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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
One of the difficulties with these models would be backtesting investment strategies. You always need to make sure that you are only using data that would have been available at the time to avoid look-ahead bias.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Noah Smith has had some good posts on health care costs in the US over the past year https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-... https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/service-costs-aren
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
iTunes randomly changing album artwork happened to me too. Only thing that fixed it was wiping the iPhone and resyncing with computer.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
The Supreme Court’s standing doctrine is also weird. If the board of directors approves it, then would the shareholders even be able to sue?
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
You want to teach abstract algebra to middle schoolers?
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Plex’s recent changes have been garbage and it’s still better than the experience on a lot of streaming sites.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Be more trivial
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
If you don't file an issue, then no one will know to fix it. Took me literally three minutes to create a PR using the "Improve this page" button. https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/4277
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
The D language home page has something similar with a drop down with code examples https://dlang.org/
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
I think the key point is that if you put a TODO comment in the code, it should be resolved before merging. If it's important enough to leave in there, it should be an issue. I only use them as something to grep for and so that I don&#x
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
I've looked at a lot of D code, and I can't recall it ever being misused.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Also that a bunch of the time you're contacted by a random online it eventually leads to them trying to get your credit card info.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Symmetry investments had a similar relationship with the D language.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
And yet, if I don’t shampoo for a few days and run my fingers through my hair, then there will be dirt under my fingernails. Would you argue that washing with water is enough?
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Google can’t have blackouts. So helps to have some nuclear in the energy mix.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
Mine has Home, Friends, Video, Marketplace, Notifications, Menu. They adjust whether to show dating based on relationship status...
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
They actually made it even easier to find recently on mobile. Right there at the bottom.
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by 1980phipsi 1y ago
D had a big blow up over string interpolation. Walter wanted something simple and the community wanted something more like these template ones from Python (at least from scanning the first little bit of the PEP). Walter eventually went with
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486328
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
I agree that simultaneous invention is an important concept, but I view it separately from Great Man Theory of History. GMTH is invariably trying to capture the idea that when you have a person who has a lot power, then their successes or f
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
The podcast app is the same shoddy-ness. Re-arranging things in the queue is such a PIA.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
What are you talking about? The decision was unanimous.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
I couldn’t remember the phrase “oral history” and Google was terrible at figuring out what I wanted to search for, but ChatGpt got it for me after a few back and forths.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
And then the stack overflows of the world see traffic fall. I’m sure they aren’t happy with this.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
The annoying thing is that 95% of the time it’s not at all what I want, but 5% of the time it’s pretty good. But if I had the option to expand it or something, I’d probably never do that and miss out on the 5% of the time that it’s good.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
I have written very complicated Excel formula in the past. I don't anymore.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
I find it is good to go back to things you struggled with in the past and come at them with a new and broader understanding.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
Or screw up search on the start menu
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
D has documented unit tests. https://dlang.org/spec/unittest.html#documented-unittests Nice when combined with CI since you’ll know if you accidentally break your examples.
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by 1980phipsi 2y ago
So it's like converting a normal distribution to log normal (and then back). But a more general way of thinking about it. Where does the name "normalizing flows" come from?

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