RubberSoul

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by RubberSoul 5mo ago
Do you know if anyone has looked at what kinds of task lists are better handled by Ralph versus giving the LLM the list and asking it to implement everything in one session/prompt? In other words, how do you recognize when Ralph is the
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by RubberSoul 2y ago
> To make this enforcement cost effective, it needs to recover more than the $80 Billion budget increase annually, no? Improved enforcement can deter tax avoidance in addition to directly recovering money.
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by RubberSoul 3y ago
This is, of course, a major philosophical debate. I will just say that there could be reasons this is the government's business. One issue with modern food production for consumers is that it can be difficult to determine whether a par
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by RubberSoul 3y ago
Great question. The answer might be not that soon, and the effects will be confusing. Search "Solow paradox," "productivity paradox," and "IT productivity paradox," and you'll encounter a long debate in ec
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by RubberSoul 4y ago
Great overview! I think 1Password's Linux support has been improving [0]. I use 1Password with an Ubuntu desktop and have been happy with it. [0]: https://support.1password.com/explore/linux/
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by RubberSoul 4y ago
The goal is to estimate the proportion of accounts that are bots. Let that number equal p. The variance of the proportion is p(1-p). The highest that can be is (0.5)0.5. Then, the standard deviation of that is the square root, which is 0.5.
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by RubberSoul 5y ago
I recently had Intuit delete all my personal data, across all their products. Doing this was exhausting. Their online process for deleting an account did not work. Contacting customer support resulted in unhelpful back and forth. Finally, I
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by RubberSoul 5y ago
Not sure I follow your question. An example of something that's not human subjects research would be emailing people who have websites and asking about their privacy policy. An example of something that is human subjects research would
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by RubberSoul 5y ago
That's not the definition of human subjects research. Not everything that involves a human responding to questions is human subjects research. A lot of comments in this thread are uninformed about the relevant definitions. You can thin
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by RubberSoul 5y ago
This is incorrect. It's only human subjects research if the researcher is obtaining data about a human. This is the "about whom" requirement. A classic example is calling a business and asking someone about the products and p
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by RubberSoul 5y ago
My high school history teacher recommended his book to me when I was junior. I loved it, and even wrote to the author regarding a mistake I thought I found in the book (pretty arrogant of me). Loewen replied generously. I don't remembe
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by RubberSoul 6y ago
I got this email and started to transfer my library only to learn it requires also creating a YouTube channel. The message says... > On YouTube Music, playlists are stored on your channel. To continue transferring your Google Play Music
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by RubberSoul 6y ago
I decided to look this up and it seems you’re wrong about this [0]. What is your source? [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db50.htm
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by RubberSoul 6y ago
Anyone interested in the exchange can watch the whole thing in 8 minutes and make up their own mind: https://www.c-span.org/video/?473393-1/covid-19-response-reo... Starts at 1:15:00.
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by RubberSoul 6y ago
Store owners, at least in the US, are not 100% liable for injuries on their property. Their liability depends on several factors, which include the reasonableness of their behavior and the behavior of the visitor.
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by RubberSoul 6y ago
> "In the crazy scenario that I had to participate in drug trials, I would instate a pretty simple rule: I would only accept those substances if everyone involved in the drug creation and test taking had themselves participated in t
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
The effects reported in that study are probably not real [0, 1]. [0]: http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges [1]: http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
The injustice is actually larger than this paragraph makes it seem. First, people can pass their low property taxes on to their children using trusts, creating a sort of landed nobility in California. Second, Prop 13 results in neighbors wh
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
There are great videos for understanding how it works [0]. I watched a couple of those and after that was able to do exactly what I needed. For me the trickiest thing is remembering how to deal with redirection. I find the --dry-run option
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
Economists strongly agree that rent control does not have positive effects on the amount and quality of affordable housing [0]. [0]: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
I wish grocery stores near me had better bulk goods sections. I notice the ones that exist are currently presented as upscale choices, and are often more expensive than the packaged goods. I think consumers will widely adopt the practice wh
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
Cooperating might make it harder to fight your battles via the legal system. "Sure officer, come into my house/car and look around, gather or plant whatever evidence you feel is appropriate." Even going down to the police sta
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by RubberSoul 7y ago
Yes, the IRS will pay you interest under certain circumstances. Two examples are when they are late processing a refund or when a prior return is amended. I got a 1099-INT from the IRS in 2018. The interest rate is not 5%, however. Also, 5%
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by RubberSoul 8y ago
This story reminds me of this recent NPR interview with an anthropologist on vaccine hesitancy [0]. The upshot of the research is that "skepticism of vaccines [is] 'socially cultivated.'" Many of the people refusing vacc
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by RubberSoul 8y ago
I wouldn't call it the only sourdough library. There is an ongoing effort by scientists to study sourdough, called The Sourdough Project [0]. They are collecting samples from around the country. This is work in progress, but I heard on
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by RubberSoul 9y ago
It is probably unusual to have a course section with a minimum median income of $120,000 even at Harvard. The median household income in Cambridge, MA (the city where most of Harvard's campus is) is $83,122 [0] and 8.4% of families and
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by RubberSoul 9y ago
That's understandable. Hard to offer advice without knowing the reasons for the unsuccessful interviews. If you did a few and did not get an offer, that's pretty normal and the solution might be to just keep trying. If you did a d
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by RubberSoul 9y ago
> get placed into a few interviews but not getting offers. Sounds like converting interviews into offers is the problem. Being socially withdrawn probably makes that harder. Have you considered meeting with a therapist/clinical soci
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by RubberSoul 9y ago
Donate it to a deserving non-profit in your area.
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by RubberSoul 9y ago
I find it interesting that his results inspired changes in 30,000 schools but the article mentions no follow-up studies. Did nobody recognize the research opportunity inherent in launching these programs across so many schools? I assume the

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