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“In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the time between events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant av
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I’ll chime in with a somewhat positive and opposite note. I bought 77 + Stadia + Chromecast under the legal impression that under EU-law I would always get a refund. They give refunds and I’ve played on a pretty well working platform. This
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This is an amazingly good read. The author pretty much describes in full all the requirements for a system / model that could help his son. (And which they have developed on an n=1 basis.) And it’s a complex system. Food, type of food,
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1 Ångström = 1e-10 m 11.5 mÅ = 1.15e-12 m That’s a mind boggling measurement.
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The director of marketing in my firm has a PhD in Physics. Every technical talk with him is a breeze. He gets data, complexity, the fact that sometimes easy problems are hard and that tech needs proper support. Point being: management skill
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What I think is that compared to many other sports Chess is less centralized. In for example many athletic sports there is a pretty clear hierarchy : local clubs - national association - international association (socces, tennis, with notab
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The channels. They kicked you after a few minutes if you were root. And that made it really hard and probably quite funny to ask for help / pointers. Hey, there’s that stubborn kid again. It’s even (still) in their guidelines [1]! [1]
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Ha yes this is a nice memory. Getting Debian 3 cd’s and then failing to do my first install because obviously with only one PC you can’t look up a guide online. (My dad always bought the big OS manuals, like 30 cm of paper per MS DOS-versio
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Ha I just started the course in MiniZinc on Coursera and it is very nice and creative. One tidbit for someone with a mostly econometrics background that (for me, a starter in the language with some exposure to linear optimization in the pas
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I see this in my firm. Non-IT management loves to resort to the lowest denominator of 'systems', that is - systems built by people who are not trained as administrators nor experienced, but mainly follow online guides /and de
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The world is more complex than that. Things like sanctions and countries (not) fully implementing the sanctions create a world in which the transport of sanctioned ‘money’ (or money owned by sanctioned people) from place X to Y is only poss
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This is what I keep telling my (senior) managers. In order to let people do “more X”, you should have available a list of Y they are already doing and Z that will fall below the fold if prioritizing X. If you don’t have that list, any discu
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Pretty near Chomsky in the realm of ontology are the thoughts that the objective reality isn’t findable by respectively the average person, people in general or at all. I wouldn’t call people lazy for being unable or unwilling to find out t
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Are you responding to the connotation of, say, Cold War intelligence with the use of ‘file’? For me it’s pretty trivial that Facebook can pull up information per IP, correlated IP (via accounts, usage, magic pixel) and try to work from ther
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I have been cycling sportively (MTB, road) for about two decades. Bounce your bike. Just a couple of bounces on the wheels. It’s just a thing where you would instantly notice any slack on the wheel tension.
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Ah true point. Perhaps the addition /in the modern scientific era/ would be in place. Begging the question when that starts of course. Let’s say that economics was earlier embracing quantitative techniques in the 20th century and
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Perhaps you know since you’ve read the book: Does the book _really_ decide on declining marginal returns to complexity as an ultimate factor? Or is that the interpretation by the reviewer? The bridging of sociology, history and economics wa
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I came to comment on a few things: 1. Indeed, a publicly funded European research project turned commercial software (closed source?) that expects institutions to pay for annual fees. Hmm. I understand OSS still needs constributors and has
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Any tips to calm an overly cautious mind for food based tinkering like fermentation? My rational part understands that with a proper recipe and clean work there’s no more risk than from a random food locality and still … when I was young my
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It’s entertainment. Academia shouldn’t be entertainment, at least that is my opinion. I’ve seen more than a few erstwhile respected professors turn into talking heads without much substance by sudden media fame. One of the better stories wa
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$ 3 billion for 720 MW of power (2019 figure) [1]. More recent figure of $ 5.5 cents per KW/h [2]. So about 4x cost overrun leeway to be competitive in Europe. That seems manageable? [1] https://www.science.org/content&
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2000 PPM is 0.2% or one-in-fivehundred, right? That’s massive pollution. My layman’s logic would suggest you need to dump 0.2% of total aquifer volume of 100% PFAS to reach that level? And then I expect pollution to spread in a semi-sphere
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Nice moral question! For me criminal and civil liability: Equity partners / holders - please yes. Non equity and not abundantly proven operating in a criminal activity - please no. The in between - civil action in order to prove intent
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Part of our experience away from vendor specific tooling was building a team that could handle the transition. It started with perhaps 2 or 3 engineers doing PoC’s. Then an architect came on board with Azure experience. Things went from the
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Aren’t US judges given a large leeway in forcing rulings? (This might be overly influenced by Law and Order TV.)
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My firm is investing quite a lot of money / time / effort in our Azure infrastructure for relatively large and complex models (financial models with up to 10k cores; nothing very fancy just lots math and lots of customers). Our en
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Yes, I believe that every (small) shop or store leaves money on the table all the time. The best I can give you is somewhat optimizing some of the time with long perturbations. A function of social relationships on all sides, Excel [1], one
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Can you explain without telling the memory? So you mean like age 1-2-3 year old memories? I’ve got a few of those that seem unrelated to family pictures or stories told on later dates. My dad had a few very early memories and one of my chil
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Those sweet economists. (I’ve got my MSc in Economics ;) First off: Giffen and Veblen goods? Second off: while I’m all for the theoretical models and would even defend that institutional evolution would lead to markets representing theoreti
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Reinforcement Learning – Government Intervention in Catastrophe Insurance [pdf](arxiv.org)
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