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by zzleeper 3y ago
I wanted to point this out, albeit slighty less cynically. NickB invested a lot of capital into becoming the expert on WFH (see e.g. https://wfhresearch.com/project-team/ ). Whenever I see this in other economists, mor
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by zzleeper 3y ago
> the Fed can correctly model how ... I wish :(
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Also around DC area, the leasing office folks told me that the price changed dynamically and could only be overruled by the HQ. They said that many companies use that software in order to obtain their "optimal" price for the area,
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by zzleeper 3y ago
That's nuts. I had to do 100-hour weeks a few times in my career, and felt that any time above that had zero or even negative productivity. Is it really necessary to do so many slide decks in order for IB to be as productive?
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by zzleeper 3y ago
You made me search for 2022-23 studies on HCQ, to see if anything changes. Behold, still fucking useless: https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/hydroxychloroquine-eff... (one of many meta studies). Where do you get tha
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Random q but what car did you get? I'm looking at replacements for my 11-yr old Hyundai 5-door hatchback :)
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I heard a common complaint was wipers
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Where I live (~DC), daycare costs 2.2k per month. With two kids and a 35% marginal tax rate (including state taxes and Medicaid/etc) you would need to make $81k per year just to break even. Add up extra food costs (vs cooking at home)
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by zzleeper 3y ago
When you said "at age 16" it made me feel the guy was 40 or so and it was long ago. Not that the cheating took place only two year before the game against Carlsen, which is close enough to keep the same behaviors..
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Revenue US$1.39 billion (2022) Operating income US$–882 million (2022) Net income US$–921 million (2022) Total assets US$7.83 billion (2022) Total equity US$3.53 billion (2022) Number of employees 7,703 (2022) (From Wikipedia) Holy F these
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by zzleeper 3y ago
That federal program, even with high deductibles, completely subsidizes their customers at the cost of taxpayers. They massively underprice the hazards, at the taxpayers ends up being on the hook at the cost of people who decided to built
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by zzleeper 3y ago
It seems you want something like a Fractal Design R5: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/define/define-... (or a larger alt like this one: https://www.fractal-design.com/products&#x
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Do you have any suggestions about how to start implementing something like this in-house? I'm sitting on thousands of PDFs (that can be trivially turned into text) and it would be really useful to train an LLM on them for information r
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Stupid question from an outsider, but is it possible to grab a pretrained model (most likely one of the "camelids"), feed it your own data (I have about 1k documents that cannot leave my network) and use it for fast-but-sometimes-
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by zzleeper 3y ago
But then engaged parents will take their kids to Kumon, and rich parents will take their kids to private school. Their kids will then mop the floor against all other kids, including engaged kids without engaged parents, that would have bene
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Are you sure? I've used Reddit for 15 years and it's the first time I don't really have a good way of using it, besides the desktop (on old.reddit). On mobile (where I used to spend reddit most time) their own app is so crap
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I think it depends on the data. If it's presorted by the join variable then rolling the loop is faster. Also, if the index is too big for memory, then it might be faster to loop.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I follow a few folks writing on war in Ukraine, but since maybe Nov-Dec they all disappeared from page, and I have to go all the way to the bottom of the barrel to see anything tangentially related. Only after the algo was released I unders
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I used to be addicted to Twitter, checking it 10+ times a day at the very least. Now the content I get is awful, and I only end up there whenever I follow someone else's link :/
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Besides that error; the images are each above 1mb and very low quality. I believe if you just save them as pngs you should get much more quality at 20% the size.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
> They gave me a mortgage rate much better than any other bank was offering Isn't this why they got in trouble on the first place?
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Vtech is pure evil, they are the most useless annoying toys; I would prefer giving kids YouTube than let them play with those unless it's with a hammer
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Can you provide an example of what prompts would you use?
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Agree it's QE. For those that say this isn't QE, it's understandable given the "original sin of QE" as Ricardo Reis put it: https://twitter.com/R2Rsquared/status/1576164361898708998?t=...
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Amazing; thanks a lot!
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Hi Mark, One question out of academic curiosity: I'm exploring ways to use these tools for research projects in econ and am struggling to see a good angle. For instance, suppose I have lots of PDF reports on how firms have evolved on e
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by zzleeper 4y ago
> which is the largest city in Tanzania. (It was the capital until 1974, when it was replaced by Dodoma.) Find it funny that even the humans got it wrong. Dodoma only became the official capital in 1996.
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Expected inflation definitely affects bond values today
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by zzleeper 4y ago
At a loss is kinda bullshit b/c that loss happened a long time ago, not when the sale happened
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Well you are bailing out unsecured depositors who should have known what they were doing.

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