TimPC

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by TimPC 3y ago
The AI I want in education generates a test and then based on my responses to questions figures out the exact content I need from a huge library. Imagine asking a student 15 math questions with adaptive difficulty in a dynamic test to figur
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So is the idea that they acquire the company for debt they place in the company and then they offer a complete suite of fintech products (including servicing that debt) to each of the companies they acquire? They aren’t too worried about g
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by TimPC 3y ago
In my experience, every company sees what they want to see when it comes to benchmarks. I've seen companies that think FAANG compensation doesn't exist in the marketplace at all and I've seen other companies that target above
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by TimPC 3y ago
The hard part about these tips is they will lead you to waste a lot of time. Most companies have no real perspective on if they are in the 60th percentile by comp or the 95th percentile by comp for a role. Some companies will also slot you
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by TimPC 3y ago
The problem with this argument is that getting a mortgage locks in your housing payments. If you look at the growth in rents over 25 years you don’t come out ahead investing. In year 25 of my mortgage I’m paying the same amount as in year o
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by TimPC 3y ago
Poker is much more appealing in terms of video presentation though. It’s easy to setup a high tension situation the user understands and make it fun to watch. The card play is more complex in bridge and you’re likely to have some people not
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think it’s mostly the decline in people coming over to people’s houses. Bridge as a game relied heavily on kitchen bridge and it just isn’t that common for most people to have people over every week for a game anymore. There is also the
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by TimPC 3y ago
I think the actual issue is nuanced and complicated. I think it's fairly clear the tool in question that was non-generative AI is the kind of thing we want to allow under fair use. Whether we want to allow generative AI is more complex
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Because fair use allows transformation and the output of their algorithm looks nothing like the input of the copyrighted work? For generative models its more complicated because generative models can actually reproduce large sections of a c
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by TimPC 3y ago
If you want to be a pitchfork mob against generative AI at least understand whether AI is generative or not? Seems like a reasonably low bar. This was non-generative AI, it didn't produce content it output metrics and labelled some ex
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I think the big difference is some digital content has an exact audience and needs to be highly customized for them. For example, companies don't buy web apps and then modify them into the web app they want they program what they want
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No one quantizes blindly without accounting for data. If 95% of your values are in 0-100 you’ll probably do something like have 20 values for 0-100 and the remaining 12 for 101-5000. You don’t have to apply a uniform distribution and should
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You’re not going to take someone who takes twelve hours to learn how to fold a letter for an envelope and teach them a demanding cognitive job like programming.
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That was true for horses until the combustion engine came along and it certainly won't be true for humans forever. If we automate all useful work that can be done by someone at 100 IQ or lower than half of the population will be unemp
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by TimPC 3y ago
I encourage people to create organizations that help make housing more accessible and affordable in their own neighborhoods.
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Ironically, it would probably be harder for minors to get weed if weed were legal. The fact that it's already illegal leads to people not caring if they sell to minors. They don't give drug dealers additional time in jail for sell
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Teaching abstinence doesn't create an actual barrier/obstacle to sex so it's not a fair comparison. I think abstinence only education is stupid and we should teach what's needed to prevent pregnancy rather than doing som
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Not as well as it could be but certainly better than doing nothing at all. It does create a barrier that otherwise doesn't exist and that barrier does reduce underage drinking and smoking compared to what it otherwise would be even if
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Sure but when teenagers shouldn't be actually gambling we have age restrictions in casinos and levy fines/revoke licenses if they violate those restrictions. Meanwhile, we allow this thing that pretty much everyone agrees is gambl
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by TimPC 3y ago
It's insane that we are permitting tactics that are already sketchy when applied to gambling addicts to be used to target teenagers and other young individuals who are still developing. We are enabling behaviours in video games that w
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As the other comment mentioned GDP per capita includes non-wage things like imputed rents and business profits so wages are not supposed to be equal to GDP per capita. You absolutely can use the difference between them to measure how much
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It's less about the self-serving approach which I've seen on rare occasion. It's more the complete inability to estimate magnitude effects. If you found a way to replace capital entirely but keep all the efficiency of price m
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In general, I feel that it's important to make your home environment a safe and comfortable environment. If you feel that exposure therapy is needed to help them adjust to the world (probably true, but I'd want to do this on the a
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by TimPC 3y ago
Sure but most of tech companies have regional income adjustments and generally speaking your income adjusts in proportion to cost of living. Usually that means its worth living in a high cost of living area because your savings also scale.
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Marxists are insane. GDP per capita in my country is $71,000. Wages are $59,500 which means all other capital gains make up $11,500. A good chunk of that is non-business capital gains (like housing) which means capital is taking under 10%.
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$350k paycheck takes a fair amount of time to make a millionaire. You could be paying $72k/year in rent and $130k/year in taxes. If transit food and other expenses are $25k/year you pretty much need an 8 year run to save $1Mi
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Some of the conclusions seem far fetched. But some seem inherently reasonable. For example, all of the successful tech monopolists paid a premium for engineering and management talent and had processes designed to hire the best (clearly not
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Math education is the second highest paid undergrad in arts and science and was number one ahead of CS for a long-time. Many people with math degrees end up in high paying technology or statistics jobs. Math is both an incredibly marketabl
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I think STEM is suited to academia in multiple ways: first, the chances of success at learning it seem to be higher in a structured, rigorous program compared to independently. One of the problems with online universities is that they don&#

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