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by thechao 2y ago
Damn Matt Levine to hell! His latest newsletter has an entire section devoted to the entire topic!
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by thechao 2y ago
New theory: this is a short-long play by the fund. They shorted NV, now they're hoovering up stock. In the process of making their billions from a small 50$mm investment!
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by thechao 2y ago
Snow Crash is, yet again, so prescient in this regard. Still waiting on my Deliverator
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by thechao 2y ago
I know this probably doesn't help you now , but I negotiated this as a requirement of my employment. I showed up day one, walked around & engaged about 20 or so people on the floor in what they did over the first few weeks I was t
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by thechao 2y ago
I don't want to dox you, since it's easy to get from your museum to your personal webpage. Would you be kind enough to submit your site to HN, or post here for other people? It's a really amazing bit of old web!
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by thechao 2y ago
Classically, a CEO is an intern with a bald spot and an ulcer.
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by thechao 2y ago
Gruene has a fossil shop with a no returns policy. The sign used to say something along the lines of "you can't return it, no matter how much your pastor says you'll go to hell; if you're that worried, bury it: that&#x27
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by thechao 2y ago
Nonlinear (and inverting!) response curves for drug dosimetry that's population and person specific. Especially when there's a temporal delay. Trying to explain grapefruit to my elderly parents is like pulling teeth.
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by thechao 2y ago
If the main barrier to your enjoyment of this article is some JavaScript, you're quite a bit heavier weight in the maths department than I'll ever be.
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by thechao 2y ago
At UT Austin, there was a Physics class called "Pseudoscience" taught by Rory Coker(?). The class was on precisely the topic mentioned; it was a graded attendance-based class. (You lost a grade letter for every 1–2 classes you s
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by thechao 2y ago
Hey, John — Matt Parker mentioned in one of his ellipse videos the fact that every elliptical ratio has its own pi-like constant. He just quickly rattles the fact off, but never delves into it. Do you know of any research into trying to cha
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by thechao 2y ago
I don't think I've had the need for a uniformly tagged array of enums. Generally, when I do an AoS to SoA transform that includes tagged data, I just factor out the tag into its own array. In fact, if the tag is 2-valued, I just b
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by thechao 2y ago
I'm there with ya, bud. There should be a term for this — for those of us in our situation — and we should be able to unite!
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by thechao 2y ago
I also like that we try to build 'ratings' sites that end up being coopted as yet another ad sales vector.
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by thechao 2y ago
My life, growing up, was: lockblox (v legos), construx (v meccano), vectrex (v nintendo), macintosh (in 1985!), etc. My dad is epically contrarian.
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by thechao 2y ago
Yep. Interstellar space is pretty famously big.
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by thechao 2y ago
The CMB becomes deadly well before these speeds (the rear facing light burns you; the forward facing light nukes you). That's not even accounting for objects in space, or the light from stars, which will be amplified according to the L
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by thechao 2y ago
Even at .99c, everything interesting is years, decades, centuries, and millennia apart. All interstellar solutions include maintenance over millennia. Once you're doing that, relativistic velocity is just a hazard, not a boon. If we do
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by thechao 2y ago
Oral defense season was always a good way to get ahead, financially. You do get sick of pizza, though.
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by thechao 2y ago
I volunteered (and then worked) at a Federal hospital in the 90s, up until ~2002. Oncologists were notoriously underrepresented in the oncology department as patients . Instead, then tended to do whatever they wanted and then get dosed up
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by thechao 2y ago
I'm this years old when my life was revolutionized.
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by thechao 2y ago
Or, more directly, Niven’s “The Smoke Ring” about humans living directly in an oxygenated accretion disk around a white dwarf.
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by thechao 2y ago
> vector-soup This is mine, now. ( https://i.imgflip.com/3gfptz.png )
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by thechao 2y ago
Ternary is a thing; however, there's a lot of times when you're hand-rolling a compression scheme. In those cases, it is common to consider all sorts of nonstandard bases. So, for instance, if you need to encode a pair of numbers,
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by thechao 2y ago
Well, for copyright, I always thought there should be two kinds: 1. Private — untaxed, lasts for 14 years (or until the death of the last author), goes into Public Domain. No need for registration; and, 2. Public — any work (before it'
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by thechao 2y ago
That's a shockingly good Socratic dialog that maps fairly well! I've not read your dialog in detail; nor have I read this blog article enough times to know if the mapping is correct. However, a quick glance shows that it's in
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by thechao 2y ago
My advisor used to go drinking with the Cousots'. He said Cousot becomes more scrutable with more wine. I asked my advisor if he meant Cousots' papers or Cousots' conversation ; his answer was "more French".
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by thechao 2y ago
Yeah. It'd've been neat if the US gallon was defined to be 256in^3 (with the US in being exactly 2.5cm). Then, it'd be exactly 4000 cm^3 (4L) to a US gallon, and the table of "prefixes" would be: gallon 2
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by thechao 2y ago
Since this comes as a surprise to many of my first-time British colleagues: US customary and Imperial use the same names, but are different units. The US customary volume units (cups, gallons, etc.) are on two scales: the "tablespoon s
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by thechao 2y ago
Arthur Anderson.

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