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Renewal Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by efavdb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 3mo ago
Thanks, I was curious for the motivation behind the conjecture, but it wasn’t mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
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by efavdb 3mo ago
My three year old taught me something he saw on a YouTube video: you can search through a maze and find your way out just by keeping your right hand on the wall at all times and continuing till exit. Does a DFS.
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by efavdb 3mo ago
Indeed, having a hard time thinking of anything I desire that I wouldn’t want sooner rather than later. Maybe a grave yard plot — hopefully won’t need that anytime soon.
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NanoSASRec(github.com)
1 points by efavdb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 3mo ago
Another question: they say road speeds increased, great. But that’s a different metric than average drive time. Curious if that also decreased.
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by efavdb 3mo ago
Great book: An Introduction to Statistical Learning PDF here: https://www.statlearning.com/
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by efavdb 3mo ago
FWIW in numerical analysis stable differentiation is harder than integration.
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Atrial Fibrillation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by efavdb 3mo ago|0 comments
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Kuramoto Model for Synchronization(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by efavdb 3mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 3mo ago
Very cool historical doc, thanks for sharing. Curious if his idea of determining the race of the individual from the fingerprint is possible. Never heard that idea before.
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by efavdb 3mo ago
They also say that if they do the analysis globally the effect goes away. Curious, does that not imply that if one domain is biased against some group there would be another where the bias was in its favor?
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by efavdb 4mo ago
Pleading has worked for me. “My job depends on this, please help me” and ChatGPT would do a task it previously claimed it wasn’t able to (extract text from an image, it claimed it couldn’t make it out at first)
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by efavdb 4mo ago
FWIW I wrote a paper on nutrient-limited growth rates of cells and how that depends on their shape. one of the interesting findings was that elongated cells can grow exponentially quickly (as observed) while spheres quickly max out. https
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by efavdb 4mo ago
When reading and writing became prevalent, the ancients bemoaned our reduced facility to memorize long texts. Are we now “less smart” because of that technology?
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by efavdb 4mo ago
Article says this misses important details, eg data that might be in the image.
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by efavdb 4mo ago
FWIW: A few nearby towns that are supposed to have good schools: Castro Valley, Albany, Alameda.
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Canada in Technical Recession(cbc.ca)
68 points by efavdb 4mo ago|36 comments
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Interest Rate May Explain Consumer Sentiment Anomaly(nber.org)
3 points by efavdb 4mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 4mo ago
I’ve noticed that people in my field tend to have relatively similar personalities and relatively similar MB categories (close to INTJ). That combo is relatively rare within the broader population. Given this consistency I don’t think we
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LTV and the Time Value of Money(jslandy.com)
2 points by efavdb 5mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 5mo ago
It’s as if the body of human knowledge is our I’ve mind. It used to be expensive to access that, but no more. Cool thing is now when someone contributes something to the hive mind, it can instantly be applied to any other problem people ar
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by efavdb 5mo ago
Tesla self driving works. I don’t know if Karpathy deserves credit for that or not.
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by efavdb 5mo ago
Worldwide poverty rate in 1800 = 81%. Today under 10%. https://cepr.shorthandstories.com/history-poverty/
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PCA vs. Regression Slope(jslandy.com)
1 points by efavdb 5mo ago|0 comments
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by efavdb 5mo ago
Agree, and I think it's probably healthy that the large endowments are being taxed a modest amount.
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Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact(pubs.rsc.org)
104 points by efavdb 5mo ago|43 comments
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by efavdb 5mo ago
Hmm I also tend to clean house thoroughly only when guests come over. Perhaps an effect that should be applied.
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Allocation with Substitutes(jslandy.com)
1 points by efavdb 5mo ago|0 comments
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All Eyes on the Nerd? The Unequal Distribution of Teachers' Attention [pdf](rfberlin.com)
2 points by efavdb 5mo ago|0 comments

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