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Once an app does two of those push notifs, I permanently disable that. Facebook/IG does the same crap to me, as well as a few others

And your point is?

Those figures look amazing! Also, its crazy how many things can be improved by a clever use of gradient descent

> the media's unintentionally turned it into one if the biggest controversies of the year

Maybe in the Republican bubble. Outside of it, no one really cares and sees it as a weird and poorly executed complot

A year or so ago I was about to donate to the Interept and went to their website to do so. There, together with Bolsonaro investigations I was quite surprised that a lot of Greenwald's stance was quite pro Russia, anti democrats. Not sure in what parallel universe he lives where he thinks that one week before the election Trump needs his help with anti Biden op-eds. What is he thinking?

> I can't do any of that right now. I've been feeling like I'm scamming the company, because there have been entire weeks where I literally didn't work.

Don't be too hard on yourself. A lot lf people are going through this. Some people are really struggling with wfh, others have multiple kids at home and can only work at 20% because they just have no time or energy left. Others study with mental health problems. And finally, others have experienced serious strains with their SOs due to being locked in together for so long (which might be worse than actually splitting). My point is, this is the reality for now, we are all aware of this, and I'm guessing your boss is banking on you being able to go back to normal after the pandemic is over.

Beyond that, what helped me is to think of the people that depend on you. Whoever you are or should be mentoring is an actual human being that depends in one way or another on you. Same for your coworkers and boss (although. "coworkers" is such a vague word in a big corp). So don't do it for the salary, do it for them. Keep doing therapy, keep going on ine day at a time , there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

ps: what was the sport? rock climbing, swimming, soccer?(just curious about what hobbies can i take once this is over)

A few things:

- In my case, my supervisors mostly had handwritten notes which rendered that point a bit moot. However, when I send the almost-complete draft to a professional copy editor, it was indeed a pain to add the comments. Either handwritten+scanned, as acrobat comments, or word comments, they had to be manually input into the markdown file.

- Everything else worked relatively better. It was a bit tedious to type loooong pandoc commands "pandoc --filter=... etc etc" so I recently coded pandocmk [1] to make my life easier. It's not super well documented (but it's a quite short script, so readable), but the idea is that you type the command line options as metadata at the top.

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/pandocmk

I'm the author of panflute, and--in fact--wrote my PhD thesis in pandoc+panflute!

> If the hard drive is a hoax, I think it's important to have an open discussion to shine a light on it.

The damage is still done then. NYPost knows the article is fake news, and so does Giuliani and the other folks surrounding the article.

But put it there, and by the time your "open discussion" is done, the elections will be over.

Same here. Burned quite a few times trying out Julia stuff.

Last time it was because cold start times were unbearable (compared to Python/R/Stata/Matlab). My goal was to compare how regressions in a few software packages behaved with difficult datasets, so I had to open each of those, run a snippet of code, and log the output. Here, Julia's cold start (and importing the CSV, GLM, etc libraries) took way longer than all of the other tools together.

(PhD Finance here) Even classical 70s-era finance is against this article:

Rich investors don't need their VC to be super diversified. They can just invest into multiple VC funds and get diversification that way.

Also, it doesn't matter how much risk is in a given VC fund, what matters is how investing part of my porfolio in that VC fund affects the risk of my portfolio!

> I think an argument can be made the government ordered lockdowns (stay at home / shelter in place) orders were appropriate in March when we knew much less about who was most vulnerable, and did not have a well vetted treatment protocol / decision tree or any known therapeutics.

Sure. Lockdowns bought us time.

> Forced mandatory lockdowns today would be unethical and actually counter-productive. Given our vastly increased knowledge of the highly stratified risk profile of SARS-CoV-2, the public health case cannot be ethically made to forcibly confine the general population to their homes; separating them from their livelihoods, their community, their ordinary healthcare, and their mental and physical wellness routines.

I mean, partly. We know that sticking to outdoors, wearing masks, etc. helps a lot. So we should try to avoid situations such as offices with central AC, indoor restaurants, indoor gyms, etc.

That is not confining people to their homes, just using what we've learned so far to reduce infection rates in the least painful way.

What chain is that?? Sounds amazing..

