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Comment · 5 days ago
I gotta know if the music is relating to the math or image in a generative way or if its just vibes/style.
Comment · 1 year ago
I love this topic, but this article is literally just "there exists a paper" without any useful information about the paper aside from the inputs they consider in their model.
Comment · 3 years ago
The issue isn't even that Cruise was involved in an incident. They were not at fault for the collision and were only involved after a (human) driver launched the victim into the Cruise vehicle. Cruise had their permit suspended because they essentially tried to hide their involvement/responsibility and withheld video footage from the DMV.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sort of like a Goya in a Harrod's handbag?
Comment · 3 years ago
Not sure if there is a significant benefit, but I think its sort of Andrej's specialty as an educator to build things out from first principles. He has a habit of sharing his "from-scratch" version of important papers/methods. Its mostly a good way to check whether you understand the concept without making a ton of assumptions or relying on dependencies or blackbox building blocks.
Comment · 3 years ago
It seems like an interesting topic, but this is the academic equivalent of turning a 30 second youtube video into a 15 minute presentation with intro, requets for engagement, outro, journal of feelings and learning, etc.

The result is an average of 1.71 days for an adult patient.

Comment · 4 years ago
As a former employee, I think this is exactly what happened. A handful of people made out big while keeping up appearances. The closer you get to the executive-level, the faster the turnover rate. I've never seen that before in ~10 companies I've worked with. The internal game is maintaining confidence to subordinates while quietly selling your stake. The external game is also all about maintaining confidence, using "adjusted EBITDA". But the GAAP numbers don't lie.
Comment · 4 years ago
So who is the primary benefactor of this Pork? Seems like this hasn't already been done is because it isn't profitable or scaleable like software is. It's not like there is a shortage of investors in technology.
Comment · 4 years ago
My Dyson vacuum cleaner has a mechanism that can steer in pretty much every angle that isn't gimbal locked. If we're still talking about things you could do without regard to practicality, it could steer in 360 degrees in a RWD.
Comment · 4 years ago
A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before.

The professor was delighted. However, when the plumber gave him the bill a minute later, he was shocked.

"This is one-third of my monthly salary!" he yelled.

Well, all the same he paid it and then the plumber said to him, "I understand your position as a professor. Why don't you come to our company and apply for a plumber position? You will earn three times as much as a professor. But remember, when you apply, tell them that you completed only seven elementary classes. They don't like educated people."

So it happened. The professor got a job as a plumber and his life significantly improved. He just had to seal a screw or two occasionally, and his salary went up significantly.

One day, the board of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to go to evening classes to complete the eighth grade. So, our professor had to go there too. It just happened that the first class was math. The evening teacher, to check students' knowledge, asked for a formula for the area of a circle. The person asked was the professor. He jumped to the board, and then he realized that he had forgotten the formula. He started to reason it, and he filled the white board with integrals, differentials, and other advanced formulas to conclude the result he forgot. As a result, he got "minus pi times r square."

He didn't like the minus, so he started all over again. He got the minus again. No matter how many times he tried, he always got a minus. He was frustrated. He gave the class a frightened look and saw all the plumbers whisper: "Switch the limits of the integral!!"

Comment · 4 years ago
I would be a lot more interested in a technical article than hearing about the history of Netflix.
Comment · 6 years ago
How did you transition your email address? I've wanted to get off, but I can't do that without wiping all of my previous conversations or losing contact with many people.

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