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Where are you getting that I'm assuming that "personal working style is the best and only one for every person"? I am recommending what worked for me. It's a bit different than the…

Call it what you want but that advice comes from experience. I worked remote for many years before pandemic and had plenty of issues with isolation. Sometimes in life socialization…

I would recommend looking into decoupling your social needs from your job. Even in the time before wide spread WFH this was an issue, during good times it feels great to go into wo…

A variation of this comment shows up in every FB related post, and it seems completely absurd to me that anyone holds this view seriously. The idea that interacting on Facebook is …

> chain rule is basic calculus that precedes understanding hessians. It doesn't have to be that way. The hessian is an abstract idea and the chain rule and more specifically backpr…

> at most you can follow recipes cook book style. Here I disagree with you pretty strongly. Once someone is comfortable with differentiable programming it's much more obvious how t…

> to read this as though it is very obvious and commonly accepted fact I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to by "this" but assuming you mean my comment, I think what I'm s…

Given the current state of automatic differentiation I'm not so sure it's even necessary or particularly useful to focus on backpropagation any more. While backprop has major histo…

I'm a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned how much we have failed as technologists that a story is being shared by png images of text... brave new world indeed.

Just because this is an older problem doesn't mean it's not a problem . Yes, people that loved fixing up cars would have complained about "kids these days" not knowing how to fix a…

I don't think that's as relevant as the current demand for VCs to unload their investments as fast as possible before the next major economic catastrophe. It boggles my mind that w…

> It's not the wackos we should be worrying about. It's really amazing to me how easily the "left" was able to be tricked in the same death of critical thinking as the "right". The…

Not to mention that industry itself only accounts for 6% of Arizona's water usage [0] so we're talking about one single structure increasing the industrial usage by ~10%. [0]

As resources start collapsing, more and more major world powers will begin to keep their own resources for themselves. China didn't say they were targeting a net reduction in build…

> We just got through our wood and lumber shortage Prices have started to drop but I would hardly say we "got through" the shortage. Just last week I was talking to the owner of a …

> you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations I've always seen this argument but it's never made sense to me. For start…

You're just reiterating my point. Even if this where true, it doesn't add any information. For a Catholic it simply affirms their Catholic worldview, however for someone with a sec…

Let's suppose this was even true, what would it matter? There's this weird assumption in popular culture that somehow the moment near death contains more truth than other moments, …

> In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well A similarly surprising result from an adjacent community, Bayesian Statistics, is that …

Rather than implying a limit to the usefulness of data, I find it speaks more to the folly of substituting data for critical thinking. You can reduce a fever by treating the underl…

> most people on hn will not experience much issues If the AMOC collapses as we are already starting to see [0] then at least the European portion of the HN community will be deepl…

> much more than that at times in the last few thousand years. When was that? If you look at this estimate of temperature on Planet Earth[0][1] you can clearly see the last time th…

I once mentioned Goodhart's Law to a data scientist at a company and they immediately rejected it based on the unironic assertion that "that would mean that KPIs shouldn't be the s…

> China would never get rid of such a powerful way to annoy everyone else. I've mentioned this in another comment, but you're severely underestimating the real relationship between…

NK has a very complex relationship with China and I'm fairly sure they would not be "wiped out" immediately. Even in the extreme case of North Korea nuking Japan, it would still le…