Phillipharryt

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by Phillipharryt 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I am under the impression they're only non-deterministic in the practical sense (i.e, it produces this output on my machine, I can't know what minute differences there are on your machine), b
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
You said ' “Funding raised” is completely uncorrelated with how successful the company is. ' I showed you this statement is wrong, by providing you a statistic that proves they are correlated. We were not talking about any specifi
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
This is just patently untrue. The failure rate of ventue-backed startups is 75%. The failure rate of all startups is 90%. Funding is correlated with a lower failure rate. https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rat
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
From the paper Deep Blue by Murray Campbell et al (people who worked on Deep Blue) "The initialization of the feature values is done by the “evaluation function generator”, a sub-program which was run on the master node of SP system.&
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
That is a form of machine learning. It uses an algorithm with an enormous ability to look ahead, and selects the moves according to a heuristic that have been shown previously to be most likely to create the desired end state. Chess is not
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
I certainly agree with the idea of not being better in an absolute sense, not sure I agree with both use cases. Graphics are built around digital representations of colours and shapes, Vectors are incredibly easy ways to represent 2d graphi
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
Doesn't the inclusion of the digital accuracy checkers then decrease the efficiency, and mean you might as well use a completely digital computer? Just supposing here, but interfacing digital with analogue probably is a poor middle gr
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
Very interested to watch the second part to this video, off the top of my head I can't come up with a situation in which analogue computation or signals are better than digital ones. Digital's versatility means we are making 2 sig
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
There are many options backed ETFs, these are essentially tracking the right to buy x product at y price. Sure if you trace it down long enough there is an asset there, but realistically you're buying an ETF tracking a number of contra
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
Saying Australian culture demonise alcohol is a laughable claim. Australian summers are about BBQs and beers on the beach.
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
Australia allows drinking in parks unless it's a designated no-drinking area (usually any area outside an alcohol store). That being said different states in Aus handle alcohol differently and some are very strict. The major states of
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by Phillipharryt 5y ago
Sadly phone companies cannot exist in a vacuum. In the book "Losing the Signal" there's great evidence that Blackberry faced far more pressure than merely losing market-share. Their push-based email service (the back end) pre
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
In economic theory there is no benefit to diversification (which is what a company does when it absorbs another company) unless there are organisational improvements shared between the companies. If the acquired company is truly completely
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
The issue is then speed, you can't engrave at anywhere near the same speed as you can print.
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
Though funnily enough named after the same Muddy Waters track
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
They have chips in them only looking to match the activation words, which then passes the rest of the request functionality to the full device.
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
You do have to laugh a bit when someone starts their article on addiction by claiming their own addictions have been a net positive on their life, self awareness? What's that?
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
I fully understand that, I also imagine it's really harsh to release something like this then get feedback like mine, so if you want you can send me any messages about things I like and dislike about the system I currently work with if
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
Programmer who also works in retail, uh no, this layout highlights all the wrong things. The list of items is half the screen, my current system has it at about 1/4 and buttons are enormous, very easy to use and rarely ever miss a butt
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
Oh but you haven't heard of the 'Equitable Life Assurance Society'. Not just an organisation but a proper business until the 21st century. Originally the "Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships&quot
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
Decision trees are a type of Machine Learning, no need for the quotation marks.
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
Adobe is a an English word though. More people are probably now aware of the software than the bricks, but it has a root there.
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by Phillipharryt 6y ago
A small movement at the handle of a bullwhip produces an enormous (and oscillating) movement further down the the whip, it's an analogy for movements in customer demand having large effects further down the supply chain.
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
There are actions that stop people behaving in a way they would in a perfect market. Laws prohibiting certain sales, taxes affecting companies and investors, imperfect information disclosure, are a few of the big ones.
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
I'm in the strong belief if your podcast doesn't have a public feed (even if it's paywalled) and it's only on spotify then it's not a podcast, it's a very long unmelodic song. The feed is essential.
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
There are a lot of protests to decrease coal mining
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
Company valuation only depends on future cash flows. If an asset is able to produce future cash flows, or can be sold to create cash flows, then this can be accounted for in valuation. In this article their mention of assets is actually ass
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
Presumably a maximum pay is set with the intention of allowing that money to go elsewhere in the sport? The NBA knows stars will get paid very well, but they want to ensure not all the money is spent on them so that lesser known players are
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
Their sampling is biased, but DoorDash muddies their own claims by saying that pay is per "active hour". It's possible they're not counting time that drivers still need to allocate towards their work, making it inaccurat
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by Phillipharryt 7y ago
This is some of the strangest logic ever. It will be more accurate because it's less accurate and will be checked more often? Bonkers

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