benkuhn

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What We Can Learn from Aviation, Civil Eng, and Other Safety-Critical Fields(danluu.com)
2 points by benkuhn 11y ago|1 comments
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Why use ECC?(danluu.com)
188 points by benkuhn 11y ago|95 comments
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GiveWell's updated top charities for giving season 2015(blog.givewell.org)
1 points by benkuhn 11y ago|0 comments
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by benkuhn 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out; I think "procrastination" was a lazy label for that time category on my part and doesn't actually reflect what I'm doing. As I mentioned in a parent (cousin-once-removed?) comment, the Rescu
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by benkuhn 11y ago
I evidently need to make this more clear in the article, but RescueTime captures all time I spend in front of the computer, not just work time. My actual work time is about 50h/week, which is probably about average for software people
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Visual Information Theory(colah.github.io)
151 points by benkuhn 11y ago|21 comments
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Advantages of Monolithic Version Control(danluu.com)
92 points by benkuhn 11y ago|64 comments
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by benkuhn 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I actually agree that L1 error is often more practical, and didn't mean the post to come off as prescriptive. (In fact, part of my motivation for writing it was that L1 error seemed to have much better practi
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by benkuhn 11y ago
> As an aside, I think people don't fully consider the effectiveness of earning more money as a form of altruism. Since around 30% will be taken by the government, and used to fund various social services, the choice to earn more mo
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by benkuhn 11y ago
Yeah, I definitely think donation matching is generally a good deal from the charity's perspective. When I wrote this I was more thinking from the perspective of someone who has a large fixed donation and is deciding what to do with it