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For investments it's generally to do with 1) the risk of holding the asset, 2) the potential return on the capital invested, and 3) the difference on returns between asset classes.

Two examples: I can invest $1m into one or multiple properties. Depending on the location, I will get some yield on that capital invested -- e.g. 5% per year from capital appreciation + rent.

There are other locations where the return might be less than 5%, or more than 5%. But there are generally are reasons for that (the yield of investing in property in NYC will be lower than if you invested in say, Kiev Ukraine). It's risk reward.

Tax policies, for example, might incentivise local owners (who actually live in the property) to buy property where it is unrealistic for an investor to make money on -- if yields are 1 or 2%, one could say it's overvalued (unless we are talking about unique buildings in prime locations that are unlikely to ever decline in value).

Now a different situation: assume the stock market has declined by 40%, but property prices have not. One could say property is overvalued then (i.e. not the best asset to invest money in). As the spread between valuations and yields between different assets increases, some assets could be overvalued when comparing them to others.
The uneducated masses of soldiers and workers are much easier to dazzle

Time Traveler: look at this iPhone!

WW2 soldier: that’s a flimsy looking walkie-talkie, wouldn’t last a day fighting the Waffen SS. Do you mind? I got work to do.
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but at this point more often than not I don't get my stuff within the 3-5 day period

If they miss their 2-day shipping guarantee then you call CS, complain, and get a free month of Prime added. Ad infinitum. A way to increase your chances of missed 2-day shipping is to spread out your item orders so it gives them more opportunities to screw up. This also increases their costs of S&H across the entire logistics chain and maximizes the usage of your Prime membership. Plus it feels like every day is Christmas when a new random Amazon item is coming in.

Another key is to order stuff that weighs a lot (40lbs+). Last time I did FBA the UPS rate for Amazon shipping was ~50 cents / lb . So if you're getting a 40lb item (especially if it has weird dimensions) they're likely not paying much lower than $15-20 to get that to your door in 2 days.
My reading of this is: software development is still such a disorganized activity that the industry considers it acceptable for each organization to simply make up their own system. Jira is built to work for any such system, no matter how crazy, and your particular instance can change completely at any time (like if your manager reads the wrong blog post over lunch).

This does not make me feel any better about Jira. It's like those videos of early attempts at flight, and Jira is bragging that they make flapping wings and spinning wings and triplane wings and bird-shaped wings -- whatever you want! Great for their company, not so great for me.
I'm interested in the compliment one! If is see someone compliment-worthy, I nearly universally don't give the compliment. Ex, "that's a wonderful dress" as I pass someone on the train. Instead of potentially brightening someone's day, I'm worried I'll be considered some creep.
you could add transparent if all the historical data is available.

you could open if just about anyone is able to join.
Well, what's an interesting question about these systems is, "In a modern context where we understand science much better and have much more sophisticated materials available, could we use these principles?"

The real trick here is using available materials for heat storage, using air convection to circulate heat but not waste gas, and tightly limiting oxygen flow to make the most of minimal materials.

It's definitely not bad, from an efficiency standpoint, to be compared to rocket heaters. They're still some of the most efficient systems we have.
But can't you take any MIT or Apache (or similarly permissively licensed) project closed source anyway?
This isn't how gag orders (or, in the case of online services, NSLs) work. A gag order can compel you not to share data, but they cannot compel you to lie, let alone lie elaborately, as Apple and Amazon at this point would have to be for their denials to be false.

If Apple is lying here, they're lying because they want to, not because something is forcing them to. I believe them.
It's not as black and white as that. There's also evidence to prove the opposite. See: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/getting-more-l... for instance.

>The authors found that a given age cohort’s attitudes changed over time — more often later in life — and that “the direction of change is most often toward increased tolerance rather than increased conservatism.”
I've seen some monumentally stupid decisions happen because work was politicized, whether it's unnecessary work being done or potentially valuable projects being declined.

The difference I've personally seen in getting my projects through is my relationship with stakeholders; e.g., if one executive isn't on-board the project is toast. I've taken to communicating personally with potential naysayers early to consult with them to get their feedback but mostly to get the first impression over with before presenting it to a larger audience.
I hope socialist millennials manage to usher in some more basic and necessary socialist functions first. If only the US could manage a reasonably functional and equitable healthcare system and a fair and sustainable nationalized pension system.
It is a criminal offense in Germany to not file for insolvency in time.
Oh there is no confusion over who we are referencing.
It's a great point to be aware of, but the title and the tone implies that you as a contributor should be a FOSS maximalist.

