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by mbil 5y ago
Interesting that anti-vax is a "bad" meme that actually benefits real viruses. If there were a virus that could induce susceptibility to memes that promote the virus, that would really be something.
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by mbil 5y ago
Yes, The Long Now Foundation[0] uses the same notation. [0] https://longnow.org/
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by mbil 5y ago
I'll add that there was a 99% Invisible episode on this topic: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/abandoned-ships/
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by mbil 5y ago
Here's the GitHub repo of one of the projects mentioned in the article: https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
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by mbil 5y ago
That’s what I thought this might be before reading the article. Off the top of my head maybe you could signal market movement with a certain stimulus (e.g. a green or red light for up or down market, varying intensity). Of course it wouldn
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by mbil 5y ago
> people in some minimal wage job seeing to get out and trying to get things done Someone in a minimum wage job would possibly be trying to work overtime or a second job in order to make ends meet, and would have very little time/en
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by mbil 5y ago
Since working from home due to the pandemic I’ve been able to wean myself completely off caffeine. To not get tired in the afternoons, I take a 15-20 minute nap each day after lunch. I think this has been good for me, and I’m worried that w
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by mbil 5y ago
Can you talk more about using Excel for this type of design work? Sounds interesting, but I’m not exactly sure what you mean.
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by mbil 5y ago
+1 for OMSCS. I’m about to start my final class of the program. The low relative cost and scheduling flexibility made it attractive. I don’t feel as though I’ve been scammed. I was exposed to a lot of computing topics I wouldn’t have been a
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by mbil 5y ago
You can send a contribution to the Sci-Hub Bitcoin address: 12PCbUDS4ho7vgSccmixKTHmq9qL2mdSns via https://sci-hub.st/
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by mbil 5y ago
Command-tab is slightly broken for me. When Alacritty is full screen, command-tab often switches to the desktop instead of Alacritty. It’s my only complaint, but it’s pretty annoying and disruptive. https://github.com/alacri
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by mbil 5y ago
Lyn Alden explored this idea in her January newsletter, titled "The Hindsight Depression"[0]. > the US and much of the rest of the world have already been in a mild depression for the past 12 years, ever since the 2008 global f
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by mbil 6y ago
Yeah the car example also struck me as a real shortcoming -- sure, the training set probably included very few if any images of upside down cars, but I would expect basic data augmentation to have addressed that.
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by mbil 6y ago
The "Universality" section is especially interesting. They found these high-low frequency neurons in a number of different network architectures, and at around the same network depth in each case. I wonder how this insight could b
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by mbil 6y ago
OMSCS is Georgia Tech's Online CS Master's program[0]. I'm starting my ninth class this term. Here's my take... Pros: - video lectures are generally pretty polished, and include animations and other visual aids to help b
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by mbil 6y ago
I use YNAB only for granular budgeting, not for big-picture or forecasting (for that I use personalcapital[0]). At first I was skeptical of YNAB -- the idea of giving every dollar a job and tracking transactions down to the penny seemed hel
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by mbil 6y ago
Moved my budgeting from Simple to YNAB a few years ago, but still sad to see Simple go. I was a big Simple proponent for a long time (even wrote some hacky automatic goal transfer software[0] before they introduced Expenses). Hopefully the
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by mbil 6y ago
I don't think this is exactly what you described, but you may find it valuable: it's a tool that produces a visualization of a postgres query plan https://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans/new (click "
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by mbil 6y ago
Sorry if my above comment sounded like gate-keeping, that was not my intention! One of Clojure's biggest downsides IMO is the barrier to entry, with the relatively complex tooling setup being one barrier. I wrote Clojure for a long tim
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by mbil 6y ago
My point wasn't to show that Clojure can produce a concise final function -- it was to show that each step in the process of developing that function can be evaluated within the editor (sorry, I tried to communicate this by including e
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by mbil 6y ago
Compared to other languages, I've found Clojure makes it much easier to iteratively turn an idea into code. Say you're writing a pure function... You start with just data and a sense of how the output might look. Let's say I
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by mbil 6y ago
> I never made this claim Sorry, you're right. That's what I took away from your claim that profit encodes a signal for ethicality. I still am not sure I agree with the idea that profit represents a consensus for whether or not
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by mbil 6y ago
Everything profitable is ethical? I disagree. Supply chains are opaque and complex and there’s a diffusion of responsibility by the time you reach the level of decision-making consumers. I may give money to a company that is doing something
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by mbil 6y ago
> Another great app would be augmented map that shows house numbers and street names. That reminds me of an AR experience I thought would be nice: when you're interested in renting or buying a home, being able to walk around a neigh
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by mbil 6y ago
In this case it was a flexible timeline. It took a few hours to properly complete, and I was given a number of days to return it.
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by mbil 6y ago
This is a great list. Thanks for sharing it. I actually had the pleasure of interviewing at one of these companies before. They had a take-home project, which was to choose and implement and couple enhancements to a toy app. In the subseque
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by mbil 6y ago
My experience with IRB has been so-so. I've found it fine for experimenting with small functions as I develop them, poking at interfaces, etc. But it's really nowhere near the experience I had with Clojure and a repl-integrated pr
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by mbil 6y ago
I don't have much to add to this discussion except to say that after years of repl-driven development in Clojure I've switched to Ruby as my primary language, and the iteration cycle is just really slow. I feel like I've trad
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by mbil 6y ago
This is cool. It looks like this is a program for creating and evaluating a decision matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix . This got me thinking about an idea for a similar tool, but catered to a specif

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