polpenn

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by polpenn 12d ago
I agree with some of what you listed here but a few I think are critical to being human. What's the point of not having needs? Desires are what makes us human. I have kids and family and friends that love me and them in return but I d
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by polpenn 1y ago
Here’s something I sometimes do to avoid boring content when using LLMs: I type out what it gives me and tweak it as I go instead of copy/pasting directly. It helps me spot the bits that feel flat or don’t add much, so I can cut or rew
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by polpenn 3y ago
Life expectancy was probably in the late 30s to early 40s during this time so you’re basically working for the rest of your life.
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by polpenn 3y ago
I think the impact of AI is not between good jobs va bad jobs but between good workers and bad workers. For a given field, AI is making good workers more efficient and eliminating those who are bad at their jobs (e.g. the underperforming ac
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by polpenn 3y ago
Why should people who don’t own cars pay for highways? Why should cyclist have to pay for public transportation? Also children now will be your future doctor, nurse, bus driver, scientist, plumber, etc. so probably worthwhile making an inve
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Art on demand: DALLE2 on EPaper(famousdirector.github.io)
2 points by polpenn 4y ago|0 comments
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Bankers Need 72-Hour a Week to Master Job(bloomberg.com)
2 points by polpenn 5y ago|1 comments
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by polpenn 5y ago
Great work! I work in financial services and built a similar tool for sentiment analysis and topic modelling on transcribed earnings calls. The idea was to identify topics at a speaker-level (analyst, management, etc.) and evaluate the sent
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Employers who use software to take screenshots of workers’ computers(wsj.com)
110 points by polpenn 6y ago|121 comments
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Middle Age Misery Peaks at Age of 47.2(bloomberg.com)
2 points by polpenn 7y ago|0 comments
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He Thought His Phone Was Secure; Then He Lost $24M to Hackers(wsj.com)
2 points by polpenn 7y ago|0 comments
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by polpenn 7y ago
Something I’ve always wondered about the programming / software development profession: do people buy insurance for their hands? My sister is a denturists and she has insurance for her hands. Curious if this is something people in our
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by polpenn 7y ago
My wife is a nurse. She became one because she needed something that would help her make money quickly to help her family. If she did not face this constraint, she could have taken the traditional route of going to university and, possibly
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by polpenn 7y ago
How much harder would it be to build an ebook reader?
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How not to say the wrong thing(latimes.com)
1 points by polpenn 7y ago|0 comments
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by polpenn 7y ago
Current company knows his worth. New company doesn’t so your teammate has informational advantage and can negotiate a higher salary.
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Scientist claims First Gene-edited Babies Born in China(cbc.ca)
1 points by polpenn 8y ago|0 comments
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by polpenn 8y ago
Why not repurpose the rigs for residential use?
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by polpenn 8y ago
Life, by default, is suffering. The surprise is not the fact that there is suffering around the world, but how we managed to achieve the level of prolonged peaceful co-existence that we have today. We should act in such a way that suffering
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Vast.ai: powerful, affordable, rental GPUs(vast.ai)
1 points by polpenn 8y ago|0 comments
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by polpenn 8y ago
> Social scientists don't really analyze images much, but that might be the next big thing. Satellite images have been used in research in economics to estimate poverty and deforestation.
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by polpenn 9y ago
1. is an issue with external validity (i.e. does the findings generalize to other groups). But the comparison being made in the study is within a given group with similar socioeconomic status (all Harvard males). Assuming that they only var
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by polpenn 9y ago
Note that what they reportedly found is a stronger positive correlation between relationships and happiness than between money and fame and happiness (just based on the article): "Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what
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by polpenn 9y ago
Thanks! Noted.
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by polpenn 9y ago
Okay! Let's do it! I want to start a start-up. What do I do?
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Video games and unemployment(review.chicagobooth.edu)
1 points by polpenn 10y ago|0 comments
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by polpenn 10y ago
This is a wonderful idea. I know at least three people in my family who do all of their computing on their smartphone. My fiancee is one of them. She only uses a computer when she needs to edit some documents. I think this would be an ideal
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Capitol Hill Books Has DC’s Most Curmudgeonly Store Owner(washingtonian.com)
54 points by polpenn 10y ago|26 comments