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by thefringthing 3y ago
"Sabiro" for a suit comes from "Savile Row", a street in London famous for its tailor shops, which in turn is named after Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Cork (née Savile).
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by thefringthing 3y ago
This article links to that blog post and quotes from it.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
> Elements of Statistical Learning "Elements" is a great reference book, but it isn't really a textbook. There's a popular introductory textbook by some of the same authors called "An Introduction to Statistical
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by thefringthing 3y ago
> about 60% on its first 100 bets This isn't really the appropriate metric. For example, a strategy which is short favourites and long underdogs needs a win rate much lower than 60% to overcome the house edge (and pay for this softw
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Handwriting Repair [pdf](penvibe.com)
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by thefringthing 3y ago
In these slides, Icelandic type designer Gunnlaugur SE Briem begins by enumerating some basic steps to improve one's existing cursive handwriting. There follows an overview of historical handwriting styles and an argument in favour of
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by thefringthing 3y ago
I was recently in Iceland with some Polish-Canadian friends and they were amused by the number of Polish people we encountered.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
> I think it proved too expensive for much action to be taken though. Iceland beginning, let alone completing, a major infrastructure project in the 21st century? Impossible.
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When all roads lead (back) to spreadsheets(medium.grid.is)
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by thefringthing 3y ago
See also: Shaving Is Too Expensive: https://www.johnwhiles.com/posts/shaving Your Stuff Is Actually Worse Now: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-qualit... Your Sweaters Ar
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by thefringthing 3y ago
I have always thought that instrumentation alone would be a better classification than genre.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
> There's a Curry-Howard isomorphism [between] logic [and Bayesian statistical inference]. This is an odd way of putting it. I think it's better to say that, given some mostly uncontroversial assumptions, if one is willing to a
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by thefringthing 3y ago
> Unicode is a standard that aims to unify all human languages, both past and present, and make them work with computers. This is doubly wrong. First, it conflates languages and writing systems. Malay and English use the same writing sys
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by thefringthing 3y ago
Isn't Nate falling for the Table 2 fallacy here? (Edit: Perhaps not, but it took drawing the DAG for me to be convinced.)
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by thefringthing 3y ago
On work-from-home businesses that are not open to the public: you can report these, and it seems that if you have a good track record of submitting corrections to Google Maps, your reports are handled fairly swiftly.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
This comment undervalues cold baked potatoes. They are a great snack.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
Just the other day he posted about how they were able to modify the one member of the family identified in their paper which is not an aperiodic monotile into one that tiles without reflections.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
Someone tell that to Peter Jackson before he makes another They Shall Not Grow Old.
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by thefringthing 3y ago
The bar for notability also somehow ended up a lot lower for the kinds of things that appeal mostly to the Wikipedia editor demographic, although there has been some improvement on that front in recent years.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Indeed! You may reasonably regard this to be a bug or a feature.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Some people play by drawing from a deck of dice rolls without replacement in order to reduce the variance.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
All four, since it's fairly easy to find an odd wheel in the tiling.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Tolkien lifted a bunch of names straight out of the Icelandic sagas and Edda.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Driving is net subsidized, even before pricing in these externalities.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
So much commentary on the landscape of TV and film today reminds me of the Dogme 95 movement. Maybe those guys were on to something after all.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
I have always wondered about why the Yugoslav system of market socialism didn't succeed. It sounds like Brezhnev was trying to move toward that model.
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by thefringthing 4y ago
When Japanese enthusiasts scoured American thrift stores for the last remaining stock of vintage American denim, it supposedly constituted the largest ever transfer of clothing from the USA to Japan, exceeding even the postwar used clothing
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Well, it's only in the context of the radical casualization of menswear since the mid-60s that jeans and a t-shirt can be seen as stylish. When men first started wearing this outfit, it was considered rebellious in part because it was
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by thefringthing 4y ago
People in the developed world usually point to the Internet and mobile phones as the most prominent example of big societal changes in their lifetime, and those are obvious picks, but I think the end of rock as the dominant (super-)genre of
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by thefringthing 4y ago
Much of the appeal of Eon is that it describes a fairly believable and coherent post-scarcity/transhuman society.

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