grob-gambit

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by grob-gambit 2y ago
The examples just don't seem that good to me. Just because the method is interesting doesn't mean the output is good automatically.
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
In the US, mortgage banking is about 20% or so of a regional bank on up in terms of revenue generation. Modern banking is an incredibly complex business so you could basically say no single division makes much money vs the other parts as a
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
I don't think that is quite what Pareto had in mind. To me, it is the way that the investment banks/hedge funds were the elites 20 years ago and now the elites are from silicon valley. Along with that came a huge shift in cultural
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
I think what is missing from this analysis is the offensive capability of American cyber. The way it is completely downplayed I suspect is proportional to its strength. If there was all this chatter how we need to invest more in offensive c
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
This is easy to refute. Say a fraudster rips off 90% of what is in your checking account right now, you contact the bank and a language model tells you everything will be resolved shortly. There is no reality now or in the future that this
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
We already have a worse form of what you are talking about with #2. Youtube is already overwhelmed with convincing bullshit videos put out by humans in order to make money, truth and reality be damned. The best thing that can happen is we g
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
I partially agree, there are huge delusions of Homo economicus. There is also this other process at work that is shaped by quarterly earnings reports in public markets. Maybe if we started over with a mirror economy that we rebuild from the
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
I think open communication in a toxic environment can obviously amplify toxicity or at least less open communication can act as a damper on toxicity. Slack is surely not the generator of toxicity but it seems obvious it could act at increas
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
I don't have a counter argument. Not to be ironic but ChatGPT4o gives a better response to the question at hand than anything I have read in this thread: https://chatgpt.com/share/c10c540f-b9c2-4714-ae6b-77460b900b
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
What has worked best for me is to disregard d3 attr. Attr made sense a long time ago but now if using a framework it is just so much easier to work with SVG elements directly instead of so many attr just for svg attributes. You still end up
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by grob-gambit 2y ago
That is exactly it. A big part of the mental model is understanding the concept of tidy data from Hadley Wickham too. I could not understand some of the design choices until I understood tidy data and not being much into R, I never ran acro