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by a11r 5y ago
This stopped being true during the 2008 financial crisis. See https://www.marcus.com/us/en .
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by a11r 5y ago
This article completely misses context behind the name Indra for a group attacking Iran. In Vedic Hindu texts, and in Zoroastrian texts, a great battle among Devas[1] and Asuras (Ahuras)[2] is described. In the Vedic Hindu version, the Deva
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by a11r 5y ago
Pick something controversial on the subject, explore alternate viewpoints and dig deep enough to form your own opinion. For example, when learning about nutrition, whether Keto works or not is a good controversy. One might start with Gary T
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by a11r 5y ago
Art of Problem Solving is great - I think they take credit for the US Math olympiad team's performance. I use books from the same organization at elementary school level and find them very good and fun to teach. I would recommend going
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Retry and Session Affinity Support for gRPC(cloud.google.com)
1 points by a11r 5y ago|0 comments
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by a11r 5y ago
> He added the suffix mritak - meaning "the late" - to his name, becoming "the late Lal Bihari", .... But it wasn't enough to change his situation. I really liked this man's sense of humor.
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by a11r 5y ago
Almost exactly 25 years ago, the Taliban captured Kabul for the first time. I still remember the sense of foreboding while following the coverage in the Times of India in Aug-Sep 1996. We all know how that played out. The situation is very
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by a11r 5y ago
Electrical activity in plants has been known to science for a long time: https://www.thebetterindia.com/76587/jagdish-chandra-bose-in...
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by a11r 5y ago
Gary Taubes has done a pretty comprehensive takedown of the Nurese Health study[ http://garytaubes.com/science-pseudoscience-nutritional-epid... ] and all the wrong conclusions the good folks at Department of Nutrition, Harva
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by a11r 5y ago
Or Face Mites.
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by a11r 5y ago
Giving people cash unconditionally would be much better than requiring them to not have any job . The former encourages recipients to retain their jobs or even look for higher paying jobs, and handles corner cases better(single mom working
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by a11r 5y ago
The pricing for water in California is highly asymmetric, with urban users paying significantly more (one to two orders of magnitude more) for water than agricultural users. If agricultural users are charged a higher rate (or equivalently t
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by a11r 5y ago
For anyone actively managing investment portfolios, a deep understanding of the Kelley criterion is very important. For example, it is common practice to use "Half Kelly" to size positions, but most sources only provide a hand-wav
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by a11r 6y ago
The timing is interesting. According to the article, one of the reasons this did not succeed more broadly was due to the large number of characters in the script adapted from the chinese writing system. The invention of Hangual a couple of
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by a11r 6y ago
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14694.pdf
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by a11r 6y ago
Since the list includes libraries not in opration any more, I was expecting to find the Nalanda Library there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda#Library
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by a11r 6y ago
Not a book, but prof. Vincent Racaniello offers free courses[1] and has great youtube videos. [1] https://www.virology.ws/course/
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by a11r 6y ago
Cool ! The most fun I had in grad school was dissecting the Witty worm. https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/witty-imc05.pdf
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Not just for HTTP anymore: gRPC comes to Cloud Run(cloud.google.com)
5 points by a11r 7y ago|0 comments
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by a11r 7y ago
The hypothesis at the end of the article assumes humpback whales are just acting instinctively. I think it is much more likely that the whales are able to reason that denying other prey to their babies' predator is a good thing. In add
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by a11r 7y ago
Dr. Floyd's papers provided a very clear exposition of the ideas, making them very accessible to undergrads with minimal CS education. I would strongly recommend them to anyone with an interest in the topics.
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by a11r 7y ago
The bulk of the tiger population is in the Sundarbans (marshlands at the bottom of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta). Anecdotally, many of the Sundarban tigers are man-eaters and there is a tacit policy to not go after the ones that happen to ki
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by a11r 7y ago
I brute-forced a 32-bit random number generator in an internet worm, back in the day[1]. Brute force is underrated. [1] http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/witty-imc05.pdf
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by a11r 7y ago
Most tests are probabilistic and you have to think about the conditional probability given other indicators. Consider a urine culture for detecting UTIs. If you just get urine samples from a general population, some fraction will show posit
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by a11r 8y ago
Also, the population growth rate in India was significantly lower during the colonial period (1750 to 1950). This was primarily due to increased mortality from the famines created by the British. Over a 200 year period, the British colonial
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by a11r 8y ago
A simple statistic: Before the British showed up, Indian GDP was 15 to 20% of world GDP. When they left its was 1.5 to 3% of world GDP. Something tells me the colonial experience might have something to do with it.
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by a11r 10y ago
A great account of the building of the IMP: "where wizards stay up late".
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by a11r 10y ago
I am assuming that you are talking about the thermal expansion of the tubes (ducts ?). A long time ago, the rails making up train tracks used to have gaps every few meters to accommodate thermal expansion (same problem). Modern rails in hi
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by a11r 12y ago
gRPC uses the following features from HTTP/2: Framing (needed to multiplex different RPCs on the same TCP connection), Flow Control (both intra-stream and connection-wide), HPAC (for compressing metadata that tends to be common across
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by a11r 12y ago
Additional IP Rights Grant now added to the repo: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/PATENTS

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