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by plonk 2y ago
Longforms from papers like the Economist actually really interest me, and I look forward to opening them even when my life is pretty happy already. But you need to find non-extreme papers that match your interests and keep reading time unde
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by plonk 2y ago
> The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'. It's not because of lag time, and it's not because it's differ
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by plonk 2y ago
Some are pretty verifiable accounts from actual academics, CTOs, journalists, that's the ones I'm interested in. You can get multiple sources on one website with fewer filters, that's what makes it a good source
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by plonk 2y ago
They're fine where they are useful, I guess, but my undergrad put way too much emphasis on them when they're not intuitive, don't help (me) much with comprehension, and aren't useful in that many cases compared to the ot
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by plonk 2y ago
Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title
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by plonk 2y ago
Don't machine learning books kind of fill that gap? e.g. Bishop uses probabilistic reasoning, Elements of Statistical Learning seems to be heavy on frequentist stats (haven't read it though), etc.
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by plonk 2y ago
I like that he leaves determinants to a later chapter and doesn't _start_ with them, I never understood why they were useful or made sense. His view, represented on the cover, is great for learning
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by plonk 2y ago
Big schools' curricula? Look at some top school's math undergrad courses and graph them
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by plonk 2y ago
I've taken a position in CRWD and I'm retail, but take that as the opposite of investment advice. Worked well in the past, though.
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by plonk 2y ago
It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right? If answering the OP is illegal, then no employee of any listed company can ever say something bad about it, which sounds too restrictive?
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by plonk 2y ago
Did a company ever get sentenced for a bug? Maybe in aviation or medical tech?
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by plonk 2y ago
Sounds like this is hugely emotionally taxing, do you just get used to it after a while, or is it a constant weight? This is why I'm impressed by anyone who works in a hospital, especially the more urgent/intensive care
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by plonk 2y ago
yea I don't need an attack on a weak system, I mean the authorized legal normal way of unlocking BL from Windows when you have the right credentials. Windows might not be able to unlock BitLocker with just your password. I don't k
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by plonk 2y ago
Don’t you need more options if the key is in a TPM, or there is a password but it’s only part of the key? Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?
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by plonk 2y ago
Did the person survive?
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by plonk 2y ago
Billions in losses means a somewhat worse life for a huge number of people and potentially much worse healthcare problems down the line, the NHS was affected
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Windows on Arm puts Intel on notice(theverge.com)
3 points by plonk 2y ago|1 comments
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by plonk 2y ago
"The battery is messed up after 2 years" is a complaint I've seen and it was pretty damaging to my buying intentions. Just one data point
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by plonk 2y ago
> heart attack risk Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease. > aneurism risk An angiography should find most cases, from some quick research. "The CTA sensit
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by plonk 2y ago
I wonder if he does CT/MRI/angiograms to find any vascular abnormalities. Seems to be a big cause of sudden death, but they don't talk about it. One CT for a 70-year-old head of state doesn't sound like too much?
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by plonk 2y ago
Apparently [1], Biden at least has "controlled" cholesterol, a normal EKG, some asymptomatic and controlled fibrillation. The number of experts who consult the guy every year is actually impressive. The usual 70-year-old is probab
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by plonk 2y ago
They're both supposed to be in good health though, we have Biden's public yearly checkup report. I don't think many old people get scans and full-body checkups every year and then die of something catastrophic with no warning
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by plonk 2y ago
Doesn't bipolar often get better by itself after 50? That happened to family members and they certainly weren't trying to improve their lifestyle.
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by plonk 2y ago
Also, Windows Store apps seem to have an identity and limited permissions, so you can probably have some kind of smartphone OS-like isolation.
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by plonk 2y ago
Maybe the learning and inference can happen in a VM and the apps can only have access to a query API. (Take the equivalents if it's not all ML.)
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by plonk 2y ago
Researchers on Twitter are saying that it’s just a plaintext SQLite.
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by plonk 2y ago
Doesn’t Windows already have a data store that’s encrypted with a key that doesn’t exist in RAM unless you’re logged on? And some kind of isolation of sensitive processes in a VM? Malware can probably read most of the user’s data in RAM, bu
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by plonk 2y ago
> But all those generations until my brother died defending the belief that they were fine and everyone else was the problem. That's also what I observed but it's almost tautological, isn't it? If they were able/willi
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by plonk 2y ago
Sounds like a good reason to generalize dev containers. At least both dev and deployment environment will be somewhat isolated. And the worst you can do from the dev container is commit bad code, which can be seen in code review.
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by plonk 3y ago
Is that an Expanse reference or does the word mean something else in biology?

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