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How to Raise the world’s IQ(economist.com)
4 points by asplake 2y ago|5 comments
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by asplake 2y ago
8” after 5.25” would have been a downgrade I think? I was glad to see the back of former (the latter too of course, but a bit later)
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The Story of Why(nickasbury.substack.com)
2 points by asplake 2y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 2y ago
Right. And Google isn't a democracy either (nor should it be). The numbers on the winning side might be small. But as you say, “it” is what it does.
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Synthetic User Research Is a Terrible Idea(spin.atomicobject.com)
6 points by asplake 2y ago|1 comments
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by asplake 2y ago
It slightly sets my teeth on edge to see the work items in Kanban referred to as “tasks”. The goal isn’t only to minimise wasteful multi-tasking locally, but to see deliverables flow through to the point of customer impact as smoothly as po
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by asplake 2y ago
> How does the body react to imbalances in some internally-relevant biomarkers? How systems regulate themselves (and also perpetuate themselves) is the question behind cybernetics, and in the organisational context, management cybernetic
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by asplake 2y ago
> On the flip-side, the power market is now seeing a bigger gap between low and high-priced hours, increasing the incentive to invest in storage, he added. Seems like the system is working
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by asplake 2y ago
> Sheaves are mathematical constructions concerned with passages from local properties to global ones Sounds interesting. Could someone elaborate on that?
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by asplake 2y ago
Thanks. A page with examples would be really helpful. The default example (if that what it is) or the shared example would be much more interesting with some context. Or a Show HN, if that’s what’s happening here.
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by asplake 2y ago
It seems to scroll forever. Does this example terminate? What would be an easier example to try?
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by asplake 2y ago
A Google search does that well enough for me on its own
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by asplake 2y ago
Thanks! That option did not exist when they released this feature.
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by asplake 2y ago
On Mac it drives me nuts that you can’t turn the recording indicator off. When you’re recording a presentation it’s not at all what you need.
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by asplake 2y ago
OKRs as the summary of a strategy conversation (not a “visioning” session) that actually happened, in the words of those who will do the work, fine. In most other scenarios I would proceed with extreme caution.
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by asplake 2y ago
Or: how to ruin hckrnews on mobile (Safari, anyway)
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by asplake 2y ago
Circle?
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by asplake 2y ago
Their user activity metric includes WhatsApp. Isn't that a bit desperate?
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by asplake 2y ago
What’s new I think would be the generalisation and its acceptance as a rule.
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UK breakthrough could slash emissions from cement(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by asplake 2y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 2y ago
Also a brilliant audiobook series narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who some here may recognise from the first Earthsea book.
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by asplake 2y ago
Perhaps it’s less the individual techniques, more the clarity of its underlying model. The book is worth the read by the way.
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by asplake 2y ago
There are more charitable readings of that article. Did it specify an encoding?
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by asplake 2y ago
Oops yes! And unfortunately it still doesn't work for n=0 Edit: prod(range(1, n+1)) does work
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by asplake 2y ago
How about: from math import prod # from Python 3.8 onwards def factorial(n): return prod(range(n+1))
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by asplake 2y ago
“As all joins involve the primary key…” Often but not always the case Edit: at least not in SQL, and therefore SQL databases. If the language being described here isn't actually SQL, that could still be a problem.
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by asplake 2y ago
By checking that the number is equal to its negative?
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by asplake 2y ago
As I recall, Paul Krugman’s 2008 Nobel Prize lecture would be a good place to start to understand why, economically at least, cities are they way they are, have the size distribution they have, and so on. For a philosophical delve into how
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by asplake 2y ago
> To release memory we simply release the blob itself, so it's like a batched deallocation, sort of. The consequence here is that all of our types must be: > 1. trivially copyable (: Copy if we speak in Rust) > 2. trivially de
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by asplake 2y ago
By convention making today a quiet news day, politics-wise

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