wdpk

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by wdpk 1y ago
I think the headline is pretty misleading and meaningless. The 10% median increase across the city is pretty useless as a statistic. For instance the median by neighborhood is widely different! the median in Manhattan as a whole is double t
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by wdpk 1y ago
Well yes, this is an idiosyncratic event, chances are that a bunch of hedge funds have no hedge against stupid! I'm actually more worried about the small businesses that say have a container full of whatever product somewhere in the mi
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by wdpk 1y ago
BTC/USD is down as we speak 6% around 78k... if anything the riskier the asset the more downside there is
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by wdpk 1y ago
Unfortunately impossible to know because dependent on a bunch of factors that are outside rationality. If the tariffs are scaled back tomorrow, probably the damage would be pretty limited but it's not looking like anybody reasonable is
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by wdpk 1y ago
It's scary that there seems to be no off ramp. The massive incompetence of the administration is absolutely appalling. Let suppose they decide to keep the tariffs until the actual lagged economic metrics are showing the stress on jobs
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by wdpk 1y ago
During my several decades of translating businesses logic into code I never found a test that does not pay back the time spent to write it many times over, they are truly the super-power of the trade mainly because the can be completely aut
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by wdpk 2y ago
well being homoiconic and dynamic helps quite a bit... This being said, if you squint a bit and get used to the syntax, c++ variadic templates are just a compile-time lisp (really templates are just generalized functions over types) and the
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by wdpk 2y ago
compile c++ code at runtime for instance. Lots of use cases, most obvious one specializing/instantiating dense computational kernels on values only known at runtime... but so many more things would be possible if the compiler was just
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by wdpk 2y ago
valid points, time will tell how well this will work. For the ban lists there are directories they are typically updated by people you trust or are in the circles you care about. One can indeed imagine manipulating ban lists, I'm perso
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by wdpk 2y ago
Not sure why you think it's necessary, twitter could disappear tomorrow and nobody would be worse off. It's not even a real fight it's more like yelling past each others without anybody actually getting much out of the experi
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by wdpk 2y ago
significantly less of a problem on bluesky than on twitter. First there is a mass ban which scales well (one can ban entire lists of bots). Two there is no gamed algorithm that bias engagement towards the ideology of the owner of the platfo
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by wdpk 2y ago
that's the reason, the article also gives as an advice for savers to invest into income producing assets which also produce proportionally more income as inflation rises instead of sitting on cash.
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by wdpk 3y ago
a good case of pump and at some point a dump. The prices are pumped by insiders using pretty heavy leverage to make huge directional bets (just insane from a risk/reward perspective but hey, we're dealing with the most degenerate
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by wdpk 3y ago
I found the book a little bit hard as an entry point to the subject, those lectures were very helpful https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgq-BqyZ7i6IjU82EDzCqgER...
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by wdpk 3y ago
I thought a sense of humor and maybe a little bit of a thick skin would be required if you want to partake into April fools bashing. Who's taking oneself seriously now...
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by wdpk 3y ago
sounds like desperation to become relevant
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by wdpk 3y ago
well, the initial twitter rant was pretty bombastic: "The cat is finally out of the bag – Google relied heavily on @ShareGPT 's data when training Bard. This was also why we took down ShareGPT's Explore page – which has over
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by wdpk 3y ago
even if true which it does not seem to be the case, the whole thing sounds pretty marginal, in order to train a model that is most likely significantly bigger than 100b parameters, one also needs orders of magnitude more training data than
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by wdpk 4y ago
https://www.metafilter.com/ way less tech focused though
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by wdpk 5y ago
Technically speaking, as you get closer to maturity, the "time value" of the option goes down towards 0 but options also have intrinsic value and the total value of the option converges to it's intrinsic value not to 0 (intri
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by wdpk 5y ago
The technology (preventing double spending) only works if the amount of computational power in the hands of a single agent is always less than 50% (or preferably a little bit less) of the total network power. If the condition is not met, so
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by wdpk 5y ago
>Taleb's big argument here is that Bitcoin will someday be obsolete and will have a value of 0. Since Bitcoin doesn't generate income or pay dividends, its present value is thus 0. That's a strange position for an options
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by wdpk 5y ago
Quanta also had a recent article about this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-constructor-theory-chiar...
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by wdpk 5y ago
by the same token you could say it's also fundamentally infeasible for Rust to be code safe, otherwise they would not have unsafe code... so in the end it's an article that says nothing interesting at all
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by wdpk 5y ago
Agreed! It's a tough world out there in the fight for relevance. Besides Go and Rust in the recent languages that more or less clamor to compete with C++ are Swift, Nim, Zig, D etc. and honestly I don't know if Rust or any of thos
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by wdpk 5y ago
the problem I see with the author's very narrow point of view is that Rust, C++ or C are just tools which can all be misused and produce defects when used improperly or without a good understanding. Rust borrow checker can be implement
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by wdpk 5y ago
Anyone has experience with the JIT in arrayfire? https://arrayfire.com/performance-improvements-to-jit-in-arr... Many interesting features in this framework, autograd looks neat too. I guess the deployment in real world C+
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by wdpk 6y ago
agreed, Kdevelop which uses Kate is the only IDE I know that is able to parse properly really complex C++ code (projects that clion or visual studio or vscode would just crash on)