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xplt

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    Comment #49043270

    > The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create pers…

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    Comment #48177747

    Username checks out :))

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    Comment #47003949

    E.g. Uber / UberEats offer lower fairs to drivers if the client is expected to tip higher. I'm not an insider, but it can be observed in the wild as discussed on Reddit.

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    Comment #45968766

    Because it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe

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    Comment #45699167

    > You open your laptop and begin. FizzBuzz in an on-site interview on your personal laptop?

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    Comment #44639188

    I especially love the part of "instant responsiveness" where a UI changes on interaction an then just shows placeholders while actually fetching data for 2-5 seconds. Otherwise, sn…

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    Comment #44333290

    /irony ? Honestly curious -- does your mileage vary that much on LinkedIn? It appears as though the feed is mostly a rolling dumpster fire + couple invites every week.

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    Comment #43686080

    > I’m assuming these days AWS is just fleecing the big companies who feel like there’s only one option. My employer is a customer at a scale that AWS calls us strategic industry or…

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    Comment #42689993

    This. I've been in a similar situation working as a data scientist for 2.5 years and went back to software engineering a couple of years ago. I'm not trying to say that data scienc…

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    Comment #42649578

    @nineteen999 makes a valid point, but I don't think this is a case of protectionism. From what I can tell, it's more about RH's ludicrous licensing policy and the economic practica…

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    Comment #42626931

    I'm really not sure how to feel about the fact that, meanwhile in Germany, RH has made its way onto the non-preferred vendor list of at least one large enterprise in the automotive…

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    Comment #42305137

    Well played

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    Comment #41783321

    On point. Just because the L2-norm yields the same rankings as cosine similarity for the particular case of normalized embeddings when retrieving relevant documents doesn't mean th…