astrofinch

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by astrofinch 6y ago
There's a great recent documentary on Netflix called My Octopus Teacher about an octopus which displayed some of these behaviors (interspecies bonding, tactile drive, play). Another good Netflix documentary, on birds, is Beak &
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by astrofinch 6y ago
Most planets don't have life.
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by astrofinch 6y ago
My issue with microtransactions is that the cost of making the decision seems like it outweighs the currency cost. Like, I used to buy computer games (e.g. from Steam) when they were on sale. Now I ignore any sale which has a price greate
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by astrofinch 6y ago
>Say you flip a coin a few times and only get heads. Your maximum likelihood (frequentist) estimate is that the coin will always land heads. In a Bayesian setting, if you have a (say uniform) prior on the probability that the coin lands
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by astrofinch 6y ago
>The training algorithms for deep learning are also the hottest algorithm research area in machine learning, and are certainly applicable beyond deep learning. The lore I've heard is that most new deep learning training algorithms (
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by astrofinch 6y ago
Why is mean reversion difficult to trade?
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by astrofinch 6y ago
Dalio admits in this that he didn't see the pandemic coming.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
What poor hiring practices does Google have?
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Most startups offer equity to their employees. "the company is owned by tyrants" Citation needed.
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What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?(lesswrong.com)
1 points by astrofinch 7y ago|0 comments
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Graduating from Yale Law sounds like it's for suckers. Let the elites have their crazy working hours and stressful hoop jumping--I'm not envious.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Drones which plant trees seem pretty exciting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkNdrTZ7CG4
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The Power to Judge Startup Ideas(lesswrong.com)
1 points by astrofinch 7y ago|0 comments
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by astrofinch 7y ago
>The way forward for us is developing and owning our own locations together with customers, neighbors, service providers etc, and that in unusual but really interesting locations (think Kigali, Bethlehem, Kathmandu), with a foundation on
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by astrofinch 7y ago
That's why you need better roommate matching: to find roommates who are cool with a cat + overnight guests.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Why not have the common space on the bottom floor and make it an actual coffee shop? Then you're no longer working against developer incentives. I guess it would need to be mixed-use zoning.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
>"never choose friends for roommates" was a common saying - you spend too much time around roommates and have too many petty disagreements with them In my experience, great conversations more than make up for petty disagreement
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by astrofinch 7y ago
>I'm now in a complex where we all hang out in the parking lot most afternoons. Sounds like you have something rare and valuable. Anyway, you make good points. From the point of view of society's health, it's good to crea
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by astrofinch 7y ago
>if you’re not knee deep in a community with a strong sense of values and culture (like EA), finding matches can be challenging. Another comment in this thread expressed the opposite sentiment, that you really want to live with people wh
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by astrofinch 7y ago
What issues have the coliving companies been running into?
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by astrofinch 7y ago
What issues did Roam.co run into?
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How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness(lesswrong.com)
212 points by astrofinch 7y ago|114 comments
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by astrofinch 7y ago
I had some really nasty RSI a few years back. This website saved my career: https://www.painscience.com
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by astrofinch 7y ago
I've seen some extremely toxic political discussion on metafilter.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Another possible takeaway is if you want a clean codebase, you should hire a woman to write it, since women apparently care about clean code more.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Yeah it's weird to me the amount of hate Facebook gets when Twitter, reddit, and tumblr all seem worse.
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Actually if we find life on other planets that is bad news for us as a species: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/409936/where-are-they/
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Also on the homepage right now: https://alistapart.com/article/nothing-fails-like-success/ It's all about how social media companies are forced to pursue profit above all else and this harms society. Your ave
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Make the game informed by data instead of ideology
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by astrofinch 7y ago
Django has a strong focus on backwards compatibility and has seen steady popularity for a long time.

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