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by plants 2mo ago
This is awesome! StreetEasy is how many New Yorkers find apartments. In the past few years, it has been flooded with AI-staged apartments. The AI stagings warp the room to fit furniture that would 100% certainly not fit there. It’s deceptiv
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by plants 3mo ago
plug to my blog post where I did something similar a few years back! https://willbeckman.com/wordle.html :). Not sure if this is an identical solution, but it was a fun little project.
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by plants 1y ago
Wow, thanks. I’m even coming up with 500K chatGPT queries for the amount of energy consumed as a KG of beef, though I might have moved a decimal place somewhere - feel free to check my math :) “average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of en
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by plants 1y ago
Those are incredible stats. As a vegan who uses LLMs at work frequently, I would love to have the source as well :)
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by plants 1y ago
This is really neat! I work in machine learning but still feel imposter syndrome with my foundations with math (specifically linear algebra and matrix/tensor operations). Does anyone have any more good resources for problem sets with a
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by plants 2y ago
> Recommendation of profiles that you may like is a solved technical challenge at Tinder level and at mostly any dating app today. It’s hard to take the rest of the article seriously after reading this!
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by plants 2y ago
I’m in the shortest-shorts camp too. Less about the UL-value of the shorts, more about the mobility to lift my leg as high as I can (specifically to reduce friction going uphill). When you take literally millions of steps on a thru-hike, ev
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by plants 2y ago
This is great. Found myself on 5/30/22. Looking forward to catching up with photos of people I hiked with. Also love the pics from ‘79 - total time capsule! Short-shorts never went out of style in the hiking community.
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by plants 2y ago
I’ll bite. I worked at a very large Fortune 500 company for a few years. Through some twist of fate, I ended up on an overfunded ML organization that was under no pressure to produce anything of business value. The executive in charge of th
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by plants 2y ago
I imagine that’s just about the starkest within-US move you could make with regard to bike friendliness. I once made the mistake of visiting Houston without a rental car, and it was bleak. Welcome to NYC!
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by plants 3y ago
This is such a good idea, I wish I’d thought of it. I have trouble maintaining consistency in journaling, but this makes it a heck of a lot easier. I just signed up - good luck!
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by plants 3y ago
This is great. I remember finding another really good resource on the Bernoulli bandit that was interactive. Putting feelers out there to see if anyone knows what I’m talking about off the top of their heads.
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by plants 3y ago
I’m in a bit of a privileged position, but I took a fair bit of time off to pursue personal goals. I got extremely burnt out after 6 years of full-time work at big corp (simultaneously being in part-time grad school for the final 3 years).
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by plants 3y ago
I’m unemployed in NYC right now - so, zero consistent income. I’m one of those people with the very worst marketplace health plans. Here’s what I get for $640/mo (with a $120 tax credit, oh boy!): - Visits to my general practitioner (b
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by plants 3y ago
This is what infuriates me the most about healthcare in the US. I give someone my card, they enter the numbers with no indication of whether or not everything will be covered by insurance (they assume you just know). Then, a month later, I
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Wordle, Entropy, and... Decision Trees?(willbeckman.com)
4 points by plants 3y ago|0 comments
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by plants 3y ago
Specifically for A/B or A/B/N testing, you can use a beta-bernoulli bandits, which give you confidence about which experience is best and will converge to an optimal experience faster than your standard hypothesis test. Chall
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by plants 3y ago
Can you point to a book or other resources that support this claim? Interested in learning more. Always looking for another reason to hate cars as a New Yorker
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by plants 3y ago
As someone who lives in New York and has seen the episode you’re referring to, it is not embellished at all. New York might be the hardest city to find a public restroom that I have ever been in. Sometimes buying something isn’t even suffic
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by plants 3y ago
This is so funny, I was just doing this with ChatGPT to apply for jobs. If you make me fill out a bullshit form where I fake being passionate about your company, I’m going to get a chatbot to write it for me. End of story. I just need a job
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by plants 4y ago
I have also been out of work for ~8mo for various reasons, and while I’m sorry for your situation, it’s heartening to hear I’m not the only one. I’ve only actually gotten one tech screen in which I was asked a LC “hard” question, which I di
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by plants 4y ago
I didn’t listen to this, but the essay is full of straw men and contrived arguments about how utilitarianism is a bad moral philosophy. While utilitarianism is not perfect, this essay just regurgitates others’ criticisms of it and provides
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by plants 4y ago
Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive at all. It‘s very possible for the algorithm to get content to be amazing while still posing massive national security concerns.
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by plants 4y ago
I’m sure not everyone came here to hear tech book recommendations, but I will add another vote for Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. It’s one of the best tech reference books I’ve ever read. It manages to explain SO
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by plants 4y ago
Awesome list, thank you for sharing! Curious, though - how do you structure your weeks so that you can consume 50 books a year? That would take me a while!
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by plants 4y ago
Holy shit, I’m hiking with this guy right now on the AT!! This was a two-year COVID passion project that Andy made with his brothers (one coded it, the other made the music, he designed all the pixel art). It’s SO cool to see this on here.
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by plants 5y ago
This is incredible - I remember seeing this project at a hackathon back when I was in college and thinking it was so cool! So funny to see the actual author of it posting about it on HN now :). Really such a cool project - would love to see
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by plants 5y ago
This is really nice. It sounds a lot like a waterfall or whitewater. Very soothing.
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by plants 5y ago
My favorite restaurant. Lots of fun clip-art graphics :) https://www.thaidiner.com/
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by plants 5y ago
Some of my favorite fiction books and short story collections in no particular order: 1) Collected Fictions by Borges 2) The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka 3) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 4) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 5

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