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by pzs 7y ago
It's called the Magnus effect [1]. I learned about it from my wife, who learned about it when she did a tennis instructor course. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect
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by pzs 7y ago
Yet another data point: Hungary. For most people the National Tax Bureau (NAV) prepares the filing based on the data they receive from employers, banks, etc. You can check the content on a web page, and approve, if you agree. For those who
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by pzs 7y ago
Arguably, Hemingway's texts are well written. One of the sources of power of his prose is the use of simple words, and basic sentence structures. I bet Word would classify that as below 12th grade. The point I am trying to make in agre
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Physicist proposes solution for spherical aberration(m.phys.org)
2 points by pzs 7y ago|1 comments
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Check predicted crowd at European tourist destinations(avoid-crowds.com)
3 points by pzs 7y ago|1 comments
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by pzs 7y ago
Indeed, and economists seem to be a bit puzzled by this [1]. [1] https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
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by pzs 7y ago
Those who find it interesting may also be interested to check out Polhem's mechanical alphabet [1], which was created nearly two centuries earlier. Fun fact: I learned about it from a Pettson and Findus tale I read to my children, and
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The universe is expanding faster and is younger than we thought(apnews.com)
64 points by pzs 7y ago|16 comments
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by pzs 7y ago
Would you care to elaborate why Unix, in your opinion, was never a good design?
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Booking.com Targets Airbnb's Market(join.booking.com)
2 points by pzs 8y ago|1 comments
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by pzs 8y ago
I think [1] gives an explanation of it. [1] https://levelsfyi.com/google-levels-salary/amp/ EDIT: found a better source
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Ask HN: Maintainers vs. Creators – The Unsung Heroes?
5 points by pzs 8y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 8y ago
I think that in a large enterprise organization the scale of people who would have to interact with such a tool (from executives to developers) have reasonably different interests about what sort of information would be helpful for them and
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Performance of various open source Gradient Boosting Machine implementations(github.com)
2 points by pzs 8y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 8y ago
A classic piece that may be worth checking related to this is [1]. [1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...
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How to Sway a Baboon Despot(theatlantic.com)
1 points by pzs 8y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 9y ago
May be a naïve question: have you tried googling the topic?
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Two Experiments Show Fourth Spatial Dimension Effect(gizmodo.com)
2 points by pzs 9y ago|1 comments
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by pzs 9y ago
True, yet the downside is still limited. The worst case for the option seller (or writer) is that she has to buy an asset valued at zero for the pre-agreed strike price. That puts a cap on her loss.
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by pzs 9y ago
Futures are certainly available. I haven't heard of options yet, but that may just be my ignorance.
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Near real-time human language translator earpiece commercially available(blog.waverlylabs.com)
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by pzs 9y ago
Can you please share a link to the paper (if available)?
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by pzs 9y ago
That reminds me of what I read about how Warren Buffett thinks about gold [1]. His point is essentially that if you invest in gold, your return depends on the price swings until you get out, and nothing else. This is in contrast to investin
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by pzs 9y ago
Reading your comment reminded me of a classic piece [1] about a similar phenomenon. [1] http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
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by pzs 9y ago
Previous discussion on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418937
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Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by pzs 9y ago|0 comments
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by pzs 9y ago
I think it is not enough to be good, you also have to look good. What I mean by that is you have to make sure your contributions are visible and comprehensible to your bosses. This should establish some level of credit with them. Once you h
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by pzs 9y ago
TL;DR It is a case of organizational incentives being poorly aligned with individual incentives.
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by pzs 9y ago
The main challenge that I can see is that it takes real effort to review papers. Without that effort "popular" publications may end up spreading materially wrong results. The shortcoming of current peer review systems is that anon
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Agile Visualization: an online book (work in progress)(agilevisualization.com)
3 points by pzs 10y ago|0 comments

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