galimaufry

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by galimaufry 2y ago
Sometimes it doesn't work and no one can tell.
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by galimaufry 2y ago
I wonder if there is a niche to ameliorate this sort of thing by offering payday loans on insurance payouts. The incentives are pro-social: insurance companies have an incentive to delay payouts, because their profits come from interest (th
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by galimaufry 3y ago
> Purchasing power has collapsed But is this actually true, or just something that declining economic sentiment in the newspapers has led us to believe? People are consuming more food, more education, more square feet of house, more tra
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by galimaufry 4y ago
Most threads will include a claim that Gnome is imitating macos poorly, but as far as I can tell it is imitating i3 rather well.
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by galimaufry 4y ago
Corrections staff at Riker's island get unlimited, unauthenticated sick leave, which may partly explain the large number here, along with their employment as clerks, bakers, door control, etc. Incidentally this is what I meant above, a
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by galimaufry 4y ago
Riker's island is very poorly designed. A big part of the problem is that it is quite inaccessible from the rest of the city. This has a ton of knock-on effects: 1. There's a severe shortage of guards. Anything that could make w
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by galimaufry 4y ago
> Is it just me or does ESG feel like a giant virtue signal from companies and investors? Well yeah, it is explicitly intended as a signal that investors can use to select virtuous companies.
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by galimaufry 4y ago
I've heard it called a "non-central example". That has a negative connotation though, I wish there was a more neutral term. The statement "all natural numbers are greater than 1" is false, and it's not helpfu
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by galimaufry 5y ago
Sure, but then they just send you a letter correcting your mistake, you OK it if it looks right, and either they send you a check or you send them a check. You don't have to pay a fine and you don't get audited. (I am not a tax l
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by galimaufry 5y ago
Ignorant question: is Israel literally an ally of the US? I know they are not in NATO or 5 Eyes, and I don't think they have some other close agreement, like US and Japan.
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by galimaufry 5y ago
It's the second one. This kerfluffle was started by Blackrock moving into real estate. Blackrock is a retail investment-management company that everyone from the middle class up invests with. So, it's not really "you will o
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by galimaufry 5y ago
You're not wrong. I guess what I'd like is the ability to apply (up to) two type annotations, with the second one a subtype of the first, and use the first for dispatch and the second for documentation/testing/static an
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by galimaufry 5y ago
One thing that I miss coming from python to Julia, is typing-as-documentation. In python I often write type annotations that are much more restrictive than they need to be. They work as checkable documentation of how a function is expect
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by galimaufry 5y ago
As I understand it the issue is * Currently the US welfare agencies will provide ~any FDA-approved drug for someone with the illness for which the drug was approved * In this case, they probably won't - in the worst case scenario it wo
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by galimaufry 5y ago
GPL is also a possible alternative. Big companies pay you back by contributing to the project, insofar as it is worth it to them to maintain a fork and add features for their own use.
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by galimaufry 5y ago
> They don’t run corrections based on the number of simulations they run, they don’t take into account other variables, etc I think this looks like a bigger problem specifically because you are in AutoML. Suppose you are training a GAN.
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by galimaufry 5y ago
> "At graduate level, you should cultivate [peers and a concentration] such that your intellectual correspondence is publishable." ... I did not take it at the time as immediately translatable into a [simply translated?] phrase
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by galimaufry 5y ago
I agree that there is "information" in the colloquial sense there, or even in the Kolmogorov sense. I don't understand how there is information in the entropy sense, because I do not see a random variable anywhere in this st
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by galimaufry 5y ago
I'm not sure this answers the question. The wikipedia page is about the entropy of a probability distribution. But the information speed limit is supposed to apply even if everything is totally deterministic. If I write a single, 100
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by galimaufry 5y ago
It's kind of the anti-nethack. Explicitly not simulation-y, big effort to be playable without spoilers, character building is de-emphasized.
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by galimaufry 5y ago
I think you have rediscovered Forlesen ! https://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Stories.Forles...
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by galimaufry 5y ago
> you also don’t have the right to tell a community to change its character or compensation. Sometimes you do though. There are real cases where the acid rain produced by City A falls entirely on City B. Surely in that case City B shoul
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by galimaufry 5y ago
It's a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg problem. If more people move to SF then more brunch places will open and the city will be able to afford to run more busses. Maybe SF could credibly commit to adding more density in the near future,
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by galimaufry 5y ago
I was just thinking about this. Seems like it could also be great if the type system could make a distinction between vectors and dual vectors, alleviating "you got the wrong axis" errors. But maybe for something like that you r
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> Names are almost laughably bad for this purpose, for having multiple forms ("N SECOND ST" vs "NORTH 2ND STREET") and for being terrifying vague (so many, many Main Streets). libpostal (open source, open data locatio
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Options prices are usually quoted per share even though you buy them in increments of 100 shares. So GP paid $25,000 per contract.
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by galimaufry 6y ago
Here's what's on nytimes.come right now: - UK imposes harsher crackdown in London - Moderna's vaccine will be shipped next week across the US - Pompeo says Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack I'm not going to conclude
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by galimaufry 6y ago
True, but Bell labs is hardly an example of normal capitalism. As I understand it, AT&T during the Bell labs era was more like the East India Company, or a PRC-style state-controlled corporation, or Pacific Gas and Electric. (I find th
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by galimaufry 6y ago
However he also supported China's anti-Uigher policy in secret remarks[1] to President Xi. There seems to be a hidden agenda at odds with the public agenda. [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tr
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by galimaufry 6y ago
> In what country does the author live? Singapore, for what it's worth.

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