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> However, for some reason, both Gemini and ChatGPT tend to argue with me so heavily and inject their own weird stupid ideas on things do you have examples of this? asking because …

one issue that comes to mind is the nature of the determinant. when one considers the determinant defined by the recursive definition, it seems like a highly contrived object that …

it really depends on what you mean by rich: the surest path to end up with $2-5M over ~10 years is job at ~FAANG, do it well to get promoted, and manage your savings/investments we…

3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated by Donald Knuth

i was going to sit this one out, but i want to +1 the above with more than just an upvote. Austen seems to be arguing and explaining all the happenings in good faith with someone w…

this is all accurate and i'd add that it is deceivingly hard to make something that sustains itself via advertising. when youtube was acquired google had a large part of that alrea…

one of the things that helps generate new ideas that can be cultivated is the ability to be playful. once a given problem or subject is sufficiently loaded onto a brain, if that pe…

Red Alert called it! https://cnc.fandom.com/wiki/Rocketeer

> The author of this article was paid $42 million last year. Uber's top 7 executives received: "$11.4 million in salary and cash bonus, plus $71 million worth of equity awards." it…

i agree wholeheartedly with the spirit of your comment, but saying "nutritional science is complex" or "the dosage alone makes it so that a thing is not a poison" does not help peo…

i was a physics PhD student once and i might have some thoughts on how to learn physics, but i think the parent commenter is spot on -- the only reliable way we have is to have an …

it is pretty clear, but the conclusion of the parent is still pretty strong: > Sounds like a logistical nightmare.

the CFR is only as low as 0.5-1% when there is adequate medical care and the population is otherwise healthy. in NYC the CFR for the 18-45 cohort is ~5%[1]. [1]: https://www.worldo…

context: former theoretical physics grad student, dropped out ABD to start a company. this comment is right on the money on several fronts: - the Feynman lectures are great after y…

it's a bad model to think of measures responding to covid as scalars. they have magnitude and direction. everything below is me spitballing -- weakly held: my thinking is that we s…

> The primary value of a business is their assets, brands and expertise. All of those things will be just as valuable after the pandemic as they were before. this doesn't seem true…

i agree with everything you said, except for the part of your being unable to help. i think OP is asking for what information informs schema decisions, and what are some heuristics…

> Whenever I see a productivity blog by someone who is enthusiastic about recent changes they've made to their life, I immediately assume the writer is quite young. > As people get…

why is coming back a failure to accept they made mistakes?

this is one of my favorite (bc it is pretty harmless) cases of regulations failing spectacularly: the reason the companies do this is that it is a legal requirement for H1B visas. …

thanks for writing this! it is very clear. i'd love to see what, if any, problems this explanation has.

it seems odd to dismiss papers that challenges Piketty's and Saez's conclusions as nitpicky. in complex systems the devil is most often in the details. and not only that, but the s…

wework bought meetup in 2017.

How to Solve It by Polya.