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I was under the impression that corn ethanol was effectively solar energy because corn turns sunlight and carbon into biomass then we burn the biomass back to atmospheric carbon. I…

Why are they so adamant about destroying whatever goodwill they have left?

Counterexample: Suppose I'm selling a product with zero cost and I've determined the profit-maximizing price to be $1.00. This means profit as a function of price is maximal and th…

I think if I'd have thought of these expenses as "buying physical fitness" I would have spent more. Thanks for the perspective!

How do you mean you spend money on physical fitness? It does sound like a great investment.

Wouldn't your pretrained model be lacking in neurons that react to human features though? Seems like a poor choice if your ultimate goal is human images.

For comparison, the entire internet averages on the order of 50 Tbps*, so this is about 0.5% of that. Residential internet might have a max rate of 1Gbps in the best conditions but…

Yes! I couldn't get into the instant pot either but the air fryer changed my life. I eat so much meat and vegetables now. If it had been called a "high-speed toaster oven" or maybe…

It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eye…

Books by John Gottman. He seems to be the leading authority on the topic.

These two parts seem contradictory: > "Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts." >…

I run out of cognitive energy for coding faster than I run out of time. Sometimes the slow and stupid way is optimal because it saves cognitive energy. I suspect coders "forage" mo…

I wonder how much of the problem here is solo developers and big tech developers exchanging advice in the same places. As a solo dev I relate to this frustration with over-engineer…

I hear this complaint a lot but I find those argument orders completely intuitive. You filter (1) an array with (2) a function. You map (1) a function over (2) an array. You reduce…

"All models are wrong. Some are useful."

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Sadly there is disincentive to report bad workers on MTurk. You can block them through the MTurk system which rightfully puts their account at risk for termination. BUT Amazon send…

On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or thro…

The Video Speed Controller browser plugin changed my life. With the key bindings you can dynamically adjust the speed to the complexity of the content and always be watching at exa…

I prefer pitching to customers because they really do get more value out of your product if you better communicate what it does and how it helps them. With committees it sounds mor…

So, what's gross profit look like? Edit: My mistake. Already said it.