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Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by yathaid 2y ago|1 comments
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by yathaid 2y ago
The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles.
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by yathaid 2y ago
I felt OP was needlessly negative. In classic internet fashion, I added to that negativity. Not proud of it.
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by yathaid 2y ago
I will play: - they do not know how useful the skill is. (Cocks solved the public-key cryptography problem without knowing what it would be used for) - they do not have the cash to invest => just a straight up lack of capital to make the
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by yathaid 2y ago
My forcing function was external. I was getting randomized by a lot of tasks and I felt I wasn't getting anything done. So I started to break down my day into 30 minute chunks. This got the feedback loop of seeing things get done going
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by yathaid 2y ago
Happens on Android too. Google and Facebook have a secret agreement to share data. https://www.wired.com/story/texas-accuses-google-facebook-il...
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by yathaid 2y ago
This is such a laughably naive view. The documents in court __show__ that even microsoft could not move Google out of Apple's defaults. But sure, "removing hurdles for new businesses to start" will obviously solve this.
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A gentle introduction to automated reasoning(amazon.science)
79 points by yathaid 3y ago|21 comments
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by yathaid 3y ago
The article mentions the 5000:1 odds bet, but reading the text of the bet itself is hilarious: >>> Whereas Carlo Rovelli and Geoff Penington firmly believe that gravity is better described by a quantum theory. >>> And wher
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by yathaid 3y ago
>> A competent board should have asked for legal and professional advice... I will bite. How do you know they didn't?
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by yathaid 3y ago
>> and anyone who appears to be willing to breach the status quo with violence is horrible. Not commenting about the rest, but anyone who is willing to breach the status quo with violence IS IN FACT HORRIBLY HORRIBLY HORRIBLE. Start d
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by yathaid 3y ago
> A standalone maps company would have to charge money to run the service. Yes. That is typically how businesses work. That cost is being subsidized by an uber-entity that is slurping private data of its more economically valuable custom
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by yathaid 3y ago
This take is so misinformed on how the law works, I am not even sure where to begin. Cases are often decided by judges and how they __interpret__ the law. If you have two generations of the judiciary who have grown up drinking the kool-aid
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by yathaid 3y ago
What you are missing is when the acquisition happens or the size of the firm being acquired. The blocked M&As are on firms that are already setting the market. Google cannot come about now. There is literally no need to have the world&#
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by yathaid 3y ago
> I gave up completely when his view of why the DOJ keeps losing literally became "the judiciary is corrupt" Why is that your view if that is what literally happens in a court of law? > The best way to explain Bidenomics is
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by yathaid 3y ago
> She has lost her big cases! She is ineffective. That’s the metric which matters. I posted this above, but I am going to repost it just to make sure the point is made (sorry if it feels like I am spamming). From [1] > You wouldn’t re
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by yathaid 3y ago
Is she though? From https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/never-seen-anything-like-... > You wouldn’t realize this success if you listen to the conventional wisdom in politics, because Wall Street is pushing a public n
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by yathaid 3y ago
The problem with tech people in education is that they can only think in paradigms that can "scale". If Zuck's mission was to "build a better school" and scale that out with better trained and incentivized teachers
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by yathaid 3y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Parent's argument is literally "but what about guns", the textbook definition of whataboutism.
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by yathaid 3y ago
The situation is way more complicated than what you seem to have understood. From https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/never-seen-anything-like-... : > Last summer, I noted that it takes time for agencies to act, but t
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by yathaid 3y ago
The problems lazy loading solves is an everyday issue for me. So ... I guess the lack of user control here is the annoying part. Hopefully in the next round of standards updates this makes it in.
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by yathaid 3y ago
No it isn't. Its like you ordering sushi and the restaurant gives you shoes because they know better.
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by yathaid 3y ago
I dug through a bit (in mid 2022) and there isn't a native way to do this. You will have to use edge deflector or something like that. I am not sure if the brave/firefox intercepts added more recently work. This drove me so mad I
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by yathaid 3y ago
One big reason this works is that there is a specific area in which all the rideshare cabs can wait. I am guessing this isn't the case in the US either due to a lack of space or the cab cartels not letting it happen.
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by yathaid 3y ago
This is how Uber works in airports in India. You don't get assigned a driver, you are given a six digit code. You give it to the next driver up when you reach the front of the queue and then your ride starts as normal.
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by yathaid 3y ago
Is your bash script open or closed? [1] How does a bash script simulate network failures, connectivity drops or a gray-failure in one of your dependencies? [2] A lot of thought has been put into this domain. Dismissing that without understa
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by yathaid 3y ago
I am sorry, do you think building a reverse index for a billion products fits in one machine? Is that seriously the amount of thought you put into this comment?
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by yathaid 3y ago
My favorite kind of HN answer. 100% snark, 100% certain, 100% wrong. So, instead of that, what would you have? A single, binary that makes multiple DB calls? Hmmm, let's see, some people have tried that and written extensively about th
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by yathaid 3y ago
Okay, describe your architecture and let's see how many holes it has.
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by yathaid 3y ago
AWS ___ ones can only be used with the rest of the AWS ecosystem. Amazon ___ can be used as a standalone service. Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, Amazon Chime etc. vs AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeCommit etc.

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