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by jtsuken 5y ago
Firefox has a number of security issues: From here: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge
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by jtsuken 5y ago
Also, on that note some Slavic countries might request their naming and history be changed to something delinked from slavery... Shall we rename Slovenia and Slovakia, too?
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by jtsuken 5y ago
My favourite conspiracy theory is that the whole Trevor Martin/George Zimmerman affair ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Trayvon_Martin ) was pushed so hard by US media mainly to suppress any reference to G
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by jtsuken 5y ago
I think it's about time to say: "Thank you, Apple!" Finally these awesome projects will get the funding and the support they deserve. Also, has anyone tried the FXtec phones? https://www.fxtec.com I am thinking a
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by jtsuken 5y ago
Gambling should be a compulsory subject in primary school. By the time they reach high school: - Every kid should know how to play blackjack and poker. - Every kid must know how to compute the odds of winning. - Every kid should know how to
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by jtsuken 5y ago
Here is a list of books for those wishing to dig deeper: 1) The Information by Gleick is a book covering everything from biographies of the key historical figures and contributors to contemporary applications of information theory in quantu
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by jtsuken 5y ago
> Capitalism does not necessarily bring Democracy. But Democracy does solve a number of issues capitalism has. Free-markets allocate tangible and (pardon the cliché term) fungible goods quite well. Non-tangible (e.g. intellectual propert
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by jtsuken 5y ago
"complex case structures" are a useful tool in most languages (German to a lesser extent). They allow you to reshuffle the words in a sentence e.g. "the boat carries the car" without disrupting its meaning.
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by jtsuken 5y ago
English does not have a concept of THE right pronunciation. If you try to change the spelling of a "word", you'd first have to get a number of former British colonies to agree on how to pronounce it. Is it Woed, Worrrd, Woid,
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by jtsuken 5y ago
Which is exactly my point, the article and the clickbaity headline sound like a detailed report about a newly uncovered scheme, but there is actually very little information about what happened.
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by jtsuken 5y ago
This specific article is terribly written, however. I've spend over 5min trying to get the gist of the story. Which seems to be: A business owner with a background in oil and metals asked the bank he owned to fund levereged-buy-outs o
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Hey, here is a startup idea. I've been sitting on for a while and given my lack of engineering experience will probably never work on. Problem: Unnecessary/excessive noise from outdated/not properly maintained or purposefully
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by jtsuken 6y ago
There is a simple defence to this: Change your name and your children's names to John and Marry Smith.
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Alexandra studied in Germany and the US. Her English should be fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Microsoft: Hey, we have this new feature. It's called Macros. You can execute any code you like and use it as functions in your spreadsheets. Users: Great! Let's start using it everywhere! Users: Hey! Our spreadsheets have become
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Can you please define Shannon-style code? (Obviously, you don't have the shannon code, the compression method, in mind). Also, isn't Kolmogorov complexity uncomputable and you run into multiple "who shaves the barber" is
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by jtsuken 6y ago
I doubt this product has a future. I imagine a typical psylocibin user to be anti-GMO.
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by jtsuken 6y ago
And the reason for this is surprisingly technical: Medical journals from all statistics and mathematics available in the world only accept randomised double-blind trials. Now try and find a reference population of people with "skill an
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Drowning usually happens in situations of panic and it's better if the defence mechanisms are controlled by autonomous reflexes, of which the most important one is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Never thought I'd need to lecture HN about Occam's Razor: Permanent residency is a status for foreign citizens, who have been residing in the country permanently i.e. living there for a long time (e.g. 7 years) and might stay inde
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Apple requested Telegram to shut down oppositional channels in Belarus(t.me)
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Result from 1,000,000 games: Switching wins: 667,299 Staying wins: 332,701
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by jtsuken 6y ago
How about this? import numpy as np def play_monty_hall(rounds=100): car = np.random.randint(low=1,high=4,size=rounds) first_door = np.random.randint(low=1,high=4,size=rounds) switching_wins = car != fi
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by jtsuken 6y ago
> Probability has been understood at a quantitative level since Laplace [...] and Kolmogorov. Which indicates it is roughly as hard as partial differential equations, the theory of relativity and just a tiny bit easier than some of the
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by jtsuken 6y ago
You are right about people confusing causality and correlation. Otherwise this site wouldn't be so funny: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations You are wrong about people being good at finding correlations.
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by jtsuken 6y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. While Google and Wikipedia confidently redirect me to the Monty Hall article, which does mention a goat at some point, the common name for it in English is "Monty Hall Problem". In other languages it&
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by jtsuken 6y ago
I can't argue with "once you develop intuition, probability is intuitive". I was arguing that lessons starting with E(X)=... basically stop the majority of people from getting to the point, where they see how their "init
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by jtsuken 6y ago
"Don't trust your intuition". This should be the basis for all teaching in statistics and probability. If all goes wrong, it should be the one thing everyone remembers from their statistics education. And yet year after year
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by jtsuken 6y ago
There is a generation of programmers that grew up being told that the only right way is to: ``` >javac public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("This will be printed");
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by jtsuken 6y ago
This is a decent source: https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index-new There are 16 countries with personal freedom ranking above 9 (out of 10). US is ranked 26 with a score of 8.72, which intuitively makes sense. Morocco i

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