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The old crypto chants were that crypto would lead us away from the ills of traditional markets/finance. Glad to see that it's been watered down to "just as bad as" arguments.

Who in the world is still long on crypto? In the past few years we've seen ample evidence that crypto is largely a complete scam, and likewise strong evidence that none of crypto's…

Not to my knowledge, which is why I used the word "suspected" since I think this falls on the "makes intuitive sense, but would not surprise me in the least if it turned out to be …

To be clear, I'm absolutely not promoting increased sulphur emissions as a solution to our climate problems. Moreso pointing out that all those emissions are potentially masking th…

I never claimed that they "require a traditional publisher", in fact I explicitly point out that you can pay for these yourself (though I can't imagine putting together a good team…

Which is fascinating because sulphur emissions counteract (mask might be a better term) global warming. Reduction in sulphur emissions is suspected to be one of the main culprits o…

I know plenty of authors and none of them are subsidized by wealthy families. All of them do it part time in the evenings out of a labor of love. It is worth pointing out that ther…

> only reason for using a traditional publisher is the cash advance then? A few really important things come to mind: - Editing . I'm not talking about mere copy editing which you …

I've always found it fascinating that geophysicist and earlier advocate for Bayesian methods, Sir Harold Jeffreys, didn't believe in continental drift and plate tectonics because h…

This quote in particular struck me as relevant: > And now Google is unusable: using LLMs even just as a compressed form of documentation is a good idea. Beyond all the hype, it'd u…

> A lot to be said for not defaulting to data frames, in both r and python I would even add especially in Python. The main issue I have found is that pandas heavy code is just not …

Recent experience at a fairly young startup has shown me that open office culture has also started to breed a very different type of programmer. People will often be pairing nearly…

It's worth pointing out that most of the best science happened before peer review was dominant. There's an article I came across awhile back, that I can't easily find now, that bas…

I'm pretty sure Sam Walton didn't establish Walmart with the hope of being acquired. It's bizarre that we live in a time where we can't even fathom a business that is fundamentally…

As an ex-smoker, I also used to just toss cigarette butts anywhere without thought. Decades after quitting it's still surprising to me that I ever thought this was normal (I've nev…

> I can see how it feels like cheating to coax the model to produce the answer you want. But... it's not! If it's for a single example, it is absolutely cheating. As an AI engineer…

A good QA person is to a software developer as a good editor is to a writer. Both take a look at your hard work and critique it ruthlessly. Annoying as hell when it's happening, bu…

> don’t waste your time writing your own neural net and backprop. I don't think you should be combining writing a neural network with doing backprop since I don't know anyone worki…

I have a few friends who had major liquidity events happen to them and they each own 3-5 homes as investment homes. I believe these properties were paid full in full and in cash, s…

As this other comment pointed out [0] 40% of homes are mortgage free, but that says nothing about home owners . Anecdotally I know that none of my neighbors are mortgage free. Howe…

Of all the ex-FAANG people I've worked with, I've found the ex-Amazon ones to be, by a wide margin, the least impressive group. I'm not huge fan of Google, but will readily admit t…

I feel the same way and would also never work at a FAANG. That said, I suspect this is would be viewed as a benefit of the process since I'm fairly confident Amazon and the like do…

I think they're saying the interaction effect of doing drugs, drinking and considering oneself a victim is negligible on overall success. It doesn't seem like a bold claim to me. I…

> But is there is something inherent to Lisp that makes it "clunky" to work with matrices? s-exps are basically coding at the level of the AST, which for many programming tasks is …

As a huge Lisp/Scheme fan, I don't find it surprising that Python became the language of choice for neural networks over Lisp. NN in general just boil down to doing lots of linear …