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by shas3 8mo ago
I don't get what everyone sees in this post. It is just a sloppy rant. It just talks in generalities. There is no coherent argument, there are no examples, and we don't even know the problem space in which the author had bad codin
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by shas3 3y ago
One of the authors, Tanya Leise of UMass Amherst, passed away a few weeks ago. https://amherststudent.com/article/students-mourn-the-loss-o...
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by shas3 3y ago
Always found it cool that the lab established by Howard Hughes is still quite competitive and does some very cool work.
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by shas3 3y ago
What do you know about the caste system? Do you similarly police posts that say, “he grew up on a nobleman’s estate in England,” or “grew up on a farm in Alabama,” just because those are associated with historical oppression? This smearing
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by shas3 3y ago
This is an ignorant generalization. Not sure if it is worth writing a rebuttal to a generalization that relies on one guy from 1000+ years ago.
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by shas3 3y ago
On the contrary, the bookshop situation in Bengaluru is exceptional! The old book shops have been disrupted. Sapna is one that has adapted well, with a publishing house, decent web-presence, and has grown too. For the best technical books,
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by shas3 3y ago
In 1999 on MG Road, it was more likely a roadside vendor with pirated books, Higginbotham, or unlikely, Gangarams. Blossom’s (Church St) wasn’t yet open IIRC. Late 90s and early 2000s, I recall that Intel Inside, Lee Iacocca’s book, Who Mov
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by shas3 4y ago
Tbh, I (and most Indians) don't know how 112 works. In the US, if you dial 9-1-1 for a medical emergency, in most regions, it is highly likely that an ambulance with EMT/paramedics will arrive in < 10 min. In my city of Bengalu
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by shas3 4y ago
In India, Google search for a pretty specific string, "<nearest hospital's name> ambulance phone number," showed up a bunch of scammy ads. In our distraught state (an elderly relative had just had a fall), we accidental
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by shas3 5y ago
Long pepper is an exceptional expectorant. Add it to soups when you have sniffles. In fact, in South India long pepper is used more for folk cures for colds and such than as a culinary ingredient.
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by shas3 5y ago
I am surprised that there is no skepticism here about the cremation numbers. 1. Crematoriums usually have enough capacity to deal with average death rates. Anything above that and it starts to look horrific. 2. What is the definition of &qu
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by shas3 6y ago
This is not true because it is a multi-agent problem. There is not just one professor, but there is a competitive pool of professors working in different areas. In some highly productive (or otherwise "hot") areas, some profs plac
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by shas3 6y ago
In the US: culture is very important. If you have bad coworkers, no amount of technical excitement can compensate. I am willing to hypothetically trade technical excitement for great colleagues (up to a reasonable extent).
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by shas3 6y ago
I have heard similar stories from other ethnic Czechs (they have obviously intermarried in the generations since) from Iowa. As mid-western cultures go, some people from Norwegian communities in North Dakota still speak archaic Norwegian. T
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by shas3 6y ago
You'd be right, if CDC's Covid-19 response isn't a repeat of their initial incompetence during Ebola, SARS, etc. https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/04/11/the-covid-pand... "To be
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by shas3 6y ago
The incompetence of CDC and FDA is staggering. It is not hard to imagine an alternative reality where the CDC-FDA testing fiasco did not occur, there was some test-and-trace early in the epidemic, and the cost and extent of the shut-downs w
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by shas3 6y ago
It definitely is. I know a relative who lost their sense of smell and they also report being unable to taste anything other than plain salt, sweet, pepper-heat, sour, and bitter. They have lost the ability to taste spices, recognize diffe
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by shas3 7y ago
The incentive has already been created by Covid-19 exposing the vulnerabilities and need for decentralization. Diversification will emerge such that the next time there is a shock companies that diversified will survive, while others fail.
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by shas3 7y ago
70 year olds too have their own virus stories outside the 40 year period you mention. Especially 1957 and 1968 (indian context). Biowarfare paranoia aside, I don’t think there is anything special about the modern era when it comes to the ge
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by shas3 7y ago
That sounds like a typical zookeeper or zoo vet. The difference between zookeepers and animal traders is that animal traders deal in constant streams of new specimens. Zoos and labs are more closed.
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by shas3 7y ago
That explains the presence of all the low IQ dummies at CMU down the road. :P All these claims about the cognitive problems resulting from pollution don’t adequately explain how so many good universities and schools world over are in pollut
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by shas3 7y ago
Likewise Indian and East African sailors. They traded extensively with Indonesia. If you look at the map, it is hard to imagine anyone trading with Indonesia not stumbling upon Northern Australia.
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by shas3 7y ago
Ancient sanskrit, yes. But the term vitanDa is very current. It is a common word in my language, Kannada and I imagine in other Indian languages as well. This article is as much about the etymology of a modern term as about a concept from S
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by shas3 7y ago
American Academy of Pediatrics is a bit of a paternalistic joke. A lot of the “evidence” for their recommendations is from garbage observational studies. There’s also an ideological tilt towards whatever is the fad among upper-middle class
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by shas3 8y ago
What?! You are naive. Or trolling. Or both. Car loans are much lower than S&P compounded gains. Why would you want to pay everything down while you can put it elsewhere and earn?
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by shas3 8y ago
This is bogus. Abhimanyu’s story in Mahabharatha and Sanjiva’s story from Buddhist Jataka tales both predate Lucian and are both Sorcerer’s Apprentice type tales.
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by shas3 8y ago
100% right. The only thing I can add to your comment is that “machine learning” is rapidly beginning to expand to include heavily quantitative model-based work.
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by shas3 8y ago
When someone has a very high IQ, like Jeremy Howard obviously does, PhD becomes just a superfluous credential.
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by shas3 8y ago
Very good framework! Recursively applying it, given an individual's expertise and interest, we should all perhaps aim to be in Stage 5 companies (or verticals within companies) within our fields of expertise. That's where your wor
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by shas3 8y ago
Novel paper. But it seems like a lot of the excitement is because of the fusion of two buzz-words, one from the 80s and 90s and another from the 2010s. So, the output is a bunch of stuff coming out of a kinda simple dynamical system. Chaoti

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