FabHK

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by FabHK 3y ago
Hi, yes, the HK Philosophy Café is still around! [1] There's also HK Skeptics in the Pub. [2] There was a Café Scientifique, but it closed down. Then there's some Book groups that tend to discuss non-fiction. [3] Hope to see you!
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by FabHK 3y ago
It relies on images, typography, and the arrangement of things. I'd say a physical book or PDF would work best.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Wow, this is a great explainer. I think you captured most of it. The other things others have highlighted is that when it came out in 1979, and many fans read it, there was no internet to speak of, definitely no WWW or YouTube, and these id
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by FabHK 3y ago
What an unexpected connection: Stephen Palmquist used to run the Hong Kong Philosophy Café, until he left the city recently, possibly in the wake of the political changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Palmquist
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by FabHK 3y ago
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by FabHK 3y ago
I've had a 1986 Bally Motordome for decades. It's fun. There are many techniques and tricks to get better, detailed in books and online, and when you have a machine at home, as you say, you can play whenever your heart desires a
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by FabHK 3y ago
> Appending site:Reddit.com Or, with DDG, append !r
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by FabHK 3y ago
Sometimes two words are put together in an expression that does not mean what the two words seem to imply. For example, a hot dog is not a dog that is hot. The theory of finite fields is not applicable to agriculture, even though the fields
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by FabHK 3y ago
You're just wrong when you say > "dynamic programming" is an insanely general term It is not. It is a specific technique to solve a number of problems having a certain structure. In the continuous case it leads to the Ham
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by FabHK 3y ago
If everyone used Bitcoin, everyone could do about one or two transactions in their lifetime. The network cannot handle more than that.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Durkheim, the founder of sociology, famously showed that Protestants, whose life was "easier" as they had fewer restrictions and norms to follow than Catholics, committed more suicides than Catholics. Similarly, suicide rates f
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by FabHK 3y ago
Actual suicides can be quite influenced by events (eg other suicides and reporting about them in the media). This is known as the Werther effect (after Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"). https://en.wikiped
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by FabHK 3y ago
And the destigmatisation happened in 2012? I think it happened much earlier than that.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Minor mistake: > a rise from 5% to 15% is a 300% increase, relative to the anchor point No, it's a 200% increase. (It's 300% of what it used to be, which is a 200% increase on top of the original 100%.)
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by FabHK 3y ago
Here's a Netflix documentary (in the wake of the MCAS crashes) that alleges that after the merger with McDonnell Douglas, the culture of the firm changed. Previously dominated by engineers, it was now dominated by MBAs with a focus on
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by FabHK 3y ago
There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo , that was written in Modula-2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone) http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html
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by FabHK 3y ago
Fun fact, related: Julia has a function to give you the next greater floating point number for any floating point number, nextfloat(x), and it is basically implemented by casting x to an integer, adding 1, and casting it back. https:/
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by FabHK 3y ago
That's the same assumption as the (first) article makes.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Yes. Great language, relatively fast, surprisingly modern (at the time - came out in 1986), lots of fun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFA_BASIC
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by FabHK 3y ago
> The controller doesn’t have time to explain why the previous estimate was wrong or discuss company policy. Absolutely. ATC might have been less helpful than possible here, maybe because they had too much on their plate. In that case, i
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by FabHK 3y ago
> This seems to be about how making a living as a painter is difficult. Eh? It's a review of a biography of the impressionist painter Claude Monet (whose "almost [...] last written words were a shaky scribble in the autograph a
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by FabHK 3y ago
Arguably, the more people, the better you can model aggregates. Just as with the gas equation - it works because there are so many molecules that individual idiosyncrasies are smoothed out. And, so, yes, there have been regularities observe
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by FabHK 3y ago
Inflation has come down, and rates have come up. As a result, real rates are higher than they've been for more than a decade. So, now it makes more sense, economically, to delay consumption, than in a long time. https://fred
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by FabHK 3y ago
That’s a bit of an urban legend. https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/ https://www.sciencealert.com/word-jumble-meme-first-last-let...
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by FabHK 3y ago
Particularly given that he only published two books, one 23 years prior and one 4 years after that encounter.
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by FabHK 3y ago
That’s what the article is all about.
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by FabHK 3y ago
One further book that might be of interest (though only tangentially related) is Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon.
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by FabHK 3y ago
I'd love another season of Silicon Valley, with some Game Stonk and Bored Apes and ChatGPT and FTX and Elon madness.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Real rates in the US are at the highest level since before the GFC, they’ve basically gone from negative to >2%. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
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by FabHK 3y ago
> crypto cartel [...] ability to move the last trade price almost at will I think there is lots of manipulation, but could you elaborate on how you can, for example, pump the BTC price up when you hold lots of BTC, but no USD? Leveraged

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