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May 31, 2023
Written with Claude The challenges facing the adoption of autonomous vehicles are largely self-inflicted. Rather than redesigning our transportation infrastructure and systems around the capabilities of autonomous vehicles, we have insisted on maximum backward compatibility with
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https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/garett-jones/ One early insight [from Gary Miller’s Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy ] is that Arrow’s impossibility theorem applies to any kind of decision within a firm. If you have three top managers who are tr
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Investors price an asset by predicting the free cash flows (FCF) that the asset generates. Even if you expect to sell the business at some point, if you commit to the decision rule that you never sell unless the returns from a sale are greater than that from the FCF, then the FCF
Read postJune 18, 2017
Conclusion The Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay have opposite effects. Minimum Wage laws encourage concentrating work in less people, while Overtime Pay penalises the concentrating of work. For overtime pay laws to help the worker, you have to believe that businesses benefit from co
Read postMay 25, 2017
If you want to get N points uniformly distributed on some interval, but want to generate the randomness point by point.
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We can teach children to smell bullshit - Vox A good critical thinker is able to keep track of assumptions made when evaluating evidence, and over time builds up a collection of powerful and general assumptions that accelerate their accurate modelling of reality. Double-blind tes
Read postMay 19, 2017
That release and acquire surrounding the wait are how you allow one of the timelines to start slipping relative to the other one. Condition variables
Read postMay 16, 2017
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/14/why-amazon-is-eating-the-world/ Amazon benefits not only from the revenue from externalising its internal services, but also from the efficiency and oversight induced as a result. This is similar to the export-driven growth described in Joe Studw
Read postApril 22, 2017
http://www.economist.com/node/9688013 http://www.umac.mo/fba/irer/papers/past/vol11n1_pdf/Article%207.pdf For Singapore, it's around 5%. In Taiwan, it's north of 10%. This is a ridiculous hurdle for an investment. If you bought an apartment in Singapore and pay a 20% downpayment,
Read postJanuary 27, 2017
Wrote a Cython program to analyse a board game. 2 trillion combinations counted in ~30min on one 4GHz i7 core. 113 lines of Cython code. I've forgotten how fast C is.
Read postNovember 24, 2016
Why amazing video games could be causing a big problem for America Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets Hikikomori Econtalk: Prior to 1985, leisure patterns were increasing for both higher-educated and lower-educated workers. So--for both men and women
Read postNovember 19, 2016
Corporate Intellectualism is a bizarre imitation of Academic Intellectualism, embracing badly constructed abstractions and peddling platitudes which confer a vague sense of insight and understanding but do nothing to improve the quality of judgments. Popular business education ov
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