Jay Parthasarthy

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The problem is that⁠—much like my fantasy football team⁠—Zillow’s formulaic purchasing strategy virtually guaranteed that it would get the slice of the inventory it had most overrated. Any time there’s a problem with the home not captured in the Zestimate, (but perhaps visible to a slower, more careful buyer), Zillow’s iBuying program was likely to overpay. And the people getting a great deal from Zillow would be those most likely to take the deal. This is a mix of problems that economists call “adverse selection” and “imperfect information,” most famously studied by George Akerlof in the 1970…
How Zillow's homebuying scheme lost $881 million
I have been working on this little blog post, on and off, no joke, for six years.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog
I can pop in and out of 2D and 3D vision at will
I believed the hype and did mindfulness meditation for dumb reasons-- now I'm trying to reverse the damage
Sleeping in this way resembles restorative yoga, and props can be used in much the same way.
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep - Carolina Morning
What you are aiming for is a ‘spine-neutral’ position
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep - Carolina Morning
Their mattresses (futons) are about the thickness of a typical quilt.
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep - Carolina Morning
The hardness of the floor seems to be good for people who have back problems.
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep - Carolina Morning
Virtually no one, including children, keeps a regular bedtime.
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep - Carolina Morning
“You didn’t fail, Bob. You quit.”
What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? - Nautilus | Science Connected
really wants to have kids someday
Micromarriages -- colah's blog
Wondering why browsers are usually free?
SigmaOS
There’s a certain irony to insurance that most people don’t think about. But if you really are prepared, and you have a diversified property-casualty insurance business — a lot of property business in it — if you’re really prepared to pay your claims under any circumstances that come along in the next hundred years, you have to have so much capital in the business that it’s not a very good business
Transcript-of-Berkshire-Hathaway-annual-meeting-5-4-19.pdf
one day we might deal with water in the form of bits.
Ways to think about water – Welcome to Dancoland
But something important has happened: by handling water in the form of money, I’ve turned an illiquid asset into a liquid one that can be easily bought, sold, and moved.
Ways to think about water – Welcome to Dancoland
Q: What are Darius's abilities in League of Legends? A: Darius's abilities in League of Legends are: Apprehend, Decimate, Noxian Guillotine, Crippling Strike, Apprehend, and Hemorrhage.
Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
Why should we even care about climate change?
parthasarthy.com / Why should we even care about climate change?
Yes, our civilization owns almost 0.8 billion tons of cows, pigs, sheep, camels, etc.; but in the not too distant past animals in wild ecosystems were twice as abundant. These ecosystems were stable, did not fear climate change, and were utilizing only the sun’s energy.
Sergey Zimov's Manifesto
Fifteen thousand years ago, pasture ecosystems were at the peak of their evolution. They occupied most of our planet. Forests at that time were preserved only in places with poor stony or sandy soils. Even in the Amazon, only few islands of forest were left. At the time, the biomass of big herbivores on the planet reached 1.6 billion tons.
Sergey Zimov's Manifesto
Of the order of 1 million tons of such resonant-type scattering material are estimated to suffice to remove 1% of the total insolation of the Earth; the corresponding cost may be $0.3- 0.75 billion/year.
Teller_etal_LLNL231636_1997.pdf
positioning mass in the stratosphere currently is at least 10 4 times less costly than
Teller_etal_LLNL231636_1997.pdf
And the basic problem is that in the case of climate, very small structures, like clouds, dominate. And you cannot model them in any realistic way. They are far too small and too diverse.
Freeman Dyson Takes on the Climate Establishment - Yale E360
Earth has been in a greenhouse state for about 85% of its history.
Greenhouse and icehouse Earth
If you're doing something every day, commit to an amount that you can do every day. The easiest way to do that is to make sure that you're committing to doing something that can scale up and down depending on your bandwidth. For example, don't commit to practice piano for 2 hours a day. Some days, that'll be impossible. Commit to practicing piano for at least 15 minutes a day. That's doable every day, no matter what. No one says you have to stop when you get to 15 minutes. On most days, you'll practice much more than that, because any activity has inertia once you start. But on your worst day,…
Some things take time
Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers an
Curius / Onboarding