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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
I don't blame you if you aren't entertained. But this analysis is like thinking Moby dick is about hunting whales.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
you know what else sucks? living in a low trust society where people game these return systems (which we also pay for).
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
No disagreement.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
People don't typically start a Phd at 34. You're at a different level of maturity now.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
"have no hope" actually means someone at the department refuses to sign your papers. I have never been treated with so little respect in industry.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Research in a Phd program is 90% long term habit, 10% creative musing. Marriage structure helps with that 90% part.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Why are they always trying to sell these things to audiences who are not interested?
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
higher dimensional vectors or matrices are still not tensors.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
> property rights No you are conflating two topics. Property rights is not propping up stocks and bonds. It's protecting ownership so you can invest in building things over the long term without them being taken. Similar reasons enc
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Of course there is always risk. But one of the supposed goals of fiat money and property rights is to reduce that risk, ensuring the ability to save into the future. There are countless examples of countries where that trust was broken.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
> not prerequisites Almost the entire document is undergrad numerical topics (finite difference methods, maximum likelihood, Jacobins, hessians, newtons method, etc). This is all well covered material that is soundly not research.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
> what's stopping them from keeping the money in an index fund Risk of principal loss.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
The comment is referring to playing loose with the currency, not a drop in supply or an increase in demand.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
It's not good for society that ordinary people have to speculate their hard earned money just to keep it for retirement.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Even if it's good for GDP to have everyone spending every penny, it's not good for you.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Relatively constant demand, and difficult to increase supply.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Yep, societies just don't function until you establish a central bank with fiat currency and fractional reserve banking. It's a law of human nature.
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
fiscal hawks, like who? and with what power?
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
its really not. the math is a distant abstraction of a social subject
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by bsdpufferfish 2y ago
Differentiable programming is hardly a "subfield" it can be explained in a paragraph if you know calculus well. If there is any subfield, it's in researching specific compiler optimizations.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
sales costs money
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
The most interesting part of this is the comments about software shifting from a normal career to a prestige target for wealthy families, and that this demographic shift has massive consequences on technology design and services.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> you know better than the query planner, for now until eternity, Nope, you just have to know it's fixing a real problem today. Having a query regress in performance below a KPI would be worse than not taking advantage of a further
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
What if I have a performance problem I need to fix now?
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Additional reasons: - there is less alternative hardware I want to use. I want Apple Silicon processors, materials, and there just isn't much high quality competition. - Because of inflation the Apple premium isn't as high as it u
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
> Free market hardly work there. This is hardly a free market. Libraries receive a budget to spend _ dollars on books every year. This entire publishing industry exists to capture that cashflow, because consumers aren't buying it wi
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
This is like comparing an oscilloscope to the iPhone 15 because they both have a screen.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
lambda calculus is one way to describe computable functions. this course chose to focus on Turing machines. category theory is historically not important to theory of computation, and it has questionable use if you aren't familiar with
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Swift can be written in many ways with different performance tradeoffs. The slower ways looks like Objective-C or functional programming. The faster ways look like ergonomic C or C++.
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by bsdpufferfish 3y ago
Why are you interested? I recommend the short book "Godel's proof". Godel's work is wrapped up in historical context which is both interesting and distracting from the core idea. For example, Bertrand's Russells&#x

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