danohu

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by danohu 8y ago
Here are the lecture notes for Modern Regression (bottom of page): http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/mreg/15/ Looks pretty serious to me
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by danohu 8y ago
How do you understand the lease-vehicles line in the balance sheet? From $4.1bn down to $2.3bn. I understand there's some accounting change, but I don't see where the other side of that missing $1.8bn shows up.
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by danohu 9y ago
Well, the first Pope was literally called The Rock (Peter). Jesus appointed him by saying "you are The Rock, and I'll build my church on this rock". Exactly what he meant has led to centuries of debate between protestants and
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by danohu 9y ago
How about the most silent lecture? "Cole’s lecture was different. He did not speak a single word. He simply went to the board, and began to calculate. On one side of the board, he calculated 267 – 1 = 147,573,952,589,676,412,927 by
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by danohu 9y ago
"But new research shows that it may not be the sound itself that distracts us…it may be who is making it." For me, the absolute perfect background noise is people talking in a language I don't understand. If you're in a
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by danohu 9y ago
I seem to increasingly get unsubscribed from mailing lists because of not opening them, which is very frustrating. Sometimes it's because I'm reading but not triggering their tracking mechanisms. Other times it's because I&#x
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by danohu 9y ago
Not quite the Crimea, but you might like the novelist Amin Maalouf. He primarily writes historical novels set in the medieval Islamic world -- with protagonists who travel a lot, so you see some of the (more-or-less accurate) interactions o
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by danohu 9y ago
Something I would love to see is an open-source attitude entering into the furniture manufacture ecosystem. What Ikea sells you is, essentially: a) a set of instructions for making furniture out of basic components b) those components, prod
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by danohu 9y ago
Earlier iterations are buggier and have poorer dev tools. So the God intelligence has more need to smite and command the AIs within the game. After a while the bugs are ironed out, so God can settle back and gently tweak parameters at a dis
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by danohu 9y ago
Easier than avoiding triggers -- and almost as effective -- is just to delay the response. Let yourself check your phone, but only 10 minutes after you feel the urge to do so. This is much easier than complete abstinence, but breaks down
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by danohu 9y ago
Berlin is pretty dense, even without skyscrapers. Tightly-packed six-storey buildings can get you very high density (look at Paris for a more extreme demonstration). The area of Kreuzberg I'm in now has the same population density as M
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by danohu 9y ago
I've occasionally suggested* a dirty bomb as the only way to make London livable again. Just enough radiation to scare away the rich, not enough to actually harm anyone ;) And in Berlin, I've sometimes seen graffiti along the line
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by danohu 9y ago
open/free data sources are likely to become very important. AI hasn't yet been super-important in the open data world, but I'd expect it to gain a lot of prominence as time goes by.
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by danohu 9y ago
A decent amount eventually ends up at archive.org [not all, because archive.ort needs to be a bit more careful, but they have a decent symbiotic relationship]
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by danohu 9y ago
No, it's "learn by building things" with a very tight feedback loop . When copying, you can immediately see where your expert has done something differently from you. And you can either learn to do it their way, or understan
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by danohu 9y ago
You didn't hear about the recent lettuce heist? http://globalnews.ca/news/3356810/romaine-calm-hamilton-poli...
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by danohu 9y ago
Currently 1337, which seems appropriate
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Tracking dots in printers – a history(ohuiginn.net)
5 points by danohu 9y ago|0 comments
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by danohu 9y ago
Last year I wrote this summary of how it happened: http://ohuiginn.net/wp/?p=2175 Roughly, the printer industry set up self-surveillance in the 90s, because they figured the alternative would be bans on their products.
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by danohu 9y ago
I'm not sure why you find that Sokal-style. Unfamiliar terminology aside, it's clear and unambiguous -- you could directly rewrite it as a mathematical definition, for example.
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by danohu 9y ago
Amanda Feilding, who this article is about, is a fascinating person. In the 70s she drilled a hole in her own skull ("trepanation"), then ran for political office to promote the benefits of that operation. She's now Countess
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by danohu 10y ago
maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493152 ?
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by danohu 10y ago
Backblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.
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by danohu 10y ago
Can tmux give each user their own cursor? That's an essential feature for realtime collaborative editing.
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by danohu 10y ago
Thanks, that makes sense
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by danohu 10y ago
How can I download backups into a different directory from where they originated? [I was just trying out tarsnap, go to the restore test section, and was a bit stumped. It seems like "-xC /other/dir" might do it, but t
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by danohu 10y ago
not the GP, but start with Flow. Flow is the famous, classic one. Finding Flow is a later expansion/restatement -- it's good enough in its own right, but Flow is the lodestone
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by danohu 10y ago
More recently: Bill Clinton supposedly lost the nuclear launch codes for a few months http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/21/shelton.clinton.n...
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by danohu 10y ago
It happens. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/doctor-who-cut-off-wron...
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by danohu 10y ago
In the UK there is still a lot of this, even though healthcare is centrally funded and (somewhat) centrally administered. I worked briefly with a company doing medical transcription. It opened my eyes to how much billing-related paperwork g

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