I was under the impression that corn ethanol was effectively solar energy because corn turns sunlight and carbon into biomass then we burn the biomass back to atmospheric carbon. Isn't that the fundamentals? Is there a big, basic reason it doesn't work or is it lots of little side effects? Thanks for weighing in.
Counterexample: Suppose I'm selling a product with zero cost and I've determined the profit-maximizing price to be $1.00. This means profit as a function of price is maximal and therefore the slope is zero, i.e. raising the price by 1% makes sales go down by 1% and vice versa.
Now suppose my cost to produce goes from zero to $0.99 per unit, which drops my profit to $0.01. Now that 1% increase in price that only drops sales by 1% is well worth it because my profit per unit doubles. The profit-maximizing price is now likely well over $1.
Wouldn't your pretrained model be lacking in neurons that react to human features though? Seems like a poor choice if your ultimate goal is human images.
For comparison, the entire internet averages on the order of 50 Tbps*, so this is about 0.5% of that. Residential internet might have a max rate of 1Gbps in the best conditions but if you use even 1% of that consistently you'll get overage fees. Steady bandwidth numbers are typically much lower than max bandwidth numbers.
It's like how the visual neurons of blind people get repurposed for other senses. Turns out this happens so quickly we can start to lose visual function in just the 8 hours our eyes are closed while we sleep.
Can't remember source but heard this theory on a podcast.
> "Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts."
> "The lowest form of all is to dismiss an idea because of who proposed it."
I feel like he's prematurely dismissing the idea of dismissing an idea based on who proposes it because of who he's imagining doing (proposing) it, if that makes sense.
I run out of cognitive energy for coding faster than I run out of time. Sometimes the slow and stupid way is optimal because it saves cognitive energy.
I suspect coders "forage" more than this time-based model predicts because it's cognitively easier than deciding where to "navigate" or how to "enrich".
I hear this complaint a lot but I find those argument orders completely intuitive.
You filter (1) an array with (2) a function.
You map (1) a function over (2) an array.
You reduce (1) an array with (2) a function.
It follows exactly what I'm thinking when I type it. To reverse the orders would be, what? "Mapping an array with a function?" "Filter a function on an array?"
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Sadly there is disincentive to report bad workers on MTurk. You can block them through the MTurk system which rightfully puts their account at risk for termination. BUT Amazon sends them an email identifying you as the blocker, which causes them to go write terrible reviews of you on worker sites, which reduces the supply of workers for your HITs. So the ideal way to handle it is block them from your HIT server so at least they can't do YOUR HITs again and never report them.
On point 2: people forget which service they signed in with, accidentally make multiple accounts and think their data is gone, and sometimes APIs are down (mostly LinkedIn) or throw errors, all of which lead to customer service headaches without an email/password reset backup.
On points 3 & 4: I've seen more fake Facebook and LinkedIn accounts than I can count. Some users have dozens. I haven't looked into how they create them so easily, but they do. While it's certainly more hassle to get one than a fake email, there's still a ton of them.
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I prefer pitching to customers because they really do get more value out of your product if you better communicate what it does and how it helps them. With committees it sounds more like playing a zero-sum game.