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by milesvp 7y ago
Murder takes physical effort. Stealing something you already have in your posession does not take any extra physical effort. Don’t conflate the two. You may also be completely ignoring some of the work people have done studying self check o
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by milesvp 7y ago
This. The dieter was on a multi vitamin. I saw reference some years ago to an eating disorder (anorexia I believe) being directly linked to low levels of some common trace mineral. Some proper dosing brought back an appropriate appetite. W
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by milesvp 7y ago
You may be right that this is a stretch to apply to any one phenomenon, but from my studies on conciousness the findings of this paper are consistent with most of what I’ve seen. Basically the brain sort of tells us stories constantly and c
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by milesvp 7y ago
It’s crazy how long mergers and aquisitions can be seen in IT infrastructure. There are always little warts here and there, and if someone was around for it they can say, oh yeah, we had to deal with such and such a team’s way of doing thin
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by milesvp 7y ago
And this might be the very problem. Noise is a very well defined term in information theory. If political forecasting is throwing around the term without applying it correctly they’re gonna have a bad time. At the end of the day though, any
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by milesvp 7y ago
Skimming the transcript, I can’t help but feel like this field needs to study some signal processing ideas. They use a word like noise, but never use a word like filter, or attentuation. Even their use of the acronym BIN is unfortunate, si
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by milesvp 7y ago
Even in regulated markets there are problems. I have a friend who built an HFT algorithm that he was using for trading stocks. He had some really good results with early testing. But at some point he was confused why many of his buy/se
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by milesvp 7y ago
This interview question sounds disingenuous, if this was the only correct answer. It’s sort of a poorly worded question, and I’d only ask it if I wanted to see how the interviewer poked holes in it. Even then I’d be sort of an asshole for i
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by milesvp 7y ago
So this is a real problem in the short term for astronomy, but it feels like the start of a golden age of astronomy. With satellite launch prices going down and improvements are in optics, I can imagine a fleet of tiny satellites being laun
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by milesvp 7y ago
What game really matters. High attention games I find don’t work. Just like driving during rush hour in tretcherous conditions doesn’t work for me, but a driving sim where I can’t physically die if my mind wanders might... Multiplayer games
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by milesvp 7y ago
max8895. amazing chip. saved us a lot of dev time. only major downside other than cost is you need really good fab for you pcb since it has a tiny footprint and needed to be placed on top of micro vias. It even really confused KiCad since t
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by milesvp 7y ago
If you do you may have a hard time getting 1.8 amps out of the charger. D+- lines are used to negotiate, they’re also used to identify various chargers. Apple is a prime example of a unique ‘footprint’ a charge chip can look at to know it’s
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by milesvp 7y ago
There’s sort of a lifecycle for applications. Early on your userbase needs one set of features/UI and later, as your userbase matures and gains experience both with your product and the applications space, feature needs and UI requirem
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by milesvp 7y ago
yeah, not quite. children actually tend to make you less happy than your peers. at least until they’re old enough to largely fend for themselves. At least in western cultures. I suspect households with more than 2 adults the equation change
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by milesvp 7y ago
I havn’t been keeping references, but this isn’t the first paper I’ve seen suggesting part of REM cycle is used to flush fluid build up in parts of the brain, and that this flushing is necessary for high cognitive utilization. Also, this fl
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by milesvp 7y ago
I think op is referring to something you’re ignoring. Simple algorithms can often become quite gnarly if you can’t ignore some base assumption. I’ve seen some really elegant mathematics represented in a single equation turn into thousands o
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by milesvp 7y ago
Not so. Newspapers reached peak profits in the 1990's. At least, this is common wisdom from many people I know who worked at one at the time. Lots of first class travel and good per diems. This was also the time that lots of papers got
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by milesvp 7y ago
Very much this. I try to never give an estimate without giving 2 values. The expected effort, and the expected calendar time. Sometimes I’ll also add expected complexity since that adds a lot of risk to both estimates. There are lots of thi
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by milesvp 7y ago
I don't know which kindle you have, but I wanted to say, that I finally bought a kindle (paper white) and it has been a breath of fresh air. It's possibly my best purchase this year. I use it when I want escapism without the noise
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by milesvp 7y ago
I don't know, but looking at ADA, 20 jobs seems very low. I was under the impression that ADA is still a required language for a lot of military hardware. My guess would be that he's scraping jobs sites for listings numbers, and I
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by milesvp 7y ago
There’s been a lot of love for this book, but I found the title to be jarring. When I was given the book to read, I was doing a lot of maintenance work, and was doing a lot of ‘duct tape and bailing wire’ kinds of fixes to keep the systems
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by milesvp 7y ago
Fun fact. When Blizzard was working on match making for SC2 they found they’d made it too good. That you’d consistently get matched with someone so close to your level that each game would be completely draining. They found they needed to w
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by milesvp 7y ago
Children tend to be solar powered. Getting them to bed before 10pm in mid summer nights can be a real challenge in northern latitudes. Black out curtains really help. But starting the bedtime routine when the sun is out is a real chore. I
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by milesvp 7y ago
I don’t know if this comment will enforce or counter what your saying, but It seems relevant. There is already a very well known liquidity problem with index funds that track S&P500. Since stocks come and go from this list, index fund m
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by milesvp 7y ago
My suspicion for anyone losing this much weight this fast is that a big chunk is water weight. With a big change in diet there’s a good chance that the body will quickly find a new equilibrium with the amount of fluid cells will retain, esp
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by milesvp 7y ago
Baby formula is interesting in that it seems to be used as a signaling agent for class differentiation. Which is to say, that the poorer the region the more likely parents will show how much they value their baby by giving it formula. Conve
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by milesvp 7y ago
Spending money is taking money out of your bank account. Any event where more money leaves a bank than they have reserves to cover it is a run on the bank. I think what you may be elluding to is that digital transfer of funds makes the effe
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by milesvp 7y ago
You may want to attempt to improve your sleep. Foggy head with reduced cognition and memory loss are pretty major symptoms of long term inadequate sleep. They’re very common symptoms that parents of young children complain about, and can ha
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by milesvp 7y ago
Related anecdote. A buddy of mine was dating a type1 diabetic, and he was amazed at all the advice she'd been told all her life. Basically that she should be eating mostly (fastish) carbs, counting them, and estimating how much insulin
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by milesvp 7y ago
Can’t read the article, due to paywall, but there’s been some research on the personal value of things like email. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24514 Also Tim Harford has had some interesting things to say on the topic

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