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Lady Buys Remote Island(insider.com)
4 points by dxbydt 4y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
We are at ~300 comments. If these same set of 300 comments had been posted in 2020, over 50% would have been greyed out, users shadowbanned, and within an hour the entire discussion would be flagged and demoted from the front page. And all
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by dxbydt 4y ago
thanks! yeah aops is the mother ship, i am just plying a little ferry. my problem sets come from irodov, loney, hall and knight. These are 100+ year old classics, can get them off libgen. during covid i did zoom. nowadays the students just
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by dxbydt 4y ago
My anticlockwise circles score more than my clockwise ones. Is there some theory behind that ?
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> "acing" is 150 Sorry, I meant acing in the "scored way above what I'd expect 6th graders to do" sense. One of them made the AIME cutoff, two missed that cutoff but quite narrowly. > "acing" is 150,
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Hey this is so well done! You know, you could put the sun on one of the the two focii and ask the user to draw the elliptical orbit of the earth - perfect real-life usecase.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Well, I live in the midwest, a small republican town in flyover country, with no fancypants private schools nearby :) The kids here go to public school. I thought I can help them out. So I volunteered my "math services" to the pub
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> I have a social group of folks that work out hard integrals via social media Heh heh! Glad am not the only one. I used to think this was purely an Asian habit, borne out of excessive focus on math problems during the 11-12 grades in or
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Some of the Calculator analogy comments downstream are inaccurate. 300,000 students in the United States compete in the AMC 8/10/12 exams every year. Calculators have always been banned. The official policy[1] states sternly in up
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by dxbydt 4y ago
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/pa... pcre has always had java and scala support.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Until last year, I was completely unaware of this problem. I made a stupid, stupid mistake - registered a .us TLD using “Google Domains” - within minutes of registration, the calls started. Some Indian voice offering website construction, i
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Cycles in Family Tree Software(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by dxbydt 4y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
If you like such systems, backend systems in investment banks is where its at. Most of my experience was at Goldman, but similar systems exist in Morgan, Deutsche, Citi, UBS, Bloomberg or old PE firms. Look for C programmer careers in trade
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by dxbydt 4y ago
One thing I always loved about C was how easily you could slip in and out of x86 assembler with the __asm__ tag. There is no ceremony & it seems like magic. Like if you have 3 C int's a,b & c, and you want to add a & b and
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Here's a terribly amusing one on Z3. https://imgur.com/a/RZwHkLV First it says I don't know the answer to 1+2. Then it says ofcourse 1+2 must be 1. In either case, its the same exact question, and if you asse
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by dxbydt 4y ago
If I post that same question on Wikipedia and confidently assert the answer is 1, some good Samaritan will edit it within a day & say no dumbass its 6, and then link me to the Talk page & we'll duke it out over there. On ChatGP
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Here's a very easy middle school competition problem - https://imgur.com/a/YdFSBVY It repeatedly got the answer wrong. I engaged in a long conversation with it (too long to post) where I tried to convince it that
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> lot of nutrition has been, for lack of a better term, very basic and somewhat stoicimetric - fat consumed equals fat stored, cholesterol consumed equals cholesterol stored, and also treating manufactured sugars (e.g., High Fructose Cor
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by dxbydt 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPgdhRsGIQ
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by dxbydt 4y ago
I don’t know man. There are times when I genuinely want an argument to clarify my thoughts. There is zero argument- it just gets downvoted minus three. So then I sadly delete my comment. I usually assume since I’m not an American (wasn’t b
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by dxbydt 4y ago
I work with a bunch of middle-schoolers. While they use a lot of tech, lot more devices than me & visit a lot of (imo questionable) domains, they refer to things in a very non-canonical fashion. Like, they don't ever, ever, say fil
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> If you decide to invest $100,000 into the stock market because you agree with my reasoning in this post, then it would make a lot more sense to invest $10,000 a month over the next ten months than invest all of the $100,000 this month.
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Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall(platformer.news)
6 points by dxbydt 4y ago|2 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
This is absolutely crazy. OP is like asking for acting advice from internet randos. Suddenly, Al Pacino drops in! stuffmadehere is famous shit. Middle schoolers watch it in the classroom because the science teacher plays this. He has millio
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by dxbydt 4y ago
This is what I use - An inswan document camera is $99. itube studio is $20. Connect the inswan to your laptop. Now you can use regular paper pencil to write, draw graphs, show text, pictures etc. Use PhotoBooth to make a video, which is an
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> if the payments they process are down significantly, then does it matter Closest comparable is Adyen, processes 516B with 2500 employees. Stripe processes 640B with 7000 employees.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
This is a good book and forecast is a very good R package, imo.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Peter Cotton has atleast a dozen very credible studies/results on prophet vs other timeseries libraries. Before committing to prophet, please check out a few of these (all over linkedin). His tone is acerbic because he believes prophet
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by dxbydt 4y ago
aesop #1 - king spots an ant drowning in the pond. king uses a leaf to rescue ant. courtiers admonish king for wasting his busy schedule on trivia like ants. at night the king sleeps & the snake opens his fangs to strike the king's
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Not Like That, Zuck(accioninversiones.com)
2 points by dxbydt 4y ago|0 comments

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