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by civilized 2y ago
Forgive my ignorance - is that true even for non-synonymous mutations? They usually have a hard time disrupting the big structure?
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by civilized 2y ago
If the mutations were non-synonymous, resulting in different amino acids, the fact that they keep the natural function is still kinda cool. Very much a pure research result AFAICT, but worth a little something.
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by civilized 2y ago
Yes, I see. There's a desire to map intervals pointwise through functions, but also a desire to produce intervals by all-pairs calculations, and the impossibility of representing both interpretations in one notation leads to some incon
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by civilized 2y ago
> Why x^2 isn't always x * x It turns out he's claiming they're different if x^2 is interpreted as squaring each element in the interval x, while x * x is interpreted as a cross product: the interval obtained by multiplyin
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by civilized 2y ago
Not your mistake, he does his best to imply that the hats are dropping on heads. He's got a future in marketing.
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by civilized 2y ago
But is that "willingness to do for a low price" some kind of inherent property of artists as a group of people, or does it come from somewhere else? (The "or" here is not necessarily XOR.) What if it all comes down to su
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by civilized 2y ago
In the past I have thought about it as you do. But it occurs to me now that this is also a property of tech products, isn't it? These products can be built by a small team and serve millions or billions of people. The most successful o
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by civilized 2y ago
This is the real story. Mouse Jiggles a Key Performance Indicator at Major US Bank.
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by civilized 2y ago
While the law allows it, in my opinion there is no real moral basis for a company to lay claim to all of an employee's time. If the employee is sufficiently responsive and productive, there is no issue. If not, the company can dismiss
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by civilized 2y ago
Providing objective, accurate, relevant contextual information that reasonably makes people outraged is not in itself an appeal to emotion and outrage. The information is relevant to how we view Wells Fargo as an ethical entity. Bad food in
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by civilized 2y ago
Why not go even further? Why not say that the whistleblower was wrong and Microsoft business leadership was right? Maybe their profits from ignoring this issue have been fantastic, and the externalities from e.g. mass theft of national secu
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by civilized 2y ago
I think that context about the company in the article is context about the article, but I understand your difference of opinion. To see my point, consider this pull quote from Wells Fargo which is contained in the article: > “Wells Fargo
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by civilized 2y ago
Context: in the 2010s, Wells Fargo management looked the other way while its sales force scammed customers, creating millions of fraudulent accounts (with associated fees) to meet performance targets and quotas [1]. The Fed imposed an asset
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by civilized 2y ago
Many of you will be familiar with this story: military pilot gear was once designed for the average person, but then they realized that actually, most people deviate significantly from the average in at least one way. So they made the gear
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by civilized 2y ago
Leetcode-style tech interviews fall far short of standardized tests. In real standardized tests, the same questions are given to everyone, and effort is made to develop new questions not known to the test takers. They're more like a st
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by civilized 2y ago
> the fact that there is a standardized test ...a standardized test? No. There are tests. They sure as heck aren't standardized. Maybe they should be, since everyone seems to be doing the same thing.
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by civilized 2y ago
Hopefully it'll all be available in a fire sale when these companies finally have to be stripped for parts.
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by civilized 2y ago
Believe it or not, we talk, and their input influences my actions.
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by civilized 2y ago
The lack of communication of potentially valid reasons such as these might contribute to why people view RTO mandates with cynicism. If we knew why we were being asked to RTO, we could solve that problem in the way we thought best, combinin
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by civilized 2y ago
Apologies, my bad, but I'm a bit too late to edit. The experts say that R qualifies as a lazy language [1, 2]. My impression was that R was mostly an eager language that somehow allowed for laziness. I will research this further and ho
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by civilized 2y ago
R is not lazy. It has non-standard evaluation mechanisms (formulas, promises, quosures...) that enable to you to write domain-specific languages that "do what the user meant". If your code (or the code of the libraries you're
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by civilized 2y ago
I think there is a law of convenience, and it also explains why many technologies improve at a consistent exponential rate. People are very good at finding convenient ways to make something a little better each year, but every idea takes so
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by civilized 2y ago
Abstract - admirably concise and accessible: > How will the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) affect the skill premium? To address this question, we propose a nested constant elasticity of substitution
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by civilized 2y ago
Weren't non-competes just banned by the FTC? Could make a fine mess of this.
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by civilized 2y ago
And I suppose the individual owners were paying rent in some form to Red Lobster Inc, since it owned the land? It might be that all that changes for them is who they write the check out to. And possibly the amount, if Red Lobster Inc was in
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by civilized 2y ago
It sounds like a legal pump-and-dump scheme with sophisticated counterparties. You would think that the counterparties would wise up over time?
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by civilized 2y ago
It often is, but this isn't some kind of free money tree that only rich people can access. Loading up a company with debt requires a creditor. Selling underlying assets requires a buyer. If these counterparties don't offer enough
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by civilized 2y ago
Good point. I think this changes the story a bit. It's not exactly that PE is predatory. If PE were unlocking the value of assets held by an underperforming company, the transaction could be explained as the creative destruction of cap
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by civilized 2y ago
I have the same question every time I see one of these articles. I think I've even posted the question in previous HN threads on private equity shenanigans. The question is: Why is this profitable? If the land is worth $1.5 billion,
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by civilized 2y ago
Very good to hear this. As a data analyst, I have tended to dismiss LLMs as irrelevant because of the black-box mentality. In some industries, this even holds back adoption of technology that is now considered mature and boring, like tree e

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