benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
> the premise that fraud happens or not is highly politicized. People on one side believe it happens/happened. On the other side, they believe it to be impossible. > Though, curiously, those who believe it to be impossible also s
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by benrbray 6y ago
Is there a good reason that a CEO should be able to use private sales data to inform their trades? (in this case, to cancel a previously scheduled trade)
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by benrbray 6y ago
Maybe it's not currently illegal, but shouldn't it be? Once in a lifetime news on a stock price about to go up sure sounds like material non public information to me.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Not a legal responsibility, an ethical one. Whether we like it or not, people tend to idolize public figures and believe what they say. When people regularly tune in to his show, they may be exposed to a certain topic / idea for the f
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by benrbray 6y ago
Any solutions for cross-platform text editing + rich layouts? Afaik that's where native apps really run into trouble, as solo developers don't want to spend time re-inventing the wheel. (Nor should they have to). Especially on L
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by benrbray 6y ago
It appears that there is no Linux support planned as part of the Window+Mac React Native? That would be an absolute shame, as one of the benefits of Electron is that I can run VS Code, etc. on Ubuntu. I'd gladly jump ship from Electro
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by benrbray 6y ago
The average person knows that a URL is a string that (for all intents and purposes) uniquely identifies a web page on the internet. There are some cases, like with Facebook/Google/YouTube, where they add a bunch of tracking info o
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by benrbray 6y ago
Learning measure theory has eliminated a lot of blind spots for me when it comes to stats / probability / ML. I find that I get "stuck" much less frequently when reading papers, and I'm able to better in the gaps w
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by benrbray 6y ago
For anyone looking properly (i.e. with proofs) learn measure theory, I highly recommend "Introduction to Measure Theory" [1] by Terrence Tao (has an excellent collection of exercises -- they're crucial to the reading!) I thin
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by benrbray 6y ago
Do you mean upper bound?
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by benrbray 6y ago
I disagree with your definition of "market rate", but let's suppose you're right: Do you not see it as a problem that Google alone decides the cost of entry to an entire market?
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by benrbray 6y ago
If Google is willing to pay 200k above market rate to hire an employee from a competitor, chances are part of the "value" of that employee is that they will no longer be working for someone else. Yes, literally speaking, it's
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by benrbray 6y ago
I sure hope so. I have not agreed with this administration on hardly anything else, but I agree with this. The United States has its own dark history of censorship and oppression, but authoritarianism poses an even bigger threat. At the m
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by benrbray 6y ago
The rendering is all thanks to KaTeX, which is indeed great! Maybe it's not clear enough from the page, but the page is actually editable -- click anywhere and start writing. You can add new math by typing an expression like $x+y=z$.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Please add math support, too! KaTeX is a great drop-in option! If you do, please consider "first-class" math support, like the screencaps here [1]. Both block and inline math are important, and it's important to be able to
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by benrbray 6y ago
Not who you were replying to, but: * Most of my notes relate to a single blog post / article / paper that I read. * In my notes, I jot down any new concepts I learned, and summarize them in a way I know I will be able to understan
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by benrbray 6y ago
It is just a personal wiki! Focusing on Obsidian, I think the appeal though is that it automatically creates a wiki from your personal notes. Just type [[wikilinks]] and everything else is done for you. Maintaining a proper wiki by onesel
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by benrbray 6y ago
I would say that Roam Research inspired a mini-notetaking-boom! The reason is that it's based off a good idea, but it's very much a walled garden and the $15/mo price is very clearly aimed at attracting institutional license
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by benrbray 6y ago
EPUB is a non-starter for me as most e-readers haven't bothered to implement decent math support. We've had LaTeX math for decades now, come on people! Any HTML-based format like EPUB should be using KaTeX at a bare minimum, but
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by benrbray 6y ago
Commuting by train, I agree! But when I commuted by car in the past, it was a time to languish in my vehicle, parked on the highway, wondering why a drive normally taking 15 minutes on weekends instead takes 60 minutes on a work day. Defi
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by benrbray 6y ago
Exactly! Plus, there's no lock-in. If GitHub pages shuts down tomorrow, I still have all my static files and I can publish them to another platform.
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think there is a risk of coming across as inflexible. A good manager adapts to the needs / strengths of their team members, and publishing a "this is how we do things here, deal with it" memo might send the wrong message.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for your perspective! Regarding speed, I suspect there might be more to the story since so many finance firms [1] are known to use Haskell internally. Perhaps they're not using it for anything speed-critical, thou
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by benrbray 6y ago
Any advice for learning to read the PL math notation? The PL papers I've seen normally take it for granted, so I don't even know what it's called to search for it! EDIT: Thank you all for the references :)
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by benrbray 6y ago
I don't know how truly "zero-cost" the compiler implementations are, but the premise of functional programming languages like Haskell seems to be that programmers should be able to freely think in abstractions like map, fold,
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think this is an area where practice has lagged quite far behind theory (for entirely reasonable practical reasons). I've seen quite a few papers relating to incremental parsing, compilation, etc. (e.g. [1,2]) but afaik very few bui
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by benrbray 6y ago
Do you mean the system-level config folder? Won't that cause problems when A) you rename / move a folder or B) copy a folder to a different computer?
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by benrbray 6y ago
> anything on advanced math/physics/logic will usually get traction (probably because it makes people feel smart, even though it's not accessible to like 99%) I think these posts are popular because they generate meaningfu
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by benrbray 6y ago
Yarc lists Roam as an inspiration, so I would like to mention an open-source alternative called Athens [1]. It's being actively developed and I imagine will soon eat Roam's lunch, given their unfortunate pricing model. [1] https
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by benrbray 6y ago
Have you considered using ProseMirror [1]? It's a nice wrapper around contenteditable that makes things like inline math editing [2] much easier to set up. [1] https://prosemirror.net/ [2] https://github.com

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