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by raymondh 4y ago
IIRC, there was an episode of The Simpsons that addressed exactly this scenario.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Same here. I went from delirium to symptom free overnight.
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by raymondh 4y ago
The authors themselves were astonished to see what their language could do in the hands of other programmers.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Indeed, this list is better.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Nope.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Summary: A new law substantially increases liability for making a sesame free product. The predictable result was that there are now fewer sesame free products. Now, everyone is worse off.
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by raymondh 4y ago
The title is THE most accurate summary of the content.
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by raymondh 4y ago
For those of you unfamiliar with layoff practices in most other industries, this is as good as it gets. The terms enumerated in the note are generous. Also, the value of the job placement support should not be underestimated.
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by raymondh 4y ago
I think Feynman would be pleased with question. He was well grounded in the real world of doing science with incomplete datasets. For researchers who gather data with surveys, this is a frequently encountered problem, so it is legitimate
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by raymondh 4y ago
Here's a simple Python implementation: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576792-polar-to-rectang...
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by raymondh 4y ago
Thank you.
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by raymondh 4y ago
There is a carry from the 5+8=13. Add these up and you get closer and closer to 1 / 89: 0.0 0.01 0.001 0.0002 0.00003 0.000005 0.0000008 0.00000013 0.000000021 0.0000000034 0.00000000055
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by raymondh 4y ago
My ten year old found Fibonacci numbers in the reciprocal of 89.
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by raymondh 4y ago
If it weren't for Hacker News, I wouldn't have a chance to keep up with the new progress.
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by raymondh 4y ago
It does. Just add parentheses.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Python's lambda is powerful enough to write a Y-combinator: https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1352018456401440769
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by raymondh 4y ago
Presumably, there is even more pain in the world of rent control. By definition, a submarket rate apartment has a supply/demand imbalance. There is someone who values the apartment more than you do who can't live there, perhaps d
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by raymondh 4y ago
This is a rockstar quality post. It is astonishing how much detective work was involved.
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by raymondh 4y ago
WaPo leans heavily toward fitting the news to its narratives and is generally terrible with data science. Whether and to what extent these 5 unlikely events is an anomaly depends on the number of measurement locations and the expected year-
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by raymondh 4y ago
This is priceless.
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by raymondh 4y ago
I use copper cookware and I feel great.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Excellent analysis.
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by raymondh 4y ago
Nice work on this post. It was easy to follow your line of exploration and thinking. May I suggest a couple of simplifications. The generator expression in the sum() just applies a one-argument function so it can be replaced with map(). An
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by raymondh 4y ago
My experience of high property taxes is that it no longer feels like you own a home. You pay rent on it forever. At any time the rent can rise to more than you can afford. I own my home outright but likely won't be able to stay when
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Bradford Hill Criteria for Causation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by raymondh 4y ago|0 comments
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by raymondh 4y ago
It is also measurement bias in choosing what to pay attention too. The content of high budget films makes for a poor metric for creative output. High budget films inherently have huge financial risk, so it reasonable that the decision makin
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by raymondh 4y ago
Also, it's inevitable that the virus will adapt our best antiviral, Paxovid. https://www.science.org/content/article/bad-news-paxlovid-co...
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by raymondh 4y ago
Fair enough :-)
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by raymondh 4y ago
IMHO this is one of the worst ways to improve your Python skills. Instead, focus on what the normal, robust, beautiful, clear, and idiomatic solutions to problems. There is an enormous amount of quality training material available as well
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by raymondh 4y ago
For those who want to explore these ideas in Python, see the nth_combination() and random_combination() recipes in the itertools docs¹ or just install them from more-itertools². # Find the 48,001st combination from 32 choose 8 &gt

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