daniel-thompson

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Comment · 5 months ago

https://www.natesilver.net/

i was a casual reader of 538 back in the day. his substack feels pretty similar, if smaller in scope.

Comment · 1 year ago

> Completely bespoke models are typically trained in Python using tools like TensorFlow, JAX or PyTorch that don't have real non-Python alternatives

The article outlines some interesting ways to evade this problem. What's the latest thinking on robustly addressing it, e.g. are there any approaches for executing inference on a tf or pytorch model from within a golang process, no sidecar required?

Comment · 2 years ago

The actual paper is hidden behind a Nature paywall. There is a preprint on arxiv here https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18510

Comment · 2 years ago

I mean, it _could_ be the job. But a lot of older doctors feel like the younger generation needs to go through the same struggles and hardships they did. This reminds me of something I occasionally see in my parenting of my kids - the desire I have for my kids to do things that validate _my own_ childhood experience.

Comment · 2 years ago

yet

Comment · 2 years ago

I think it's a pretty simple, and timeless, aspect of human nature:

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

- Blaise Pascal, 1670

Comment · 2 years ago

carriers can be used to project power in scenarios short of all-out war, which is the common case, at the moment

Comment · 2 years ago

and cheating

Comment · 2 years ago

one of my favorite pieces of financial journalism ever, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon..., explains how he got the bux during wework's collapse:

> [softbank's offer to rescue wework] is the result of Neumann’s holdup power: Prior to the deal, Neumann is still the company’s controlling shareholder, and he could just say no to a deal that he didn’t like. That might completely evaporate his own wealth, but it would evaporate a whole lot more of SoftBank’s, and it kind of looks like SoftBank blinked first: In effect, the price of Neumann allowing SoftBank to rescue WeWork was that SoftBank had to hand Neumann a billion dollars for himself

Comment · 2 years ago

i've been reading this blog off and on for years, it's fantastic. a good introductory entry for those not familiar with the concept of a mcmansion: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/149284377161/mansionvsmcmansi...

Comment · 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...

Comment · 2 years ago

like-new restoration of various old objects: - https://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics

annotated reviews of high-level chess games: - https://www.youtube.com/@ChessNetwork

blender tutorials: - https://www.youtube.com/@blenderguru

Comment · 2 years ago

rules for thee, but not for me

Comment · 2 years ago

"perfect synchrony" is kind of meaningless, might be better and more accurately titled as "first solar system with a six-planet orbital resonance has been found"