One thing I've been tossing around in my head is: - How quickly is cost of refactor to a new pattern with functional parity going down? - How does that change the calculus around tech debt? If engineering uses 3…
Animal studies seem like the best tool for untangling this, and they indicate that high plastic doses cause a variety of health effects, some of which seem to align with broad health trends we see in our population over…
This is my problem with every end to end system I've seen around this. I find that, even building these systems from scratch, all of the hard parts are just normal data infrastructure problems. The "AI" part takes a…
I grew up working class and found that VCs were more accessible than, in my experience, any other upper class institution I have seen. When I was younger I had an easier time getting meetings with partners at decent VC…
Eichmann in Jerusalem is the book that coined the phrase for anyone passing through, and it's a pretty wild story. It's essentially Arendt, a Jewish exile from Berlin who fled the holocaust, wrestling with her…
I promise you that you have a vastly higher opinion of people who work at google than people who work at google do.
My understanding is that SAT scores are significantly correlated with wealth (resources, time, externally imposed motivation), but not by as much as other admissions criteria, and that equity in educational attainment…
Particularly, most kinds of inequality tend to follow a Pareto distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
I think the point was, if you're going to invest in someone reckless, you might as well invest in a reckless company where at least if they deliver what they claim, the returns will be substantial. At least if Theranos…
IMO engineer implies the same direction of thing it implies anywhere else: a deep understanding of the fundamentals of what you're building, an ability to rigorously model and optimize for the key aspects of your…
You're completely correct, diminishing returns of income on happiness is well established, and I would be surprised if people here were not aware. This community skews very hard towards high earners though, so people…
This is how I see it too. Technology is inherently about dynamic navigation of unknowns. Having your employees laser focused on things the company knows it needs leaves your company with a dearth of information about…
My understanding is that the most significant nonconventional heuristic that Cambridge Analytica got from FB data and exploited was by using FB like data to approximate OCEAN personality scores for almost all voting…
While I agree that it should be possible to mention nationality without being labeled racist, what legitimate value do you think his nationality adds to that sentence other than to preload whatever preconceptions people…
Is there substantive evidence that studying humanities or even ethics is causal to people behaving more ethically?
Are you allowed to switch between them at will, or is there a legal inertia that pushes you to continue reporting using the same one?
Eh, if I did this and I came up in the black off on a play with $1M in free leverage I would just close the position, pay off the margin and dip without posting about it. If like five people posted about it and lost…
GPT-2 doesn't do a _great_ job at this, but it does to some extent seem to have learned some relationships in structures of text in different programming languages. For example while toying around with it, I gave it a…
Eh, I feel like if you were just trying to whitewash your reputation, effective altruism wouldn't be the way to do it. You could get a lot more PR per dollar spending on something more emotional, less abstract, and more…
I agree, but that sounds like a case for a carbon tax, not for tariffs.
Google only uses their patents defensively when sued for patent infringment. A world without patents would result in the same result for them but with less overhead. In this landscape where it's almost impossible to…
A signing bonus generally has a clause that it has to be repaid if leaving within a short time frame, like within a year.
Yeah, as someone who has resisted paying for spotify, I was considering switching when they launched this service. I make music as a hobby, and I only really use soundcloud as a result, since the barrier to entry to…
Patrick Collison is enormously well read and just generally an interesting thinker. That leads me to be interested in his curation of what books he thinks matter.
Understanding problems in society is relevant in deciding what to hack and how to build a company that fits into that society.
One thing I've been tossing around in my head is: - How quickly is cost of refactor to a new pattern with functional parity going down? - How does that change the calculus around tech debt? If engineering uses 3…
Animal studies seem like the best tool for untangling this, and they indicate that high plastic doses cause a variety of health effects, some of which seem to align with broad health trends we see in our population over…
This is my problem with every end to end system I've seen around this. I find that, even building these systems from scratch, all of the hard parts are just normal data infrastructure problems. The "AI" part takes a…
I grew up working class and found that VCs were more accessible than, in my experience, any other upper class institution I have seen. When I was younger I had an easier time getting meetings with partners at decent VC…
Eichmann in Jerusalem is the book that coined the phrase for anyone passing through, and it's a pretty wild story. It's essentially Arendt, a Jewish exile from Berlin who fled the holocaust, wrestling with her…
I promise you that you have a vastly higher opinion of people who work at google than people who work at google do.
My understanding is that SAT scores are significantly correlated with wealth (resources, time, externally imposed motivation), but not by as much as other admissions criteria, and that equity in educational attainment…
Particularly, most kinds of inequality tend to follow a Pareto distribution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
I think the point was, if you're going to invest in someone reckless, you might as well invest in a reckless company where at least if they deliver what they claim, the returns will be substantial. At least if Theranos…
IMO engineer implies the same direction of thing it implies anywhere else: a deep understanding of the fundamentals of what you're building, an ability to rigorously model and optimize for the key aspects of your…
You're completely correct, diminishing returns of income on happiness is well established, and I would be surprised if people here were not aware. This community skews very hard towards high earners though, so people…
This is how I see it too. Technology is inherently about dynamic navigation of unknowns. Having your employees laser focused on things the company knows it needs leaves your company with a dearth of information about…
My understanding is that the most significant nonconventional heuristic that Cambridge Analytica got from FB data and exploited was by using FB like data to approximate OCEAN personality scores for almost all voting…
While I agree that it should be possible to mention nationality without being labeled racist, what legitimate value do you think his nationality adds to that sentence other than to preload whatever preconceptions people…
Is there substantive evidence that studying humanities or even ethics is causal to people behaving more ethically?
Are you allowed to switch between them at will, or is there a legal inertia that pushes you to continue reporting using the same one?
Eh, if I did this and I came up in the black off on a play with $1M in free leverage I would just close the position, pay off the margin and dip without posting about it. If like five people posted about it and lost…
GPT-2 doesn't do a _great_ job at this, but it does to some extent seem to have learned some relationships in structures of text in different programming languages. For example while toying around with it, I gave it a…
Eh, I feel like if you were just trying to whitewash your reputation, effective altruism wouldn't be the way to do it. You could get a lot more PR per dollar spending on something more emotional, less abstract, and more…
I agree, but that sounds like a case for a carbon tax, not for tariffs.
Google only uses their patents defensively when sued for patent infringment. A world without patents would result in the same result for them but with less overhead. In this landscape where it's almost impossible to…
A signing bonus generally has a clause that it has to be repaid if leaving within a short time frame, like within a year.
Yeah, as someone who has resisted paying for spotify, I was considering switching when they launched this service. I make music as a hobby, and I only really use soundcloud as a result, since the barrier to entry to…
Patrick Collison is enormously well read and just generally an interesting thinker. That leads me to be interested in his curation of what books he thinks matter.
Understanding problems in society is relevant in deciding what to hack and how to build a company that fits into that society.