kkwteh

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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back(ianleslie.substack.com)
302 points by kkwteh 5y ago|145 comments
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US vs. Europe sunlight duration in hours per year map(old.reddit.com)
8 points by kkwteh 5y ago|1 comments
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by kkwteh 5y ago
I think this question stems from a confusion as to what school is actually for. It seems to me that school is at least as much about orderly management of the social hierarchy as it is about teaching useful skills. The reason why math is ta
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Against the Survival of the Prettiest(worksinprogress.co)
15 points by kkwteh 5y ago|1 comments
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Radian announces plans to build one of the holy grails of spaceflight(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kkwteh 5y ago|0 comments
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by kkwteh 5y ago
https://archive.md/7yUyy
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In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf](pdos.csail.mit.edu)
73 points by kkwteh 5y ago|12 comments
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by kkwteh 5y ago
Paxos has a reputation of being hard to understand. I was under the impression that Raft was now preferred for distributed consensus. The creators of the Raft algorithm explicitly had understandability as a goal when designing it and called
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by kkwteh 5y ago
One direct way to hedge against inflation is to buy a house with a fixed rate mortgage. Any inflation will directly decrease the real amount of your mortgage debt.
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by kkwteh 5y ago
That's great. That means that if the Rust compiler is made faster in this one case it'll make a huge difference across the board.
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by kkwteh 5y ago
I make sure that pedestrians feel safe around me. I go slowly on sidewalks, walking speed, when I'm near pedestrians, and give them right of way when they're crossing in front of me. You have plenty of control if you ride at a saf
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by kkwteh 5y ago
I live in Paris. They're legal here with a speed limit of 25 km/h. I feel quite safe on them, maybe even safer than I would on a bicycle. Electric unicycles are smaller than bicycles, which makes it easier to avoid other objects o
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by kkwteh 5y ago
While the Segway failed, one of its successors, the electric unicycle, revolutionized how I get around the city. They're more fun than a bicycle or scooter, they have great range, and they're compact enough that you can take them
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by kkwteh 5y ago
To me, this kind of regional comparison, contrasting before and after Ivermectin was deployed as a treatment, has been the most convincing evidence that Ivermectin is an effective treatment. This paper by Pierre Kory has graphs that clearly
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by kkwteh 5y ago
There are plausible mechanisms of action of Ivermectin against the Covid virus being explored. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-021-00430-5/figures/1
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by kkwteh 5y ago
Where did you get the 2.8 million figure? Wikipedia says "an estimated 303,000 women killed each year in childbirth and pregnancy worldwide", which isn't the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_d
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by kkwteh 5y ago
Taps head meme: Your car can’t be a cyber security risk if you don’t own a car.
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by kkwteh 5y ago
I think I learned how to read by watching Sesame Street. My mom told me that I watched a lot of Sesame Street as a small toddler and she discovered I was able to read when I started reading words written on the fridge out loud.
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by kkwteh 6y ago
It’s not clear to me how the public would receive these kinds of arguments. The public has little trust in government. I think they would be too skeptical to take these arguments at face value. A ban attempt would come with considerable ris
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by kkwteh 6y ago
It seems to me there is one important reason which isn't mentioned here. Attempting to ban Bitcoin would just confirm the need for its existence, giving it a ton of credibility and making it all the more compelling. Any ban attempt wou
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by kkwteh 6y ago
I won't quibble. The larger point is that there are potentially devastating consequences if a child fails to attach to a loving and attentive adult, and that this is not adequately discussed or appreciated in our society. This is a hug
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by kkwteh 6y ago
I can think of some rather obvious reasons why Kanner would reframe his position publicly. It's just way too taboo. Kanner said that his believed autism had a genetic basis. I think it's a cop-out, as I don't think it makes a
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by kkwteh 6y ago
I got that from the Wikipedia article on the Epidemiology of autism, citation 78. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_autism#cite_no...
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by kkwteh 6y ago
From the perspective of the Lindy principle it is weird. I have an eighteen-month old child and have been reading a lot about child rearing since my wife got pregnant. It’s taboo to say this, and I’m sorry if this offends anyone, but I susp
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by kkwteh 6y ago
It looks like Planck's Principle is in effect here. To paraphrase, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."
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by kkwteh 6y ago
The supposed smoking gun in the article is that if we plot random values for perceived and actual ability we get a chart that looks a lot like the chart in the original study. I don't see how you make the leap from there to saying that
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by kkwteh 6y ago
There are two ways to solve a math problem and you described one of them: hit the nut with a hammer as hard as you can until it breaks. Grothendieck preferred the second method of slowly raising the ocean and soaking the nut for a few years
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by kkwteh 6y ago
To put it another way, should I be like the infamous Tiger Mom and push my child to conform and get straight As, potentially with dire consequences, or should I develop her interests organically, hoping that they’ll find an unconventional p
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by kkwteh 6y ago
Me too. Should I push them to win the shitty meritocracy tournament like I did? Or should I encourage them to follow their dreams and perhaps be more fulfilled? I'm leaning toward the latter.
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by kkwteh 6y ago
It's ironic that von Neumann said that poker isn't susceptible to computation while a few decades later, the game theory that he invented was used to create poker bots that are provably (within epsilon) unbeatable.

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