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> I am not sure why would you need to take money (behind seed) even for a growth business.

> why not compete with Google or Amazon in what they think is their next market?

These two things are at odds, because your startup generally can't compete with the likes of Google and Amazon because you simply don't have the resources that they do. VC money evens the playing field a bit, so at least you have a chance at getting your product out there and getting real customers before BigCo eats you alive. You can't have it both ways.
> You’re not going to teach your dog relativity with back propagation

What do you mean? RNN's can be taught to do math using BP[1]. Heck, you can do a simple version yourself in less than an hour[2]. They can't do tensor calculus yet (AFAIK) but there doesn't seem be any reason why BP in particular would be the stumbling block; the difficulty is finding the right representation.

> yet we treat BP like it was going to solve all the problems in AI

Except for reinforcement learning which does not use BP to solve the Bellma equations[3], AlphaZero which uses minimax[4], AutoML based on non-gradient methods such as bayesian optimization[5], etc. Research into CNNs and RNNs for image, text, and voice processing does tend to focus on BP, but not inappropriately so considering that that approach continues to make rapid progress in those domains.

> Until we start focusing more on neural architecture I have no worries about AI taking over the world.

I can't tell if you're arguing for or against. Are you suggesting that we should focus more on "neural architecture" so that AI can take over the world? Or are you approving of the current narrow focus for reasons of safety?

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.08590.pdf

[2] https://machinelearningmastery.com/learn-add-numbers-seq2seq...

[3] https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-various-reinf...

[4] https://www.depthfirstlearning.com/2018/AlphaGoZero

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_optimization
3 beers, a side item, a tip and 2 Ubers could take the total bill to $70. Now if you live in a walking distance (probably somewhere in the middle of the action in a walkable place like NYC) that could cut down the costs. This might explain why dense cities have more nightlife. It's cheaper both from a $ and effort perspective to go out.
I haven't read the entire paper, but it's here: https://psyarxiv.com/a5fgu

The main results are an interaction between Time (pre/post) and Diary condition (3rd person/1st person), t = 2.65, p = .008. They followed this up with a contrast showing that the 3rd person diary condition resulted in more wise reasoning post-intervention (as compared to pre-intervention), B = 0.130, SE = 0.028, t = 4.61, p < 0.0001. And importantly, this same improvement was not seen in the 1st person diary control group: B = 0.022, SE = 0.030, t = 0.74, p = 0.458.

They didn't provide degrees of freedom for their t-tests, but given their sample size (N=298) they're essentially z-tests anyway.
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Like most people, I'm going to keep using the word "homoiconic" because it is a useful term.

The article just shows that if you insist on an absurdly strict definition you end up with nonsense. Even the "strings" based definition doesn't work if you're being especially literal, since there are no strings, there are just electrical fields that may or may not be in physically nearby places.

Everything in software is, at some level, an abstraction. And that's okay.

S-expressions are merely a textual representation; Lisp systems don't normally store exactly the text representation. So what? The upshot is that homoiconic representations make certain kinds of transformations easy to use, understand, and display... and that's what people mean today.

I agree that homoiconicity is not strictly boolean, but that doesn't make it a useless concept.
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This is the truth. It's also why Twitter, Google et al censored radical Islamic content and worked with the government to identify extremists.
It's really curious to me to hear someone not only describe their inner voice in such a negative way but also to have gained that voice later in life. Like many, I'm an almost entirely verbal thinker so the voice is non stop and has been with me since day one. The only thing that stops it is to listen to other voices, which is why I listen to podcasts and audiobooks to fall asleep (and it works super well) :-D
> especially with corruption and conspiracy at the heart of our biggest national news stories (Epstein, the Mueller Report, mass shootings), and the platforms themselves functioning as petri dishes for outlandish, even dangerous conspiracy theories to flourish

Now the media uses the word "conspiracy" to try to delegitemize all media, sources, narratives and stories they disagree with. "Trump posts conspiracy theory on Twitter." "Without proof, Trump makes claims."

The NY Times pushed the biggest conspiracy of all: Russian collusion. Bombshell after supposed bombshell fell as the Times and CNN and other anti-Trump media braced us for the crushing outcome of that would come with the Mueller report. And then it turned out to be nothing. Zero.
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Except we know exactly why Trump is looking to do this: truth hurts and people saying the truth about him is painful for him. He wants the Fox and Breitbart perspective to be given equal weight as if it is worthy of the attention. It isn’t. Google for example has shown time and time again that they do not prioritize a specific political point of view.
AM3 is not for APUs, though. FM2 is.
Maybe I’m just different, but if someone told me a language was good because it’s easy to parse, that would not strike me as a particularly compelling argument in favor of that language. Unless I was about to write a parser for it, I guess.
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Why should speech be protected from those speaking it? This is a great way to literally put words into someone else’s mouth.
This seems to contradict the simple observation that, by and large, the poorer a country the more biodiversity it has.
I feel you seriously underestimate our intelligence apparatus and its controllers.

