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by jvm 2y ago
If consumers paid close to wholesale rates for their home energy they would be highly incentivized to do these sorts of things: they'd pay almost nothing (or maybe even less than nothing) in the day and big bucks from 5 PM to 8 PM. The
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by jvm 3y ago
Welcome to the atomized mode! https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode
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by jvm 3y ago
I'm curious, what actually happens when you're fined some comically large amount of money? Do you just immediately declare bankruptcy and let the courts carve up your assets? Is that usually the end of that or do you still end up
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by jvm 3y ago
Doesn't make much sense to compare a model that's not fine tuned to flan models that are fine tuned. Makes more sense to compare to something like T5 base where it's probably a lot more comparable.
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by jvm 4y ago
My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent. We talked about the state of reinforcement learning and what the field needs to succeed in building autonomous agents, the chal
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by jvm 4y ago
My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent. We got into the state of reinforcement learning and what the field needs to succeed in building autonomous agents, the challeng
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by jvm 4y ago
Author here, yeah I agree the real world is very complicated. For any given task I'm imagining something like 1. Use some sort of instruction tuning to get the thing "good enough" that it gives decent results 75% of the time
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by jvm 4y ago
Selling online without negotiated price is a big change. That should make the dealerships really uncomfortable in the long run… he's kind of saying "oh the dealerships could rent out Mustangs" but is that actually realistic?
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by jvm 5y ago
I keep hearing this business about the US being a reserve currency and it makes no sense. First off, lots of other currencies are valuable without being reserve currencies. Swiss franc, Japanese yen, etc. Being a reserve currency probably b
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by jvm 5y ago
Evergreen
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by jvm 5y ago
This is such an annoying argument. The government gave $18B to the SLS and so far has vapor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System The government spent $211B on the shuttle program and got 133 launches. Spa
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by jvm 5y ago
7% is a low interest rate for an unsecured small business loan. I'm not 100% sure what the FRED chart you cited means by "Effective Loan Rate for Small Business Administration" but those are most likely collateralized.
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by jvm 5y ago
To actually answer your questions: - Noise means you can't do US domestic They don't seem to be targeting this. - Concorde didn't have the range for Pacific They do seem to be attempting Pacific range. - Costs didn't wor
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by jvm 7y ago
Not sure where indeed is getting their numbers, but I can assure you levels.fyi are well calibrated. Glassdoor also has weirdly low estimated salaries.
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by jvm 7y ago
Classic to see the correct take get downvoted. If anyone's interested in actually learning about the causes of mass incarceration, I'd strongly recommend John Pfaff's _Locked In_: https://www.amazon.com/dp&#x2
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by jvm 7y ago
Lockups typically do not allow any sort of options trading.
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by jvm 7y ago
Isn't this fiscal conservatism? Spending <= Income?
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by jvm 7y ago
Not to mention that the beneficiaries are by definition college educated, meaning they are currently or will in the future be among the highest income groups in the country!
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by jvm 7y ago
…and they are obsessed because _voters_ are.
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Magic Leap One is available to creators in cities across the contiguous US(magicleap.com)
23 points by jvm 8y ago|7 comments
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by jvm 8y ago
> Even though rooftop solar might not be the most economical solution to reduce greenhouse gas footprints, I would argue it's very effective. Inefficient and expensive systems can do harm, regardless of the good intention behind thi
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by jvm 9y ago
I can see you have a lot of interesting ideas, and I think people should be allowed to make developments like what you're describing, but I can't imagine how you justify requiring it, and you don't seem to attempt to do so
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by jvm 9y ago
Why would we not just let the market for parking determine how much parking to build? My wife and I live in San Francisco, don't have a car, don't have a garage. Are you saying I should be forced to pay for not just one, but actua
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by jvm 9y ago
I'm pretty sure Andy Rubin's Essential Phone predates the iPhone notch. Odd that the Verge didn't mention it in the article. https://www.essential.com/ …also, regardless of who invented it, it seems like this
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by jvm 9y ago
I am very confused by this explanation. Why was it right place right time? Why not India? Why not Kenya? Why has Bangladesh followed the same strategy but been so much less successful, with wages much lower than in China?
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by jvm 9y ago
> Rather mostly China succeeded because it had a population larger than any other country …is that also why India "succeeded"?
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by jvm 9y ago
I sense a lot of mood affiliation in the title that I'm sure will earn the New York Times a lot of clicks. China is the biggest success story of free trade in the history of the world, and the contrarian take presented here is absurd t
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by jvm 9y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that they are printing money to pay for government expenses. That actually works okay on a small scale (economically, it's roughly equivalent to deficit spending), but if you do it too much the c
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by jvm 9y ago
Every country has a production frontier. Trade can only improve that frontier. There's a completely different question you are raising of whether there are zero marginal product workers. One could ask if people are made ZMP by trade. O
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What the SATs Taught Stitch Fix about Finding the Perfect Fit(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)
11 points by jvm 9y ago|1 comments

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