Alex Dobrenko
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Alex Dobrenko
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LPT: If your friend is grieving, small acts mean more than ‘let me know what I can do.’
submitted 6 days ago by whaddup_shawty
Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way but the usual platitudes of ‘let me know what I can do,’ ‘I can’t imagine,’ etc are not impactful.
A small act of texting that you’re thinking of them, dropping off a card, or... See more
submitted 6 days ago by whaddup_shawty
Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way but the usual platitudes of ‘let me know what I can do,’ ‘I can’t imagine,’ etc are not impactful.
A small act of texting that you’re thinking of them, dropping off a card, or... See more
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This is, by the way, the dirty secret of the machine learning movement: almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand, because mostly the ML is trained by feeding it examples of what humans did while following a very dumb heuristic. There's no magic here. If you use ML to... See more
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