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South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca vaccine(nytimes.com)
12 points by ruggeri 6y ago|6 comments
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by ruggeri 6y ago
This story is ridiculous. Like everyone else has said, these are paper gains to (mostly) institutional investors.
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J&J Vaccine Offers Strong Protection but Fuels Concern About Variants(nytimes.com)
1 points by ruggeri 6y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 6y ago
Wow, that was a beautiful story. Thank you
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by ruggeri 6y ago
These aren’t agents sent into China, but assets in China who were arrested/killed. 18 to 20 between 2010-2012 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie...
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by ruggeri 6y ago
Quantum Country is a nice resource. Also Aaronson. But for me what really helped was Quantum Computing Without the Physics by Nannicini. Aaronson is not formal enough or really a textbook to teach and explain quantum algos like Simons (a g
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by ruggeri 6y ago
+1 on the Monk biography. I also really enjoyed Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing (Enigma). Even if you didn't like the movie that was based on it (I didn't), the biography itself is excellent :-)
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Bookwheel(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ruggeri 6y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 6y ago
I found Quantum Computing Without The Physics epicly helpful. https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.03684 It explains in terms a computer scientist can understand. As in: it sets out a computational model and explores it, regardl
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by ruggeri 7y ago
This story about a delivery company that thought they were negotiating their parking tickets is hilarious: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/nyregion/price-of-a-parki...
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by ruggeri 8y ago
""" To flip the scenario: How would you feel if Jack Ma had bought Yosemite in 1991, set up the valley as a private retreat, lived down in the Ahwahnee until his death, and had his widow donate it to the federal government? &
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Free Deep Learning Lecture Series in San Francisco(boltzmann-institute.com)
2 points by ruggeri 9y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 10y ago
I just wanted to mention Bitcoin for the Befuddled. That book helped me so much to understand Bitcoin. It's also really well written, and the cartoons are super cute. Love love love. https://www.nostarch.com/bitcoinfort
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by ruggeri 10y ago
(I hope this comment is useful. Perhaps I am just confused by the article). Interesting article. The article emphasizes that the $2B loss that Uber runs is effectively a subsidy for riders. But that isn’t necessarily necessarily 100% true.
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by ruggeri 10y ago
Killer feature of gcal for me is that by default it highlights the current day. Didn't know about `gcal .`, which is very convenient to know; I used to do `gcal 2016` if I needed to see prev/next months.
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by ruggeri 10y ago
One difference is that inlining is a safe optimization in most contexts. Parallelizing a goroutine is not safe if the goroutine shares memory. Obviously that's not the default Go style, but sometimes sharing state is unavoidable. So th
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by ruggeri 10y ago
I just wanted to thank the team for this writeup. I've been excited to read it since the last post several months back. This was definitely very useful, and very clearly written. So many thanks!
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by ruggeri 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_sale_(real_estate)
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by ruggeri 10y ago
The orthodox theory says that, in a competitive marketplace, producers should not be able to "capture" gains in the wealth of consumers. If prices of a good rise, it's because consumers are purchasing more of the good, and th
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by ruggeri 11y ago
With great comedy, you never know if they're being serious...
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by ruggeri 11y ago
When this last came up I started looking into Split-Ordered Lists, which are fascinating. http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~afek/SplitOrderListHashSS03.pdf
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Erlang: The Awesome Movie [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ruggeri 11y ago|0 comments
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by ruggeri 11y ago
The writeup mentions that concurrent attempts to update a row will be discussed in a future post. The simplified discussion here says that a writer who encounters a write intent of an uncommitted transaction aborts the concurrent transactio
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by ruggeri 11y ago
Am I reading this wrong? The title is wrong, right? The paper says that if a strongly sub-quadratic solution exists than the exponential time hypothesis (that SAT cannot be solved in subexponential time) is invalidated. That's very int
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Yes, I do not trust any BitTorrent software. I wasn't being careful at installation and was shocked to find uTorrent changed my default search engine and added a bunch of bookmarks. I wasn't even aware it was developed by BitTorre
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Kinda both, right? Mathematics is a human-created formalism inspired by, and intended to explain, the natural world. Mathematics is not the real world; it's a map, not the territory. But of course it's not surprising if a map rese
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by ruggeri 12y ago
The article says throughout that sorting the fields in order of decreasing alignment requirement (i.e., size) minimizes slop. The proof for this is pretty straightforward. The article also discusses why you might not do this (e.g., structur
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by ruggeri 12y ago
I want to watch, but can't transfer fast enough. Therefore: wget https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/guy-cotten/videos/guy_cot... Hope that helps someone.
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by ruggeri 12y ago
What the hell are you talking about? Safe as in physical safety?
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by ruggeri 12y ago
Alan Watts said that, if you want an interesting person to read about and haven't yet :-)

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