brendanyounger

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by brendanyounger 5mo ago
I'll never understand this point of view. If someone would please explain how to create perfectly secure software, I will gladly start writing perfectly secure software. Only after, if it's clear I ignored obviously correct advice
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by brendanyounger 7mo ago
What will actually happen is that frauds and poorly run companies will opt for the 6 month schedule while well run ones will keep the 3 month. To your point that "executives should be tracking performance daily", there's an a
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by brendanyounger 7mo ago
Absolutely. Zuckerberg was willing to burn tens of billions on a metaverse that no one wanted. Staying relevant is worth every penny he spent on Moltbook. We're deep in a repeat of the dot-com boom. The interesting question is what wil
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by brendanyounger 7mo ago
I'm in my mid-40's now. I taught myself C when I was 15. I have no desire to use LLMs to pump out code. I take comfort in re-reading much of the 70's and 80's literature which focuses the possibilities of user experience
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by brendanyounger 10mo ago
Doubtful. I knew Ono as an undergrad at Wisconsin. He has far too much integrity for that. He's always been involved in mentoring high schoolers, undergrads, and, of course, his own grad students. It's not surprising that he'
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by brendanyounger 1y ago
For anyone outside the US, exactly 0% of the populace is interested in a confrontation with Venezuela. This looks like an unpopular president eager for a rally around the troops moment and possibly taking over oil fields to reward his suppo
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by brendanyounger 1y ago
Trump sends migrants overseas to be tortured. Mamdani says the very rich should pay a little more for better city services (free buses, etc.). These are not comparable at all. What is behind this disingenuous both-sidesism? What is going on
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by brendanyounger 1y ago
The current US federal tax system already is progressive in this way. Your first $X are taxed at 0%, the next $Y at 10%, etc. up to 37%. Your UBI in your formula is basically the standard deduction in the current system. But you still need
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by brendanyounger 1y ago
I think the video streaming services are a good model to follow. You go on Prime Video and see videos from several decades, dozens of cable & broadcast networks, and hundreds or thousands of distributors and production companies. The ri
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by brendanyounger 1y ago
Yes, you're still calculating an infinite decimal, no matter how you approach the problem. What Wildberger is suggesting is that, rather than taking an nth root (solution to x^n = A where A is a fraction) as a "fundamental" o
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
I believe this is superseded by the Willow protocol [0] which was posted here a while back. I tried to read about Willow, but could never make heads or tails of it [1]. It seems to be a hierarchical key value store with a bunch of extra fie
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
I suspect they gave him a timeline to IPO and/or sell or he's kicked out as CEO. His recent actions are those of a man with a deadline and nothing to lose.
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
To put a little color on the BSD conjecture, it states that the rank (0, 1, 2, 3, etc.) of rational points on an elliptic curve is related to the residue (coefficient of 1/q) of the L-function for the curve. There are some additional m
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
While I have no love for Ambetter, I think we need to ask whether behavioral health services should ever be covered by insurance. From 10,000 feet, the behavioral health product is terrible. There's no clear timeline for how long it ta
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
So ... a president can now order an executive branch officer to ignore any Supreme Court decision or law passed by Congress with absolute immunity? Seems like the Supreme Court is going to get what they asked for.
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by brendanyounger 2y ago
Crypto? I'm _shocked_.
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Not entirely true. I moved a block away from the local college with three daughters in elementary school specifically to take advantage of the businesses and enrichment activities around the school. In 1.5 years living here, we've had
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Almost. What I wrote is more like: create view LoggedInUserView as select u.id as id, u.name as name, u.email as email from Users u join Cookies c on c.name = 'login' and u.id = c.payload->>'userId'; w
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
I greatly respect what Stu and Rich have done to make Datomic. However, they made an explicit design decision to not include a query optimizer and execute the clauses as they were written. This is usually fine since the author has some idea
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
On a syntax level, parsing, generating, and templating datalog is _much_ simpler than doing the same to SQL. DBT would never exist if every SQL database accepted datalog queries and SQL injection attacks would be rare to non-existent. The m
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Souffle and Cozo mentioned below already implement the whole of "traditional" datalog. Percival ( https://github.com/ekzhang/percival ) has some very nice examples showing how you can interactively write and te
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
I wish people would stop referring to Datomic as datalog. Datomic is many things, but only the query format (Horn clauses with unification of variables, similar to prolog) has anything to do with datalog. Real datalog is far more interestin
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Having worked with this data extensively (tynbil.com) and talked to several payers and providers, I don't think any of this intentional. CMS did their best at guessing what format the payer data could be exported to (with little to no
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
And why this has not been prosecuted as giant racketeering operation is beyond me.
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Medical billing is a dreary business. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/CodingAndBilling/ . It's not clear that anyone is _trying_ to build an empire out of this. More likely, they're trying to build a b
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Can we all take a moment and appreciate that Bret Victor's natural handwriting is good enough to make a typeface from?
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
You're right, and I'm one of them (tynbil.com). Problem is, that's where the money is right now and those are the only customers willing to put up with slightly wrong data. On the optimistic side, what will happen sooner rath
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Depressingly, this is closer to reality than most people realize. It's not just the risk of complications in treatment, it's also that most providers send off several hundred or thousand claims in a 1-2 week period and get a lump
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Exactly. IF you're a hospital system paying 10's of millions of dollars annually to Epic, and IF you want to pay for Epic's price estimation tool and offer it to consumers, then, yes, your patients can get a rough estimate of
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by brendanyounger 3y ago
Supposedly all these new laws around price transparency are aimed at exposing the "real" rate, not the inflated rate on the initial bill. 3.5x Medicare is actually somewhere around "reasonable" and is what a commercial p

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