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  1. Feb 2021
    1. If my third vote for A costs me four times as much as your first vote for A, why on earth would we not make a deal?

      If the vote-buyer can't confirm the seller's vote, than no deal can be done

    2. If he has ever designed a mechanism that anyone has ever used, I was unable to locate it on his CV. It is a long CV, so perhaps the fault is mine.

      Gitcoin grants

  2. Jan 2021
  3. Oct 2020
    1. This is not mere speculation – for instance, research reviewed by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler shows that people will pay more for an item with a credit card than with cash. Arguably, a little friction to slow us down would have enabled both institutions and individuals to make better financial decisions.

      this seems misguided. the problem here is that people are geared towards short-term vs. long-term. The former is not a good state, its also what leads to climate change, when people value nearer timeframes than further ones

  4. Feb 2020
    1. I love house music and dancing until I can't any longer — here's a Spotify playlist of 600 tracks I like and a bunch of mixes I love on SoundCloud.

      HOW DID I KNOW. I'm really exciting to run into rob at the club potentially rolling his face off

  5. Dec 2019
    1. Writers no longer have to submit to publishers and editors to reach readers; now they can go direct.

      Potentially leading to misinformation and truth by popular vote. Authorities are not necessarily the problem (in this case) as much as the lack of transparency in that authority's rationale.

  6. Nov 2019
    1. That said, this has not been tested under serious attacks

      Reminds me of the comments made in lex fridmin interview with ?, where they discuss that the union of morally evil and competent is actually a small number of people. I wonder if blockchain maybe assumes too much of those interested.

      They were talking in the context of nuclear detonations or AI, which would effect a large number of people... but assuming that ETH does provide a non-gov option, it's destabilization might affect even more.

  7. Oct 2019
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    1. On the other hand, aprediction intervalcanbeusedtoquantifythepredictionintervaluncertainty surroundingsalesfor aparticularcity

      Why does this correspond to estimating the irreducible error as described above?

      In Chapter 2, we referred to this as the irreducible error. How much will Y vary from ˆY? We use prediction intervals to answer this question.

    2. Notice that in Table 3.4, for each individual predictor a t-statistic anda p-value were reported

      Are these derived from the multiple or single linear regression?

    3. WhenH0is trueand the errorsihave a normal distribution, the F-statistic follows anF-distribution.

      This is the F statistic across different models/coefficients?

    4. In fact, we can see from the right-hand panel of Figure 3.3 that the average of many least squares lines, eachestimated from a separate data set, is pretty close to the true populationregression line.

      The average regression line is not actually shown in 3.3

    5. the risk of an adversereaction might vary for a given patient on a given day,

      are either of the subsequent examples "unmeasurable" or is it that they were simply not measured? Meaning does all irreducible error refer to variables not measured?

    6. The horizontal dashed line indicates Var(),the irreducible error in (2.3), which corresponds to the lowest achievabletest MSE among all possible methods.

      How is it determined that this value should be at 1?

    1. The difference between length and capacity matters, but not in this context, so for now, it’s fine to ignore the capacity.

      follow up on my this matters later, or how it can differ

  9. Sep 2019
    1. Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

      is this effectively do unto other as you would have them do unto you? or be the change you want to see in the world?

    1. Another neat feature of Cargo is that you can run the cargo doc --open command, which will build documentation provided by all of your dependencies locally and open it in your browser.

      This is awesome! Wouldn't it be great if JS did this? lol

  10. May 2019
    1. Since 2008 there has been almost a threefold rise in the share of men under the age of 30 who claim to be having no sex. At the same time, the portion of sexless women increased by only 8%.

      Odd to give a relative measure of change in one example, and an absolute measure of change in another, especially when you're meant to compare the two.