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by yanowitz 7y ago
Among my favorite non-engineering books to help engineers is Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets (referenced in the article). It approaches probabilistic thinking systematically (some of the book reflects my own trial-and-error learnings but with
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The Raisin Situation(nytimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 7y ago|0 comments
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The AI Diet(nytimes.com)
1 points by yanowitz 8y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 8y ago
They are used to build a number of tools you probably rely on or use regularly, including ruby, golang, bash, MySQL and postgresql.
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by yanowitz 8y ago
I listened to them. The audio books are truly wonderful and immersive narrative (all 96 hours!). I can’t recommend them enough to hard sci fi fans. Although I did have a few false starts with the first book.
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by yanowitz 8y ago
Any discussion of Magic: the Gathering on Hacker News should come with an ObLink to how it's Turing complete https://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html For more accidentally Turing complete sy
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The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC(apollosaturncom.blogspot.com)
111 points by yanowitz 8y ago|64 comments
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by yanowitz 9y ago
This is a fun read (fair warning: you should have some understanding of monoids and monads before reading) and further validates my hypothesis that understanding category theory would make me a more effective engineer. If you've had
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by yanowitz 9y ago
That's what AWS lambda functions are doing, in essence.
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by yanowitz 9y ago
Purchasing Power Parity is meant to capture elements like cheaper costs of construction. It gives a real sense of the gap between Indonesia (4th most populous country, with China and India neck-and-neck, followed quite a bit lower by the U.
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by yanowitz 9y ago
GDP per capita is more than 4x in Netherlands (on a PPP basis). On a straight per capita basis, it’s even higher. See, e.g., https://tradingeconomics.com/indonesia/gdp-per-capita
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Harmony Link will no longer work after March 2018(community.logitech.com)
263 points by yanowitz 9y ago|216 comments
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Equifax C.E.O. Richard Smith Retires After Huge Data Breach(nytimes.com)
350 points by yanowitz 9y ago|264 comments
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by yanowitz 9y ago
This is a great summary. I think it's valuable to say that learning how to map your problem domain onto instances of categories like Monoid is useful because it immediately makes your problem embarassingly parallel, because you can par
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Thousands of salmon escape from fish farm, and no one knows what will happen(nydailynews.com)
1 points by yanowitz 9y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 9y ago
Interesting article--I'd love to see one just on GC. I just downloaded the latest node.js sources and v8 still has a call to CollectAllAvailableGarbage in a loop of 2-7 passes. It does this if a much cheaper mark-and-sweep fails. Under
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Google Episode Sends a Message: Diversity Is a Tough Sell in Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
1 points by yanowitz 9y ago|0 comments
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ETAOIN SHRDLU - Last Day of Linotype at New York Times (1978)(vimeo.com)
2 points by yanowitz 9y ago|0 comments
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Oath (Yahoo) unloads Bullet for querying streaming data in real time(siliconangle.com)
3 points by yanowitz 9y ago|0 comments
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The Biggest, Strangest 'Batteries'(nytimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 9y ago|0 comments
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Facebook is telling everyone that they’re dead(theverge.com)
45 points by yanowitz 10y ago|21 comments
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by yanowitz 10y ago
Well, part of the problem is a lack of consistent prosecution, so it's not a surprise that there have been little in the way of murder charges or convictions. We've seen video of an officer shooting someone and then going back to
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After Just 10 Days of Rest, Brain Benefits of Exercise Diminish(nytimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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Former Prisoners Ask Cuomo to Shut Down NY's Infamous Prison(villagevoice.com)
2 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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Wells Fargo to Pay $185M Fine Over Account Openings(wsj.com)
5 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 10y ago
This obituary was quite good (and for fans of Halt and Catch Fire, seasone one, evocative) including bits like this about the Grid laptop: NASA also used one as a backup navigational device in its space shuttle program. One was aboard the C
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Terrorizing Ourselves? What Happened at JFK Airport on Sunday August 14th?(medium.com)
4 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 10y ago
For the less-RF-literate (such as myself), can you please elaborate on the several reasons?
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Herbalife to Pay $200M Over Claims of Misrepresentation(wsj.com)
2 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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Scientists declare ‘emergency’ after jet stream crosses equator(rawstory.com)
5 points by yanowitz 10y ago|2 comments

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