As they say, not all open source is FOSS. And some people are OK with that. Let them contribute, as long as they are aware of the implications.

When I discover bugs in open-source projects during my day job (which is on a closed-source project), I will be much happier having those fixes merged upstream than having to maintain our own private fork.

> Free and open source software licenses grant explicit freedoms to three groups: the maintainers, the users, and the contributors.

This is not the case of all open source licenses. And that is fine. Don't assume all my work has to be part of your crusade. I will save that for the parts of my life where it makes sense - I am all-for the FOSS movement but there is no need to go full Stallman and say that everything but GPL is evil. If I believed that, I wouldn't be working on a closed-source project in the first place and then this piece would be fully relevant.

A much better title would be "Why I don't sign CLAs" or "The dangers of signing CLAs".
If you want to learn about an ancient solution to the opposite problem, air conditioning, I recommend this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
I've also sold an startup for millions... but not everyone is having it easy.

Many work in Amazon warehouse to meet their daily rent/food requirement. I can assure you many aren't happy with it.
Time to build also matters. How long does it take to build a storage mechanism for a solar/wind farm, vs the time to build a nuclear plant? What are the reasonable regulatory requirements? (Lest anyone be complaining about the ignorant treehuggers stopping nuclear plants, I think we can all agree that a nuclear plant is potentially more hazardous than pile of batteries, and should be regulated proportionally.) What are the up-front capital requirements of nuclear vs solar/wind + storage?

Another thing people need to keep in mind is we don't need enough storage to run the entire grid indefinitely. We just need enough to smooth the curve out to four nines or whatever number is deemed necessary. And while "the sun isn't always shining and the wind isn't always blowing", the wind is always blowing somewhere.
You can tell a lot about how a game is doing when you pay attention to the "let's play" videos on Youtube. People have been complaining about how short telltale games were, how they always look the same etc. for a while now. I'm surprised the company didn't try to do things even a little bit differently.

The gaming industry is a tough place to be. I have so much respect for game designers, 3D artists, animators. Because it takes a lot of time, skill, rendering and sleepless nights to get something good out. Unfortunately, most game companies are controlled by mediocre people at the top, who run things like a sweatshop.
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I saw figures that Bloomberg had 17 sources for this story. For that to in nay way be realistic, this must be a deliberate leak by the US government. Why would they put such a strong gag order on Apple/Amazon and then leak the information themselves? It makes no sense.
Keep in mind that that is an hour block of processing time. If a job only takes a few microseconds, that's a lot of jobs, and you don't have to (nor would you be able to) execute them in just one contiguous hour. You'd spread it out over a month as you refine your processes.

If you're in an industry that hopes to be able to get value from these machines one day, $2k is cheap.

If you're just a hobbyist, the minute or two of time they give you is enough to get started, and if you're good at it, you could probably arrange with one of the universities or national laboratories that have their own machine to get some time on there.
What made you change your mind? (lefty in mid 20s)
These systems do predate mass production of steel, so no surprise there.

It is interesting to contemplate what solar or geothermal variants of this system could do. Nearly every home has a crawlspace of those dimensions underneath the ground floor.
For a lot of economists price == value, so it doesn't really make sense to say something like a house is overvalued. This is particularly true with liquid, well traded securities like US equities. That's not to say the current price (value) won't ever change but -- generally -- you can't make consistent, exploitable predictions about them. Prices for equities generally take a "random walk" from where they are at any given moment.

For an interesting discussion about when and when this isn't the case the book Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky is pretty good.

https://equilibriabook.com/
There is a gray area there. But we are talking about translating an existing model program and algorithms, not looking at the program as a black box and recreating its behavior.

As the person who translated the Pascal Logo model to TI9900 assembler it was definitely the case that at the beginning of the project I translated every line of Pascal to a few instructions of assembler. By the end I was just looking at the gist of what a routine would do (its “contract” as they say) and writing it in assembler as you would new code.

It’s much like translating a literary work. There’s a famous quotation (which I’m not comfortable relating in full) about translations being either faithful or beautiful but not both.

Essentially maybe I became a fluent native speaker of 9900 assembler.
Transfer learning only works if the original model is in the same domain (e.g. ImageNet for images, GloVe for text). A bespoke problem likely won't have a widely-available original model.
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Good work + effectively and frequently talking with others is usually a recipe for success. Heck, even without the "good" modifier that's true.
World domination by Amazon is pretty scary
Do you have references for this? I really wonder if and why this might be true. If it is the working aspect of getting older that lures people to the right, the changes in work-life balance may also influence this.
It could be trivially done through technicalities.

