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windwindowon Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

There's strong data supporting passive investment. I've found the stats in Andrew Hallam's book, "Balance: How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth" (https://www.amazon.ca/Balance-Invest-Happiness-Health-Wealth...) quite eye-opening.

windwindowon Wikifunctions

That's a byproduct of a lack of volunteer contributors rather than the project design itself.

windwindowon Wikifunctions

I'd argue that sister projects such as Wikidata, Wikiversity, etc, are greatly useful and that the solution to improving them is not to neglect them, but to provide more resources to them.

windwindowon Wikifunctions

https://mas.to/@vrandecic/110866878265998471

> I love Rosetta Code and we took a look at it. IIUC Rosetta Code does not allow to run the code, or to compose existing functions together to create new ones. Also, Rosetta Code's aims to have complete sets of implementations for their tasks, which is not our focus.

windwindowon Volkswagen says its core VW brand is 'no longer competitive' financially

seems awfully anti-employee to me

windwindowon My north star for the future of AI

+1. Would love to see some more concrete applications, but these are great concepts.