pupperino

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   Enjoyable Tasks, Contracting and Automation [pdf](nber.org)

   2 points by pupperino 3mo ago|0 comments
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   by pupperino 11mo ago

   As a Latin American, I find it funnny it's basically impossible to tell if an American with this vocabulary and framing is like ultra MAGA or "communist". > which our Western governments are invariably complicit in You are
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   by pupperino 11mo ago

   Yes, they do. Just ctrl+F "identification" if you don't feel like reading the whole thing. In fact, this is such a common practice that it's nigh impossible to publich an empirical paper without discussing identification
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   by pupperino 1y ago

   Well, let's try to take a step back and approach this sort of stuff with a more scientific, less politically hysterical way. Models are simply mathematical fiction, useful in as much as they constrain our thinking and remove wordplay f
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   by pupperino 1y ago

   This is usually what's known in Econometrics as Identification. Any applied econ paper written in the last two or three decades has at least a short section discussing causality and making the case for its identification strategy.
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   Effect of the inflows of immigrants on European workers’ careers (2013) [pdf](globalmigration.ucdavis.edu)

   14 points by pupperino 1y ago|15 comments
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   by pupperino 1y ago

   {renv} is pretty solid, I've been using it in production for years now and have no complaints.
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   by pupperino 1y ago

   This is every country, buddy.
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   by pupperino 1y ago

   I'm confident the people pursuing this mad agenda don't know the first thing about US budget laws and think they can just cut spending DOGE-style forever.
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    by pupperino 1y ago

    Baked in this plan is the idea that the revenue from tariffs will be much smaller than income tax revenues, and therefore that the federal government will also get smaller.
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    by pupperino 1y ago

    As a Latin American, I can't help but buy the American Exceptionalism thesis, and seeing you guys in this situation humanizes you so much. The US has such a strong bureaucracy and high bar for competence that you generally lack the imm
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    by pupperino 2y ago

    Is this a joke that I'm not getting? "Planned economy" and "command economy" are synonyms.
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    by pupperino 2y ago

    Well, those Indians living in the US will have families of their own, and over time become part of the community you claim to be a part of. Very much like your ancestors did, except they likely didn't face the arbitrary constraints on
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    by pupperino 2y ago

    Well, living near and airport or railroad is priced in, and not really a problem. Chemical plants... A bit of a stretch, isn't it?
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    by pupperino 2y ago

    That being said, in the US you can and should absolutely should build more, and basically get rid of most zoning regulations. You'd have a hard time finding anything as touristic and dense as Barcelona in the US.
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    Can Digital Computers Ever "Wake Up"? (2021) [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    I can only see my own video :(
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    Why does anything exist? [video](youtube.com)

    3 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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    Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II procurement(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    Michael Levin [1] does brillant work on this "cellular language" space and the key point is that genetics is more like biological IaC, it only encodes proteins. Most of the actual control, anatomic and physiological homestasis hap
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    Lead Poisoning, Crime and Suburbanization [pdf](eco.uc3m.es)

    2 points by pupperino 3y ago|1 comments
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    This links to a pre-print, but it has recently been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics [1] [1] https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/res...
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    "Massive" is a bit of a strong word. One year of 8-16% inflation with historic averages close to 2-3% is actually quite ok and demonstrates the European Central Bank's credibility.
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    Sure, but is this what we want, as engineers? Can computers be held accountable?
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    > And an unchained LLM trained on reality is far more capable of finding solutions to that problem than a bunch of squabbling politicians. Not that I disagree with this statement, I don't, but this is not a silver bullet. Technology
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    A lot of people are quite unhappy with it, yes, but... Consciousness is still very much a philosophical problem. Think of Marr's levels, functionally, LLMs and humans are quite similar, but algorithmically? How about the implementation
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    I acknowledge they're shipping changes to the frontend - some of which are not bad at all - but it sounds surreal to me that we keep talking about UI changes as if they were major features, and pretend twitter circles aren't broke
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    Edward Witten on M-Theory (1995) [video](math.stonybrook.edu)

    1 points by pupperino 3y ago|0 comments
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    There was definitely development and new features - remember tweetpic and "RT @something"? They did the huge work it takes to go from 99% to >99,99% uptime. What did rebranding bookmarks into likes did that you think was so bad
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    by pupperino 3y ago

    Yeah, I overstated that. It's not relevant to my main point, but I'll give you that.