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Comment · 2 months ago
Hmm I wonder what the preselection to get to the top 10 are? Human readers or automated?
Comment · 7 months ago
Does this scale to dining placemat size?
Comment · 7 months ago
Tsla is 1.4T market cap, so it's almost like *ELON-stock is going to double in 1 day. It will go from 4% to 8% of qqq in 1 day.

It'll happen a week or a month after IPO date though? It took fb/meta 1 year and then it entered as 1% qqq. TSLA entered 3 years after IPO so probably a small percentage.

Tsla is 2% vti (2T AUM). QQQ is 400B AUM. So add those two and you get $56B of purchasing. This seems like the amount they want to raise via IPO in total in the news, so the banks who do the IPO can sell it all guaranteed.

But people will want to buy it before it gets into the passive funds... So... Post inclusion market cap will be higher than we expect?

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Checkout the movie "The Lost Leonardo" for a glimpse into the weird world of art attribution. tl;dw is that there are big financial incentives to attributing one way or another.
Comment · 11 months ago
Why do you say rent control reduces the incentive to build more housing?

To me it seems the opposite: Rent control means supply goes down, so available building & land prices go up. These prices going up means an opportunity for builders who are good businessmen because they are going to make a margin on their investment, the bigger the investment the bigger upside.

Another intuition is with rent control it's hard to extract new value from an old building, so that also incentivizes tearing it down and squeezing more units into the land.

In SF, rent control exists on all buildings built before 1979. It appears to me that people who prioritize new builds pay a huge premium for them. I think this particular rule also incentivizes tearing pre 1979 structures down, vs the no rent control newer buildings can continue to have growth in the value extracted from them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Assuming 200 acres is 0.57x0.57 miles. If you fly at 15 mph you can do 15 lines in 30 mins. The lines would be 200 feet apart, and you'd move 22 feet per second. 15MP images would be 10 pixels per foot and motion blur with 240fps would be 1.1 inches.

Anything wrong with that?

Comment · 1 year ago
Better camera on the drone to fly faster and higher.
Comment · 1 year ago
Has anyone tried it on a 3090?
Comment · 1 year ago
Which books?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Could you make an onboarding guide for points?

My impression is if you fly for work, you get a lot of employer sponsored points, so it's interesting.

But if I fly 5-10 trips a year personally, why would I try points when I can get 3-5% cash back on my various cards?

Comment · 2 years ago
Click on "available" and "employment" in "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment"
Comment · 2 years ago
On the author's resume is a link to a L10 salary at google under "available for employment" and a distinguished engineer at Amazon. So author is in the top 0.01% (or even higher really) of salary expectations for the SWE ladder as I understand.
Comment · 2 years ago
The link to the wivi research is to a 2013 article, so that took a while!

I had a HW assignment in 2017 to do this, specifically we were given raw wifi signals and told to determine how many people were in the room. We did it by detecting breath rate of each person with the MUSIC spectral algorithm. For that challenge there ended up being 6 people in the room, all with slightly different breath rate (attenuating the signal as their chest expanded).

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