hhmc

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by hhmc 28d ago
But this is counter to the claim it's (simple) settled case law
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by hhmc 28d ago
If I’m walking your dog and it bites someone, am I responsible or you? Does the manner in which I was controlling them matter?
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by hhmc 8mo ago
git worktrees are the canonical solution
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by hhmc 8mo ago
What is a ‘wicked’ problem?
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by hhmc 10mo ago
> For 99% of users, we gladly accept these more "invasive" anti-cheats because it means less cheating in the games we enjoy. The modal user likely doesn’t even know anti-cheat exists, and if they did, wouldn’t care at all. They
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by hhmc 11mo ago
> Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some additional snack betting on teams, or trading keys. Unless I'm missing something, this is zero sum -- so it follows that a bunch of people mostly lost money (perhaps also d
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by hhmc 1y ago
Sure theoretically. Outcomes are dramatically better if someone else is around
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by hhmc 1y ago
I once did a course with a paramedic on basic aid. We were discussing choking, which is a condition that really needs a 2nd party to intervene. Someone asked what to do if you live alone (with no close neighbours) - the answer was essential
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by hhmc 1y ago
Thanks, this is a fascinating note. You’re right that really it’s collaborative production that’s the heart, and there’s no real benefit to LLMs. It does feel like some classical explore/exploit algorithms could be interesting, but I i
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by hhmc 1y ago
I always thought there was decent promise in gwerns (gpt-3 era) proposal of a meta-llm CYOA: https://gwern.net/cyoa Wonder if anyone ever took a crack at this
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by hhmc 1y ago
Because the numbers are less than 1 sqrt pulls them towards 1 (the edge)
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by hhmc 1y ago
There’s a now quite dated comment from Merlin Mann: "Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.” It’s fuzzy - but my recollection was Mann was a fairly renown productivity influencer (although I g
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by hhmc 1y ago
Given this is 4 years old; did any sites take on the feedback?
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by hhmc 1y ago
> Home runs, walks, and strikeouts now dominate baseball, with 35% of plate appearances ending without involving seven defensive players. This has reduced balls in play by 20% since 1980, creating longer games with less action Do basebal
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by hhmc 1y ago
I feel like you want some higher moments on these. At least the standard deviation would be useful on top of the expectation.
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by hhmc 1y ago
The share value is price x shares, so there’s an effective dollar numeraire. It’s easy to imagine a well performing stock that neverless loses due to a currency shock. Indeed this is why one would typically hedge currency risk if trading a
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by hhmc 1y ago
This is heterodox opinion to modern financial theory. You’re welcome to hold it, I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise — I think it undermines the larger point I’m trying to make in an unhelpful way.
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by hhmc 1y ago
For all practical purposes you can - and the world broadly does - consider e.g. TBills to be risk free (or take your favourite interbank lending rate etc etc).
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by hhmc 1y ago
There is no risk free investment that will return you 12%. In a year where you are down 30% are you still contributing 5% on initial capital? If not, you are just constructing an instrument where you only pass through downside risk
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by hhmc 1y ago
I don't think the switches connecting to any real exchanges support this
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by hhmc 1y ago
There's no competition that's running on copper -- even competitors without latency sensitivity with still be running over fibre because that's just the baseline infrastructure in datacentres, transatlantic etc. Of course, ye
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by hhmc 2y ago
Right the energy is exponentially, but I’d claim that fatalities are saturating.
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by hhmc 2y ago
> Also worth considering is that, even if higher limits reduce the rate of accidents, accidents at higher speeds are almost universally more severe. Obviously this is true, and especially important at low speeds, but I wonder how much di
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by hhmc 2y ago
technically it's the EU working hours directive that's binding (or being opted out of) in the UK
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by hhmc 2y ago
> when they're the largest video game distribution platform on PC And just adding on to this, they also a have a stable of some of the most successful (and presumably lucrative) games released in the last 20 years: dota 2, cs:go (a
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by hhmc 2y ago
You also can use the fact that for any distribution, the median is never further than 1SD away from the mean.
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by hhmc 2y ago
If you can consistently make more than 10% you don’t need to hamstring yourself with this terrible deal, you can just get investment on typical terms.
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by hhmc 2y ago
Why would anyone take the other side of this bet? It's an incredible financial instrument, that anyone on the buyside would buy in an instant (as formulated -- ignored fees/tcosts etc).
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by hhmc 2y ago
> Waking in the middle of the night is caused by stress around a problem I don't think this is universal. For example: rotating shift workers can have a mostly physiological insomia, due to various disrupted rhythms.
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by hhmc 2y ago
Is the correct number 0 or >1?

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