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by dxbydt 5y ago
kind of icky, this weird intersection of tech with art space. otoh i know a bunch of oss devs who could use the dough. can't we find a better way to pay them than plaster their face all over web3. guess not.
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Objectively Worse but Practically Better(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by dxbydt 5y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 5y ago
i gave this a shot. you have some kind of weird bug, if you click share and try to share teamvideo you get this infinity hall of mirrors - https://imgur.com/a/ymujedG
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by dxbydt 5y ago
The authors haven’t done any questionable transforms of the dataset - its literally the whitehouse dataset as a scatterplot. How is it garbage ?
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by dxbydt 5y ago
9 year old. He started coding when he was 7. JS. He maintains an online website with all his JS code. Updates his own website. No screentime limits. No restrictions. I bookmarked developer.mozilla on his pc but he still prefers that dirty w
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by dxbydt 5y ago
obvious next step is to make the list clickable so you can click on it & start watching the show (if you are logged in) btw, are all shows watchable in all countries or is there country-specific licenses ?
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by dxbydt 5y ago
<<< this is important <<< this is not important To be fair, neither is important. You don't have to reach for a transcendental if you want infinite polynomials, you can manufacture one for integers, rationals, irratio
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by dxbydt 5y ago
> As a kid/teenager I learned some lessons a lot better because they came in the form of offensive humor. I still remember some of them word for word 20+ years later. I worry about this in the context of current day puritanism a lot
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by dxbydt 5y ago
> Software is a social service. Its for other humans. I deeply disagree with this Calvinist utilitarian sentiment. Its akin to saying sex is for making babies. Maybe its an academic thing - When I went to grad school for CS, on Day 1 my
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by dxbydt 5y ago
economist.com...well people running the actual economy don't seem to share the sentiment. fb pcr is trending low [1] & ~$400 is still the consensus trefis estimate. [1] https://www.optionistics.com/put-call-ratio&#x2
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Milk Crates in the Hood Mania(twitter.com)
5 points by dxbydt 5y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 5y ago
Your example on Projectile motion and Riemann sum is quite nice! I am going to share it with a few kids I work with. Thank you for creating this.
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by dxbydt 5y ago
that bbc report is from march. here's a recent update from last week. it actually works very well - lots of rain. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2021/07/21/cloud-s... https:&#x
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by dxbydt 5y ago
You don't need silver iodide & suchlike. You can build a simple catapult & fire drones into the cloud. The drone delivers an electric charge to the cloud. This dislodges the water which falls down as rain. This is already routi
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by dxbydt 5y ago
Notice on page 7 the author briefly alludes to weighted means. That part is very useful to programmers & data scientists. If you build up good intuition about how to choose those weights, you can use them for all sorts of programming&#x
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by dxbydt 5y ago
Singapore Math & Prodigy are good recommendations. I'd also add IXL, Beast Academy, AOPS & RSM to the mix. Our public school here in Indiana was training middle schoolers for the Math Bowl statewide competition. I spoke to one
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Top Urban Heat Islands: 2021 [pdf](medialibrary.climatecentral.org)
1 points by dxbydt 5y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 5y ago
>is there a domain where correctness is not paramount ? pretty much every domain, if you exclude finance & industries that intersect with life and death decisions such as pharma/medicine/airlines/defense. what’s the co
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by dxbydt 5y ago
speaking as a humble statistician, If x is your sample, given x = {8, 3, 7, 1, 3, 9} sample mean = (8+3+7+1+3+9)/6 = 5.166, doctors mean = (1+9)/2 = 5, trimmed mean = (8+3+7+3)/4 = 5.25, median aka 50th percentile
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by dxbydt 5y ago
How does this work in the context of leetcode/hackerrank interviews ? Can I just use the copilot to get a 90%?skeleton of the required solution and maybe fill in just the 10% smarts ?
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by dxbydt 5y ago
i had to answer this question on my computer networks exam ages ago. i forget my exact answer, but it was along the lines of “ATM is the greatest tech since sliced bread. IP is bad because connectionless blah blah… therefore http over tcp o
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by dxbydt 6y ago
> write a program that plays every possible tic-tac-toe game Last time I interviewed in the Valley, some mofo actually asked me how many TicTacToe games end in 5 moves ? 9.5%. Here's my MonteCarlo solution if you can't be both
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by dxbydt 6y ago
Anything niche is good candidate. I'll give you a few examples. One of these examples was me, the rest were my friends who also got the EB-1A. Examples - software eng in investment bank building some complicated bond pricing engine wit
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by dxbydt 6y ago
I have an EB-1A (extraordinary ability). I can try to help you if you give me some details. Like, why do you want to pursue the EB-1 route ? I ask because, the way you've phrased the question "satisfy the requirements of EB-1&quot
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Six Sigma, 25 Sigma(krishnanraman.github.io)
2 points by dxbydt 6y ago|0 comments
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Six Sigma, 25 Sigma(krishnanraman.github.io)
2 points by dxbydt 6y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 6y ago
Mature coconuts fall off naturally, but they taste yucky. All the water dries up & becomes milky. If you don't harvest young coconuts during the prescribed interval, the water becomes undrinkable. But we use mature coconuts for oil
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by dxbydt 6y ago
I grew up in a remote village in south India. We had over two dozen coconut trees in our yard. I made a long loop in the mud that went around all these trees. I'd pull water out of the well using a rope & pulley & pour it down
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by dxbydt 6y ago
> sweets in America are like crack...I don't know what they put in it They don't put sugar but some sugar-like substance. They can get away by calling it sugar nevertheless. Run this simple test - go to an Indian store & bu
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by dxbydt 6y ago
> I think educated people are often dangerously out of touch with how many people don't share their worldview. What you call above a wacky idea - is actually not that wacky. I may believe dinosaur X existed but not dinosaur Y. That

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