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1. 1051.▲
   by abetusk 8y ago

   Boy does it take a while to get to the main topic of the title. From the article/podcast: ... THALER: Well, first of all, when we use this phrase libertarian paternalism, we’re using libertarian as an adjective. And
2. 1052.▲
   by abetusk 8y ago

   N agents are placed in a square grid, each with T_k "talent", chosen from a Normal distribution with mean, m, and variance, v, (chosen to be in the neighborhood of [0,1], e.g. m = 0.6, v = 0.1) and C_k initial capital, with all C_
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   by abetusk 8y ago

   This page has problems loading the datasets. Is it overloaded or just broken? Does anyone happen to know what licenses the various datasets are under?
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   by abetusk 8y ago

   A bit off topic but does anyone know of an email service that doesn't require a pre-existing email account, doesn't require ID, is TOR friendly and accepts cryptocurrency as payment? It seems like this should be an obvious service
5. 1055.▲
   by abetusk 8y ago

   Do you mind me asking what the interest rate on your and your wife's student loan debt is?
6. 1056.▲
   by abetusk 8y ago

   An interesting tidbit talking about the coil used to push the magnet at the end of the bob (the internal mechanism of the kitty hand): Why does the coil use air core rather than something like iron that would concentrate the magne
7. 1057.▲
   by abetusk 8y ago

   A bit off topic, but the creator of Airscape had a blog a couple of years ago about the difficulty in making money from their indie game: ‘Good’ isn’t good enough - releasing an indie game in 2015 [1]. [1] http://www.gamasutra.co
8. 1058.▲
   by abetusk 9y ago

   [*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddy_Kilowatt
9. 1059.▲
   by abetusk 9y ago

   Very cool resource! It looks a little spartan now but hopefully this is just the beginning. For other folks looking for free/libre music, here are a few other resources I found: * Starfrosch https://starfrosch.com/ *
10. 1060.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    Just a quick poking around I notice that many of the songs either don't have a license or have a "non-commercial" license. I did find at least a bit that's licensed under "CY-BY" but from the random smattering
11. 1061.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    I'm not very familiar with non-leather options for welding, but looking around I see fire proofed cotton and kevlar based garments as alternatives. Would you not be willing to hire a vegan welder if they provided their own protective
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    Erdos-Renyi random graphs aren't mentioned probably because they hold almost no relevance to social graphs and networks, like the ones being addressed by Metcalfe's and Zipf's law. Erdos-Renyi random graphs have a Gaussian d
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    NVidia Open Sources GVDB v1.1, Sparse Voxel Library(developer.nvidia.com)

    1 points by abetusk 9y ago|0 comments
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    Awesome on the guerrilla BOMs! I was wondering more about how many orders have gone through your system and how many people have ordered PCBs and parts through you site. Do you know what those numbers roughly are? I see you have some kind
15. 1065.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    This is so great. Do you mind reporting how many sales you've had so far (to-date, per-month, etc.)? Have you thought about trying to do some visual diffing to get it closer to the source version control analogy? Do you do a lot of h
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    For those that don't know, Fabrice Bellard is the author of ffmpeg [1], the tiny c compiler (tcc) [2], linux in the browser [3] among many others [4]. Does anyone know how LibBF stacks up against GMP? [5] [1] http://ffmpeg.o
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    The length of the repeated part is the multiplicative order of 10 mod q [1]. Look at the Wikipedia page on repeated decimals and you can see many of the repeated sequences have length (q-1) ((q-1) is phi(q) when q is prime) [2]. There'
18. 1068.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    I'm sorry but this is so clearly a much better step in the right direction. As slick as the 'buy me a coffee' site is and as nice as Patreon is, I can't help shake the feeling that it's only a matter of time before
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    While I agree with your sentiment, the more I learn the more I realize there are some profound subtleties that are glossed over by people teaching them and people claiming they understand it. I think it's a sign of maturity to realize
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    You mean if they don't comply with the GPL3.0 portion of their licensing [1]. It's pretty disingenuous to say that complying with the GPL is more expensive and restrictive. Purchasing a comparable closed source software suite, or
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    I find it disconcerting to see Cory Doctorow talk about restrictive copyright issues while he hasn't, to my knowledge, released anything substantial into the commons. The work that he does put a "creative commons" license un
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    To me, here are the most relevant bits of why they chose the CHMT36VA over others: Let me say that the needs or SparkX are slightly odd. We need to build 10-50 of a design and see how it sells. As it sells we may need to build
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    I've been in this position a few times, one way or another. It's a bad position to be in. If you're wrong, you're labeled as unknowledgeable. If you're right, you're labeled as "not a culture fit".
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    An example usage from the article: $ time sleep 12 real 0m12.003s $ time ./fluxcapacitor -- sleep 12 real 0m0.057s In the author's words: Fluxcapacitor is really good at speeding up client&#x2
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    For context, the diameter of the earth is 12,742 km. So it would take roughly 30ms to make a round trip. Assuming that a signal need only traverse half the diameter as you can take the shortest arc, you get down to ~6371km which brings yo
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    I agree that open source hardware isn't as big of a deal (yet?) as open source software but the open source that we're talking about here is mostly software in the form of Arduino libraries to drive modules and other chips. I thin
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    The most relevant part for me is this cherry picked line from the article: ... Consequently, the megaAVR remains the most open-source 8-bit microcontroller on the market — by a long shot. ... Even though the Atmel AVRs
28. 1078.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard about Algorand. I don't claim to be really knowledgeable but I found an article on Coinbase that raises the question of whether Algorand needs (or should have?) incentives, so it looks like the
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    by abetusk 9y ago

    At the end of this book there's a list of relevant links. Does anyone have such a list relating to the US prison system?
30. 1080.▲
    by abetusk 9y ago

    From the article: As strange as it may sound, you should not be expecting an increase in intelligibility. I thought one of the reasons hearing aids were so bad was that they pick up noise equally. Wouldn't this method ha