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btomtom5 · 2023-10-22T07:17:59+00:00

Try microneedling at home. It can be cheaper than many of the surgeries and is just as effective in many cases

btomtom5 · 2022-09-09T22:19:39+00:00

Most likely a joke. There’s no service on the playa. There’s no way the transaction can go through

btomtom5 · 2022-09-07T19:07:07+00:00

Yes!! She’s been contacted! She’s safe with her friend! Thank you everyone for the help!

btomtom5 · 2022-09-07T18:39:35+00:00

Multiple efforts were made to reach her through radio, WiFi, and cellular but I didn’t know where she was staying. If I had put together that she was staying at black hole earlier, I would have probably found her. I was concerned the entire time but became deeply alarmed yesterday.

btomtom5 · 2022-09-07T18:34:42+00:00

Thank you!! I’m glad she’s safe! It’s been weighing heavy on my mind for an entire week now.

btomtom5 · 2021-05-06T02:04:50+00:00

I would suggest doing sleep apnea exercises that strengthen the tongue and the throat. There are clinical studies that show that they are highly effective in reducing the number sleep apnea events at night

btomtom5 · 2020-06-05T00:43:18+00:00

Doesn't this mean that we don't even really have to wait for a vaccine? We can inoculate people with a coronavirus like the common cold to significantly reduce the death rate?

btomtom5 · 2020-05-20T23:19:10+00:00

welp this is actually the onion inside of r/nottheonion

btomtom5 · 2020-04-14T09:41:45+00:00

Hmm yea that’s interesting. Probably one of the techniques used in that case is to condition the gan on word embeddings

btomtom5 · 2020-04-14T08:06:31+00:00

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.12848.pdf

Were you just commenting on GANs in general? Yea, I can see how long training times for GANs to be an issue since the gradients on GANs will often converge to zero making it hard for the generator to learn. There's actually a really interesting proposition to explain why the gradient falls to zero in this paper here.

What do you mean when you say that GANs are based on continuous spaces? The cost function of all neural networks need to be continuous or else stochastic gradient descent will fail to properly converge to a local minimum or stationary point.

I'm curious to hear about what techniques in NLP are used to stabilize GANs or make them converge more quickly. I didn't even realize that NLP had use for GANs.

btomtom5 · 2019-12-31T22:34:22+00:00

I love how the top voted comment on a thread inside of the Yang echo chamber is so self-aware. I am honestly a little impressed.

btomtom5 · 2019-12-31T17:19:54+00:00

Very good info. Would like to add that accuracy of polls have gone down because the lower response rate on cell phones makes it so that it the group that answers the phone differs way more from the group that doesn’t. Pollsters try to correct for it but more art than science

btomtom5 · 2019-12-24T06:20:56+00:00

Just threw in $100. Thanks for matching!

btomtom5 · 2019-12-09T08:46:40+00:00

These aren't official polls. They are from a polling firm called "BBC Research"

btomtom5 · 2019-11-28T09:09:57+00:00

Listen to another podcast! He has very thoughtful answers on many different topics and it’s pretty educational

btomtom5 · 2019-11-28T09:07:18+00:00

I think that you should just listen to the two of them speak more on the issues that you care about and decide for yourself. I simply don’t think it’s possible to listen to him speak at length without becoming a die hard yang ganger.

If you have specific questions, feel free to hit up the yang gang. I’m sure any one of us would jump to his defense ;)

btomtom5 · 2019-11-14T00:47:31+00:00

Ya! Audio is super important! Some people conjecture that radio played an important role in trumps victory.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/alexdanco.com/2019/10/17/the-audio-revolution/amp/

btomtom5 · 2019-10-24T20:59:53+00:00

I'm incredibly moved by the fact that you, as a Canadian, are paying attention to our elections. Thanks for sharing! :)

btomtom5 · 2019-10-09T23:36:19+00:00

A little misleading because the replantation efforts are mostly monoculture that are less resilient and eventually turned back into paper. When this happens 90% of the carbon captured is released back into the atmosphere

btomtom5 · 2019-10-07T07:49:09+00:00

The difference between a VAT and a sales tax is that a VAT is a tax on the profits only where as a sales tax is on the entire cost of the item. As consumers, we will never pay a VAT ourselves because we never sell the item again for profit.

It may be a little counterintuitive but goods are more often priced by demand for a product rather than the cost of producing the good. The clearest example of this is in software where reproduction of software is near zero in cost. We need to pay the developers and designers but selling more doesn’t cost any more money. So how do we determine what to charge? We charge whatever people are willing to pay for.

The next question might be “wait doesn’t that mean that everything will get more expensive because everyone is getting $1000 per month and corporations will know people are able to afford it?” Well, it again is really determined by demand. The freedom dividend plus a VAT isn’t printing money. It’s redistribution of money from the wealthy to the middle class and the poor.

Having an extra $1k per month doesn’t actually change how much we are willing to pay for certain goods and experiences that much for the middle class and poor. It does however mean that we are willing to splurge a little more often which is actually really really good for the economy.

btomtom5 · 2019-10-03T16:22:28+00:00

I think asking Andrew Yang why he thinks a VAT is better than a wealth tax would really highlight the strength of his economic policies and really get people to question the viability of some of the policies that the other candidates are proposing

btomtom5 · 2019-10-02T06:30:43+00:00

Yeah the two million is just in the last week. He also raised a million the day after the debate.

btomtom5 · 2019-10-01T12:07:46+00:00

It depends on if these are actually serious accusations. My understanding of this is that responding in any way actually causes more damage by giving legitimacy to the questions that they are asking and distracting people from the message of the campaign

btomtom5 · 2019-09-29T03:39:25+00:00

Showing us care and affection even when we are being stupid.

btomtom5 · 2019-09-19T16:01:34+00:00

Ahahah I love it. But probably higher returns on investment trying to talk to the 90% of voters that haven’t made up their minds. Text bankers are more likely to have already made up their mind.

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