If this was an enemy of the US in a foreign jail would you feel differently?
I understand the argument. I'm saying it is incorrect.
That’s a rhetorical question. This isn’t Reddit.
I greatly dislike touch screens in vehicles for the same reason. Still can't believe they are allowed
Given the available evidence, no.
Related anecdote: I've always found that I'm able to make clearer judgments about situations, when someone else is going through them. It's much harder when I'm the subject of the story.

I guess the difference is that your mental context is so much more developed when you're thinking about yourself (not in the 3rd person). You have skin in the game, maybe it's that you're worried about the outcome of the situation, or it's just stressing you out, or you're thinking about how it will affect your friends/family/the rest of your life. So when you view it from an outsider's perspective, and throw away all that mental "noise", you have a clearer head and can make better decisions with the long-term in mind.

Alternatively, if you're going through something, you could try imagining someone else in the same situation (make up someone if you have to) -- What advice would you give to them? Then use that advice for yourself.
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It's really interesting to watch establishment media congeal around the notion that any speculation of foul play -- or indeed any deviation from the official line of "whoops he killed himself lol" -- is "baseless," to be placed in a category of "conspiracy theories" alongside chemtrails and reptilian overlords, a tragic consequence of the internet's proclivity to spread viral fake news, etc.

I mean, here you had a potential witness who we know may have had the goods on a member of the British royal family and a former U.S. Senator and state Governor, just from the slight trickle of documents that have made it out to the public (in addition to the Miami Herald reporter, we also have conspiracy nutbar Mike Cernovich to thank for that). Both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump had long associations with him. The source of his wealth is an utter black box, which suggests at the very least an absurdly rich benefactor, if not an extensive blackmail scheme or even support from some state actor. There's practically an entire army division's worth of people with their hands on the levers of power who may have had everything to lose if Epstein made it to trial. And Epstein himself was an unrepentant sociopath with delusions of grandeur who hardly fit the profile of a defendant who would off himself.

So far, all we've been told is that he was inexplicably not under 24/7 monitoring, that there may not even be conclusive video evidence of activity in and around his cell, and the body was taken to a hospital somewhere. And we're supposed to think it's just completely off-the-reservation crazy to cast doubt on the official narratives here? Even to think that maybe someone helped create the conditions at the prison under which it was even possible for Epstein to kill himself?

Literally half the world predicted this would happen in the first place! So color me a bit unconvinced that what the conspiracy theories really demonstrate is that the hoi polloi don't know how to distinguish fact from fiction on the internet. And if Bill Clinton didn't want to feature in those theories, well, maybe he could have not taken quite so many rides on the Lolita Express.

Of course, this is all coming from many of the same media sources which spent the first two years of Trump's presidency barking up the tree of secret Russian pee tape kompromat and Putin as the secret puppetmaster of Manchurian Candidate Trump.
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I received a great piece of advice once. A person asked "If you had a child you loved that looked up to you that was struggling with something, would you be encouraging, patient and instructive to them or would be vicious, degrading, or abusive? --- Of course it would be the former. . . now treat yourself that way."

+1 for "Feeling Good". It is the book that kicked off CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and it gives you great perspective to seemingly simple questions like: what do most people feel, expect, and how to do they treat themselves? When I realized what a counterproductive jerk my inner voice was, I toned it down and it is far more productive now.
I find it a bit depressing, really.

He has multiple publications in unified mathematics and physics related to his discoveries of quasi-prime numbers (a new classification for prime numbers), the world’s first predictive algorithm determining infinite prime numbers, and a unification wave-based theory connecting and correlating fundamental mathematical constants such as Pi, Euler, Alpha, Gamma and Phi.

This is his publications page:

https://www.robertedwardgrant.com/publications

There is one preprint on arxiv and the rest seem to be self-hosted. So "multiple publications" seems to mean "stuff I put on the internet". The titles of the articles are also very hard to take seriously. "Four-Fold Mirror-Symmetry Inherent to the Icositetragon Distribution of Numbers" sounds like something that should be submitted to "The Journal of the Numerology Society" (A. Crowley ed.) and "Unified Mathematics, Geometry and Music" is basically a collection of occult diagrams.

Also: typeset in MS Word.
> What game do you want to play with your life? ... just-collect-a-paycheck-and-get-your-fulfillment-elsewhere game

This sort of rhetoric shows how much of entrepreneurship isn't really about like, making money. It's meaningless emotional warble-garble, a kind of psychological warfare that people do to themselves to stay happy in a system of really emotionally punishing rules of one-upmanship.

