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by bschne 4y ago
Aside: I'm in my late twenties and have used various of the currently popular dating apps on/off over the last few years. Whenever I see one of the old OKC blogposts around the internet, it's kind of striking how different th
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The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2(joshholtsclaw.com)
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Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets(plugsocketmuseum.nl)
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by bschne 4y ago
Part 2: https://eng.lyft.com/causal-forecasting-at-lyft-part-2-418f1...
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Causal Forecasting at Lyft(eng.lyft.com)
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I read most of the print version of this (which is very nice and I can recommend). One thing that really sticks out about this is just how much work in such a project ends up going nowhere — you record something, you try using it weeks late
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I'm just struck by how cool those assignments are — I feel like this might be one of the biggest differences in school quality, most of the stuff I've had to do at an unremarkable school felt a lot more like "fake problems&qu
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I sympathize with this and have definitely been horribly wrong about basics before, but it‘s also crazy how many teachers don‘t manage to set up courses and asssignments such that they really force you to understand the basics.
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Is that online somewhere? Sounds like a fun thing to try!
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Also I'm not sure the data is available, does the US entity which is publicly traded have to report on all subentities' financials separately? Don't they usually just consolidate the financials?
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This only occurred to me now in reference to Uber and other serial offenders, and I don't know what the situation in other countries is, but... In Switzerland there's actually a law against unfair competitive practices, and it has
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> These can be quickly transported elsewhere to ensure they can setup elsewhere and prevent the tech from falling into China's hand. Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive? Th
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While some of the measurement methods can be debated, pretty much all mental health metrics down to medication prescriptions I've seen over the last few years can best be described as "alarming". I don't have very substa
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The Autodesk File(fourmilab.ch)
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Aside: I love this kind of break-down of the low-level economics of a certain industry/business. Does anyone have any good references for others?
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Aside: Does HN auto-replace certain terms in titles? Pretty sure I wrote "Dall-E" here.
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DALL-E including shutterstock watermarks in images for unrelated prompts(twitter.com)
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Oh man this brings backs memories! When I grew up, we had this one book with all kinds of DIY home improvement and house-building instructions I loved to leaf through. It got so much use (and I think had already been passed to my family u
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by bschne 4y ago
Three I haven't seen so far: Ben Eater (low-level digital hardware stuff, builds a computer from gates basically) Thought Emporium (Molecular Bio) The Coding Train (Creative Coding) Also nice to just watch random MITx & similar lec
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Can you get lucky with the initial configuration of the cube in some way, or is is shuffled in a way that ensures roughly equally hard solves? What's the protocol here?
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Aside: The way this was soundtracked with the perfectly timed drum hits was really cool!
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I know this is slightly off what the article is concerned with, but the important question in a business context is whether this prediction is worth anything, i.e. whether it can be turned into revenue that wouldn't be generated in the
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From the introduction :) > 1.1 Why You Should Want to Know About Abduction > If you are consulting this book with malicious intent, looking for ways to expand your criminal pursuits, I encourage you to stop reading and to better your
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Interesting rabbit hole! Does that mean the margin is defined to contain once-in-twenty-years extremes?
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I'm still often struggling with this, but I do find there's a certain "activation energy" needed — on many real-world, very practical projects my interest only developed as I made some initial progress, realized "in
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> If a contact is missed, science observations can continue without filling the recorder, and the ground can catch up on the next contact. Total noob question but how exactly does this part work? It seems like if you record close to the
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How to save more lives and avoid a privacy apocalypse(ft.com)
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From the code it looks like they used this: http://ai2html.org The FAQ on the front page provides a hint as to why this might be superior to just using an SVG or PNG.
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My grandfather once built a phone line simulator you could connect up to 8 or 10 phones to and actually dial them by a one-digit number. I think he got the schematics from some old electronics magazine. Definitely one of the coolest „toys“
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Are there any best practices on using one of the "-sk" key types and authorizing usage with your security key, vs. storing the whole ssh key on the security key?

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