I was recently re-reading how to solve systems via QR and realized that the key trick was switching basis. But it took me a while to understand that, in between all the extra stuff. Now you are telling me that most of LA is like that and wow, so many things make sense now!

Do you have any additional linear algebra tricks?

I would start by either improving the OCR, or piggyback on GCV/Amzn, who have better tools. For instance, what if I drag-and-drop their sample image to this demo page https://cloud.google.com/vision ?

All text is recognized, and as far as I can tell, there are no errors.

There are a lot of difficulties with older text, but I would start with low-hanging fruit such as trying to use better tools. On top of that, you have the problem of making sense of the layout, fixing common typos, etc.

Wow, anything that removes the need for conda is quite promising indeed!

I'm in a similar note. Also mom, also pancreatic. Also was told that it was just "her being too stressed", etc. for two months

Hard to digest.

Maybe is for the best? GPT-3 is a lot of bla bla bla without actually conveying anything useful. And now it's shedding light on the reality that most of our words and sentences are just fillers.

Before, I used to have low patience about prose that was too verbose. But now with GPT3 more people will start doing so, amd commenters will hace to start beong succinct in order to be read.

WSJ? They do a better job at disguising their right-wing biases as reporting facts. I used to resd it daily 10-20 years ago but now I need to read it very carefully.

You make some really interesting points. Allow me to reply with a bit of speculation:

1) Peruvian, Bolivian, Argentinan hyperinflation were purely printing-press inflations, without forex being the culprit.

2) Inflation is strongly affected by expectations. If everyone think prices will go up 5%, then we all increase salaries/prices by that and we self fulfill the prophecy.

3) 5-10% inflation is actually quite high for modern standards. We are not in the 70s anymore.

4) Lastly, the main point: onxe you get there, there is a high chance that the dollar will lose its place as the world's currency. Then, inflation accelerates and you enter a spiral.

> for the Kindle sw platform

Dang! As I understood, were you guys one of the teams with the craziest work hours over there?

How did you handle the work-life balance?

I recall reading about similar things in papers on the 1918 pandemic as well as SARS and other respiratory diseases. So it's not that far fetched off

You are exactly right. In fact, I know of a few businesses that actually had MORE business (wholesalers), and the CEO of one told my friend that he was just going to use the money to buy his wife a new Porsche. This is anecdotal for sure, but there is no reason why firms wouldn't rely on free money as long as they are amoral enough.

If I had implemented the plan, I would have just created a program where the program only covered a % of the wages (say 80% instead of 100%) and mostly only for people who were not able to work. Of course, that brings other problems, but there is a middle ground somewhere in there.

Honest question: what the fuck is TERF? I opened wikipedia, and I'm none the wiser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF

> an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist. Coined in 2008,[1] the term was originally applied to a minority of feminists espousing sentiments that other feminists consider transphobic, such as the rejection of the assertion that trans women are women, the exclusion of trans women from women's spaces, and opposition to transgender rights legislation. The meaning has since expanded to refer more broadly to people with trans-exclusive views who may have no involvement with radical feminism

So is it just women who hate trans folks, or?

Because you are being misleading?

1) Avg age of infected is 36-37 now instead of 60+ as in April, so there is a lower death rate (plus, infections today will only translate into deaths in three weeks or so)

2) Test positivity rate is UP, so testing has gone up "a little" while cases have gone up a lot.

afaik not true; google for "epidemic overshoot"

Not replying to rewoi but asking an open question: you are so many ppl saying this?

Is the consensus really that covid19 is gone? like, really? we are way way below herd immunity and Rt is still around 1.0 in most states, even before the reopening and protests start showing.

What am I missing?

It is indeed quite silly that people are thinking about policies as "quarantine for everyone" vs "let people roam the streets while coughing".

Wearing masks has zero cost in terms of GDP and unemployment. Why the heck aren't we mandating those?? Even in 1918 people were not allowed to step on a tram/metro without a mask.

Ioannidis was not attacked because of his skepticism. He was attacked because of a paper with quite controversial methods, and which violated a few ethic rules:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/stanford-...

At this point, lockdown skeptics are doing all they can to discredit anything that can hurt them. I've even seen this personally, and it was a bit sad as it makes exchanging ideas quite a bit more difficult (hard to do so if the other part is essentially interesting in just discrediting you)