fmvab

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by fmvab 4y ago
I agree it's on the journalist -- just wondering which statement is most suspected to be untrue.
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by fmvab 4y ago
Which part is false?
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by fmvab 4y ago
As someone who’s changed careers, I value HN for the wide variety of intellectual topics and often insightful commentary. I think in recent years it’s actually moved further away from the ‘$N raised by $X from $Y to build A for B’ headlin
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by fmvab 5y ago
I’d say that’s a feature but what I’m talking about is real in-use projects
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by fmvab 5y ago
What’s your counterexample?
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by fmvab 5y ago
Another point I’d add: isn’t it telling that we haven’t come up with use cases for crypto that aren’t in some way speculation in the last decade plus?
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by fmvab 5y ago
This is literally addressed in the second paragraph: In electromagnetism and most other fields of physics, imaginary numbers are merely a mathematical convenience. All the relevant phenomena can still be described using nothing but real num
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by fmvab 5y ago
Perhaps the outcome was better for Britain in the end, but I object to glorifying Soros on the grounds that his intentions were clearly to take money out of the system, and breaking the pound with a coordinated attack just doesn’t seem ver
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by fmvab 5y ago
“If it hadn’t been exploited by this person, someone else would have” I’ve only ever heard this line of reasoning used to justify something unethical. And in the case of software, we don’t admire the black-hat hackers that take advantage of
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by fmvab 5y ago
I think you’re right in a way, but the problem is multifaceted. If true, the idea that 1-1 tutoring pushes an average student two standard deviations above the mean where nothing else does today is compelling evidence that this is an elemen
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by fmvab 5y ago
I do think so. I think wealth disparity has enabled intellectual folks to, very quickly, propel themselves into the upper class, by essentially being part of the money machine that keeps rich people rich (hedge funds, ads, etc.). I don’t ha
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by fmvab 5y ago
My point is, it doesn't matter whether you or I consider it a "bad definition". To say that these things are not pyramid schemes "in any way" is unnecessarily pedantic and not useful considering the context (the imp
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by fmvab 5y ago
Or really, any stimulants.
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by fmvab 5y ago
It comes from the office of the NYS attorney general. https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds/pyramid-schemes Please send them an email elucidating the finer points of what scheme is what.
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by fmvab 5y ago
‘A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent system of making money based on recruiting an ever-increasing number of "investors." The initial promoters recruit investors, who in turn recruit more investors, and so on. The scheme is called
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by fmvab 5y ago
Okay, it may not be a pyramid scheme in the exact technical sense, but combined with the other items on the list, "get-rich-quick", etc., I think pump-and-dumping shitcoins counts, right?
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by fmvab 5y ago
Because there is money to be had, and people like money.
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by fmvab 5y ago
Wait, isn't that exactly a pyramid scheme?
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by fmvab 5y ago
Thank you — that is definitely encouraging. It doesn’t sound like a killer app yet but it certainly seems to establish deep learning’s place at least as part of a modern software stack.
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by fmvab 5y ago
I think this is unfair. Tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars have gone into deep learning and, as I understand it, most effort consists of scaling up this golden goose and presenting its "new" successes in the best light possib
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by fmvab 5y ago
Can you provide more context on how MIT spent most of its integrity and soul to build its brand? I went to MIT over a decade ago and I always appreciated how honest, hardworking, and genuinely curious the student body was. Professors always
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by fmvab 5y ago
Haha. I thought this too but I can’t quite place my finger on it. What exactly made the protagonist so insufferable?