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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Did you consider using more “traditional” recommendation systems? (and maybe using LLMs to create synthetic preferences…)
Comment · 1 year ago
Important to note that Air Canada is denying the magnitude of the drop: https://thepointsguy.com/news/airlines-cut-canada-flights-bo...
> Air Canada, the largest airline by seats between the U.S. and Canada, disagrees with the analysis. > "We can confirm that [the preliminary OAG data] is not reflective of Air Canada's booking patterns, nor the state of the market, based on all information sources available to us," an Air Canada spokesperson said.
Comment · 1 year ago
My first thought: maybe competitive programmers could find it useful, if it’s a way to reduce the amount of key presses needed to write their code? (At the very least, that’s a crowd that would be motivated enough to get accustomed to that way of writing code.)
Comment · 2 years ago
Is this a first for Chrome DevTools to have features that require a Google account?
Comment · 2 years ago
That's cool! There's one other feature I would love to have that current to-do lists don't capture: follow-ups. Basically, for a task such as "email Mr. and Mrs. XYZ", have the ability to snooze the tasks for a few days, if they haven't responded. There are many tasks that aren't done just because you did your part of it...
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds me of prose.sh. Turns out, there’s a lot you can do if you SSH keys as an authentication mechanism!
Comment · 2 years ago
Meta has a lot of work to do on DevEx for non-gaming experiences. Say what you want with the Vision Pro, but it comes with a lot of niceities like SwiftUI. When you develop with the Quest, you're stuck with Unity or Unreal Engine -- it's almost too much freedom to develop simple productivity apps.
Comment · 2 years ago
I love the DMA. But if you have to launch a long, sprawling compliance investigation the minute the law enters in force, it might mean you didn’t write it with enough precision…
Comment · 2 years ago
Paul Krugman covers that question here (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/inflation-target-... and argues that the theoretical assumptions that led to the 2 percent rate didn’t turn out to be true:
> On one side were economists who believed that the essential role of monetary policy — maybe even its moral duty — was to deliver stable prices. Money, after all, is a yardstick we use to measure economic activity, and they argued that this yardstick shouldn’t be constantly changing its length.
> On the other side were economists who worried that too low an inflation rate could inhibit our ability to fight recessions. The Federal Reserve and its counterparts in other countries try to manage the economy mainly through their control of short-term interest rates; but these rates can’t go much below zero, because negative rates would just lead people to accumulate stacks of $100 bills. A higher rate of inflation tends, other things being equal, to raise interest rates and makes it less likely that the Fed, faced with a recession, will hit the “zero lower bound” and be unable to cut rates further.
The zero lower bound turned out to be a real problem, given the amount of years we spent at a zero percent interest rate.
I used it a few months ago, and from what I can gather online, it’s been around for at least four months.
But interesting though!