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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
The book "master of the senate" makes a pretty compelling case against this. LBJ was a masterclass politician (honestly much better than JFK or Humphrey). It makes the point that basically every liberal president since the Civil W
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
> No, it doesn’t happen often enough to undermine the integrity of elections in the aggregate. Nah election fraud matters pretty materially. If it werent for this rigged election, we would have never gotten the 1964 civil rights bill ht
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
It was this way in oblivion to an extent too. I remember modding a frenzy spell to be on touch, for the quickest duration, but so I could maximize the AOE range. So I ended up with a spell that would cause massive riots and kill off basical
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
I think putting a grid on the background would help with alignment and such
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
I can't get the bug to reproduce. But maybe someone else could try Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation
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by ronald_raygun 4y ago
Yeah to add to this when you study probability at a more advanced level, you learn that really what a probability is "just" an integral ie P(x) = integral{Indicator function(X)}. So it's actually not a crazy object to pop up
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
I mean, there are a lot of things that fall under the "conspiracy theory" umbrella that just straight up happened. For example, the CIA experimenting on people with LSD trying for mind control (MKUltra), the FBI assassinating prom
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
My website mostly for my plotter art! https://www.chromatocosmos.com/
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
I saw a talk about this one time and the lecturer said that 50-60% of people believe in ghosts (iirc). But I don't think this as crazy as it sounds. If you read William James' on the varieties of religious experience, he talks a l
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
yeah there are like 10 million ways of defining cont. or limits in R^N that turn out to be the same
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
You're basically taking the superstars of a field, though. Like walk into a bookstore, and most of those authors don't make $$. Same if you go to a local art fair. Same with acting.
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
This is similar to how I overcame the game 2048. When that game first came out, I couldn't stop playing cause of all the dopamine hits. So one day I sat down, pulled source code for it off github, and made a little Q-learner. After wat
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
Did Apple invent much of its early tech, or did it just lift it from Xerox Park?
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
The article hints at one potential source of the problem when it talks about how this doesn't fly for civil engineers, namely a civil engineer needs to be licensed, but anyone can be a data scientist. When I was doing my master's
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by ronald_raygun 5y ago
It depends on how many profiles there are. If there are 100 profiles, and a specific 19% made up 25% of deletions, then that could be just chance. If there are 1M profiles, on the other hand, then it's definitely biased.
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Hot Art vs. Cold Art(chromatocosmos.com)
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Robots and Generative Art and Python, oh my(chromatocosmos.com)
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DIY Designed Business Cards(normedvector.space)
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Intro to Generative Art and the Axidraw Plotter(normedvector.space)
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
Location: SF Willing to relocate: Yes to LA, NYC, or Austin Remote: No Technologies: python, AI/ML/RL, math and statistics Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-bradway-68115683/ Email: geoff.brad
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Ask HN: What books/activities do you recommended for being more charismatic?
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
So the technology has improved quiet a bit since then, now they are using muon scans! But I think they might have just been referring to hidden chambers in the places we know about https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/ae
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
Euclid's Elements was a pretty foundational text. Also Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
Here is what I'd recommend - buy a copy of cracking the code interview (its maybe 20-30$), and do every single problem (or most of them) in there by hand on paper. Then reach out to some software devs you know and have them give you mo
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
Yes - when I was at BigTechCo, we had training to basically not write legally sensitive things in emails, and to schedule in person meetings with the right people. This habit has stuck with me.
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
There is a joke I like that goes A professor of mathematics noticed that his kitchen sink at his home leaked. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day and sealed a few screws, and everything was working as before. The professor wa
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
I once had a long distance girlfriend who lived on the east coast. She would like to see "good morning" texts from me, the problem is that they are 3 hours ahead, so I wrote an On.X bot to do it every morning and pick randomly fro
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by ronald_raygun 8y ago
* I find mentoring to be one of the most rewarding things I can do * People wait too long to quit a job or get out a bad situation * Being very deliberate about what you do and who you spend your time with is worth it * Sleeping masks reall
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
Oh, I'd like to learn more about this. Do you have any good references?
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by ronald_raygun 9y ago
That's not a great thing to say. Why wouldn't a 50 year old be productive?

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