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by isolli 4y ago
Only 30 years ago we had never seen a brown dwarf, even though its existence had been theorized much earlier. There are not enough brown dwarfs to account for the missing mass in the universe, but is it at all possible that some other type
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by isolli 4y ago
It reminds of the alternative to dark matter that is MOND, stating that the law of gravity behaves as 1/r at large distances (as opposed to 1/r2 at our scale) [0]. I personally like it because it seems less ad hoc than to posit th
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by isolli 4y ago
My first car (1993) was a Citroen BX. I loved the hydropneumatic suspension. The car would rise slowly after you started the engine. And there was a special mode where you could rise the car even higher to pass rough terrain. https:/&
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by isolli 4y ago
Related, an article from 2019 [0] on how neural network finally beat statistical models (e.g. ARIMA) in time-series forecasting. [0] https://towardsdatascience.com/n-beats-beating-statistical-m...
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Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?(arxiv.org)
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by isolli 4y ago
You are right, but widely disseminating these findings is important in order to counter two equally damaging narratives: that acute hepatitis was caused by vaccines, and that it was caused by Covid. In the end, the authors speculate that lo
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by isolli 4y ago
But, unlike the typical trolley problem, stopping on the side of the road comes at no cost to you or anyone else.
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by isolli 4y ago
True, but the 80-year old is guaranteed to have lived that many years, while the 20-year old could die tomorrow...
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by isolli 4y ago
Related: it strikes me as a paradox that we are envious of people in their 20s because they have their whole life ahead of them, and feel sorry for people in their 80s who have their life behind them. Does it mean we value the potential mor
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by isolli 4y ago
We lived right around the corner from this one! I have fond memories. And I second your point: there are even scarier ones (though not scary for kids).
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by isolli 4y ago
I'm looking into DVC right now, and I feel like the code history (in git) and the data history are too intertwined. If you move the git HEAD back, then you get the old data back, but you also get the old code back. I wish there was a w
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by isolli 4y ago
Related, I recommend following the account of the Auschwitz memorial: https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum Every day, they post pictures of a handful people who were detained (and almost always died) in the concentration cam
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by isolli 4y ago
This video is also quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2gTSjoEExc
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by isolli 4y ago
In which I discovered an explanation for an illusion that always surprised me [0]: the fact that a partially illuminated moon does not seem to reliably indicate the direction of the sun. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by isolli 4y ago
It reminds me of the time I tried to type my password on a keyboard with a French layout, but responding as if it had a US layout. It turns out, even if you think you know where all these special characters are, finding them under pressure
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by isolli 4y ago
Culture war?
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by isolli 4y ago
The situation as seen from France is odd. Here, elite STEM universities are free, and the very best ones even pay their students. Having legacy admissions would be unthinkable; it's the opposite of meritocracy. And you don't need
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by isolli 4y ago
The same happened with laws instituting vaccine passports (at least in France). They were not backed by any projection of the number of hospitalizations avoided or lives saved.
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by isolli 4y ago
This part seems relevant: > It also saved on costs by limiting the number of interactions between the platform and outside entities. For example, when Indexed needed to calculate the total value held within a pool, instead of checking to
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by isolli 4y ago
Edited to add: nrp, I know this person and I vouch for them :) I'm confident that they could help you enter a sizable new market here in France. Laurent, content de te revoir ! Et content de voir que tu te bats toujours pour les bonnes
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by isolli 4y ago
Optical character recognition, applied to scanning documents or automatically reading license plates and postal addresses.
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by isolli 4y ago
I agree, and thanks for the advice. However, as another commenter pointed out, I believe the lack of good games in mobile app stores is a direct consequence of the economic model, driven by ads and internet connectivity.
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by isolli 4y ago
My daughter is transitioning from children's games to pre-teen games, and I can't find a single acceptable game on the tablet. Until now I hadn't realized how sensible Apple's rules around children's games had been,
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by isolli 4y ago
And while you're at it, sign up for Matt's email newsletter. It's one of the most insightful reads in finance.
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by isolli 4y ago
Children's songs are also often cruel. "Il etait un petit navire" tells the story of a young sailor about to be eaten because the ship ran out of food. "Sur le pont du Nord" tells the story of a brother and a sister
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by isolli 4y ago
All the charts stop in 2018, 2019, or at best 2020 for one of them (major depression). I'm deeply worried about what we will find when we extend the charts to include the two years of pandemic.
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by isolli 4y ago
From what I remember, Buffet stated that the main risk for him was of someone somehow hacking the system and changing their bet after the fact. All without being detected, of course.
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Communication was also the main cause of the Tenerife airport disaster [0], leading to an overhaul of communication protocols. "As a consequence of the accident, sweeping changes were made to international airline regulations and to ai
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by isolli 5y ago
Rather, my point was that, after solving the purported problem (the fraudulent transaction), moving on to enable some unspecified "security enhancement" was unnecessary and should have been suspect. Of course, there's no tell
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by isolli 5y ago
“I’ve cancelled that charge and sent a new card out to you,” said Barry. “I’d like to enable enhanced security on your account, but I’ll need to text you a confirmation code first. Is that OK?” This should have been the end of it.

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