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GeoSyson The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere

It's in many places, but not everywhere. CLT means that samples tend towards the mean, which is neat.

Unfortunately, many "researchers" blindly assume that many real life phenomena follow Gaussian, which they don't... So then their models are skewed

GeoSyson Meta is shutting down Metaverse. They spent 85B dollars on it

Next a rename to SlopBook ...

GeoSyson Meta is shutting down Metaverse. They spent 85B dollars on it

On to the next hype ...

GeoSyson Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service

So which is the most consistent cloud offering, that doesn't seem like a bunch of disparate services loosely wired together? GCP? AWS?

GeoSyson A sufficiently detailed spec is code

It's so easy to make a specification which can't be implemented (or shouldn't be). Very often, I go back and tweak the specification, after I start the implementation and figure out which assumptions are wrong ...

GeoSyson New Restaurant Tool

What's your sales/marketing strategy? How will you go about convincing them to give it a go?

GeoSyson Study finds scientists' jokes mostly fall flat

PhD comics had some good ones: https://phdcomics.com/

GeoSyson Ask HN: Is it time for "organic" coding?

I prefer artisan coding :)

GeoSyson REWARD.FARM - Complete tasks, get paid fast. Reward farming marketplace

Interesting - how do you solve disputes? Say a farmer claims the work is done (e.g. the app is tested), but the company disagrees and doesn't want to pay?

GeoSyson A Superpower Goes Offline

not so sure, with all those nukes ...

GeoSyson Paper: AI models are faking their step by step thinking

The link to X appears broken.

Found similar paper from last year: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/71876fabef0f0ed4/original/rea...

GeoSyson The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

Is there a way to filter out such books when you browse Amazon? They should at least tell you it's an "on-demand" printed book before you order?

GeoSyson Wired headphone sales are exploding

A few reasons I can think of: - Many wired headsets don't have batteries. You can't forget to charge it ... - They don't auto-connect, when you don't expect. It's clear if it's connected to the phone or the laptop.

GeoSyson It's time to move your docs in the repo

For open source, this has been the practice for many projects. The docs is often in README.md or in a separate folder "docs". For larger projects, there could be a separate repo from where a docs site is built.

However, in corporations, docs are often in Confluence or MS Sharepoint, separate from the code. Tech specs often require comments, discussion, or estimate/budget approvals from non-tech staff. Hence, some corporate AI coding tools can refer to docs in such corporate sites. That doesn't work too well yet, IMHO ... time will show.