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31.
The Useless-Boomer Guide to the Stock Market(bottomfeeder.substack.com)
2 points by akalin 5y ago|0 comments
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by akalin 5y ago
No, parchive v1 also used Reed-Solomon. The main difference between v1 and v2 was that v1 worked on the file level, but v2 divided the set of files into blocks. Also, the parity matrix for v1 would be sometimes singular (non-invertible), wh
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Dissolving the Fermi Paradox(arxiv.org)
50 points by akalin 5y ago|71 comments
34.
by akalin 5y ago
Yes.
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‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation(theverge.com)
77 points by akalin 5y ago|148 comments
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Fontemon(coderelay.io)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science(nytimes.com)
1 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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Hurricane China: How to Prepare(steve-yegge.medium.com)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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Discrete Differential Geometry course starting, with lecture videos(twitter.com)
3 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
40.
Why and how I emigrated to Canada(medium.com)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride(fasterthanli.me)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|1 comments
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by akalin 6y ago
c is the speed of light in a vacuum
43.
Semantic Compression(caseymuratori.com)
3 points by akalin 6y ago|1 comments
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Path Building vs. Path Verifying: Implementation Showdown(medium.com)
1 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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Path Building vs. Path Verifying: The Chain of Pain – Ryan Sleevi(medium.com)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
46.
Algebraic Geometry in the Time of Covid(math216.wordpress.com)
2 points by akalin 6y ago|0 comments
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Isolation Alloc(struct.github.io)
43 points by akalin 7y ago|5 comments
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by akalin 7y ago
I guess I'm not being too clear, so I'll try again. There are two concepts: 1) Positive and negative numbers (defined in terms of comparison to 0) 2) The negation of a number (i.e., the additive inverse) They're related in th
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by akalin 7y ago
That's precisely the subtlety I'm talking about, in which additive inverses and real numbers less than 0 can both be referred to as 'negatives', and that the operation of taking additive inverses and real numbers less th
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by akalin 7y ago
There's a subtle point to keep in mind when generalizing to rings/fields. The concept of 'positive' and 'negative' are defined in terms of an order relation, e.g., 'positive' means >0 and 'ne
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Donald Knuth was framed(buttondown.email)
632 points by akalin 7y ago|180 comments
52.
Prepper-Style Music Hoarding(macwright.org)
2 points by akalin 7y ago|0 comments
53.
KnightOS was an interesting operating system(drewdevault.com)
292 points by akalin 7y ago|60 comments
54.
Build Systems à La Carte [pdf](microsoft.com)
2 points by akalin 7y ago|0 comments
55.
by akalin 7y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
56.
A Few Comments on ‘Age’(neilmadden.blog)
2 points by akalin 7y ago|0 comments
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by akalin 7y ago
When I worked on Chrome Sync, we spent some time making sure that unknown fields were preserved properly. Glad to see that someone noticed, cheers!
58.
Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software(drewdevault.com)
9 points by akalin 7y ago|5 comments
59.
Accurate Differences of Products with Kahan's Algorithm(pharr.org)
2 points by akalin 7y ago|0 comments
60.
The Distribution Monad(blog.russelldmatt.com)
1 points by akalin 7y ago|0 comments

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