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The Mythical Agent-Month(wesmckinney.com)
3 points by yt-sdb 7mo ago|0 comments
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by yt-sdb 2y ago
I appreciate the point being made---that we're too reductive in how we view a healthy human body---but calling Patrick Mahomes "one of the greatest athletes on planet earth" is laughable. He's more healthy than many adul
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by yt-sdb 2y ago
Fun fact: Finland is typically not considered part of Scandinavia. I was told this flatly by a Finn.
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by yt-sdb 2y ago
Are you sure? Compare before/after for the main affected regions (Holland Tunnel, Queensboro) versus the unaffected regions. We definitely need more data, but I think there's an immediate reduction in the obvious places.
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Writing Slow Code (On Purpose)(feldmann.nyc)
1 points by yt-sdb 2y ago|0 comments
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
> $19 million for 50 staff. That's $338k/head on average. How did you compute this? 19/5 is 3.8
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
"Before" and "after" are generic terms. A car might stop before the crosswalk (space). You might eat dinner after work (time). But "ex ante" and "ex post" specify a relationship to an (random) event o
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
I worked from the top of this page [1] downwards and ended after algebra 2. [1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
I don't think so. My problem was that I had a weak grasp of many basics concepts, and more critically I did not know in which areas I was weak. So while it's easy ex post to say "I could skip such and such section", it w
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
Maybe 5 years ago, I was in a similar place. I had a particularly embarrassing moment at work when it clicked that I just... didn't know the basics. I was, to use an overused term, "mathematically immature". So I made a commi
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Harley-Davidson Killed Itself (2020)(youtube.com)
2 points by yt-sdb 3y ago|0 comments
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
My favorite quote on the meaning of life, from Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning": > For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
Can I make a suggestion? Most people in this thread will think you are wrong about the Cayman Islands. In this context, your comment, "Caymans is just a better jurisdiction," is provocative. You also claim you can think of 24 thin
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
From the guidelines [1]: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
Isn’t this analogy wrong? The question implied is: if shoplifting were legal and if some people shoplifted to feed hungry babies, should we make shoplifting illegal?
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
Well, I have lots of friends and interactions outside of work, but I still prefer going into the office. Personally, I think what makes people happy is a multidimensional surface with lots of peaks and valleys. Univariate explanations are r
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by yt-sdb 3y ago
> I figured people were going to take issue with the opening anecdote about art, but that was simply the author trying to frame the story in an interesting way. The rest of the article was more compelling. I don't disagree, but this
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
Do you have a TLDR for that article? It's pretty long and wordy.
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
That's quite the either/or.
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
In case it's also not clear to others: "high", "moderate", and "low" refer to utility in learning.
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
What? 30 * 4 * 3 = 360. So someone could buy a coffee every weekday for 10-20 months before equaling this one capital expense, and that’s your argument for why wage workers shouldn’t consider it expensive?
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT to improve your comment by making it "more thoughtful and less insulting": > It's understandable that some people might not fully appreciate the complexity of ChatGPT's language prediction abilities. H
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
> I think a massive mistake I keep seeing people make is assuming that ChatGPT is a peak rather than a checkpoint at the bottom of the mountain. I fully agree. The AlexNet paper was what, 2012? So in a decade, we've gone from "
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
I don't understand your complaint. Consider this fact: > There is less snow in the lowlands. In parts of the Oslo wildlands, the skiing season has become nearly 40 days shorter. So we have an observable, measurable, falsifiable fact
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
Let's say I start an exchange to trade magic beans. The beans are worthless, but lots of people like trading them. In my terms of service, I say I won't use user funds for anything else and won't rehypothecate user beans if p
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
"Made him out to be"? SBF is actually pretty smart. He's repeatedly demonstrated a high level of mental quickness and numeracy that is common to traders, e.g. doing Fermi approximations during live interviews. And plenty of p
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_explanatory_depth
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
“A room of one’s own” by Virginia Woolf is a great book about this topic. Financial freedom proceeds creative thinking.
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
If you don't want to watch a 1-hour YouTube video, [1] is a web page with the main arguments. [1] https://gordongoner.com/
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Bored Ape Nazi Club(youtube.com)
9 points by yt-sdb 4y ago|1 comments

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