Any serious ideas for a recently removed glioblastom?
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kla-s commented on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) · Posted by u/dang
People greatly overestimate the amount of material cheating that happens, especially among large companies and the wealthy. I used to work for a Federal audit organization and almost all of the recoveries had a root cause in sloppy compliance and record-keeping practices rather than intentional malfeasance. It is broadly recognized as optimal that the recovered money should be several-fold the direct costs spent to recover it because this activity incurs a lot of non-obvious indirect costs. It is a variation on the principle that the optimum amount of fraud is non-zero.
Most of the blatant tax fraud is much lower down the economic ladder because below a certain threshold recovery doesn’t justify the cost and people know this. The amount you can get away with is far below the threshold where it would be worth the risk for wealthy parties. The best ROI for auditors in many of these cases is to make regular object lessons at random to discourage it rather than systematically prosecute it.
AFAIK, the increased spending at the IRS did not lead to concomitant offsetting recoveries. This is a predictable outcome, the amount of enforcement activity has been pretty finely tuned for decades to optimize ROI. Most of the recoveries come from changing focuses on compliance to areas that haven’t seen much enforcement activity in many years. Fighting entropy basically.
If you assume that most large recoveries are from sloppiness rather than systematic tax fraud, it changes what is going to be an effective strategy.
Whats your view on Cum-Ex?
And maybe as a Bonus what do you make of the smaller (relative) taxrate the bigger fish (companies/wealthier individuals) pay?
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Hi, Kilian here :) ML engineer / research-minded generalist with a recent M.Sc. in Informatics from TUM, including a thesis on machine unlearning in medical imaging (@Harvard Medical School). I’ve worked on problems like reinforcement learning for tumor landmark detection in MRI, and deep learning for physical systems and protein structure prediction.
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In team settings, I tend to gravitate toward coordination and planning roles, and outside of work, I’ve led a 300+ member volleyball department for several years — which taught me how to manage people, not just models.
I'm looking for roles at the intersection of research and engineering, eg early-stage AI projects where curiosity, ownership, technical depth matter and impact-driven development are valued.
kla-s commented on OpenAI releases image generation in the API openai.com/index/image-ge... · Posted by u/themanmaran
Reality is turning into some kind of Hideo Kojima game.
Wow that video is awesome, thanks for sharing
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Breaking: sugar causes diabetes
To add some nuance, unused/unnecessary sugar will cause diabetes.
If you are in high cardiovascular load consuming more than you can take in as eg with long distance triathlon, to my knowledge you will not increase your diabetes risk. It's more a matching supply and demand thing.
kla-s commented on Cognitive Behaviors That Enable Self-Improving Reasoners arxiv.org/abs/2503.01307... · Posted by u/delifue
I sometimes see these reddit threads of people talking about the experience of having an internal monologue. I have no such monologue, at least not one that is accessible to the part of my mind that calls itself 'me', but I have often wondered if that monologue is something like a 'chain of thought'. I feel like maybe without access to that 'idea feed' maybe my planning and executive functioning is less effective than some other people. I do find myself quite more effective with those sort of tasks when I do a little 'chain of thought' notepad.
I also suspect I spend less time ruminating and second-guessing myself and other anxious behaviours that I imagine would come with having someone talking in your ear all day, but that's probably off topic.
Genuine question, how does multi step reasoning work for you then?
Like eg if you have some math problem that's trivially to solve individually but needs multiple steps, lets say 16 * 3 + 5?
How does 16 * 3 = 48 land in some 'register' of your brain (short term memory), so that you can then add 5 to get to 53? Maybe 16 * 3 + 5 is to easy for you and you'll just 'see' it but the question still stands, just choose a more complex problem.
Isn't the same meta process at play when thinking about more fuzzy topics?
kla-s commented on MIT 6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models diffusion.csail.mit.edu... · Posted by u/__rito__
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kla-s commented on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting bbc.com/news/live/c625ex2... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri
Fair, I've updated my post. I'd argue it's not just FPTP presidential systems, though. Even in proportional representation you still only get one vote so you pick the candidate that's the best fit for you, you still don't get to pick and choose which parts of their agenda get enacted.
Well then thats „Volksabstimmungen“ as Switzerland has it for you.
Thanks @missedthecue, i wasn't aware this was productized and tested (though hoped it was)