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by andersource 5y ago
A little OT but for anyone with experience - is the negotiation depicted realistic / typical? The final selling price is over twice the buyer's initial offer and almost 150% of what they said at one point is their max. I know it&#
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by andersource 5y ago
That's a good point, thanks!
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by andersource 5y ago
For me personally, the reason is that I fully expect the pandemic to negatively impact productivity in ways completely unrelated to WFH (children in home instead of school, stress, lack of preparedness to proper WFH, etc.). In contrast, I f
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by andersource 5y ago
True. But then why not explicitly state that this evidence is from COVID? That would immediately allow people to calibrate their expectations. In relation to GP, COVID is the "natural experiment" here, not WFH.
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by andersource 5y ago
You're right, but then giving the title "Work from Home & Productivity" is misleading, giving the (IMO false) impression that results are generalizable for WFH beyond COVID. And there are some pretty strong claims: > T
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by andersource 5y ago
They claim that it allows feasible computation of PCA (principal component analysis) on very large datasets. The key idea as I understand it is, instead of using some global technique to solve PCA (SVD), which cannot take advantage of the p
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by andersource 5y ago
I had a lot of PTO accumulated from years of FTE, mostly unused. Talked with my manager to get approval for starting a side business, then used the PTO to get 1-2 days a week to work on it (also with manager's approval of course). I di
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The faulty digital clock problem(andersource.dev)
1 points by andersource 5y ago|0 comments
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by andersource 5y ago
Gladly! And yeah, the results really are quite good. This is why I like optimization problems - if you can formally capture what you want as an objective, and if you can find a way to optimize it, you can get surprisingly good results. Of c
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by andersource 5y ago
That's quite an insight! Actually the authors of the seam carving paper went on to do just that [0]. From the abstract: "We present video retargeting using an improved seam carving operator. Instead of removing 1D seams from 2D im
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by andersource 5y ago
The title is missing the (IMO crucial) "and that's ok" from the original post.
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by andersource 6y ago
Yeah, I think it's very interesting because there's a lot of freedom in measuring the similarity and also other aspects of the process, for example optimizing for a "simple" starting configuration as mentioned in other c
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by andersource 6y ago
That's an interesting approach. The problem is that the function to be applied after the convolution is binary, hence not differentiable. You could replace it with a soft variation, my (wild) guess is it would still be difficult to con
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by andersource 6y ago
Kaggle recently hosted a very relevant competition - "Conway's Reverse Game of Life" [0]. A write-up of the 1st place might be an interesting read [1]. [0] https://www.kaggle.com/c/conways-reverse-game-of
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by andersource 6y ago
Not OP but https://www.tribe.ai/
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by andersource 6y ago
This seems to me like an apples-to-oranges comparison, and reflects the transition of computers from a niche field dominated by curiosity to a mainstream business asset (one facet of which is the focus of the article). Many people today are
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by andersource 6y ago
Yeah, I wasn't even aware that such size dimorphism existed to such extent in some species.
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by andersource 6y ago
The blog post the article refers to (couldn't find it in the article itself): http://www.markscherz.com/archives/4800
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by andersource 6y ago
> Like others have said, effect of praise would be very specific to individuals, but some have said praise hasn't helped them much. My understanding is that they were mostly referring to "fake" / superfluous praise, w
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by andersource 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the linked article. There are a few important distinctions, most notably (from the article itself): > "We praise drawings ... because we want our kids to continue to work hard, and to do
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by andersource 6y ago
If you've already given up on trying to get the money back, maybe try to book a flight that is likely to be cancelled and hope to get properly refunded. It's a long shot but who knows
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Generating an Organic Grid (2020)(andersource.dev)
2 points by andersource 6y ago|0 comments
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by andersource 6y ago
Model explainability is a very active area of research. For the example of an individual neural network prediction you could use SHAP values[0]. Explainability is far from a solved problem but there are certainly tools available to provide
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Water Jugs and BFS(andersource.dev)
2 points by andersource 6y ago|0 comments
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Procedural Butterfly(andersource.dev)
1 points by andersource 6y ago|0 comments
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by andersource 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense. And I wholeheartedly agree that (in my experience) many long-term software projects suffer from neglected technical debt, resulting in poorer quality and longer development time (and a lot stress of everyone invol
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by andersource 6y ago
May I ask why the distinction is so important? If I properly understood your article you are advocating for diligently paying off technical debt. In isolation this is desirable of course, but in practice we have to choose trade-offs with ot
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by andersource 6y ago
I would go even further and say that if the result is good enough for the requirements, it's not half-arsing, even if the result could be made better with more time and effort. In other words an outcome will be judged based on expectat
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Using a mobile device as a rotation controller (2019)(andersource.dev)
3 points by andersource 6y ago|0 comments
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by andersource 6y ago
This seems to me like a noisy proxy to simply not doing unimportant things, relying on hindsight instead of judgement to identify them. I guess the technique could work but I prefer actively trying to identify things that might look importa

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