jackcosgrove

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by jackcosgrove 5mo ago
That's not weird at all it's the difference in most cases between products and services produced by local labor vs products and services produced by more abundant, cheaper labor elsewhere. I don't complain about $20 meals bec
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by jackcosgrove 5mo ago
Richard Easterlin found a correlation in 1974, and subsequent studies have reinforced that. See the Introduction in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9802463/ .
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
This is an ongoing course at CMU you can shadow. https://modernaicourse.org/
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
I am a total neophyte when it comes to LLMs, and only recently started poking around into the internals of them. The first thing that struck me was that float32 dimensions seemed very generous . I then discovered what quantization is by re
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
Complexity can lead to "more is different" outcomes at higher strata. I would not say reified concepts are "made up" as they can have very real effects on both higher and lower strata. The fallacy of reification is treat
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
Food prices have been subsidized for decades by farmers' pride in their work and holdings, hesitancy to make a change, and attempts to maintain a family legacy. Had those farmers sold their lands off forty years ago and invested the pr
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
I was using life expansively to refer to artificial, robotic life.
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by jackcosgrove 7mo ago
It's far more practical to adapt life to space and other planets, than it is to adapt space and other planets to human life. The problem with writing a story about artificial life exploring the universe is that it's unrelatable wi
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by jackcosgrove 8mo ago
Don't index funds trail market changes though? I thought their allocations are reactive. In other words, the Mag 7 are being bid up by people trying to beat the market. I don't see how index funds could move prices. I do understan
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by jackcosgrove 8mo ago
And anyone who thinks they can consistently predict who will be among the 4% is... mistaken. Diversification is how one manages risk when a system has a power law distribution of outcomes. Trying to beat the market is playing a zero sum gam
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I have investigated taking Amtrak for a family trip to do something different. "The journey is the destination" or something like that. I was branding it "slow travel" to the family so we could use it as a sort of modern
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
It was always my understanding that software careers are shorter than other technical careers, and the higher wages compensate for this. More than compensate, if you invest early. If by FIRE you mean retire in your 50s, I don't think t
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
The economy functioned without large numbers of office workers in the past, and there are regions of the country where this is still the case. To an extent they will sell their services to each other. To another extent they will be selling
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I'm not sure the comparison is apples to apples, but this article claims the current AI investment boom pales compared to the railroad investment boom in the 19th century. https://wccftech.com/ai-capex-might-equal-2-per
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I received both the worst and the best pieces of career advice when I was an undergraduate. The worst advice was that writing software, after the dotcom bust, was dead as a career. This taught me a lot about the value of "conventional
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
The headline is provocative, as some amount of corporate-owned farmland is owned by corporations that are in turn owned by farmers and their families. I would also push back on the notion that owner-operators are in a better position. It&#x
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
Psychosis is a symptom of schizophrenia, which is a thought disorder according to psychiatry. Psychosis can also be caused by a lack of sleep (like not sleeping for days) and in this case sleep can end the psychosis. Which is to say that sc
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
There was a theory that autism and schizophrenia were opposite ends of a spectrum, but it's fallen into disfavor. The theory went that autism produces mechanical, rigid thought patterns while schizophrenia takes free association too fa
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I think "Habsburg" is a good enough descriptor. It encompasses the Catholic, northern-influenced culture (if not actually in the north like Trieste) as well as the baroque, counter Reformation-derived artistic styles.
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
They helped me out for my 8th grade science fair! I wanted to build a shake table to simulate the effects of earthquakes on buildings. (tl;dr: the taller the building, the more flexible it is. At least according to my experiment, which did
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I had to scroll through most of the paper to find this. > All participants were right-handed native English speakers with no exposure to a second natural language before the age of 6 years Which removes a confounder that Python mimics En
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I don't think it's just about doing vs talking. There are people who are great at something not because they do novel work, but because they redo known work that's really hard. Not everyone has the luxury of knowing where the
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
It's what most users want. Most users want to scroll through internet TV passively. However there is a big enough minority of users who want authenticity, novelty, and creativity in their online experiences. This group is big enough
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
If there isn't a Voight-Kampff test for this there needs to be.
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
Wall Street pays cash. Trading firms pay cash. Cash is the best form of compensation because it's the most fungible*. If you really believe your employer's stock will double in value, you can take your cash bonus and buy shares of
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
> I've had equity in most of my jobs and the job sucks then I'll leave before my stock vests which I've done twice. Sometimes you can't tell how it will be from the outside. You only know whether you'll like the
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
Is there a genre of science fiction that deliberately tries to downplay the amount of change that will occur between now and the future? Would it just be unpopular so no one tries? Call it staticpunk or something to jazz it up.
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
I don't think the author of the piece is saying there has been a cultural change among students, emanating from within. Rather the thesis is that smartphones are the culprit. "Things changed" can encompass the proliferation o
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by jackcosgrove 1y ago
The higher the level of education, the less attention paid to pedagogy. I had better teachers in high school than in college.

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