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It's not like junk was a part of the name right?

> even when not needed

Examples? Every time I see kubernetes pop up it's because of better performance or lesser costs.

Well understood? I doubt many organizations had a pandemic SOP/DRP before 2020.

> The laws are indeed strict but seldom enforced.

This is true of most strict rules elsewhere: they're there but seldom enforced. Take speed limits, they're strict, but good luck enforcing them. All we do is we monitor from time to time and give tickets. Yet we could enforce this to the manufacturers, right? Why can a car go beyond the speed limit if it's strictly prohibited?

We cannot compare working conditions as is, but they're easy to compare when you take time into account: how where our labor laws a couple of generations ago? Not that different than poor countries today.

> Born and raised in China.

The OP made a good point that applies to all poor countries I've lived in: those jobs are the only (even the best) way out for most people to get out of poverty, which they do to help their families/children/themselves.

Maybe you were raised in a family that did not need to go through such hard labor, but that doesn't mean your right in your view of your own world ;)

P.S. I was also born and raised in a poor country.

Exactly, but why do so many people seem to have a problem with this? Sounds like a political problem to me instead of a scientific one.

> from a zero-comprehension state is more likely to get you to a goal than an evolution from a state that has at least some correctness.

I get that starting from a point with "some correctness" makes sense if you want to use such information (e.g. a standard starting point). However, such information is a preconceived solution to the problem, which might not be that useful after all. The fact is that you indeed might not at all need such information to find an optimal solution to a given problem.

> by setting a goal and a context we have already applied constraints.

I might be missing your point here since the goal and constraints must come from the real world problem to solve which is independent from the method to solve the problem. Unless you're describing p-value hacking your wait out, which is a broader problem.

The problem with preconceptions about your parameters is that you might be missing some crazy cool path to your goal, which you might find by randomly exploring your sample space. I remember seeing this same principle in mcmc samplers using uniform priors. Why is this so crazy?

> would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people (while improving the convenience for everyone else).

Wasn't this the same kind of argument we used in the past to justify slavery?

> more to me like "suck it up or get out, princess".

Different wording, but same message though. It sounds like the two options are fundamentally the same, regardless of the wording.

Do you mind to elaborate a bit?

Great advice! Where do you see more opportunities in the near future, ML?

> Burning it produces all kinds of toxins from impurities and carbon.

Which can be trapped/filtered to avoid pollution.

> if plastics ever become sufficiently valuable - or recycling sufficiently viable.

If that was remotely probable, you'd have banks offering plastic-storage related ETFs already.

I've got a set of sand timers (1 to 30 min) to handle such interruptions. Depending on how long it'll take me to finish what I'm working on, I'll just use one of those timers as currency to buy me the couple minutes I need to git commit my way out.

Seems like a communication issue though, just explain to them how important it is for you to focus uninterrupted and hopefully they'll respect you.

Yeah I forgot this is my workaround whenever I use vim through wsl2 to avoid handling the never ending display issues.

Funny, I use tmux all day long because it allows me to navigate out of vim without a mouse. So far I can handle most of my pane resizing needs with prefix + space bar. Otherwise I'll just launch a new window. Maybe I'm just allergic to the mouse.

> leaving the other hand free for sipping coffee and taking notes.

That explains why my coffee ends up cold and abandoned most of the time!

I've been using nvim for around 5 years for everything I do on a computer other than web browsing. It feels like I'm missing something here, but why would you ever need a mouse within your terminal? I don't recall never ever needing it :/

I didn't think deeply about this back then since my parameter estimates where close/better than the literature I compared to, but now I'm interested in checking the distribution of those NaN/inf. If I recall correctly they were uniformly distributed throughout an adaptive phase.

When building a mcmc sampler I was too lazy to properly code a matrix approximation needed to avoid some mathematical black hole and the corresponding underflow. It was cheaper to just ignore the faulty simulations.

Turns out our results were better than the papers we compared to, both in time and precision.

I am not that familiar with ml, but can't you just ignore those faulty weights?

> The market cap is now $100M.

In your dreams only. Good luck finding any serious (aka "smart") money willing to take your valuation seriously. With such due diligence you're likely to be the only one hodling $FOO ;)

I agree, I rather wake up earlier to work on side projects/study than working late at night. This way it's the job that feels like an extra and not the other way around.

It does though. Once a new money-making strategy is found to work by a market participant, others will try that same path (it's a competition).

The fact that so many companies are moving to the subscription model shows that it works better than others.

I agree, isn't it way easier to switch vendors when running on the cloud? I'd say that encourages competition, since we can literally move the infrastructure using keystrokes instead of muscles.

This makes me think computer infra could potentially become a commodity.

It's informative ! Until you say "but", where it becomes meaningless.

I kinda applied this for my thesis. Advisor got really mad, rejected my draft and gave me an annotated version using a red pen (first time, it was blue til then).

I couldn't be happier : he caught way too many little details I didn't have time for, and explained the important details I didn't have interest in.

I submitted the new version around a month after that and it went smoothly.

Guess who saved a lot of work :)

This one is really powerful I agree ! I'm still amazed by the power of being extra nice to rude people.

I've found that it also helps to be as explicit as you can when communicating your politeness btw.

> due to variations in atmospheric composition, temperature, pressure and conditions, observed values may vary from calculations.

Isn't this exactly the problem that can be better solved using real power data instead of values expected from theory ?

> Most people learn that by grade 10.

We wish! Most of the students I've known outside of stem will make sure they prove you wrong ;)