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by justjonathan 6y ago
In case you were confused by the headline... no relation to curve.fi
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I do
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Tried do this on a mac. I had to replace gnu grep with perl: perl -wnle '/(.{0}https://assets.amuniversal.com.{0,33})/ and print $1' I had to replace wget with curl: curl -s https://www.goc
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by justjonathan 6y ago
My JS is terrible, and I find it’s really hard to make even simple tweaks to complex JS built pages. I really miss platypus (a wysiwig editor that generated user scripts from edits). I’ve searched and searched but there seems to me no func
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but the perpetual is a swap not a future.
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Having removed ~10,000 bees from my attic, I was surprised to learn, that they fit in a 2 gallon container. 20,000 seems like “a lot” but mass and volume, it’s really not much.
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Dance like no one‘s watching, or staging a coup.
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I suspect lot's of folks here already read Matt Levine's Money Stuff col everyday, but if you don't, it is highly educational and genuinely funny (and free via email).
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by justjonathan 6y ago
> People don't automatically adopt new better things. I don't know why though. I consulted for Motorola many years ago. I remember one of the Sr guys explaining to me their product view. New things needed to be 10x better than
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by justjonathan 6y ago
>WARNING: AMATEUR AND PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES LICENSEES AND OPERATORS MAY NOT USE RADIO EQUIPMENT TO COMMIT OR FACILITATE CRIMINAL ACTS But if one licenses spectrum, then it is not an offense, in its own right, to facilitate criminal ac
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I went to see him give a guest lecture at a university, a few years ago. It was a great disappointment. It was a terrible lecture. I’m not sure anybody who attended got anything out of it other than being close to the “great man“.
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by justjonathan 6y ago
From: kaggle.com/c/jane-street-market-prediction/overview/code-requirements "Freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models"
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The Historian Who Sees the Future(theatlantic.com)
10 points by justjonathan 6y ago|3 comments
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by justjonathan 6y ago
A former ecologist seeks to apply mathematical rigor to the study of human history. Here is the academic paper: https://osf.io/7ahqn/download
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I learned about this from the excellent BBC Radio series a brief history of mathematics with Marcus Du Sautoy. Here is the relevant episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00stcgv
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I wholehearted endorse 3B1B, The linear algebra series is excellent, the rest of his work is too!
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by justjonathan 6y ago
The reason it fell? https://xkcd.com/904/
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Maybe it is copyright infringement, maybe it’s fair use. Either way it is unsurprising. When I got the physical paper it was easy to share it with a coworker (I just handed him the newspaper) or I taped it up in the office kitchen to show e
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Mods: Maybe merge this with the other go post: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/31/21408861/fbi-doorbell-cam...
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by justjonathan 6y ago
TLDR: LE is worried about about ring doorbells recording them. Warning from internal police bulletin: IOT Cameras... “If used during the execution of a search... LE personnel could have their images captured, thereby presenting a risk to
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by justjonathan 6y ago
This is an explanation (from the amazing three blue one brown) of the DFT not the DCT, but this was the first thing that ever really made sense to me. It is explained by someone who really knows math incredibly well and is an amazing teache
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by justjonathan 6y ago
You could not create a new Twitter account with out a phone number last week. (Attempting from US). It rejected my disposal number as invalid too. :(
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by justjonathan 6y ago
His autobiography, A Man for All Markets, is terrific. It has wonderful stories of his childhood chemistry pranks, his blackjack adventures, his work with Claude Shannon on a wearable computer for beating roulette, and his quant trading (wh
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by justjonathan 6y ago
Talking about production costs of drugs, as an input to price, is as relevant as discussing download cost as input to software prices (or any digital media prices).
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by justjonathan 6y ago
One of my favorite examples is Garkov, the auto generation of Garfield strips using Markov chains. http://joshmillard.com/garkov/
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by justjonathan 6y ago
I remember in the 90s when I was first exposed to Richard Stallman’s ideology of only using free software. At the time, It seemed crazy not to use free (as in beer) software, but of course he was right in so many ways. We now live in a worl
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by justjonathan 6y ago
This brings to mind my favorite affinity on of (small p) political speech. Political speech is about saying something based on the reaction you want rather than what is true. When I first heard things framed this way political, speech struc
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by justjonathan 7y ago
+1 for Giordano's deep dish.
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by justjonathan 7y ago
While interest may not be charged, the payment remain the same. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/politics/trumps-corona... WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID “To help our students and their families, I h
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by justjonathan 7y ago
I came to recommend the same thing. It’s a fun read and filled with lots of great science history. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Disappearing_Spoon....

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