donjigweed

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by donjigweed 1y ago
Sorry to hear that. Sister had an aneurysm a couple years ago. They coiled it, lasted two weeks, then gone. Best wishes for your father and your family.
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by donjigweed 2y ago
Put another way, if spending maybe $100, maybe even a couple hundred bucks, might save you thousands, is it really that bad of an idea? For the first few years?
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by donjigweed 2y ago
Nice. Looks like it satisfies all the requirements detailed here [0]. Also, good discussion of the major difficulty dealing with money here [1]. [0] https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2022-08-22-how-to-deal-with-money-in... [1]
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A subprime AI crisis is brewing(twitter.com)
2 points by donjigweed 2y ago|0 comments
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by donjigweed 2y ago
Why stop at groceries? Make everything variably priced. Vary the prices enough so that no matter how much or little you work, in the end everyone's costs (and wealth) are equal. Da komrade!
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by donjigweed 2y ago
Kudos to you. I would be quite flattered to have built a thing that competes with what a small startup built.
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by donjigweed 2y ago
lol 5200lbs curb weight don’t care how good the suspension is, that thing ain’t getting around corners very well
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by donjigweed 2y ago
In behavioral psych terms what you've identified would technically be referred to as "rate of responding." Its identification as the primary focus of observation in the clinical setting ( and in fact a variable even worth exa
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House votes to restore Section 174 expensing for US-based R&D investments(pwc.com)
4 points by donjigweed 3y ago|0 comments
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by donjigweed 3y ago
Never found anything better than Fireworks for the user who only rarely needs to make basic edits to images
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by donjigweed 3y ago
they're taking the piss
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by donjigweed 3y ago
Two readings are relevant here: 1) Tragedy of the Commons by Harding 2) Overshoot by William Catton There is a sliver of hope that we can successfully decommission fossil fuel energy and master climate engineering, i.e. employ technology to
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by donjigweed 4y ago
five week, five days a week radiation? was this "proton" radiation treatment?
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by donjigweed 6y ago
Watching TV at home "wastes energy." Going out to dinner "wastes energy." Doing anything except working on a cure for cancer "wastes energy." In fact, even people working on a cure for cancer or a covid vaccine
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by donjigweed 6y ago
The energy "waste" argument against Bitcoin is really one of the silliest there is. One man's waste is another's treasure. "Unlike other economic activities, the bitcoin scheme produces absolutely nothing for all th
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by donjigweed 6y ago
> I didn't like the way Utah was moving though Can you elaborate on this if you can spare the time? Genuinely curious...
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by donjigweed 6y ago
I think Andrew Gelman raised some serious concerns with that study. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
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by donjigweed 7y ago
https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224446581513940999 https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1224448902629249024 https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/
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by donjigweed 7y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/CliffordAsness/status/11978972081...
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by donjigweed 7y ago
SPJ is an absolute beast, though whenever I hear a talk of his all I can think of is the Impressive Clergyman.
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Who’s Using Amazon Forecast?(mcohen01.github.io)
2 points by donjigweed 7y ago|0 comments
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by donjigweed 7y ago
I have zero artistic ability. My father is a very accomplished amateur artist. I've got into this discussion with him several times. Rather than Pollock's work, the best exemplar supporting the argument that artistic value is arbi
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by donjigweed 7y ago
These days, holding all other factors constant, SV companies will generally hire {gay|female|trans|minority} candidates before {male|white|indian|asian}. So companies are apparently not at all concerned about hiring members of protected cla
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by donjigweed 7y ago
Buyback Derangement Syndrome https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...
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by donjigweed 7y ago
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/machine_learning_ma...
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by donjigweed 8y ago
They might be off base on this one.... https://www.wsj.com/articles/buyback-derangement-syndrome-15...
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by donjigweed 8y ago
Indeed. https://www.ajjmanhattan.com/instructors
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by donjigweed 9y ago
98% of orders are canceled limit orders. The average duration an order is open ranges from 1.5 to 20 or 30 seconds, depending on the time frame you look at. The entire market is "spoofing." It's crypto not NYSE.
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by donjigweed 10y ago
Worth linking to PZ Meyers takedown of Kurzweil's ignorance of biology. [1] [1] http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/21/kurzweil-still...
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by donjigweed 10y ago
For me, Clojure is the most satisfying language to write in. The design of the language feels impeccable most of the time. Working in the repl, with all of your application code loaded into the runtime, sitting in an adjacent terminal or ed

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