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_gmax0··on Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit
Or the converse, how much time have you spent living in fear?
_gmax0··on Why does so much government tech investment deliver so little?
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man7/inet.h.7pos...

The joys of socket programming.

_gmax0··on Why aren't SW developers working on more important problems?
Because the issues you mention are fundamentally problems of resource allocation. More specifically, allocating human labor towards potentially intractable problems in the absence of convincingly enticing incentives.

Maybe withhold making normative claims until you have some perspective.

_gmax0··on How big data carried graph theory into new dimensions
Existing graph-theoretic analysis would still apply to hypergraphs after essentially redefining the graph using coloring algorithms no?
_gmax0··on How big data carried graph theory into new dimensions
Not an expert, but analysis of very large graphs is already computationally expensive.

Does generalizing to hypergraphs ease this in any way? The cost-benefit trade-off seems to be greater computational complexity for potentially unobserved insights.

_gmax0··on AI.gov
+1 to this sentiment.
_gmax0··on Ask HN: How to be a manager? Any good sources for learning how to delegate?
Send them to graduate school.
_gmax0··on Reflections on my journey into computer science
Agreed. If anything, if I were an employer at a software shop, I'd be worried that a student of EE would get bored of the work I have to offer.
_gmax0··on AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns
Not an expert, so posing a few questions in response to the article:

- Barring market microstructure considerations altogether, aren't there human-engineered failsafes in place to prevent market selloffs? Most recent and salient example that comes to my mind: circuit breakers during the multiple day sell-off on news that COVID was indeed serious.

- Additionally, weren't most fears re. algorithmic trading in the US equity space addressed in the early 2010s?

- We saw Zillow (using Facebook's Prophet), Redfin, and Opendoor apply algorithmic trading to homes. Did they really have an outsized effect on housing liquidity? A superficial look at the numbers tells me that on paper, wealth was redistributed from their pockets.

_gmax0··on One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov
It's his personal study on human nature fictionalized as a mundane story. The meat of the work isn't the plot, but the interactions between the characters, which each are supposed to represent various personality archetypes and world-views they subscribe to.

It's also interesting to consider each character (disregarding minor characters) all of as an orthogonal dimension of a single person (by no means scientific): the inner-monkey (Dmitri), hyper-intellect (Ivan), spiritual/altruistic (Alyosha). From this perspective, the work is a solipsistic study on how inner-conflict manifests outwardly into the world.

_gmax0··on Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?
Didn't think I'd come across a DTW paper here.

Have you seen anything worth reading in that line of literature which addresses a more practical issue of segment sizing and segment overlap on accuracy?

_gmax0··on Effect of perceptual load on performance within IDE in people with ADHD symptoms
And to think psychiatrists are bestowed with the authority to mass-prescribe amphetamines upon accurately deducing the presence of ADHD from brief patient self-evaluations is eyebrow raising.

Looking forward to when a portable EEG monitors are available at an affordable price.

_gmax0··on Postmortem: Co-founding a Web3 startup as a crypto skeptic young dev
Give the author a break, he/she is 21.
_gmax0··on You and Your Research (1986)
Do you have any idea of where a young person might find that sort of environment today? Did you by chance work with Odlyzko there?
_gmax0··on A non-technical explanation of deep learning
Thanks for the correction. It's been some time since I actively thought about the theory (evidently I didn't digest it correctly the first time!).
_gmax0··on A non-technical explanation of deep learning
Sure, under the assumption that your parameter space is convex.
_gmax0··on A non-technical explanation of deep learning
The most concise and intuitive line of explanation I've been given goes along the lines of this:

1 - We want to model data, representative of some system, through functions.

2 - Virtually any function can be expressed by a n-th order polynomial.

3 - We wish to learn the parameters, the coefficients, of such polynomials.

4 - Neural networks allow us to brute-force test candidate values of such parameters (finding optimal candidate parameters such that error between expected and actual values of our dataset are minimized)

Whereas prior, methods (e.g. PCA) could only model linear relationships, neural networks allowed us to begin modeling non-linear ones.

_gmax0··on America’s $800B climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem
No, I'd respond with, you should reserve moral sentimentalism for people on an individual-basis, not collectively as a system.
_gmax0··on Explosives replace malware as the scariest thing a USB stick may hide
Tragically poetic.
_gmax0··on For long-term health and happiness, marriage still matters
'Whatever people's idealized single life is, working in finance/tech in NYC, dating and traveling would be on that list.'

This is where you begin to overgeneralize.

_gmax0··on Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week
Man, these are the times I wish I had access to Bloomberg Terminal.

What bond-selection strategies do banks usually take in situations like this? Riskiest bonds off of their sheets first?

_gmax0··on For long-term health and happiness, marriage still matters
Earlier this year I was curious if I could live life as a single male for the rest of my life in a capitalistic Western society that tends to frame many issues from a partisan-listic perspective.

I'm no sociologist and did not apply any critical analysis to these works, but most of the literature and surveys I found on this topic suggested that men fare worse than women on health outcomes when it comes to marital/romantic singlehood. The speculative cause was that these women possessed deeper friendships than those men, who tended to be more isolated, especially in later stages of life.

_gmax0··on Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine
Great points.

To reach the point where no-code is a no-brainer further implies inflexibility in the capabilities of applications and moreover, fungibility in their fundamental uses. The question to ask is are the upper layers of abstraction reducible to what's analogous to the outputs of a parse tree.

If we reach this point where creativity and actual innovation is lost and we're all simply attempting to make the next 'facebook for dogs', I anticipate my future personal career switch to starring in geriatric pornographic films.

_gmax0··on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (2012)
This is cool! He's the same professor who wrote 'How To Read A Paper' (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1273445.1273458).
_gmax0··on The CEO of IBM says A.I. is going to replace ‘clerical white-collar work’
Those predictions came from who exactly?

Assuming that their vision was well-intentioned (insofar as having the government subsidize GPS development was well-intentioned by selling them the fact that it could not be extended to support commercial use), those predictions were fundamentally flawed without understanding the cynical side of human nature.

_gmax0··on Why I chose OpenAI over academia
And this decision to settle down is prompted by what?

An a priori programming that implies inevitability?

_gmax0··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
Good question, I completely overlooked that aspect of online interaction.

I guess more real-time digital communication such as video or call (video taking priority given that it contains additional sensory information) could come close, but none of these are 'memory-less' as physical interaction.

I wonder if I myself have blown through professional relationships in this way...I like to think that the cultures I'm in aren't so risk averse towards the first impressions they make.

_gmax0··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
How extensive are the other background checks they perform (information seeking behavior online, contacting elementary school teachers, neighbors, etc.)?
_gmax0··on Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
I'd be curious to see a study done comparing the extent of happen-chance that occurs in-person vs digitally.

Digital hallways exist in the form of private messages.

_gmax0··on Ask HN: How can I get into cyber security research?
Any exemplars that come to mind?

I wouldn't be surprised as other posters have opined (and likely accurately) that industry/hacker groups have progressed past academia.

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