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by mrdmnd 9y ago
Interesting that the optimal solution is not "slide it along the space diagonal" but rather "slide it parallel to a face".
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
He may just be quick at executing the Doomsday algorithm - neurotypical here, but I enjoyed learning this trick, and you can too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
"Complicated S2?" That's surprising, the S2 library ( https://github.com/google/s2geometry ) seems really clean and fairly intuitive to me.
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
I remember a classic MIT problem set in computer science where we reduced the problem of finding a "profitable arbitrage loop" in a directed graph to a shortest path problem: imagine a graph where nodes are currencies and edges ar
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
AQUABIKE! This is neat =)
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
Solved to an exploitability of 1 milli-big-blind / game, which is stated to be within ~approximately optimal over the bounds of a human lifetime of play.
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Are all fish the same shape if you stretch them?(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
2 points by mrdmnd 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
I don't play EVE because there are already enough demands on my time, but damned if this commercial (entirely done with voice comms) hasn't come close to pushing me over the edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/122/does-google-execute-ja...
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The N-th Annual Python Bee (MIT)(technologyreview.com)
1 points by mrdmnd 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
Neat, thanks for the clarifications. Looks like a cool tool.
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
How does this compare to https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring ? Is the difference that this one is distributed?
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Predicting how Barry Cottonfield would react to being asked to junior prom(arxiv.org)
1 points by mrdmnd 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrdmnd 9y ago
I've noticed this too. I'm not actually in the military, but my grandfather was a doctor in the Navy and apparently we've been (literally) grandfathered in for perpetuity. The card has raised eyebrows in places I would not ha
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Ok, I'll bite - I thought this was an article about C++.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Quis recruitiet ipsos recrutes?
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
I thought this was an Jepsen-style article on some distributed systems at first.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
I love the phrase "powerpoint engineering" and I think I'm going to use it in my daily speech patterns now.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
No Free Lunch ;)
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
I think this is absolutely true; and you'd want to show drivers locations - I can't think of any way to obscure this, and it does leave a source for discrimination ("don't drive into the dangerous neighborhoods"). I
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Consider a world where you are assigned a random phrase (i.e. "Correct Horse Battery Staple") when you request a ride. The driver is never shown a name. When they are shown the set of people they could pick up, they are not shown
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
The TimeIt macro runs snippets for a variable number of iterations based on how long the snippet takes.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Great thought. Where in California? If in San Francisco (or the Bay Area in general) I can think of a number of places and people who would be happy to talk in person.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
This is the first I've heard of this - can you elaborate? Is the implication that there exist a fleet of "innocent"-appearing folks carrying vast swaths of money around? Are they identifiable as such?
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Estimating this is probably futile, but in principle, I agree.
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Mesos at Strava(labs.strava.com)
5 points by mrdmnd 10y ago|0 comments
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
A good resource here is Trefethen and Bau's Numerical Linear Algebra.
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
CTO of OpenAI ;)
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
I'd add a nit - this is the expected value of the game. I might have a utility preference curve that is non-linear in dollars - for instance, the classic U(v) = log(v).
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by mrdmnd 10y ago
Well, I know what I'm doing tonight. Cheers! This is great.

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