For example if the exploit was found on the motherboard prior to it being deployed in servers that would be consistent with Apple's denial (not suggesting that's what happened here, but more as an illustration of how Apple being specific actually leaves more wiggle room than broad statements).
It's good science to analyze the long tail, even if we will never be on the long tail, because those extreme questions can have meaning in less extreme conditions.
I am all for receiving free stuff and not having to pay for it. The only problem is that is impossible (unless you are a nordic country where the government owns the black gold pumping industry. (even then its not sustainable))
I can second Target. Like Prime, you also get 5% off and you can open a debit card, if you don't want to open an extra credit card.
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I'm sitting on a few custom forks of open source tools (in which I've either fixed a bug or added a feature I needed) which I've more or less kept to myself because the process to contribute back to those projects is just enough of a PITA (due to CLAs and the like) that I can't overcome my apathy/laziness enough to spend the time/effort required to submit my changes and get them accepted.

Ah well.
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CLA intimidates people to contribute. It discourages contributions
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Superficial; after, at worst, a brief demonstration, a stereotypical Nokia would elicit a different response.
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That is a great point. Home Assistant has a ton of plugins. What we have though is an app that works out of the box, doesn't require poking holes in your router, and most importantly, we allow you to report on your home automation data for up to two years.
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I've been talking to academic neural net / ML experts in computer vision and OCR / NLP and the thing they try to stress is that for almost all cases an algorithmic approach works better.
Fwiw, I very much enjoyed the pictures. I enjoyed the levity.
Not OP but in a similar "boat"...largely paying for stuff (bills/mortgages/kids) and also taxes. Specifically on a 1099 basis (U.S.).

Not my quote but the smartest thing the U.S. government ever did was take out your taxes with each paycheck.

Still socially liberal (I mean who in 2018 actually isn't?) but definitely far more financially conservative than I used to be.
If you have a dependency for every function, you have slow start up times. If you also have a unit test for every function, you have a very slow test cycle. You can mitigate this by forking after startup. Can't use threads because they don't provide isolation between tests.
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Interesting. What about in the case where something clearly doesn't have the value that the price says - i.e. the dutch tulip bubble?
Co-author here. This post came out of a discussion with Adam, where we both realized that the advice we were giving to ML teams and ML Engineers to guide them to better results were very often process centric rather than model centric.

Many resources exist online about how to get a model to converge, and that’s not usually what makes or break a project.

Data acquisition, augmentation, model selection, and iterative exploration however seem quite rarely discussed compared to how important we have seen them be. This is our attempt at sharing this outside of our usual circles.
There is more than enough money to go around in the US. Just look at the wealth controlled by the top 1%. The only question is whether will we have a John Galt type of situation or not. A lot of people contend that this myth is total bullshit and Ayn Rand was an idiot.
You can even see it in author's comments in the original article:

"When I first looked at fp16 Inception3 was the largest model I could train. Inception4 blew up until I went back to fp32. Mixed precision needs extra care, scaling of gradients and such. Still I think it is a good thing. What I really want to test is model size reduction for inference with TensorRT targeted to tensorcores. I think that is probably the best use case. Non-linear optimization is just too susceptible to precision loss."

There was also some NVidia video presentation recommending mixed FP32/FP16 training instead of pure FP16.
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250 Mbps, Singapore, iPhone xs

https://i.imgur.com/nU4pSKN.png

However my iPhone 8 got 210 Mbps same carrier, same test location, 1 minute apart.
Legacy isn’t a good explanation because the instruction decoder that turns x86 instructions into microcode is basically a fixed cost and makes up a tiny portion of the silicon. Clearly there is room for innovation in the x86 sphere as well because the AMD Zen architecture was created brand new from scratch and has become very competitive.

The more likely explanation is that there is an exponential difficulty curve in CPU optimization and performance that Apple and their admittedly talented engineers are climbing very quickly.

When an Ax chip hits true desktop performance sooner than later, the limit of physics is going to slow down Apple just like it has Intel and AMD. There isn’t any magic they are going to be able to do that suddenly gives them a 2x IPC gain or huge frequency advantage.
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> I'm not saying EA hasn't done things I don't agree with, but I do believe they get more than their fair share of hatred on the internet.

Good will takes a year to earn but a second to lose.

I'm going to take issue with you and say that EA deserves every ounce of hate that it gets.

EA gets hate because it buys and screws up beloved franchises. EA gets hate because it has game properties that it is clearly milking that would be much better if they weren't in its hands. EA gets hate because it yanks critical content out of its games and makes it pay to download. EA gets hate because it (used to?) make you install their buggy pile of crap online service to play your single player mode game.

