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reedf1

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About reedf1

Quant/Dev in Trade. Formerly Software Engineer with a focus in computer vision and machine learning.

Trained as a Physicist.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49244662

    Generally any material you intentionally delete after you are told to hand over evidence is considered to be the most incriminating version of that material in a court of law.

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    Comment #49241913

    This would still be destruction of evidence - virtually your only defense against that would be if it was not triggered by you .

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    Comment #49239948

    Because empirically people are happier when they work. When you decompose work into it's constituent parts - there are a bunch of incredible psychological things (meaning, responsi…

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    Comment #49198393

    The cycling equivalent is your power curve, i.e. the longest you've held a power for a certain time interval.

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    Comment #49107236

    "Equidistant" is not a good metric for convenience. The most convenient pubs are nearly always someone's local or the midpoint between everyone's workplace.

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    Comment #49096689

    Nightcall was kind of the anthem of my life for my early 20s. Still captures a moment. RIP.

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    Comment #49084077

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    Comment #49084003

    If you are seriously interested and this isn't just some automated slop experiment you should look into and understand how VLMs and vision encoders work.

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    Comment #49083602

    Jewelry is a veblen good whose price is mostly based on provenance. I'm not sure any classifier could do anything but guess on surrounding context. Insurance classifiers are much l…

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    Comment #49017782

    "I’ve activated pro. Can you continue to look for a potential geometric explanation of the X_3 ~ A3 miracle that avoids coordinates or other unmotivated constructions ?"

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    Comment #48955675

    It is, and has been for a long time, a concious choice for apple to avoid gaming.

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    Comment #48761147

    Wait how many levels deep is this...

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    Comment #48729913

    I guess you're fine commuting home in the dark? But regardless, you can navigate without light an hour before sunrise.

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    Comment #48729641

    To be clear if I showed up to a company running their own company NTP server that they desync twice a year to make timings work - I would absolutely try to migrate them away from t…

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    Comment #48729621

    What people usually mean by abolishing DST is permanent summer hours. If your problem was sunrise timing, then problem solved - DST actually moves that earlier than you require twi…

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    Comment #48729525

    I guess that is what I'm trying to show in the above example. You could technically shift your UTC jobs by running your own NTP server and desyncing it from UTC by the offset you w…

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    Comment #48729494

    If you are looking for an example I did some contract work for a company in Turkey that implemented winter hours and summer hours for their office after abolishing DST in 2016. As …

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    Comment #48729429

    It's pretty astounding to me the number of pro-DST advocates in this forum. If you had hundreds of daily jobs on your platform and you happen to have some regular requirement to ch…

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    Comment #48729376

    "Working hours will not change". Except they have in most countries where they have got rid of DST...

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    Comment #48729354

    You've said this repeatedly, but it is largely not true.

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    Comment #48729288

    Except it's not like Chesterton's fence, it was created at the edge of living memory for known reasons. If anything it's an example of the opposite effect, something like Chesterto…

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    Comment #48729243

    Ever lived at high latitude? It's normal.

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    Comment #48729232

    Hol up, don't fix time, there's a few guys in Seattle without curtains. Sorry everyone.