FabHK

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by FabHK 3y ago
> In an effort to get the plane out quickly, Boeing, with the assent of the FAA, had even told the airlines that their pilots didn’t need to conduct flight simulator tests. That was a critical mistake, because the pilots would have disco
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by FabHK 3y ago
Right. So if interviewers come up with an artificial contrived ("leet") problem, then candidates complain that it's an artificial contrived problem. When they come up with a realistic straightforward problem, then candidates
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by FabHK 3y ago
> I've got actual paid work to do. Well, see, many graduates or experienced job seekers don’t.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Nothing to do with undergrad/PhD - I was just commenting on the way the date was written (2024-03-21 in Chinese/big-endian format, 21.03.2024 in European/small-endian format, 03/21/2024 in the muddled US format): At
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by FabHK 3y ago
If you're curious why the document was issued in "year 6": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa_era
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by FabHK 3y ago
I was forced to use an old 2011 (IIRC) MacBook Air in 2020 (my replacement BTO MacBook Pro was stuck in China due to the pandemic), and the OS and local apps were fine and reasonably snappy, but oh boy, the web sucked so bad. Slow slow slow
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by FabHK 3y ago
> LinkedIn, leaders in deceptive design Oh, absolutely. One example: You want to connect with someone, and it'll throw up a dialog box on whether you want to add a note, with two buttons "Add Note", "Send". If yo
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by FabHK 3y ago
Warning: the more often you move, the more you'll miss from all the other places combined...
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by FabHK 3y ago
Somewhat related: The book When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm (by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe) exposes the short-sighted, amoral, and insidious way the firm often op
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by FabHK 3y ago
Remember though that many of the people manning the chats are trafficked victims themselves.
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by FabHK 3y ago
I babysat a friend's kids for a week once. A YouTube video of police cars, ambulances, fire trucks driving by was an amazingly potent distraction and pacifier. I used it very very sparingly (it was just one week, and I was on holiday,
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by FabHK 3y ago
I take it that you're not a fan of his book - could you outline why, or whether there are any better ones? Thanks.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Bourbaki's textbooks are notoriously formal, rigorous, and plain difficult. This gave rise to a cute inside joke in the Sokal hoax [0], where physicist Alan Sokal aimed to demonstrate the lack of intellectual rigour in contemporary pos
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by FabHK 3y ago
The XKCD is not arguing against password managers. It is arguing against websites mindlessly imposing silly rules on passwords, as you are.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Yes, \underset. My old macro (see sister comment) ensures math mode, switches to a smaller font, uses a "x" (\times). You'd then write (with \cdots for better spacing) \ddim Umr \cdot \ddim {\Sigma}rr = \ddim Amn \cdot \d
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by FabHK 3y ago
And depending on what audience you're writing for, you might want to say something about the prerequisites. This article didn't (maybe the blog is read mostly by mathematicians or maths students; the author is not necessarily deli
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by FabHK 3y ago
Wow, according to Airbus [0], by Feb 2024: A321neo: 1282 delivered (since 2017!), 6169 orders, so 4887 in the queue (or about 25 yrs worth [1]). A320neo: 1929 delivered (since 2014!), 4124 orders, so 2195 in the queue (or about 11 yrs worth
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by FabHK 3y ago
So, the macro is \newcommand{\ddim}[3]{\ensuremath{\underset{\scriptscriptstyle #2\times #3}{\rule[-1ex]{0ex}{+1ex}#1}}} And you use it e.g. like `\ddim {A}NN` to indicate that A is NxN, or `Ax \ddim {=}N1 b` to show that this is a
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by FabHK 3y ago
Irrelevant nostalgic note: I implemented the Mandelbrot on the ZX81. Took just a quarter hour or so for the full glorious 64x48 pixels... :-)
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by FabHK 3y ago
Very nice (though hardly approachable unless you already have a good handle on, say, eigenvalue decomposition, outer products = rank 1 matrices, positive semi-definiteness, etc.). NB: I think many of these linear algebra proofs would benefi
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by FabHK 3y ago
I was a bit confused by the article initially: > Perhaps most simply, with a t-statistic of 2, your 95% confidence intervals will nearly touch 0. Your 95% CI will include 0, unless you have more than 50 or so data points, in which case
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by FabHK 3y ago
Yeah. Can't believe these guys are proud of it! On the other hand, I did clear my browser cache and switched on the VPN, and they mis-identified me as a new visitor. Still, despicable business model.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Good luck. It's amazing how little of today's web is good old HTML. A while ago I visited a website that used Markup - but that wasn't compiled into HTML and then statically served, oh no - it was rendered in JS client side.
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by FabHK 3y ago
First, a hotel might well be more efficient (in terms of area used per tourist) than apartments. Second, by converting housing from long-term rentals to short-term rentals, supply curves are shifted, resulting in decreased prices for touris
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by FabHK 3y ago
Somehow that reminds me of the secret of learning to fly in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is (IIRC) to fall to the ground and miss.
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by FabHK 3y ago
It also has a meditative component if you practice for an extended period.
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by FabHK 3y ago
> Advanced jugglers can do that stuff physically (catch simultaneously or in an occupied hand) aka "multiplex".
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by FabHK 3y ago
> Those numbers just don't make sense. That's 130 miles short of the great circle distance from SIN-BAH of 3935 miles. In an aviation context, those are most likely nautical miles (equivalent to 1 minute of a degree in north-so
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by FabHK 3y ago
Just download it from a trusted source verified by trusted (permissioned) PKI infrastructure.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Dude, do your own research. /s Agreed, the extent of victim blaming in crypto is mind blowing.

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