Like one funded founder I know, I asked him straight, "Are you motivated by acting out college-age vengeances against your peers?" and he said yes! It's not really about, "I don't want that Google engineer lifestyle," because that person does, he just wasn't qualified (in some narrow sense) to do that. He just failed at it.

A lot of people don't grow out of that.

And it's not just limited to people who didn't pass the Google interview. There are plenty of Google engineers who said to, e.g., studying medicine in college, "I don't want that doctor lifestyle," when really they did not perform competitively in their first-year life sciences class! Medicine dropouts everywhere!

The startup handbook materials seem so incomplete. They don't honestly engage with the emotions of their audience, which is overwhelmingly disaffected college-educated 20-40 year old men of means.

In fact, the reason your rhetoric is so appealing is because it doesn't put these emotional things out into the open. It amplifies the weird psychological warfare, it doesn't question it.

The right question isn't, what kind of game you want to play? It starts with what a therapist would ask, "Why are you here today?" to lead to "Why do you think you're unhappy?", questions that make the audience of your line of thinking deeply uncomfortable and something to be avoided.
Can confirm. I was a nuke in the Navy and four hours was probably the most amount of sleep I ever got underway. You work 12-14 days underway and stand 8 and 8 watches then have to wait an hour in line to get chow and then they run drills that the whole ship has to participate in. If you can do get any sleep it's because you hide in the bilge and sleep on pipe or in a ac room.
Looks like something positive is happening.
There's a decent argument to be made that the over-consumption which leads to the obnoxious behaviors is a result of the laws that make drinking a rebellious activity.
dnscurve never made an impact unfortunately :(
Yeah, this is definitely what all that "America first" and "Make America Great Again" stuff was about. Isolationism, pure and simple. Short term, it looks like a good strategy that benefits the own country. Long term, you lose potential partnerships and access to great workers, who will now be elsewhere, in competition with you. But I guess that will be someone else's problem, so why should a politician care?
It's not. I'm just not going to accept authoritative arguments on security, sorry. If you have actual technical reasons, please give them. If you don't, that's fine too.
It's 2,806% for AMZN. Survivorship bias combined with arbitrary time windows can yield very impressive numbers.
Speaking here in the US, if you don't have a local coffee shop your neighborhood is probably not very vibrant, and lots of business happens in these local coffee shops. I host meetings at my local coffee shop all the time and see others doing the same thing. Even if all you have is Starbucks, there's still tons of meetings that happen at Starbucks and you're not likely to be hassled to leave.

I'm much more likely to be pushed out the door at my local brewery or bar than I am at a coffee shop. If I had to guess it's because coffee tends to be a grab-and-go whereas beer cannot be served in a to-go cup so it has to be served and consumed inside the building with few alternatives if the seats are all full.
I usually use the first person plural, in textbook/journal style, ie "we". You can pretend you're teaching a student sat next to you - eg if you're rubber ducking code. But even if I'm pair programming or in a review I'd probably revert to we rather than I.

Also good practice for whiteboarding, giving presentations, basically any situation where you need to explain yourself to others.
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There's a hookah bar by my apartment that has just the vibe I crave from a coffee shop. It takes ~1 hour to smoke a whole hookah, and you can go with some friends, socialize, work quietly, and they don't blast music. I believe it's like that because it's next to a university and usually full of students. Other ones around me aren't like that.

Unfortunately, it comes with some dangers...nicotine.
If farmers couldn't increase yields they wouldn't buy all of that expensive chemical stuff. If you could farm without buying chemicals or reducing yields, you should go out and do it, you would put everyone else out of business and make a killing.
I suspect there is support for what you are trying to say. However your communication style is unclear (especially the over use of sarcasm and rhetorical questions) and you don't actually try to support any of the points you do make. I don't see it as a positive contribution to the conversation so I down voted you.
I had a Honda Accord with a cracked radiator.... It defrosted right quick, but idling it after it warmed up was very ungood. After the radiator was replaced defrost went back to normal.
Good article, but the response to the last question on the use of cannabis in warfare is pretty thoroughly wrong: https://sensiseeds.com/en/blog/cannabis-may-used-weapon-war/
Life can change. That 'hot start-up' that morphed into something that employs you and a bunch of others might be less than what you and your investors hoped for but still substantially more than nothing.
The H1B program was being abused for corporate greed.
What's the simple explanation for why he was not under constant surveillance when the whole world knew there was a huge risk he'd wind up dead before trial?
Indeed they are poisoned: few ppl trust the mass media.

Because, honestly, as a jailer, how could you f up more than having Epstein hang himself? A man who, before he hung himself everone thought: “wouldn’t it be convenient if he got suicided?” Why did we think this way? Let’s see:

-Women who have credibly accused this man have also accused a Prince of the UK - a power structure that it’s known has shielded pedos for decades (BBC, Thatcher’s cabinet, liberal party leader).

