Hacker News: tvladeck

Millennium Tower Is Sinking Faster Than Rate ‘Limit' Set by Fix Engineers

tvladeck — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:17:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/millennium-tower-is-sinking-faster-than-rate-limit-set-by-fix-engineers/2645542/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28378881

Points: 2

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“Breakthrough infections” is a bad name

tvladeck — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:22:46 +0000

Article URL: https://tvladeck.substack.com/p/breakthrough-infections-is-a-bad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28144895

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "Julia Computing raises $24M Series A"

tvladeck — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:43:19 +0000

I would really love to use Julia, and for my team to as well. But we are too locked into R to even begin. If I were these folks, I would focus on the flow, not stock, of data analysts. Get the next generation locked in to Julia. Turn R into SPSS

How much is (not taking) the vaccine worth it to you?

tvladeck — Tue, 04 May 2021 17:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://tvladeck.substack.com/p/how-much-is-not-taking-the-vaccine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040139

Points: 1

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Applying deep learning to survey data at scale

tvladeck — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 21:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://tvladeck.substack.com/p/applying-deep-learning-to-survey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26881657

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "What machine learning has to say about voting eligibility"

tvladeck — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 17:04:33 +0000

Hello, author here. I found this the analogy between voting and machine learning to be an interesting one, as voting is essentially a classification task. Popular votes are bagging, representative democracy is stacking -- it's pretty cool!

What machine learning has to say about voting eligibility

tvladeck — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://tvladeck.substack.com/p/what-machine-learning-has-to-say

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795186

Points: 1

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Three Revolutions in Data Science

tvladeck — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://tvladeck.substack.com/p/three-revolutions-in-data-science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713064

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "Nvidia is now worth more than Intel"

tvladeck — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:34:06 +0000

I always hate these comparisons because they always compare market capitalization and not enterprise value. On the latter metric, which is independent of how a company is financed, Intel is still more valuable. Intel is still "worth more" than Nvidia.

Using State Space Models to Estimate Rt

tvladeck — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:14:18 +0000

Article URL: https://tomvladeck.com/2020/04/15/rt-ssm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22879513

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "Valve and HackerOne: how not to handle vulnerability reports"

tvladeck — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:39:05 +0000

I'm not even a software engineer. Lowly MBA that writes R code. even I understood the gist. But the part that I understood well is that _this was a HackerOne managed program_, meaning that it's HackerOne's job to take a raw submission and turn it into a well designed report that can be triaged and fixed.

New comment by tvladeck in "YC W20 Online Demo Day moved up due to investor interest"

tvladeck — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:05:28 +0000

Seems like a classic case of market unraveling:

http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2009/06/unraveling.html

New comment by tvladeck in "The Art of Bargaining, Positional vs. Interest-Based Negotiation"

tvladeck — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:39:51 +0000

This article really, _really_ needs to cite Getting to Yes, or at least their authors, William Ury and Robert Fisher, who developed these ideas, and even this terminology.

Hypnosis Changed My Life

tvladeck — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:59:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/sunday/hypnosis-treatment.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21742191

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "New ventures should focus all their efforts on problem-solving"

tvladeck — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:28:25 +0000

This logic falls into a cul de sac when you realize that many open problems can only be solved by new technology.

After Sparring, NASA and SpaceX Declare a Shared Mission

tvladeck — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:25:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/science/nasa-spacex-elon-musk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21220234

Points: 1

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New comment by tvladeck in "Waymo’s Backseat Drivers: Confidential Data Reveals Self-Driving Taxi Hurdles"

tvladeck — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:06:22 +0000

Like when an individual drives to a store to get groceries?

New comment by tvladeck in "At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors"

tvladeck — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:24:39 +0000

+1, I still can't access it.

New comment by tvladeck in "At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors"

tvladeck — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:21:40 +0000

My guess (and this is just a guess, as I too can't read the article), is that the investment was a convertible note, and they actually paid back the debt instead of allowing it to convert into equity. But I am no expert and I don't know the facts — I was just wondering the same thing and this was the scenario I landed on as a plausible hypothesis.

New comment by tvladeck in "At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors"

tvladeck — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:58:53 +0000

FWIW I still hit the paywall when I click on that link (and the other one referenced as bypassing the paywall)