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by mshron 3y ago
One of Aaronson's arguments in the article boils down to the idea that running a full universe simulation (without cheating) on a universe with the same physics as ours may just not be possible computationally; it seems physically plau
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by mshron 3y ago
I can't speak for FaceTime, but I've found much better success with all of these platforms if everyone in the meeting is wearing headphones. A lot of the latency is from echo cancellation, and that turns off if there's no ech
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by mshron 3y ago
Eh. I studied math at an elite university with a lot of people who ended up at these secretive quant hedge funds. They're undeniably brilliant, and as per GP also extremely motivated and hard working (brilliance alone doesn't cut
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by mshron 3y ago
Not OP but in my experience it’s more likely to Just Work with fewer glitches and at a higher video resolution. I’d like to get away from Zoom but with consulting work it’s the only thing I’ve found that typically works with clients on the
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by mshron 3y ago
Some of us do! Check out a whitepaper on that exact point: https://ai.objectives.institute/whitepaper It’s weird to have been working on a paper for almost a year and have it launch into this environment, but uptake has bee
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by mshron 4y ago
Higher interest rates mean that investors can earn money by buying bonds, which are lower risk. Riskier investments (stocks, real estate, cryptocurrencies) are less attractive to investors as a result, unless they can provide even more retu
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by mshron 4y ago
I can't speak for the Japanese restaurants, but I had surprisingly delicious salmon nigiri just from a Seattle grocery store chain. Great flavor, and very inexpensive. I think it was a platter of 12 nigiri for what I'd expect to p
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by mshron 5y ago
It sounds like you have a good path on your technical skills, so I'm going to suggest something else: take some humanities classes. Pick topics outside of technology that interest you, and learn how to communicate about them. Take as m
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by mshron 5y ago
If you liked this article, the book Lost in Thought[0] also references Bennet and goes into more depth on why spending some of your time learning for its own sake leads to a more fulfilling life. I’d love more content like this on hn. Done
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by mshron 5y ago
Yeah, and this is per week data, not per year too. So one year of being unvaccinated is equivalent to 17 years of car crash risk.
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by mshron 5y ago
Table 1, in the linked XLS file for data through 24 September. You can see that it was originally closer to 0.1 (50x protection against death) but it's gone up to 1.1 over the last few months, I'm guessing as immunity has started
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by mshron 5y ago
Look all the way over at "Second dose", the age-standardized mortality rate is 1.1 per 100,000 vs 5.4 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. 5x protection against death.
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by mshron 5y ago
Douglas Coffin carves headstones? Score another win for nominative determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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Mark Zuckerberg on why Facebook is rebranding to Meta(theverge.com)
2 points by mshron 5y ago|0 comments
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by mshron 5y ago
Yes, they're both Cory Doctorow
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by mshron 5y ago
Note that this explains _why_ Cory Doctorow gets a new laptop every year... which was one of the central mysteries of the article currently at #1 on HN, "The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used."[0] https:&#
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by mshron 5y ago
Warby Parker | Data Engineer, Software Engineer (Data) | Full-time | REMOTE (or New York, NY) Warby Parker's Data Infrastructure team’s mission is to ensure timely, accurate, and reliable access to data across the company. Our team des
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by mshron 5y ago
I highly recommend anybody getting into R to skip the base language (which indeed is ancient and full of gotchas) and go straight for the Tidyverse[1]. You can always go back in and learn how to do things the old way later. Over the last de
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by mshron 5y ago
At least in California wildfires, houses often burn down from random hot embers landing on the roof, not necessarily a giant whoosh of flames engulfing everything. Could be the same here.
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by mshron 5y ago
Warby Parker | Engineering Manager, Data Engineering | New York | https://www.warbyparker.com Warby Parker is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Data Engineering team and play a key part in building, scaling, and mai
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by mshron 6y ago
Gold-backed currencies are, similarly, a historical aberration. They only came into being around the 1870s! States have picked all kinds of units for accounting and tax purposes for literally millennia. Wheat, silver, wool, gold. They adjus
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by mshron 6y ago
Agreed that Docs, Drive, GSuite are all a real enterprise businesses YouTube though is video ads, and Maps is local ads. I think that reinforces the author's point. (Open source projects like Tensorflow, Flutter, K8s are nice spin-offs
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by mshron 6y ago
Don't try to time the market. Read a book like "All About Asset Allocation", recognize that every time feels unique but it's really not, and choose a mix of assets that reflect your risk and reward profile. It's not
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Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230(techdirt.com)
2 points by mshron 6y ago|0 comments
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by mshron 6y ago
Just going to place this here, before people start talking about "platforms" and "publishers" despite neither of those terms being actually in Section 230 "Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're W
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by mshron 6y ago
I am genuinely baffled how Scott Alexander's post has turned into hundreds and hundreds of comments on cancel culture, as if it was anything near the #1 reason why he'd be in danger if his name was revealed. Being famous is danger
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by mshron 6y ago
Can a mod put [2018] in the title?
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by mshron 6y ago
That's one causal path, but I don't think it's the only one. Crises can also lead to pressure on politicians, who pass laws that have an impact even after the crisis is over, sometimes even good ones. The PATRIOT Act isn&#x27
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by mshron 6y ago
(I assume this is posted because of the preamble on legal realism and George Floyd, which I'm addressing.) I just finished _Team of Rivals_, an excellent history of Lincoln and the Civil War. Specifically, the political and administrat
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by mshron 6y ago
Skill up in the humanities. Pick topics outside of technology that interest you, and learn how to communicate about them. Take as many seminar discussion and writing-heavy classes as you can. From a career perspective, programming skill is

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