rguzman

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by rguzman 14d ago
i think the distinction is between ads that google sells vs software infrastructure for 3rd part ads (ad tech). ie the revenue's from google's ads on search, maps, youtube, etc are still huge and important -- that's google&#x
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by rguzman 8mo ago
> However, for some reason, both Gemini and ChatGPT tend to argue with me so heavily and inject their own weird stupid ideas on things do you have examples of this? asking because this is not what happens to me. one of the main things i
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New botnet is delivering record-size DDoSes(arstechnica.com)
6 points by rguzman 2y ago|1 comments
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by rguzman 2y ago
one issue that comes to mind is the nature of the determinant. when one considers the determinant defined by the recursive definition, it seems like a highly contrived object that is difficult to work with (as it is from that definition!).
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by rguzman 2y ago
it really depends on what you mean by rich: the surest path to end up with $2-5M over ~10 years is job at ~FAANG, do it well to get promoted, and manage your savings/investments well. that path is very unlikely to get you to $10-100M i
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by rguzman 3y ago
3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated by Donald Knuth
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by rguzman 4y ago
i was going to sit this one out, but i want to +1 the above with more than just an upvote. Austen seems to be arguing and explaining all the happenings in good faith with someone who appears to be hell-bent on "catching" him with
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by rguzman 5y ago
this is all accurate and i'd add that it is deceivingly hard to make something that sustains itself via advertising. when youtube was acquired google had a large part of that already figured out.
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by rguzman 5y ago
one of the things that helps generate new ideas that can be cultivated is the ability to be playful. once a given problem or subject is sufficiently loaded onto a brain, if that person can relax and have child-like naivete about poking and
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by rguzman 6y ago
Red Alert called it! https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Rocketeer
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by rguzman 6y ago
> The author of this article was paid $42 million last year. Uber's top 7 executives received: "$11.4 million in salary and cash bonus, plus $71 million worth of equity awards." it's misleading to call equity compensa
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by rguzman 6y ago
i agree wholeheartedly with the spirit of your comment, but saying "nutritional science is complex" or "the dosage alone makes it so that a thing is not a poison" does not help people figure out what foods to choose or h
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by rguzman 6y ago
i was a physics PhD student once and i might have some thoughts on how to learn physics, but i think the parent commenter is spot on -- the only reliable way we have is to have an apprenticeship with someone who works well with you. there a
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by rguzman 6y ago
it is pretty clear, but the conclusion of the parent is still pretty strong: > Sounds like a logistical nightmare.
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by rguzman 6y ago
the CFR is only as low as 0.5-1% when there is adequate medical care and the population is otherwise healthy. in NYC the CFR for the 18-45 cohort is ~5%[1]. [1]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age
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by rguzman 6y ago
context: former theoretical physics grad student, dropped out ABD to start a company. this comment is right on the money on several fronts: - the Feynman lectures are great after you already understand some of the mechanics of "doing
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by rguzman 7y ago
it's a bad model to think of measures responding to covid as scalars. they have magnitude and direction. everything below is me spitballing -- weakly held: my thinking is that we should err on the side of caution, which means that if a
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by rguzman 7y ago
> The primary value of a business is their assets, brands and expertise. All of those things will be just as valuable after the pandemic as they were before. this doesn't seem true to me. at least the brand loses value over the pand
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by rguzman 7y ago
i agree with everything you said, except for the part of your being unable to help. i think OP is asking for what information informs schema decisions, and what are some heuristics to use. expanding on the differences between your two examp
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by rguzman 7y ago
> Whenever I see a productivity blog by someone who is enthusiastic about recent changes they've made to their life, I immediately assume the writer is quite young. > As people get older, they realize that you only have the &quot
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by rguzman 7y ago
why is coming back a failure to accept they made mistakes?
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by rguzman 7y ago
this is one of my favorite (bc it is pretty harmless) cases of regulations failing spectacularly: the reason the companies do this is that it is a legal requirement for H1B visas. the idea, IIUC, is that before giving the job to an immigran
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by rguzman 7y ago
thanks for writing this! it is very clear. i'd love to see what, if any, problems this explanation has.
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by rguzman 7y ago
it seems odd to dismiss papers that challenges Piketty's and Saez's conclusions as nitpicky. in complex systems the devil is most often in the details. and not only that, but the sort of project that Piketty took on has many poten
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by rguzman 7y ago
wework bought meetup in 2017.
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by rguzman 8y ago
How to Solve It by Polya.
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by rguzman 8y ago
not disputing that privilege is a thing, but don't you think that if this were true, all people who are born into a middle-class wealthy family and go to a nice school would achieve outlier success? it could be that the privilege is a
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by rguzman 8y ago
tenure is likely a good thing for people doing research. why is tenure necessary for people specialized in teaching?
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by rguzman 8y ago
the competition is often between people with phds. i am not 100% sure that a university teacher needs to have a phd, but it seems that even keeping that requirement, the present system is pathological. most people with phds do not make the
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by rguzman 8y ago
this is one of the pathologies in academic institutions: they need teachers, but they evaluate researchers. the people who make the cut for researcher also have a lot of other options, and the institution ends up with an undersupply of teac

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