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by tibbar 4y ago
It’s surprising to me that a CEO can allow all of their meetings to be shadowed by a (relatively low-level) employee — surely there must be highly confidential information, performance feedback, sensitive legal matters, etc that can only be
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by tibbar 4y ago
My experience after a few years of OMAD fasting is that my body adapted really deeply. I don't get hungry (as long as I do eventually eat) and I have consistent energy levels throughout the day. If I know I'm about to do some long
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by tibbar 4y ago
I also love taking long walks on the weekends! I've ramped up over time to around 35 mile walks. I always take the same route, over the Golden Gate bridge and back. With this distance there is a heightened risk of repetitive stress inj
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by tibbar 4y ago
I don’t have a good way to reconcile the current hot job market with seemingly increasing reports of mass layoffs, but one wonders if the graph will change directions decisively at some point soon.
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by tibbar 5y ago
So, obviously Hikaru is rated lower than most of the players in the candidates, even with the recent surge. It's equally obvious that he's a much stronger player than he was going into his semi-retirement a few years ago. The ques
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by tibbar 5y ago
As sibling comment says, he's higher than Duda + Radjabov in live ratings now. It's just not obvious to me that any of your statements about the other players being so much stronger than Hikaru are true. It's really hard to o
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by tibbar 5y ago
Actually Hikaru would be (as of today) 6/8 among the Candidates in classical ELO, as the world #11 in live ratings. If anything, Hikaru is probably underrated ; he gained around 20 ELO points in the two Grand Prix legs. Like the OP, I
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by tibbar 5y ago
I mean no one integrates to find the area under subsections of the normal distribution because you have to use numerical methods for that anyway. And it only gets more complicated from there with chi-squared and various degrees of freedom e
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by tibbar 5y ago
The company itself is surely worth many billions of dollars, so can’t they just borrow from a national bank if they need additional cash for paying out bonds?
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by tibbar 5y ago
An excellent, thoughtful article. People often don't realize how easy it is to make inroads if you're humble and genuinely interested in the other person. The other day someone cold-emailed me to talk about some old blog post, we
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by tibbar 5y ago
Yeah… I’ve worked with part time engineers in the past and been one myself several times too. The main problem is that people flake. Your part time position is not as important to them as their other job, their degree, their time off. Lots
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by tibbar 5y ago
Firouzja is at a different point in his career than the other juniors. For most people, competing in a top online tournament for prizes and a shot at taking down Magnus is a great use of time. But for Firouzja, who is the world no. 2 at 18
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by tibbar 5y ago
For example, here's Nihal Sarin beating Magnus at a blitz game at 16 years old: https://www.chess.com/events/2021-magnus-carlsen-vs-challeng... . Sarin is currently rated #5 on the chess.com blitz leaderboard with
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by tibbar 5y ago
Chess24 is the chess platform hosting the tournament. The sentence should read something like "When asked on Chess24 (the platform) how he would celebrate..."
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by tibbar 5y ago
Definitely. Off the top of my head: Abdusattorov, Sarin, Firouzja, Keymer, Niemann, Yoo as well as Praggnanandhaa could all take down Magnus in a given blitz game, and have been strong enough to do so for several years. Rapid is definitely
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by tibbar 5y ago
This was during an online rapid tournament. So still very impressive, but Magnus loses games online all the time and I'm not _quite_ sure why this is news. It is interesting which junior players Magnus invited to the tournament, though
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It would take just one glorious Haskell PR(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
3 points by tibbar 5y ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
Legend! What are you doing now?
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6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
105 points by tibbar 5y ago|38 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
Oh… I think you’re right. Thanks.
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by tibbar 5y ago
Oh, hmm. Perhaps the list has been changed multiple times? It was originally 12972 words (see https://www.poirrier.ca/notes/wordle-optimal/ ) and was 10638 words as of yesterday. Anyway, some of the words that have
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by tibbar 5y ago
The new Wordle has a shorter word list (down from about 12k to about 10k valid guess words). EDIT: both lists are about the same length (12k); a small number of words were removed.
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by tibbar 5y ago
It’s definitely possible. An exhaustive search would require tapping into the cloud since there are well over 100,000 words that the interface could use, times 17,000 target words, times the grading operation which is moderately expensive.
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by tibbar 5y ago
I made a solver for this and did some comparison with Wordle: https://jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/solving-nerdle... . TL;DR even though there's an order of magnitude more possible words, you can
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Is Nerdle Harder Than Wordle?(jacobbrazeal.wordpress.com)
2 points by tibbar 5y ago|0 comments
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by tibbar 5y ago
And then you might decide to pay some one to help you in your vegetable garden part time, and before you know it...
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by tibbar 5y ago
It’s funny how wildly off base my assessments of important life skills were as a kid (a fellow nerd, to be sure!) A world of ‘alphas’ where soccer skills and strategic bullying defined the social order. If you had told me that spending hund
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by tibbar 5y ago
I agree. How do you see us fixing this? Maybe universal basic income? Over the last century we've eliminated many of the positions in agriculture and manufacturing that were traditionally considered good blue collar jobs. Automation on
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by tibbar 5y ago
Yes. It is true that some people just need to live within their means. But for people who are poor in the traditional sense, the cash flow is just too low. There’s no way to live well on that income. Finding ways to save cash isn’t really a
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by tibbar 5y ago
I grew up fairly poor in a large family. One of the constants was that something important was always broken but we couldn’t afford to fix it just then - a car, the washing machine, the computer; a couple times, the electricity. We went on

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