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by jldugger 11mo ago
> Unless there's some subtlety I'm missing here. I haven't been on YouTube in at least a decade. Youtube Premium is fighting back against the sponsor segments with this "commonly skipped segment" feature. You hit
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by jldugger 1y ago
In contrast, it will never amaze me how far north Europe is. Canada weather is cold and yet y'all live even further north!
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by jldugger 1y ago
Presumably that one guy at AWS who promotes TLA+ is furiously modeling all this himself in more detail for internal analysis.
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by jldugger 1y ago
>You can just buy the stuff Sadly, you cannot -- all the options in that listing are "currently unavailable."
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by jldugger 1y ago
fascinatingly also available on msn without a paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/why-i-have-to-buy...
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by jldugger 1y ago
See, I thought it was because cash only businesses are a great way to launder money, ie actually pay taxes on illegal money so you can spend it freely in the banking system.
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by jldugger 1y ago
How's this different than PPP?
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by jldugger 1y ago
This seems quite adjacent to today's Nobel Prize announcement that sustained growth comes from understanding why an innovation works, so we can apply it in new domains.
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by jldugger 1y ago
The problem of getting two contracts with different content and identically claimed hashes? Not sure I follow.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Depends on how willing you are to drive a Lamborghini to work.
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by jldugger 1y ago
IDK your age group, but there's tons of nostalgic references and easter eggs. The game appears to be based on the Super Mario Odyssey engine, and the way Nintendo generally approaches the "all ages" problem is to make the plo
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by jldugger 1y ago
The AI kernels are floating point, so it's possible to do some unintuitive math that ends up negative even though it wouldn't be in the Real domain. I wouldn't be surprised if checking for overflow state is disabled for perf
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by jldugger 1y ago
> Show them Red Faction (the video game) Modern example: Donkey Kong Bananza[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIddsPkdX9U
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by jldugger 1y ago
Well, the first paper on AI was published in 1943[1], but unfortunately requires some knowledge of brain science that was ultimately incorrect to understand, and includes some mathematical notation that is relatively obscure for high school
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by jldugger 1y ago
Perhaps this is why the cover of my software correctness book in undergrad used a series of stills from the arianne-5 disaster[1] for the cover. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Notable_launches
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by jldugger 1y ago
Not a Goolger but my experience is that this is usually an optimistic promotion where someone is made a manager with the expectation of growing headcount later. But later never happens, or coincides with turnover to the degree that they nev
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by jldugger 1y ago
It's more like for many people the software is a solution to a temporary problem ("job to be done", in a recent MBA fad phrase). Once you get the job done, satisfied or not your need to buy Audio Hijack is diminished.
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by jldugger 1y ago
FWIW, this is from February.
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by jldugger 1y ago
Sniper battles from spawn, and no nade hallway of doom?
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by jldugger 1y ago
No worries, I wasn't really trying to explain it anyways, as much as seeking confirmation from the rest of HN that this question is ill specified. Judging from responses, yes, it is. If "binomial distribution" and "confi
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by jldugger 1y ago
I guess I struggle to understand why under estimation is worse than over estimation, when the final result is a ranking. It seems like they're equally likely to produce an incorrect ranking!
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by jldugger 1y ago
> This question (and the other two) are all examples of concrete, real-world problems that people across a variety of quantitative disciplines frequently encounter. Indeed, I use this technique to sort search results in Splunk, as an ext
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by jldugger 1y ago
And I guess since they answer the questions at the bottom, it seems their intent is indeed the simplistic approach > The lower bound of which can be used to order the fractions, and so control the risk of over-estimation. It not clear to
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by jldugger 1y ago
( replying to a now deleted post) >> the uncertainty in the number of trials > Has no meaning to me. What the author is trying to get at in the admittedly poorly worded question is that the trials are noisy measures of an underlyin
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by jldugger 1y ago
I'm clueless, how much did it cost to get the trademark registered? > I'm not an expert, but that sounds like a bad deal to me and substantially weakens the mark. Well, the alternative (in hindsight, admittedly) is losing it en
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by jldugger 1y ago
> They reached out to me wanting a "Consent and Coexistence Agreement", I told them not for free, to which they never responded with an offer. Man, imagine if you had asked for a thousand euros as consideration.
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by jldugger 1y ago
It's a fascinating problem. It seems there's always an endless stream of new applicants so there's no reason to change it. And there's an entire group of people contributing to ubuntu for free...
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by jldugger 1y ago
> As such the billion dollars is because that is my real (lifetime?) income from it Okay, but you need to apply some kind of time discounting for future earnings. And then you're still left with the thorny question of whether the co
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by jldugger 1y ago
> a revenue multiple of 2-4x typical for newsletters values her business at ~$50 million. And this is kind of the problem: how do you value a company held by a single person? There's no open market for shares in this company. And wo
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by jldugger 1y ago
> the current largest prime number in fact has over 41 million digits! Because there's an infinite number of primes?

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