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by tmoertel 4y ago
Every single time? Mine don't do that. I get the occasional suggestion, that's it. Maybe the suggestions were more frequent when my Google home devices were new and I needed to be "trained." How long did you use yours be
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by tmoertel 4y ago
Just to add to the existing responses, matrices represent linear transforms, which have many convenient properties. However, translation, that is moving things, is not a linear transform. (All linear transforms must map the zero vector to i
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by tmoertel 4y ago
About 15 years ago, I purchased a hardcover copy of Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson , published in 1946. Inside the cover was the following inscription: Ambassador Douglas (in pencil) Geyelin, 4511 Cath. Ave.
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by tmoertel 4y ago
The reason I recommended buying coffee within days of its roast is that you'll probably drink that same batch over the next week or more. Things start going downhill after around a couple of weeks off roast. So, if your coffee is 1+ we
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by tmoertel 4y ago
I wrote this quick guide two decades ago , so imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon it today while browsing Hacker News! Anyway, a lot has changed since then, so I'll give a quick update. First, the coffee situation in the United S
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by tmoertel 4y ago
For bad actors, an extra careful review is still going to result in account termination. So, for them, the bonds buy virtually no protection, but it does tie up real money. How many bad actors are going to prefer to loan Google $100 per act
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by tmoertel 4y ago
Across the entire user base is a few orders of magnitude larger.
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by tmoertel 4y ago
I'd rather have the ability to buy a Google Bond for $X that Google must return to me in the event they lock or terminate my account. That way, if their algorithmic classifiers on a whim decide that I'm a bad person and they shoul
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by tmoertel 4y ago
Physicist and Bayesian pioneer E. T. Janes had a pithy take on this theme: In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.
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by tmoertel 5y ago
We could always find a causal mechanism mediated by microparticals.
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by tmoertel 5y ago
> Here's a fun one. So we decide to run the test twice. And AGAIN it comes up positive. What are the odds that it's a false positive? Again, the exact same logic holds - there are 101 people we are testing. There will be about
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by tmoertel 5y ago
If you follow those creators, you may want to try Glen And Friends Cooking ( https://www.youtube.com/c/GlenAndFriendsCooking ) for interesting takes on cooking and recipes, with new episodes every few days. The subjects
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How to Want Less(theatlantic.com)
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by tmoertel 5y ago
In this case, I suspect that Mark is interested in the distribution of jobs associated with Haskell as much as in the language itself. Haskell shops tend to solve certain kinds of problems and have certain philosophies about software. If yo
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by tmoertel 5y ago
> If I want to do something and the language makes it difficult, telling myself “oh but it’s a DSL” doesn’t get me any closer to solving my problem. Unless the thing that makes the language difficult is your expecations. In that case, of
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by tmoertel 5y ago
Ah, the fun of naming hosts. I once named hosts using a long list of trees I found in a scholarly publication. The list also gave botanical names, so for a chuckle I placed them in the corresponding TXT records. You could `dig paperbark-map
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RCT study: food emulsifier carboxymethylcellulose detrimentally changes the gut(gastrojournal.org)
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by tmoertel 5y ago
There's the paper on Google's Zanzibar: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/ "This paper presents the design, implementation, and deployment of Zanzibar, a global system for storing and evaluating
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by tmoertel 5y ago
Thanks! That example really helps to crystalize the technique :-)
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by tmoertel 5y ago
Do you have a worked example of finding a PRNG's internal state that you could share? (Most people are unfamiliar with Z3 and other SMT solvers. Seeing a relevant worked example would be very illustrative.)
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by tmoertel 5y ago
Compared to today, in the 1970s and 1980s some things about programming were harder and some were easier. Back then, computers were amazingly slow and limited, by modern standards, so it was much easier to understand how they and their comp
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by tmoertel 5y ago
I love that the Empire manual has a section that suggests readers "Wire up an interconnecting cable as shown..." Long gone are the days when computer games came with manuals, let alone manuals that are so detailed they actually te
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by tmoertel 5y ago
I like to contrast traditional case-based testing with property-based testing like this: With both approaches, you want to show that certain claims hold about the software you are testing. With case-based testing, the claims are implicit (i
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by tmoertel 5y ago
Yes, we had this same scenario play out 16 years ago, and it seems that many modern web developers have forgotten its lessons: https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2005-05-06-google-web-acceler...
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by tmoertel 5y ago
My understanding is that the "unbearable thinness" is what happens when Computer Modern outlines designed to accommodate ink swell (associated with older printing methods) are used on modern display and raster printing surfaces w
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by tmoertel 5y ago
If you want to understand just how weird Apple II graphics were, a great introduction is Stephen Edwards's "Inside the Apple II" video: https://youtu.be/r1VlrJboDMw . It's just half an hour long but manag
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by tmoertel 6y ago
I second this recommendation.
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by tmoertel 6y ago
> The Uber business model is: Undercut competition. Use borrowed money to sell rides under cost. Wait for all competitors to die. Jack up prices. The interesting thing is that there is more than one startup using this model. The competit
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by tmoertel 6y ago
Along the lines of the trucker's hutch, I particularly like the Versatackle knot system: https://notableknotindex.webs.com/Versatackle.html
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by tmoertel 6y ago
One property that makes recursion attractive is that maps so easily to proof by induction. When designing algorithms, I'll often design a recursive version first, prove it correct, and then translate it into an iterative version. The t

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