wilshiredetroit

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Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize(smithsonianmag.com)
133 points by wilshiredetroit 3y ago|78 comments
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Mathematician wins 2024 Abel Prize for making sense of randomness(newscientist.com)
2 points by wilshiredetroit 3y ago|0 comments
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by wilshiredetroit 3y ago
"choosing their parents correctly" - yes.. having great parents doing their best is probably one of the main indicators of success. (mileage definitely varies) A child can learn a lot from their parents.. things like prudence, pat
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by wilshiredetroit 3y ago
Chamath Palihapitiya had some interesting comments about this topic that I think you guys might enjoy: Narrative violation for the "progressive" left: The American Dream is alive and well. 12% of American Families are now Million
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by wilshiredetroit 4y ago
P.S. congratulations on the Baby!
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by wilshiredetroit 5y ago
this is really cool. it semi reminds me of nuzzle how does this work? Is it so I can mass subscribe? Again.. its very cool.. love the ux
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GM the app gets hacked a few days after testflight release(gm.town)
2 points by wilshiredetroit 5y ago|1 comments
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by wilshiredetroit 5y ago
I LOVE Forem and Dev.To The stack is very rational.. and "easy-ish" but its not wordpress easy.. most groups..and social networks.. dont burst outside 500 monthly active users.. at best.. 5000~ most groups are small and doesnt ne
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by wilshiredetroit 5y ago
why is this a problem? serious question.. i dont get it
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by wilshiredetroit 6y ago
The problem with opening up the beaches.. are the congregation of large groups of people at choke points such as crosswalk intersections and such places. heres an update on Florida.. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavir
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by wilshiredetroit 7y ago
I just tried this.. and it worked amazingly well. It was smooth and seemless
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by wilshiredetroit 7y ago
He stopped being "supply and demand" when the state of Tennessee declared a state emergency. Upon the declaration of a state emergency, charging "grossly excessive" prices for food, construction services, emergency suppl
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by wilshiredetroit 7y ago
What I do is I use a WordPress I stallation to consume RSS and Email Newsletters they have plug-ins that slurp rss feeds (I use feedwordpress) And I use the Email to Post feature built in to WordPress to consume newsletters.. Now that rss
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Scientists have developed a new concept of mathematical modeling(m.phys.org)
7 points by wilshiredetroit 7y ago|0 comments
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by wilshiredetroit 8y ago
I charge $10,000 per day. It would be silly to charge per hour.. Never really understood that approach - but that's just me
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Every art event in every city on one neat webapp(helloartworld.somvilaysack.com)
4 points by wilshiredetroit 10y ago|0 comments
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by wilshiredetroit 10y ago
I'm Loving this! I had stepped away from my desk and a new set of links are there... I almost want to say its like a "Screensaver of Links"
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by wilshiredetroit 10y ago
I run an aggregator using wordpress, feedwordpress plugin, and related post plugin - it does a good job of "grouping" articles of a similar topic. So I get a good idea of what other news sources has said about that topic. - it t
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by wilshiredetroit 10y ago
I love it. How did you put this together :D
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
I knew him for over 15 years... we was a very interesting fellow... he was a diligent mathematician - I think this quote also applies to him: "...it's not that i'm so smart it's just that i stay with problems longer...&q
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
wow-- thank you for this tidbit.. just quickly read the wiki on it.. and now Im gonna get on and read it. :D
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
I guess this is the cycle: 1) "Some things you should care enough about to do badly." - Start as a hobby 2) “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” - You work on it some more but you are still mediocre at it 3) &quo
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
I think it was Ayn Rand (per Google) *I love that saying though
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
What I find really interesting after mulling it over.. is that there's soo much crap out there -- being made well by really really talented people. I wonder if there's an easy heuristic to figure out if something is worth doing
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
It just seems like Google was incentivised to have a relationship with SEO firms to make page rank work.
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
PageRank wasnt bad. But the 'game-able' mechanism went on way too long.. and it was compounded when Google "went to bed" with SEO firms
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
I love this Idea! We need one in SoCal
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
the math might be suspect, and it might just be straight assumption by the writer.. but it doesnt mean it cant be true - or isnt true
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by wilshiredetroit 11y ago
How did you guys make this? Can you guys upload it on github?