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have-a-break commented on ML on Apple ][+   mdcramer.github.io/apple-... · Posted by u/mcramer
magic_hamster · 3 months ago
A million things.

Diffusion, back propagation, attention, to name a few.

have-a-break · 3 months ago
Back prop and attention are just extensions of interpolation.
have-a-break commented on What happens when housing prices go down?   clmarohn.substack.com/p/w... · Posted by u/chmaynard
postflopclarity · 5 months ago
> the experience for everyone becomes worse in a multitude of ways.

your analogy requires the assumption that the stadium is already "at capacity" for the maximum comfortable number of seats

99% of American municipalities are nowhere even close to this capacity.

have-a-break · 5 months ago
Even worse, a lot of municipalities are losing population. But no-one wants to drop everything in their lives and move to a dying city, specially not high intelligence individuals who tend to gather causing home prices to skyrocket. Worse, those individuals tend not to buy into the types of housing typically seen by large developers building "relief" housing.
have-a-break commented on What happens when housing prices go down?   clmarohn.substack.com/p/w... · Posted by u/chmaynard
rwarfield · 5 months ago
This article is a mess. From the third paragraph:

> What happens when prices actually start to fall? Because that’s not just a hypothetical. It’s already happening in places like Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas...

Then two paragraphs later

> In The Atlantic, Rogé Karma recently pointed out that housing prices are rising fastest in the very cities once seen as escapes from high-cost coasts, places like Phoenix and Dallas...

So which is it?

There is truth to the fact that the way the housing market is intertwined with the financial markets creates some risk, but those risks are manageable - a nationwide downturn in housing prices is exactly the kind of scenario addressed by the Fed's stress tests for banks.

The article is full of bizarre logic. An increase in housing supply leads to a fall in prices, which leads to a fall in supply? No, in fact the conclusion contradicts the premise. The author is making the classic econ 101 mistake of confusing the supply curve (which is supply as a function of price) and quantity supplied.

And finally the author explains his own solution which is... an increase in supply! But only the kind of supply he approves of ("small scale, incremental development"). Left unexplained is why this type of supply, if carried out on sufficient scale, wouldn't have the negative financial effects he worries about.

have-a-break · 5 months ago
A huge portion of why home prices dont fall is because most people dont pay for their homes up front, the actual cost of the home after the interest is 2x the total loan amount. So people dont want to sell for what they feel like is a loss.

I'd argue building more supply just makes the problem worse, since the builders almost always try to extract as much money from the potential buyers. With the internet and everyone reporting salaries most sellers price houses to extract as much money as possible included possibly expected "crypto" or other hidden sources of income.

The reality being we likely won't see a dip in home prices until the population holding homes ages out, saying there's a "housing crisis" is just spreading fear uncertainty and doubt to trick buys into unsatisfactory houses.

have-a-break commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful   florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
have-a-break · 6 months ago
Worse, most if not all "REST" apps have security vulnerabilities because of how browser front-ends handle authentication.

To handle authentication "properly" you have to use cookies or sessions which inheritly make apps not RESTful.

have-a-break commented on Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M   cnbc.com/2025/07/04/india... · Posted by u/bwfan123
fn-mote · 6 months ago
> and refused to update their prior when they lost money day after day

The market takes money from people with incorrect beliefs about economics and gives it to people with correct beliefs. ~~What is the problem here?~~

On second read, I think the parent was just intending a factual statement, which I am willing to agree with.

have-a-break · 6 months ago
Disassociates the value of the underlying assets which devalues the currency. Probably why regulatory bodies had to get involved.

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have-a-break commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff   psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84
gweinberg · 6 months ago
Sure, because most Christians don't take Jesus' teachings too seriously. You shouldn't slap a Christian (or anyone) on the cheek for no reason, but if you were to, the odds of him responding by inviting you to slap the other cheek are pretty slim.
have-a-break · 6 months ago
What about arresting and sending to the mental hospital multiple times to deal with psychopathic caregivers whose purpose is ultimately to make you homeless?

A good Christian or any good person would viewing that scene would actively fight to make the person sufferings life better instead of feeding into the false "caregivers" or more aptly put abusers who are more interested in robbing people than improving their lives.

have-a-break commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff   psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84
motorest · 6 months ago
> It’s really sad, all of these sharp modernists determined upon the cult of science explanations for everything.

That which you try to attack and downplay as "cult of science explanations" is actually something extremely simple: you need to show something, anything at all, that actually supports your beliefs.

How can you tell something exists or works as you think it does if you are unable to show it?

Do you expect everyone should just believe anything anyone says? What is there to tell lunatics and snake oil salesmen apart from those who are actually onto something?

> Those who refuse to believe our thoughts are not all our own.

Ok, you formed an hypothesis. Now tell me, how do you go about showing others that things do work the way you think they do? How can they check them for themselves? What do you expect from others?

> That much mysticism is rooted in something that merely cannot be explained by the logical empirical mind.

If you cannot explain your beliefs, how do you expect others to just take your unverified and unsubstantiated claims as something worth considering over any random claim from any random loony?

have-a-break · 6 months ago
Simply put the observer affect shows that somethings cannot be measured without causing change to the system hence may not be verifable.

Maybe the only way to make enough random looney until they outnumber the "sane" individuals. The only issues being how do you organize the new pyramid structure which will evidently be formed by this new "religious" organization?

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