving the OCR, or piggyback on GCV/Amzn, who have better tools. For instance, what if I drag-and-drop their sample image to this demo page https://cloud.google.com/vision ? All text is recog
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Wow, anything that removes the need for conda is quite promising indeed!
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I'm in a similar note. Also mom, also pancreatic. Also was told that it was just "her being too stressed", etc. for two months Hard to digest.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Maybe is for the best? GPT-3 is a lot of bla bla bla without actually conveying anything useful. And now it's shedding light on the reality that most of our words and sentences are just fillers. Before, I used to have low patience abou
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by zzleeper 6y ago
WSJ? They do a better job at disguising their right-wing biases as reporting facts. I used to resd it daily 10-20 years ago but now I need to read it very carefully.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
You make some really interesting points. Allow me to reply with a bit of speculation: 1) Peruvian, Bolivian, Argentinan hyperinflation were purely printing-press inflations, without forex being the culprit. 2) Inflation is strongly affected
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by zzleeper 6y ago
> for the Kindle sw platform Dang! As I understood, were you guys one of the teams with the craziest work hours over there? How did you handle the work-life balance?
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by zzleeper 6y ago
I recall reading about similar things in papers on the 1918 pandemic as well as SARS and other respiratory diseases. So it's not that far fetched off
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by zzleeper 6y ago
You are exactly right. In fact, I know of a few businesses that actually had MORE business (wholesalers), and the CEO of one told my friend that he was just going to use the money to buy his wife a new Porsche. This is anecdotal for sure, b
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Honest question: what the fuck is TERF? I opened wikipedia, and I'm none the wiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF > an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Coined in 2008,[1] the term was origi
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Because you are being misleading? 1) Avg age of infected is 36-37 now instead of 60+ as in April, so there is a lower death rate (plus, infections today will only translate into deaths in three weeks or so) 2) Test positivity rate is UP, so
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by zzleeper 6y ago
afaik not true; google for "epidemic overshoot"
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Not replying to rewoi but asking an open question: you are so many ppl saying this? Is the consensus really that covid19 is gone? like, really? we are way way below herd immunity and Rt is still around 1.0 in most states, even before the re
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by zzleeper 6y ago
It is indeed quite silly that people are thinking about policies as "quarantine for everyone" vs "let people roam the streets while coughing". Wearing masks has zero cost in terms of GDP and unemployment. Why the heck ar
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Ioannidis was not attacked because of his skepticism. He was attacked because of a paper with quite controversial methods, and which violated a few ethic rules: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/st
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by zzleeper 6y ago
At this point, lockdown skeptics are doing all they can to discredit anything that can hurt them. I've even seen this personally, and it was a bit sad as it makes exchanging ideas quite a bit more difficult (hard to do so if the other
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by zzleeper 6y ago
F1s expire pretty quickly, you should now this.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Most PhDs start with H-1Bs. So with longer freezes (not that anyone is hiring right now) you risk losing an entire cohort of the best scientists in many fields.
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by zzleeper 6y ago
Had the US (at all govt levels) actually treated this seriously, as a health problem and not economic/political problem, we could be in a situation like Taiwan/NZ. The US is large, but mostly insulated, so this was feasible. But i

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