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Yes, 100%. Also, many universities will find it impossible to recruit new faculty as most Ph.D. students are international students who end up working in American universities.

NYT has a nice calculator to help you decide renting v buying. US only. It is updated until July 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal... …

It is baked into the cost and you know it up front. That's the ceiling I am talking about.

Not ALL. Besides, apartment management operates on a different scale altogether. Individual homeowners will never be able to match that.

> Living in Germany, I do have quite a few protections as a renter. My landlord can't arbitrarily hike prices, etc. A few years ago, I became quite interested in buying an apartment in Germany…

> Here where I live the minimum price for rent is monthly mortgage installement, meaning that you'll pay for rent at least as much as you'd pay for mortgage. When you own, the mortgage pa…

Abstract: Statistical significance is often interpreted as providing greater information than nonsignificance. In this article we show, however, that rejection of a point null often carries very littl…

> You don't have to believe in climate change, the Insurance company will believe in it for you This is spot on. I once commented on a WSJ article reporting a similar story. The climate change…

> the text of the email reads like one you'd get from npm in the tone, format and lack of obvious spelling & grammatical errors. As a university professor whose email address is public, I&…

But you need a counterfactual to that claim, isn't it? If people did not use weighing scales then maybe they would be even more unhealthy.

I second this. I tried to use Tor browser for a day in place of my regular browser. Many websites wouldn't open and the ones that dud asked me to fill in thousand captchas.

Causal Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap for Building Causally Intelligent Systems Author: Elias Bareinboim This textbook offers a comprehensive treatment of the principles, algorithms, and tools nec…

I didn't show up on the first Saturday when I started my Ph.D. program. Next Monday, a professor from _another_ department stopped by my desk to tell me that assistant professors and Ph.D. studen…

Here is the code used in the book - https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch

Can you please recommend basic tutorials for working with Pi? I completely missed learning about it all these years. I have decent knowledge of electronics and programming.

I am convinced that by forcing employees to RTO, managers are converting meaningful work into bullshit jobs[1], thereby harming not only the employees but also the companies. At a macro level, this hu…

Robert Long summarized the inputs from various sources and people in this thread. I think this is an excellent summary and I have been telling many of these points to my students for some time now. Un…

I like Dirk Eddelbuettel and Jonathan Gilligan's version better: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/tint https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tint&…

Thanks. Diff view sounds useful

This might come off as a naive question so pardon me in advance for my ignorance. I got Claude Max just last week and I have been using it in the MacOS Terminal app. I also used it in Zed and VS Code …

BYD is going to win this race unless Tesla introduces new car models. BYD is a better investment too. The stock is up almost 300% in the last 5 years while Tesla is up 140%.

Thanks! I will check this out.

> Sidenote: What you want for RAG is not OCR as-in extracting text. The task for RAG preprocessing is typically called Document Layout Analysis or End-to-End Document Parsing/Extraction. Got i…

Ok, thanks for sharing. I will take a look.

I will try it out. Is this the correct library? - https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous I have used Gemini for OCR and it was indeed good. I also used GPT 3.5 and liked that too…