- The sleaziest two presidents since Johnson (or maybe ever!) are involved with this asshole.

- His lawyer (Alan Dersowitch), one of the most important constitutional lawyers in the US, is accused to having been partaken in the abuse. A.D. has behaved quite bizarrely with his request to unseal and keep sealed court records.

- The original court case was sealed!

Also, a la Harvey Weinstein fiasco, everyone in his circle appear to have known about his peccadillos with children

Now he’s conveniently dead. And I’m supposed to prostrate at the NYT, who didn’t break this story, when they tell me there’s nothing to see?

Ha!
Doesn't have to make it to court for them to strongarm you into a settlement. The threat of a lawsuit is enough for many to agree on a settlement just so it doesn't go to court, even if you'd likely win as a defendant. Lawyers are expensive and so is the appeals process.
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I don't think they have any more access to the inner workings of a SpaceX rocket than you'd get from a Google search. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the inner workings are classified. It definitely at least falls under ITAR
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From this it seems he was there at least until 2011:
https://news.chapman.edu/2011/05/16/jerry-lewis-among-commen...

PR when he was appointed in 2010:
https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/bausch-and-lomb-na...

Clearly the guy made a fortune from Botox, knows how to leverage that success and build an organization around buzzwords that attract investor money.

To be fair, is that any worse than Silicon Valley VC?
That's mismanagement to wait until the day you are out of money to inform your employees.
We are still a small company of 40+ people and have quite unprecedented issues with H-1Bs, from transfer though extension. Literally every single H-1B extension or transfer got slapped by RFE. The amount of documents we had to produce to prove that an employee, who works for us for 3 years, is still valuable, is just mind-blowing.

BTW we got RFE equally for people that are from Europe and India.

PS: because it was brought up by someone in this thread, we don’t employ immigrants to save money. Check any of my “who is hiring” posts [0] and you can see, that we pay equally across the US to all employees based on their skill level. We bring immigrants because we’re having hard times finding skilled workers locally. The competition for talent is quite brutal and we just can’t pay the same as FAANG.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20587535
So the solution is to start your own business, and then your customers will rule tyour life.
Modern science has increased yield for corn by a factor of 8: https://images.app.goo.gl/QfcFrk4nvu7uw6M67. I’m only 35 and it’s doubled in my lifetime.
Ah, didn't know that, TIL!
As we've discussed previously, the other mail providers are being forced to comply with Google's proprietary format since Google holds a near monopoly on email and they want to remain compatible. It isn't a defense for Google's behavior.

And Google has communicated in multiple other ways that it thinks websites should be developed exclusively in AMP, a replacement of the open standard everyone agreed upon in HTML5.
> But it comes with the side effect of gaining a voice in your head. And that voice is a fucking vicious asshole to me. In the recent years the thoughts even started subvocalizing and I have to forcefully remember to make it stop.

I don't know your exact situation, but perhaps you should just let the voice do its thing?

Just make sure it doesn't stop halfway through. I mean, if it wants to be a critical asshole that picks apart every little thing you think about, awesome! Because it, too, is something that you're thinking about, and presumably it ought to pick itself apart with the same ferocity.

I mean, if your inner critic isn't critiquing its own criticisms, then that sounds like it's not being critical enough.

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To add, this problem is intrinsic to governments, where checks-and-balances are needed. For example, we can't have a government or police force that's beyond scrutiny; if anything, a government/police-force must be harsher and more unforgiving of itself than of the population it governs/polices.

Likewise, your inner critic has to be harsh with itself. It has to critique itself for what it does, including the costs it imposes on you in terms of taking your time-and-energy, much as a government must regulate its own budget to remain sustainable.

And if it's starting to screw up your life, and its existence is making stuff worse for you, then that's empirical proof that it's messing up. That it needs to get more aggressive at critiquing whatever it's doing wrong that makes your life worse.
There's nothing factually wrong with your opinion. I understand it and respect it. For me, I believe that platforms as massive and widespread as Facebook or Twitter distort the free-market ruleset, and that some amount of regulation is in fact healthy for the industry they participate in and society as a whole.

Once we get to take a look at the actual text, we'll be able to have rational, reasoned discussions about whether this particular regulation is healthy, or unhealthy.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/former-mcc-inmate-theres-no-wa...

> There’s no way that man could have killed himself. I’ve done too much time in those units. It’s an impossibility. Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There’s no way for you to connect to anything. You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen. Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars. They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death. You want to write a letter, they give you rubber pens and maybe once a week a piece of paper.

It's just as likely that he was murdered, and certainly more likely that he permitted to kill himself than that it just happened by accident.