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alpineidyll3··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
Bahhh do you want to get captchas? THIS IS HOW YOU GET CAPTCHAS!!!
alpineidyll3··on Omicron largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses
Omg I have this garbage right now and I'm doubly vaccinated. I recommend anyone visiting vulnerable family get tested before heading out. It's going to be a very weird NYE, again.
alpineidyll3··on Toyota is going to make you pay to start your car with your key fob
If I don't own it I don't buy it.
alpineidyll3··on [dead]
TIL a link can frontpage @#2 with ten votes.
alpineidyll3··on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation
Internally Facebook works aggressively to combat covid misinformation: source I work at fb. Literally most of the commonly used datasets are about it. It's easy to hate and hard to understand.
alpineidyll3··on Schedule (Python)
I use it as a celery replacement. It's crazy how these two are the main competitors for such an essential function.

Really this type of Cron function should be a part of any standard library.

alpineidyll3··on I Lost $400k, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
Sec: you need to be a certified investor to invest in PE and hedge funds because they risky.

Also SEC: yolo volatility you buy from a team of phds at citadel if you want.

alpineidyll3··on The Age of AI by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher
...The recent history of the country bears witness to H Kissinger's values perhaps more than any other person. Unfortunately I don't think 'AGI shouldn't be used against humanity' is in there alongside Realpolitik. If we are safe from AGI it will be because the power majority believes anti-human AGI is ammoral, not because we get it first.
alpineidyll3··on CNN tried Tesla's 'full self-driving' mode on NYC streets. It didn't go great
Get a comma 3!
alpineidyll3··on CNN tried Tesla's 'full self-driving' mode on NYC streets. It didn't go great
With this level of supervision reqd how is it a win
alpineidyll3··on Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model: Pearson's Parametrization
I'd be fascinated to know how flexible these are as neural ODE ansatze.

Looks to me they could implement arbitrary logic, but could we prove it.

alpineidyll3··on The Nothingness of Money
Geoffrey Ingham's the nature of money calls money: "frozen desire"

It also explores several different philosophical notions of what money is.

Desire is certainly not the essence of happiness, but it is an emotion humans almost cannot avoid.

alpineidyll3··on PyTorch Fortran Bindings
At last, pytorch "@" operators can be called from fortran so that they can call dgemm()... Hahaha.
alpineidyll3··on N23508 Flight Path
Love it.
alpineidyll3··on IBM unveils 127-qubit quantum processor
They hang because they sit at the bottom of dilution refrigerators.
alpineidyll3··on Breaking down the 'payment for order flow' debate
Yeah, hiding behind second order thinking is a great defense :/ It seems a regrettably tiny fraction of people can take a step back and think about the basic amount of profit citadel makes per trade without actually serving as a counterparty for a period of time most humans can even measure. Pfof actually exists because exchanges and broker dealers are legally prohibited from doing the same thing. Citadel is just a external way of receiving this income as a kickback for the likes of RH.
alpineidyll3··on The University of Austin
Well, I guess we have our "new school" ... so that's peak Austin I guess?

In all seriousness, what a fractally awful idea. Hey anyone with any amount of reputation capital, get in on the academic grift!

Instead of an emphasis on educational outcomes, let's extend the culture of buying prestige in higher education. The existence of this place makes me want to burn my house down.

alpineidyll3··on A quantum walk down Wall Street
Well put.
alpineidyll3··on Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices
A good prediction is one which is made BEFORE the outcome. All of these armchair data scientists had the opportunity to short Zillow BEFORE it was obvious that zoffer was losing money. No one did? The best outcome which could flow from this is a sort of adverse peer review in data science based on asset trades. To be honest, the zillow data team should have sought this themselves, the community could have debugged them.
alpineidyll3··on Scientists identify the cause of Alzheimer’s progression in the brain
This title is incorrect. The article is about the way plaques grow (distributed growth of many vs expansion if a few) rather than any sort of mechanism for what causes the disease.

Imo no field of science has rode the struggle bus harder than Alzheimer's research... It almost deserves a field to study why it's been so hard to study.

alpineidyll3··on The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
I dealt with the man a fair bit and can say he is widely reviled as a sociopath.
alpineidyll3··on Riesz Proves the Riesz Representation Theorem
Very lucid blogpost, but why does the author choose pseudo-anonymity?
alpineidyll3··on A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
Heroes are not born, they are made.
alpineidyll3··on If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
Because I feel the same way I make a blog post a month, but discoverability is a real problem for blogs. Google doesn't take kindly to them.
alpineidyll3··on Google’s Answer to Overheated Job Market: Demanding Proof of Rival Offers
Yeah and what an awful, insane and disconnected decision! If my intelligence is so insulted at square one, who the hell would I be working with if I accepted lol. People with no intellect or self respect?
alpineidyll3··on Google’s Answer to Overheated Job Market: Demanding Proof of Rival Offers
Legally: none. Making accepted applicants disrespect you? Infinite.
alpineidyll3··on Google’s Answer to Overheated Job Market: Demanding Proof of Rival Offers
"Tired" isn't a valid reason for a corporation to do something. Systematically insulted? Probably and they totes magotes deserve it.
alpineidyll3··on Google’s Answer to Overheated Job Market: Demanding Proof of Rival Offers
Meanwhile Facebook is now refusing to put offers in writing without a verbal acceptance.
alpineidyll3··on Jeff Bezos and the New Pharoahs
Wanting to live forever is the essence of narcissism. It's to say: "the world never has enough of meeeee".

I'm actually a quite malicious person ...but commenting on HN doesn't rank high in my list of Antisocial behaviors :P

alpineidyll3··on Jeff Bezos and the New Pharoahs
Is the quest for immortality a solipsistic misunderstanding of evolution? -Yes. However it's substantially less stupid for bezos etc to fund science than it was to build the pyramids. If we simply made the bastard pay as much taxes as his employees I would be happy to allow him to spend his wealth as he sees fit no matter how philosophically bankrupt it may be. It's easy to envy him, but it takes 1000 data scientists and engineers to optimize people into opting out of individuality. Bezos is not an axis of evil. Evil is banal. Hes just an aging narcissist with very common and somewhat regrettable urges. If we love liberty we must even love his liberty.
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