sillyinseattle

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by sillyinseattle 3y ago
> Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs This is incorrect. Not all ETFs. These funds are sector focused (vehicles). A regular S&P500 ETF will not hold NKLA.
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by sillyinseattle 3y ago
WSJ.com is now reporting that a top secret US navy system did detect the implosion - on site commander was informed.
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by sillyinseattle 3y ago
How cool! Free of jargon and loads of intuition
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by sillyinseattle 3y ago
"Manufacturers may intentionally damage a portion of their goods ... "[0] The intel chip example has already been mentioned in comments. The general idea of "Damaged Goods" (and how this can benefit consumers) appears he
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Oops. You're right.
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
> but I feel like this is just a password you can't change Not quite. IBM has (had?) a research program on "cancelable" biometrics. I do not recall perfectly, but I think they were tweaking the encoded biometric sensor dat
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
I despise how they operated from start through 2017. But do I wish Uber had never happened? Nope. Also, when you say "letting them get away with .." are you including Macron, Biden etc in "them'?
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Haha... pegged to 1 + e^(i pi) i.e. 1 + cos(pi) + i sin(pi) i.e. 0. Nice of them to make the satire obvious in the twitter post image itself.
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Thank you @iamaaditya and @eklitzke . Very informative
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Question about terminology (no background in AI). In econometrics, estimation is model fitting (training, I guess), and inference refers to hypothesis testing (e.g. t or F tests). What does inference mean here?
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Commenters are clearly trying to help. They can do better if you provide more context. What kind of math do you want to do? This does not have to be related to your dissertation area. And since you are asking on HN .. what kind of hacking&#
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Quite unusual. It's also harder to purchase devices with 2 (physical) SIM slots (a popular feature in Asia)
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
> they've cut off security upgrades Same reason I switched to Apple last year -- after being android only since original Motorola Droid (2009).
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
How thoughtful of Tesla ;-) One nearly backed into me a few months back. I banged on the car to alert the driver. It stopped. There was no one in it. Owner was summoning her car in a grocery store parking lot. People.
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Very wide range. On the cryptography side: new signature schemes, cryptographic proof systems. Research on voting systems, economic incentive design, coordination and trust problems with value transfers (bridges) across different chains, VM
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
Outstanding researchers and educators! But a "founding research team"? Are they leaving their day jobs for this? Don't think so.
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by sillyinseattle 4y ago
A bit OT: Simple frequency counts (this page, @ 104 comments). Netflix -> 103 Apple -> 39 HBO -> 24 Disney -> 19 Amazon -> 14 Hulu -> 5
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Fast, the easy checkout startup, shuts down(npr.org)
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by sillyinseattle 5y ago
Zed Shaw's "Learn C the hard way". Had years of scientific programming before that (R, Matlab). But I used to be afraid of working with "real" code bases. This book (which still has an unfinished feel to it) helped
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by sillyinseattle 5y ago
Aha.. I'm an idiot. Took a minute to figure out nothing needs to be changed for remotes starting with git@github.com .. this is about remotes starting with git://
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by sillyinseattle 5y ago
Thankfully, things are not too crazy at the children's hospital at present. Of course, the kids still there are the ones too sick to be sent home :( . But the staff bring them gifts and there's a holiday meal for everyone: patient
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by sillyinseattle 5y ago
Dropped off my wife at work around 7. She's on call at the hospital. Fortunately, it is not -40 here ;-) Happy holidays all!