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by yt-sdb 4y ago
Many cyclists die every year, typically in collisions involving motor vehicles. It goes without saying that very few drivers are killed in those collisions. The risks are widely asymmetric. So if we want to talk about the worst of a group,
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
For anyone else reading this, hundreds of wipeouts is many standard deviations away from the mean. As a point of comparison, I've been biking for 10+ years and bike commuting for ~5 of those. I've had exactly one wipeout, the firs
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
A few years ago, I went to a public interview/chat with Rainer Weiss in NYC. He described years of work in which the LIGO team found inventive ways to make their systems more precise. They just kept knocking down orders-of-magnitude. S
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
The person you're replying to already has answered this question in a post you've already replied to. But to be explicit, consider the first sentence of the follow up post [1]: > Now that you know what right-half-plane zeros ar
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
I agree. The author uses technical jargon but is clearly intending the reader to be non-technical. Otherwise, footnote 1 should just be in the main text. The rhetorical effect, intended or otherwise, is an appeal to (the author's) auth
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Improving Your Relationship with Social Media May Call for a Targeted Approach(freedom-to-tinker.com)
1 points by yt-sdb 4y ago|0 comments
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No front seat occupants; adventures in autonomous ride services(rodneybrooks.com)
20 points by yt-sdb 4y ago|0 comments
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by yt-sdb 4y ago
Perry Mehrling's "Money and Banking" [1]. What I enjoyed about this course is that Mehrling focuses on how the economy works _mechanistically_, on what is actually happening on balance sheets throughout the economy. For me, t
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
Also: https://github.com/karpathy/micrograd
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
I don't know if Kasparov is right, but I disagree that he is not a careful thinker. He has been thinking about and writing about the dangerous of Putinism for years. He published "Winter Is Coming" nearly 7 years ago now. He
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
I'd frame it this way: a good senior researcher knows when to give a junior researcher the question or not. First-year grad student? Pair them off with a postdoc for fast iterating on an established project. Fourth-year grad student? P
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Whalewisdom.com(whalewisdom.com)
2 points by yt-sdb 5y ago|0 comments
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The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds(quillette.com)
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
Put differently, "affordable housing" and "housing as investment" are at odds. People don't acknowledge this tension enough, I suspect because many people want to switch to the housing-as-investment team.
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
Probabilistic programming uses computer science techniques to do automated statistical modeling. For example, imagine I have a coin, and I want to discover if it is biased, i.e. if it lands on heads more often than tails. In a probabilistic
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Traditional Colors of Japan(en.wikipedia.org)
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by yt-sdb 5y ago
I do this with clothes. You can buy a good pair of hiking shoes or a lightweight waterproof jacket for the same price as design-oriented goods. Why pay Nike for a logo when I can pay Salomon for durability and tread? Same thing with luggage
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
The author's question reminds me of a pivotal scene in "American History X". Sweeney, a black high school principal, visits Derek, his former student and a white supremacist who is in jail for murder. Derek has just been hosp
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
I live in NYC. I'd be happy to use an app like this the vast majority of the time and then switch to Uber/Lyft when traveling.
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
Sure. My point was only that Mensa is not _just_ a club about a shared interest, which was implied by the examples given by the person I responded to. I suspect it's the cutoff that people don't like.
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
Maybe this analogy will help: joining a high-IQ club is not like joining just any athletic club. It's like joining an athletic club that's restricted based on a metric. What if you wanted to join a hiking club in your area but fou
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
The title of the essay is "Write Simply." Furthermore, the second sentence is more general than the first: > That kind of writing is easier to read, and the easier something is to read, the more deeply readers will engage with
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Wolfgang Doeblin(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by yt-sdb 6y ago|0 comments
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
I don't see the contradiction or confusion implied by "funny". You cannot yell "fire" in a crowded building when there is no fire. This is why it is a classic example of reasonable limitations to free speech.
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
I was confused by this. It is: > cat = ''.join
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
Beat me to it. And according to this report, London currently has 46 free ICU beds.
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
I agree. A few years ago, I read “The Conquest of Happiness” by B. Russell, and he made a compelling argument that living a boring life may be a prerequisite for great work in certain fields. One can imagine that in 500 years, we’ll still t
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
I think OP’s point is that stardom in certain domains, e.g. sports, can pay for itself via merchandise, ticket sales, advertising. OP is arguing that this isn’t really true in programming.
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
> Lue says the soft no should be only about three sentences long. A common mistake, she says, is giving too much of an explanation or being over-apologetic. I used to over-explain in these situations. The advice that finally changed my b
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by yt-sdb 6y ago
That's a nice way to think about, and it reminds me of Nassim Taleb's "antifragile" thesis [1]. Basically, the world is more random than you think, and to operate rationally under uncertainty, you need to be open-minded

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