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by aklein 4y ago
Kudos to the person who wrote the job description
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by aklein 4y ago
I have stuff to say about JIT.
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by aklein 4y ago
Makes me think of The Expanse (tv version)
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Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
131 points by aklein 4y ago|77 comments
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by aklein 4y ago
You can buy CDs from a Vanguard brokerage account that are yielding about 50% more than the equivalent durations offered at gsbank/Marcus: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FixedIncomeHome
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by aklein 5y ago
Same, sometimes circles won’t reappear from the opposite edge boundary
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by aklein 5y ago
> What the Internet seems to do best is make commonly available enormously vast resources of mis-information that we never knew existed. Wow - so prescient
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by aklein 5y ago
Not to mention Sasha Baron Cohen passing out from wine and waking up in character as Ali G - at least anecdotally
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by aklein 6y ago
Right, but unlike TCP/IP, which is a stateless protocol, the validation of an NFT requires a specific blockchain. While Bitcoin and Ethereum seem to be “here to stay”, they both seem under constant competitive pressure from other block
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by aklein 6y ago
Only in this case the value is stored in “digital gold”. Unlike gold, which is chemically stable, I’m far from convinced the digital format itself will end up sticking around long term.
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by aklein 6y ago
Cannot prove some program is correct, in general, because that’s effectively the halting problem. But in practice it is sufficient to enforce (prove) the absence of behaviors via constraints like types or contracts.
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by aklein 6y ago
Does anyone else notice that, after staring at this for a minute or so and then coming back to HN, that you experience a lingering (reverse) zoom optical illusion effect?
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by aklein 6y ago
leptosphere lep·to·sphere the space beyond the earth's crust which is about 2.8 billion miles (4.8 km) across and includes the oceans and Mars, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter and beyond "the space between the earth's crust and
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by aklein 6y ago
I remember reading that some people, especially those under 40, don’t develop observable antibodies. Or, could’ve just been the flu. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/health/coronavirus-antibo...
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by aklein 6y ago
I truly enjoy all of Kevin Hartnett’s articles. He’s a great science writer. He shines a light on some really impenetrable ideas.
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Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the Maestro Dataset(storage.googleapis.com)
3 points by aklein 7y ago|0 comments
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by aklein 7y ago
Another book I'm enjoying is "Einstein's Unfinished Revolution" [1] by Lee Smolin, which also has a deep dive into foundations of QM. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolution-Searc...
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by aklein 8y ago
This whole article rests on the premise "The longer you play the long game, the easier it is to play and the greater the rewards." This is a version of the "time diversification fallacy" in finance. The debate over time
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by aklein 8y ago
It seems all participants in the study were recruited from within Hong Kong. I wonder if being speakers of tonal languages has any effect. I'd be interested in seeing if the study could be reproduced with speakers of non-tonal language
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by aklein 9y ago
The majority of credit is due Wes, no doubt, for bringing pandas to life, but it's a glaring omission not to mention the huge contributions from the wider community toward pandas (shout-out to Jeff Reback!) https://github.co
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by aklein 9y ago
Worth a read: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-larr... In particular: "SUMMERS: Not enough people are innovating enough in higher education. The place to start is, General Electric looks not
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A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber(medium.com)
1 points by aklein 10y ago|0 comments
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by aklein 10y ago
My interpretation is: it's exponential in running time, although slightly faster than 2^n (exponent specifically is 0.86n). However, it uses polynomial space, which hadn't been done before. Prior approaches used an exponential-siz
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Halite AI programming competition(halite.io)
5 points by aklein 10y ago|0 comments
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by aklein 11y ago
I would love to see a real-time bebop improvisation generator in the style of Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, et. al. - bebop is definitely a musical (jazz) language that I bet would be well suited to RNNs.
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by aklein 11y ago
The movie suggests that the central government directly manufactures an initial amount of money to be put into circulation by issuing debt that is bought by the central bank. The proceeds are deposited at commercial banks, who then lend mon
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by aklein 11y ago
Reminds me in a weird way of the potato paradox, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
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by aklein 11y ago
The numerical accuracy and calculations needed for getting the spacecraft so close to Pluto must be pretty awesome. Does anyone know what the precision is on calculations like these? Also, anyone know why the spacecraft has to do a flyby, a
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by aklein 11y ago
Going to a "prestigious" college - say, one of the Ivy League schools - has a huge positive network effect on your career, if you want to capitalize on it. It's valuable social proof, at least for the first decade after you g
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by aklein 11y ago
The essay has quotes like this: "The market thus oscillates asymptotically around the attractor of zero information friction in an incomputably random orbit" which sound so mathematical as to invite a proof... ... and then quotes

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