And their only defense is: "Well, everybody else does it too."

When your child makes that statement, you generally have a not terribly sympathetic reply. Why should EA get any more sympathy?
It's unlikely to take that long.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-...
> I am bad at both arting and coding.

Wish I was that bad.
It's worth noting a good rocket heater will have similar properties to a wood gassification system, which people may recognize as powerful enough and light enough to run converted service vehicles in the tail end of WW2.
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Unfortunately, Google has lost all of its goodwill with lack of software updates for their products, lack of battery/power efficiency, and constantly changing names, designs, apps. I tried it, people in my network tried to invest their time into it, at the end everyone just said screw it and went with Apple products. Bonus is Apple stuff re-sells for quite a bit also or lasts much longer, so effectively it doesn't actually cost more.

I know I sound like a fanboy, but after playing with Nexus phones, Xperia phones, Android tablets, Surface book, Lenovo Yogapad, I have decided that I no longer want to invest anymore time into figuring out how to get all of these to work the way I want them to, and the extra cost (if that) for Apple stuff is much cheaper than the time I used to waste on the other stuff.
> A CLA is a kick in the groin to a contributor’s good-faith contribution to the project.

I wouldn’t invest in a company that conducts business “on good faith.” That’s well and good in the domain of interpersonal interaction, but is irresponsible behavior from a company, which must do all it can to safeguard its assets and revenues.

And I don’t think I’m being soulless here. A company like Facebook is entrusted with and responsible for many people’s very livelihoods. As a corporation it must not behave casually. There’s no “in good faith” when you have millions of employees and investors.
Or at least accused of same. Which doesn't seem to be different in Chinese courts.
Clothing, too. I have so much White Stag clothing, Secret Treasures sleepwear is so good that I actually go out of my way to buy their soft nighties, and my favorite belts are NOBO.
You forgot quotes around the “anti” definitions. Tax evasion in China is often the equivalent of “counter-revolutionary activities” under Stalin: the blanket accusation to frame whoever has fallen from favour and has to be purged.
That seems fine to me. It's a good practice to start with hard-coded business rules instead of any kind of model, just to test the waters, collect some data, and see if a new feature even makes sense, before diving into building even the simplest model.
>We know that Hollywood cheats on the backend deals anyways in a philosophy known as "Hollywood accounting"

is this still a thing? if the studio is promising $50k + 5% of "profits", but you know that's going to be $0 because of hollywood accounting (which everyone does), why would you assign that "5% of profits" any value? as a rational actor, you would see the compensation as $50k, nothing more.
I think it depends entirely on the purpose of the CLA. Different licenses say different things. Some merely assert that the signer is contributing under the license under which the project is distributed. (Although you may consider it obvious, I am not aware of any existing case law in the US that asserts that submitting a patch necessarily comes with a grant of license to the copyright. And I can guarantee that there isn't case law in every jurisdiction around the world.) Other CLA purposes that seem reasonable to me include a guarantee that IF the contributor has a patent on the submitted code then a license to use that patent is granted to all users of the software.

Even if the CLA does contain text granting some organization which manages the code the right to re-distribute under some other license, I may well be comfortable with that. Sometimes projects choose to move to a new license (GPL v3 wouldn't exist without this). Sometimes a company chooses to offer commercial licenses in addition to free ones. My willingness to contribute under these conditions comes down to the degree to which I trust the organization (realizing that the organization may change, but that almost no human endeavor can be achieved without some level of trust).

On the other hand, if YOU wish to refuse to sign CLAs, you are certainly welcome to do that. But do not be surprised if some organizations reject your offers to contribute patches.
Maybe we can agree if people in positions like Larry Ellison's or Elon Musk's were hoarding money with the intention of funding medical research, setting up entities that make it difficult-to-impossible to blow it all on buying a Hawaiian island or lifting a car into space for entertainment, then we wouldn't be having this exchange.

If you look at the latest news stories about Memorial Sloan Kettering (ProPublica is a place to start) and conclude that the government should minimize involvement in medical research for the betterment humankind Because Competition... you will certainly find plenty of friends, I suppose
"Did you receive an NSL?"

You have been compel to lie, by the government, to answer "NO" if you've received one.

If you can be compelled to lie that you have received an NSL then I do not see why you can't be forced to lie more.

We already compelled speech, why not more?
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What good is basic income if a single medical bill can bankrupt you? We need to fix the healthcare system first!