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This is really cool. I searched for "Korea" and the third result was a page of Richard Stallman's website about his visit to Korea in 2000, from which I discovered he wrote about a…

> "SoftBank routinely selling assets to its Vision fund." Can anyone help me understand the real reason Softbank does this and whether investors of VF are okay with it? One case I …

It would have been more interesting if they could share deeper, nuanced arguments for setting wealth as the objective function. Sure, wealth past a certain point admits a lot of fr…

> The idea that priors are somehow ruining an "objective" model is just absurd to me. I think some caution can be justified to a certain extent (not the blind "emotional" objection…

one vote for BDA. For programmers who learn better by implementing things, this book [1] is also good: [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Methods-Hackers-Probabilisti...

The employment rate has increased by somewhat unnoticeable amount over the past 10 years [1]. The increased housing supply is mostly due to cost factors (tax breaks from the previo…

I am not convinced. The attribution to the simple zoning system is surely not a complete proof, if any. Consider a counter-example: South Korea that has a very similar zoning syste…

While switching to the simple option may help the likes of Uber defend themselves on the legal front, the switch may not be that simple to implement and will be costly on the busin…

I was just curious, not expecting anything particular---I wondered if Uber's business and its problem space are fundamentally bad as some of the comments here suggest. Re: your opi…

A question: if you can make one assumption about Uber (or fix one thing about it) such that Uber will be sustainably profitable in the future. What will it be? Why do you think the…

Really nice! One suggestion would be to have a list of resources for slightly more theoretical materials, so curious students can be exposed to deeper parts of ML (of course, such …

I thought so.... until I took a real analysis course. Most calculus tricks build upon on a "small" set of big ideas. The big ideas (such as compactness, convergence, continuity, di…

The environmental externality must be internalized strongly and consistently throughout the "developed" and developing economies [1]. Participation from the two groups is a necessa…

RIP, Mr. Bogle. Does anyone know how Bogle concretely thought of the existence of samples like Warren Buffett who have outperformed the market over decades, granted the outperforma…