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Longforms from papers like the Economist actually really interest me, and I look forward to opening them even when my life is pretty happy already. But you need to find non-extreme…

> The mental effect of 'its different from mainstream, thus better and look at me how clever I am for finding it out 5 minutes before most of group'. It's not because of lag time, …

Some are pretty verifiable accounts from actual academics, CTOs, journalists, that's the ones I'm interested in. You can get multiple sources on one website with fewer filters, tha…

They're fine where they are useful, I guess, but my undergrad put way too much emphasis on them when they're not intuitive, don't help (me) much with comprehension, and aren't usef…

Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable pap…

Don't machine learning books kind of fill that gap? e.g. Bishop uses probabilistic reasoning, Elements of Statistical Learning seems to be heavy on frequentist stats (haven't read …

I like that he leaves determinants to a later chapter and doesn't _start_ with them, I never understood why they were useful or made sense. His view, represented on the cover, is g…

Big schools' curricula? Look at some top school's math undergrad courses and graph them

I've taken a position in CRWD and I'm retail, but take that as the opposite of investment advice. Worked well in the past, though.

It’s only market manipulation if you have the intention of making the stock go down, right? If answering the OP is illegal, then no employee of any listed company can ever say some…

Did a company ever get sentenced for a bug? Maybe in aviation or medical tech?

Sounds like this is hugely emotionally taxing, do you just get used to it after a while, or is it a constant weight? This is why I'm impressed by anyone who works in a hospital, es…

yea I don't need an attack on a weak system, I mean the authorized legal normal way of unlocking BL from Windows when you have the right credentials. Windows might not be able to u…

Don’t you need more options if the key is in a TPM, or there is a password but it’s only part of the key? Can you even get the secret from the TPM in recovery mode?

Did the person survive?

Billions in losses means a somewhat worse life for a huge number of people and potentially much worse healthcare problems down the line, the NHS was affected

"The battery is messed up after 2 years" is a complaint I've seen and it was pretty damaging to my buying intentions. Just one data point

> heart attack risk Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease. > aneurism risk An angiography should find most case…

I wonder if he does CT/MRI/angiograms to find any vascular abnormalities. Seems to be a big cause of sudden death, but they don't talk about it. One CT for a 70-year-old head of st…

Apparently [1], Biden at least has "controlled" cholesterol, a normal EKG, some asymptomatic and controlled fibrillation. The number of experts who consult the guy every year is ac…

They're both supposed to be in good health though, we have Biden's public yearly checkup report. I don't think many old people get scans and full-body checkups every year and then …

Doesn't bipolar often get better by itself after 50? That happened to family members and they certainly weren't trying to improve their lifestyle.

Also, Windows Store apps seem to have an identity and limited permissions, so you can probably have some kind of smartphone OS-like isolation.

Maybe the learning and inference can happen in a VM and the apps can only have access to a query API. (Take the equivalents if it's not all ML.)