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by grayclhn 4y ago
When discussing compression, the difference between size and mass is kind of important. :)
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by grayclhn 4y ago
Time and temperature are other measurements mentioned in the article. Since it’s a hospital, you should probably assume some other data are available too. If you’ve never been to a hospital or doctor’s office, you can either google “standar
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by grayclhn 4y ago
This is a little flip. They obviously weren’t measuring the wrong thing because they kept going and resuscitated her. The EKG was mentioned as one datapoint on the state of her physical body. Edit: I’m writing this comment because in almo
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by grayclhn 5y ago
I read a lot of the same things, but picked up an aspirational undertone instead of mockery. I definitely didn't see it presenting him like a child. But ymmv.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Just think for a second about the overlap between “people who want to speak their mind in an exit interview” and “people who like arguing in online forums” and the comment disparity makes a lot of sense…
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by grayclhn 5y ago
This, plus most people are “bad” or “good” in some environments and not others. If it’s a bad fit, it’s a bad fit. Worrying about whether you’re the problem or other people are the problem is rarely productive, and sticking it out in an env
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Went to high school in an affluent suburb in the 90s in the US. “Playing computer games with friends” was either on one computer or involved dragging a computer over to a friend’s house and wiring it together with their desktop. Parent’s ex
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by grayclhn 5y ago
And yet... here you are, having applied that same mathematical principle to calculate the probability of observing a one-in-a-million event at least once in 4mil independent trials. That's probably something you already knew how to do,
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Dude, it was meant to be mildly educational, not an "argument."
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by grayclhn 5y ago
To be super pedantic, for one million ops it's closer to a 63% chance every day: Pr[something happens across 1_000_000 events] = 1 - Pr[nothing happens across 1_000_000 events] = 1 - Pr[nothing happens once]^1_000_000 ## assuming inde
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by grayclhn 5y ago
1) It’s not — there are lots of procedures called “the bootstrap” that act differently. 2) The fact that “substitute the data for the population distribution” both works and is sometimes provably better than other more sensible approaches i
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Works great until some jerk uses `→` as a variable name...
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by grayclhn 5y ago
LinkedIn profile
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by grayclhn 5y ago
No shit. But when my friends and family message me, they tend to text.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
These articles always play up the sillier aspects, but I don’t think non-iPhone users realize how much more annoying a group chat becomes when you add even one non-iPhone user. All of the social network features (thumbs up, etc) becomes an
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by grayclhn 5y ago
You make it sound like you shouldn’t get credit for knowing where you provide the most value and putting yourself in position to be most effective. :)
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Which is really really correlated with the number of hours you put in. Hard work means working hard, whatever context you’re imagining.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
When I was in grad school (Econ, not CS) teaching, etc., was less than 10h a week. The rest of the time was research. So yeah, 60+ hours of actual research a week.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
IME (US) the typical successful phd student works 60-80 hours a week, so… good luck working twice that hard for 5 years.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Often you want page numbers so that you can refer to them later in the text (“See Figure 1 on page n.”) I think at one point I knew how to do that in markdown but IIRC it was only an option in pandoc, and 2) it only worked by printing to pd
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by grayclhn 5y ago
tbh, the only problem I have with the approach in the article is that they’re not being strategic about it. I’ve informally had a, “one cool idea per project,” rule in the past. So if the project itself is cool, stay conservative with imple
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by grayclhn 5y ago
It’s a little telling that 90% of what you describe is undoing the actions of other managers. :)
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by grayclhn 5y ago
This is great. IMO “replay” is a much better description than “copy.”
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by grayclhn 5y ago
+1 — (to paraphrase parent’s point, which I think people are misunderstanding…) this is great advice for people to follow in general, but not something you can bring up in a contentious meeting to help get to an agreement.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Start with community college part time, get grades and take prerequisites, then apply to other programs. Spending two years at community college and then transferring to a 4 year college is pretty common as well if you want to attend full t
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by grayclhn 5y ago
> there will likely be updates to LaTeX that will require some minor changes in the text as time goes by. That’s probably not a big risk tbh.
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Call me crazy, but if we're going to call these goals, "estimates," they should actually be based on real data. Otherwise we're just making up numbers. If the relevant data aren't tracked or stored anywhere, that ki
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by grayclhn 5y ago
I like Perl, but if the best argument for its readability is that it’s better than using an archaic macro-only typesetting DSL for graphics…
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by grayclhn 5y ago
Cool, but that’s not “refactoring.”
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by grayclhn 5y ago
> I almost wish meetings would have two different start times - one for people that want to do meeting prep during the meeting and one for people that do it at some other time, so that I can just join 15 minutes in when everyone is actua

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