Reimersholme

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by Reimersholme 8mo ago
> Probably. Most managers would also argue that because you're so great with machines, you'll surely be even greater at managing others who are supposed to be great with machines. Does that make sense? No. Do managers and execu
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by Reimersholme 2y ago
In The Art of Learning, Joshua Waitzkin talks about how this was a strategy for him in tournaments as a child as well. While most other players were focusing on opening theory, he focused on end game and understanding how to use the differe
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by Reimersholme 2y ago
...and Sam Altman once again posts a response including uppercase, similar to when Ilya left. It's like he wants to let everyone know that he didn't actually care enough to write it himself but just asked chatGPT to write somethin
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by Reimersholme 3y ago
Microsoft having a lot of partnerships with the military industry, and now also getting their hands on all of OpenAIs technology. In parallel, OpenAI stops sharing information about their models, making it harder for other countries to copy
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by Reimersholme 4y ago
Impressive how this post references back to a post six years before as the starting point. Shows the value of tenacity and sticking with it, as learning compounds over time.
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by Reimersholme 4y ago
What's weirder to me is how I can't remember even seeing them advertised within Spotify. I know there are some really need content Spotify is producing, but the ones I'm aware off I've generally found by accident somewhe
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by Reimersholme 4y ago
Rather than wanting to confirm priors, I believe this usually is a problem with neither the PM nor the data scientist ensuring that the problem formulation is good enough before diving in. I.e., what data would be needed to actually test th
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by Reimersholme 4y ago
The Swedish island Gotland is of central strategic importance in the baltic sea, so in case of a conflict either NATO or Russia would seize control of the island with or without Sweden’s consent. Not to mention to secure against a Russian i
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by Reimersholme 5y ago
Well, human thinking relies on prior models/filters for understanding the world as well so that would invalidate us as having general intelligence too?
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by Reimersholme 5y ago
Actually, I remember reading an article from someone at Spotify who argued that the economics in that situation would end up hurting small artists and favour Taylor Swift much more than the current model. As an example; big music aficionado
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by Reimersholme 5y ago
I guess “emotional stability” is an inverted rebranding of neuroticism as it’s usually known?
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
I don't know about start-ups, but I think Portugal in general is still growing in attraction for remote workers. Great climate, still cheap and beneficial tax laws.
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
There is a very scary thing about digital art where platforms at any time can remove things or silently release a new version. It makes me uncomfortable in the same way as when newspapers online make updates to their articles with no transp
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
Kanye West was the first big artist I know to really utilize The new release model to break out of the old formula of releasing an album and then it’s done. It was fascinating when Life of Pablo was released on Spotify and over the next few
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
Speaking from a European perspective, raising children to be productive members of society used to be peoples retirement security. Socialised pensions where other peoples kids will be working to pay for your stay in the retirement home chan
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
Thanks for the great resource! I first encountered Peter Thiels thoughts in his interview with Erik Weinstein in The Portal and was blown away by their discussion. Looking forward to reading these!
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
...and then a financial crisis hits and suddenly they expect the government to bail them out because they didn't account for that risk in their models.
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
Yes. One of the key points Taleb likes to make is that many real life situations are fat tailed, i.e. extreme events are much more likely than what someone assuming a normal distribution would account for, which might help explain why the f
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by Reimersholme 6y ago
"Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned. [...] While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For exampl
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by Reimersholme 7y ago
I assume he's referring to emperor Xi. I don't think it's correct to consider him a single point of failure though.
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by Reimersholme 8y ago
Sudo re-run last command. alias hadouken='sudo $(history -p !!)'
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by Reimersholme 8y ago
Leipzig is way cheaper. I hear people comparing Leipzig to Berlin as of ten years ago or so when it comes to cost.
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by Reimersholme 8y ago
Wow, this title would make a perfect fantasy book title.