apoorva.lal
@Apoorva__Lal
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work: causal inference|econometrics|ML at scale. arsenal, loud music, unix, FOSS बिदेशिएको नेपाली 🇳🇵
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Joined July 2012
Lastfm's longevity (presumably because it never tried to break out of it's niche audience - there's a lesson in here YC dweebs) has been a pleasant surprise. I installed a scrobbler on my phone and linked it to spotify in high school and never stopped letting it run in the bg
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Godaddy has caught on to the "most tedious people in SV naming things after random pots and pans from middle earth" thing
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surprised that da yoot of today don't know the konami code of captive wifi - 192.168.1.1.
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Claudes's choice of clothing + 742 evergreen terrace: i think we have created Lionel Hutz in silico.
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one of you b-school profs should sneak this into a syllabus. would make for an amazing bait-and-switch.
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This was just part 1 of Project Vend. We’re continuing the experiment, and we’ll soon have more results—hopefully from scenarios that are somewhat less bizarre than an AI selling heavy metal cubes out of a refrigerator. Read more:
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Come talk to me about fast solvers for optimization-based statistics in pokemon land (gather town) at the virtual poster session on the 7th. Will also be in person at EC at Stanforf that week, and polmeth the subsequent weekend.
🎉 Great news: The #SciPy2025 schedule is live on the website! . . 🎟️ Grab your tickets now for a week full of fun talks, cool tutorials, awesome posters, exciting sprints, and great people! 🚀
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might get cancelled by the oomf but just realised all of zohran’s ideas are a feature of pre 90s India- ration shops, rent control act, etc. vishwaguru exporting its ideas to the first world.
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taylor series of a function you want to approximate linearly:.
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new poast (linklog plus code snippets to reuse) - assumption-free bounds on the individual treatment effect, whispercli for local transcription, causal inference papers, and slides for NABE webinar on open source econometrics
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too silly even for pynchon names; these are Toast of London tier.
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Area man finds out about the beginning of a new war from a Financial Times alert.
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go get this; the m4 chip is ridiculous. Makes for a great MacOS server + linux workstation, like god never intended.
The M4 Mac Mini is currently on sale for $465? That's one of the best computer deals I've seen in my entire life wtf
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You see a distribution like this, what do you do? .College board geniuses: move the truncation point further left, right?
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