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> So a story which paints a very real picture of life (rather than constructing a narrative) might just be unpleasant. May be, but to someone going through similar life experiences an honest story …

Has there been any study that analyses the frequency of natural death of one shortly after death of his/her partner. How different is that compared to what one would expect assuming statistical i…

The data is the code. Training algorithm is the compiler. The weights are the byte code produced to run on the inference VM.

I know, right ? But there isn't.

> because the people trading with you thought the exchange was of equal value, or they wouldn't have engaged in it If this was true I would have emphatically agreed with you on all counts. But…

That's too naive. Laws work differently once you have billions of dollars. They can and will be bent and politicians will be too happy to do that for you. It's win win for both. Ignoring thi…

Almost in violent agreement. Disagree about the billionaire bit. Accumulates too much power too narrowly. Then one can subvert the market and rule of law. It seems the line lies somewhere between a hu…

I accept the criticism in name but cannot invalidate a lived experience just because it has not been quantified accurately. > majority of that middle class moved on to the upper class Is this true …

Come on, no way you can claim that. Let's take a Principal Engineer. A bad choice to make my case with, because among others, they do pay rather well. For a Principal Engineer, it is sort of a jo…

I would agree with your statement regarding politics that rests solely on wealth distribution of the populist kind. Wealth needs to be created so that one has something to add to everyone's bag.

Indeed. It has rarely (if at all) worked out for any other country though. One or the other super power will make sure that does not happen. US scuttling Iran's nationalisation of their oil being…

For what it's worth they are my words not Picekty's. It does not matter what it's called. The buck stops at the basket of goods and services I can buy. As long as this basket of goods a…

> My point is that the pie is growing and all are benefitting. This is the main point of contention though. Earlier generation middle class seems to have been larger and more financially secure. …

> laborer gets paid for the value he creates Not true at all. Most labourers have nowhere close the pricing power necessary for this to be true. Information is obfuscated (legally of course) on pu…

Counterfactuals no, but one can make good-faith scientific attempts. We don't because we are locked by ideologies.

Too much latency in information flow. Too high a variance. Worse is that one can double bet on the same underlying asset on different exchanges (like taking out multiple insurance policies on the same…

That's money and not wealth and its a flow not stock and denominated in something that can depreciate, has it even been priced correctly ? I grant you that it is very hard to measure ownership of…

Another way is to learn from what Norway is doing right and see what can be replicated. Norway is not a sole example though, just a prominent one.

Grain prices are today set by derivative markets that have very little connection to actual produce.

In a hypothetical free market yes. But we don't have one. We have k-polies for small k. I have come to doubt whether free market is even possible. The rich will use their wealth to ensure (by cor…

Norway seems to be doing swell.

I agree that's the theory. It used to be mostly true in the past, but given current valuations it does not look true at all. My worry is that we are not creating enough new wealth but just distri…

Let me address the second part. If we define wealth as it's often used colloquially -- the amount of liquid cash one has -- then your potential share of the pie of goods and services shrinks. Thi…

Would have loved a post on working out the geometry of the projection, especially if it accounted for transitions of ceiling to wall. That would be fun. The surface through which one is projecting is …

There was a good blog post on how the category theoretic ideas behind this applies to data frames What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames https://mchav.github.io/what-categor…

Individual choices is what I try to make but that's not enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352666

I agree with you. Acts of terrorism are black swan events. Question is do we as humanity have the stomach to not act on low probability cues and eat the one off consequences. I don't think we d…

What would have been your estimated odds, of a plane hitting twin towers out of malice, a day before 9/11 happened. I agree with your comments more often than not, I empathize with your annoyance…

Propaganda is a very important part of terrorism so I would not put that past them. Imagine the headlines if something like that does happen in the future. In short, a Pascal's wager and a demons…