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I like to rent/buy eBooks for the first-time read, and if I like the book, buy the physical version.

Few things are more satisfying to me being able to hand a book off of my shelf to a friend when I think that they would like it, and having them report back they read and liked the book.


I mean, I love pringles


Are you able to / have you tried turning off the video view of yourself? I do this on some calls and it helps a lot.


Well said. I like to imagine some old guy holding the pink FT pages in a London cafe, peering over his reading glasses while egg drips off of his toast onto his pleated houndstooth trousers.


some old guy holding the pink FT pages in a London cafe

Where do you think the people going to those raves in the early 90s ended up? As old guys who now have well paid corporate jobs in the city and read FT.

That guy could probably bore the crap out of today's youth with stories about how raves and music used to "authentic" and how everything today is crap.


I neither raved nor got a good job. Looks like I'm the schmuck in the middle that worked hard and then didn't get rewarded.


Same. Not rich enough to retire early, just rich enough that I can't afford to take any risks on anything.


You should have gone for "Work nothing, play a lot" instead of the typical one.


Pete and Bas Stepped Into the Building!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBuTTz1-IQU


Well I’ll be damned if it didn’t make my day to read somebody talking so honestly about their life. Thanks for the being relatable, and for putting yourself out there.


It’s always refreshing for me to hear share what they did _not_ know, especially when it’s seems like “something obvious” that they absolutely “should” have known. Thanks for being honest and open - I can personally really relate to this anecdote, and also in the context of biology, genetics, etc.


Thank you for this - I had the same experience with Strang’s book/style when I tried to learn linear algebra, maybe I’ll pick up Lay & McDonald!



> Decomposition of causality: It decomposes causal interactions into redundant, unique, and synergistic contributions.

Seen elsewhere: https://github.com/BCG-X-Official/facet, which uses SHAP attributions as inputs:

> The SHAP implementation is used to estimate the shapley vectors which FACET then decomposes into synergy, redundancy, and independence vectors.

But FACET it still about sorting things out in the 'correlation world'.

To get back to SURD: IMHO, when talking about causality one should incorporate some kind of precedence, or order; One thing is the cause of another. Here in SURD they sort of introduce it in a roundabout way by using time's order:

> requiring only pairs of past and future events for analysis

But maybe we could have had fully-fledged custom DAGs, like from here https://github.com/nathanwang000/Shapley-Flow (which don't yet have the redundant/unique/synergistic decomposition)

Also, how do we deal with undetectable "post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy, though? (travesting time as causal ordering). How do we deal with confounding? Custom DAGs would have been great.

I'm longing for a SURD/SHAP/FACET/Shapleyflow integration paper. We're so close to it.


Thanks. This should be the actual submission instead of the marketing-speak blah-blah


I'm in your camp, but I've found with my own submissions here, marketing-speak gets more engagement than the papers.

So my compromise is to post the PR, but give the paper link in the first comment


8.7k hours in an entire year.

So if you assume 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours working, and 8 hours of free-time per day, this means spending virtually every waking, non-working hour playing Battlezone 98 Redux for 3 years. Wow.


When we back-of-the-envelope it, a 'working year' is 2080 hours. So more like 4 years of a full time job.


Could also be the "iesus Christus" cockroach.


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