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I love this topic, but this article is literally just "there exists a paper" without any useful information about the paper aside from the inputs they consider in their model.

The issue isn't even that Cruise was involved in an incident. They were not at fault for the collision and were only involved after a (human) driver launched the victim into the Cruise vehicle. Cruise had their permit suspended because they essentially tried to hide their involvement/responsibility and withheld video footage from the DMV.

Sort of like a Goya in a Harrod's handbag?

Not sure if there is a significant benefit, but I think its sort of Andrej's specialty as an educator to build things out from first principles. He has a habit of sharing his "from-scratch" version of important papers/methods. Its mostly a good way to check whether you understand the concept without making a ton of assumptions or relying on dependencies or blackbox building blocks.

It seems like an interesting topic, but this is the academic equivalent of turning a 30 second youtube video into a 15 minute presentation with intro, requets for engagement, outro, journal of feelings and learning, etc.

The result is an average of 1.71 days for an adult patient.

As a former employee, I think this is exactly what happened. A handful of people made out big while keeping up appearances. The closer you get to the executive-level, the faster the turnover rate. I've never seen that before in ~10 companies I've worked with. The internal game is maintaining confidence to subordinates while quietly selling your stake. The external game is also all about maintaining confidence, using "adjusted EBITDA". But the GAAP numbers don't lie.

So who is the primary benefactor of this Pork? Seems like this hasn't already been done is because it isn't profitable or scaleable like software is. It's not like there is a shortage of investors in technology.

My Dyson vacuum cleaner has a mechanism that can steer in pretty much every angle that isn't gimbal locked. If we're still talking about things you could do without regard to practicality, it could steer in 360 degrees in a RWD.

A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before.

The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.

"This is one-third of my monthly salary!" he yelled.

Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to him, "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply, tell them that you completed only seven elementary classes. They don't like educated people."

So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.

One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check students' knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and other advanced formulas to conclude the result he forgot. As a result, he got "minus pi times r square."

He didn't like the minus, so he started all over again. He got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch the limits of the integral!!"

I would be a lot more interested in a technical article than hearing about the history of Netflix.

How did you transition your email address? I've wanted to get off, but I can't do that without wiping all of my previous conversations or losing contact with many people.

Seems kind of rudimentary. Namely

(sign(delta(volume, 1)) * (-1 * delta(close, 1)))

That's crazy. Would be interesting to see WTF a "mega-alpha" actually does using these strategies.

I think getting your source file into Github and having it go through peer-review is the best way to avoid these types of issues. Also changing the diff format from 'diff-by-line' to 'diff-by-word' improves readability a lot.

Happens all the time when you are type setting, like writing in LaTeX. Its not designed to be your word processor and its easy to think you making minor edits/fixes when you are really quietly destroying everything you had already revised dozens of times.

Its weird because the only people who are going to respond to this type of criticism are people who were so invested in Infinite Jest that they will read this lengthy critique. So its going always going to be extremely biased and poorly received by the biased audience, especially 20+ years later. So its basically just a conversation starter for all the snobs who inhaled this book and maybe a tiny minority who didn't enjoy it but are still motivated enough to discuss it.

The criqitue is mostly well-written and there's some issues I agree with, but they get pretty smarmy and smug by the end.

Is he doing this under the Facebook umbrella? Or departing? Or more-or-less retiring from regular obligations entirely?

Think you're putting too much focus on the shoe. I've had a $40 pair of shoes for nearly 8 years without a resole for when I want comfort. Climbing V6 without issues (at least not because of my feet).

Fat chance, there’s hundreds of papers and tens of thousands of attendees at NeurIPS every year. Less than 5% of these people will make 7 figures yearly.

Yamaha (and probably others) sell pianos with light up displays and keys to help people learn to play piano. Probably most snobs will tell you it’s a terrible way to learn and you’re not going to sound any good playing the piano like guitar hero. It’s a $5k toy to try to get someone interested in thinking about learning to play.

I mean heaps of money is relative to a college student fresh out of high school. Everyone I personally know who went that route seriously regrets it and hit a glass ceiling within 3 years of working. Their careers tanked before the rest of us even got started.

Back in my day, almost exactly 10 years ago, relatively few college freshman had significant experience coding, beyond understanding basic syntax (probably <10%). Most of the most blatantly experienced coders were bored for the first couple months and dropped the course/school to make heaps of money, not realizing understanding syntax is like 2% of Computer Science. So the people most vocal about how easy the coursework was were at a significant disadvantage in the long run.

I had no idea Wolfram was older than Google

Would be neat if it had a slider for exploration. All my answers were pretty dominated by really obscure and out music. Sometimes I really want that, some times I want something a lot accessible I can just hit play on without my full attention.

Kind of disappointed everyone in that field ended up at Facebook. Seems like they aren't even working on this kind of stuff anymore.

As the waitress approached the table, Sam Altman held up his phone. That made it easier to see the dollar amount typed into an investment contract he had spent the last 30 days negotiating with Microsoft.

“$1,000,000,000,” it read.

Wow, Sam Altman sounds like an asshole.

The real story here is incredibly aggressive guerilla marketing on forums written by snobs for entry-level enthusiasts. Schiit bombarded a bunch of subreddits with posts and comments and eventually hit some kind of critical mass.

Sort of, but the amount of correlation attached to a shit load of metrics attached to "staying healthy" (white blood cell count, eating fruifs/vegetables, waistline circumference, survey results) is pretty impreessive, especially after they project "spending time" to a single "worthwhile" metric.

Just for some context, the author wrote an autobiography called Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life that won a pulitzer prize and is a bible for a lot of surfers. Probably just about every (American) surfer with a college degree has read that book.

Its pretty unlikely to end in draw with blitz clocks, one player can usually gain a minuscule advantage and win on time if necessary.

This could have easily been 3-4 landmark papers, but instead its packed into one cogent idea.

That common interview question about query autocomplete/sentence completion? Shannon solved it and demonstrates it in this paper, almost a decade before FORTRAN existed. New grads still struggle with that problem. PhD's still struggle with that problem.

Pretty much every machine learning classifier is using a loss function described in that paper.