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by dxbydt 3y ago
There was a sketching algo on wikipedia that was not well described. So I added 2 lines of python to illuminate what was intended by the roundabout description. Within an hour my edit was reverted with the terse comment - "Wikipedia i
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Can I have Cheeky Retorts for $100 Alex. 1. If you have a very large (say 100 million elements ) array in descending order, you can use Bubblesort to sort it in the ascending order - the worst case complexity is kn^2, and this is literaly t
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> Children are often hardest on their own caregivers Hear hear! If your kids turn out good, they'll say you are lucky.If they don't, they'll say you messed up as a parent. Either way, the parent never gets any credit.
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Generating invalid code is a big hassle. I have used ChatGPT for generating R code & sometimes it refers to functions that don't exist. The standard deviation of [1,2,1] is 0.577, given by sd(c(1,2,1)). Sometimes I get stdev(c(1,2
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> even more dangerous to apply a label like "addiction" to them my dude, teens leaving school are crossing the street without even looking up, because they're scrolling insta. Ok so they are dumb teens. What about the cros
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by dxbydt 3y ago
A VC once told me that as a rule, Go startups were more likely to succeed than Python startups. Maybe because successful startups are working on simple problems, not easy problems.
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Perhaps this might cheer you up - https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/03/17/1980-math-... Or perhaps not. In that blog, Gelman speaks of Gregg, who ended up as a GS VP, and says - math olympiad = hig
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> Art isn't an easier problem than math. If I was asked to draw a. the emptiness in your heart b. the lack of furniture in your room c. your empty bank balance d. starvation e. object returned by a python function with no return ...
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Why are there so many objects perfectly orbiting each other?(physics.stackexchange.com)
3 points by dxbydt 3y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Windows 95: Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry [video](youtube.com)
12 points by dxbydt 3y ago|9 comments
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by dxbydt 3y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-products-america-doesn... Dated article, says USA doesn't make these anymore - Baseball Babyfood Etch a Sketch Converse Shoes Stainless Steel Rebar Dress Shirt Mattel Toys Minivan
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by dxbydt 3y ago
looks like HN hug-of-death, sorry about that. https://www.indiatoday.in/science/chandrayaan-3/story/chandr... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMbpU_viwvA https://www.latestly.com&#
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by dxbydt 3y ago
https://www.dataanalytics.org.uk/reversing-the-axis-of-an-ex... "sometimes you want to make a plot that reflects the real situation rather than a plain mathematical one"
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by dxbydt 3y ago
There's a flurry on new info. In particular the variance of surface temperature at the lunar south pole, from 60 degree Celsius on the lunar surface, to -10 degree Celsius if you probe just 8cm below the surface https://nitt
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> The delicate balance of Nature was upset So what ? If Nature is upset you can submit it to Cell or Science. If its of interest to the medical community JAMA or Lancet might pick it up. At a 5% significance level, h-index of Nature is n
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CRLB(twitter.com)
1 points by dxbydt 3y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 3y ago
yeah it looks like everybody's focused on the mechanics of the computation and not appreciating the math i.e. why the two expressions compute to the same value.
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by dxbydt 3y ago
(Revised (Revised (Revised (Revised (Revised (Revised (Revised Report)))))))
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by dxbydt 3y ago
thank you. i tested this on lc playground and yeah it does work.
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by dxbydt 3y ago
I used it just the other day to work an aime problem for my middle schooler. scheme@(guile-user) [5]> (exp (* (atan 1) -2)) $9 = 0.20787957635076193 scheme@(guile-user) [5]> (expt 0+1i 0+1i) $10 = 0.20787957635076193+0.0i a problem c&
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Highest heat index ever recorded(twitter.com)
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> it doesn’t engage authors’ concerns at all, and just portrays authors as stoopid AI-fearful luddites. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/168915466478730444... So the two authors who are gloating about
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Not just the housing situation. The biggest contribution, by far, to mitigate the climate change crisis, would be to let your employees work remote. Commuting adds a ton of waste to the environment, no matter how energy efficient you get. E
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by dxbydt 3y ago
sometimes the war is lost even before the battle begins. During grad school, I wrote a whole bunch of web apps entirely in R using Shiny. It was clunky as hell, but yeah, it worked. I went looking for what's up with Shiny these days an
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by dxbydt 3y ago
I totally agree with you. Nobody gives a fuck. I sweated 6 months on my CS Masters thesis. After the day of the presentation, I walked up to my Professor's office. As per the rules, you are supposed to hand a printed copy of your thesi
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by dxbydt 3y ago
when i took econ, there were a host of gva shenanigans that made it amply clear how asset values null out. canonical question - when you marry your cook, what happens to gdp ? accepted textbook answer - gdp goes down because cook was paid i
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California's Math Overhaul(latimes.com)
4 points by dxbydt 3y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Exactly this. OP is needlessly beating the horse to death. I have enough graduate microecon credits under my belt to happily declare music is a commodity. You don't have to tick off every single i and t from the microecon literature to
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Ah! Fare arbitrage surfaces again! Quoting below - "when one individual is traveling from Millbrae station, a suburb south of San Francisco, to Embarcadero station which is downtown San Francisco, and at the same time a second individu
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Amazingly well written. I found myself vigorously agreeing with several strong statements therein...I guess its because I'm an immigrant from a conservative culture and this is kinda how we think about these things. Very cut and dry, d

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