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That's no different legally, only ethically. The FBI does not enforce ethics.

Could anyone explain why it is impossible for a Gaussian distribution to be anti-correlated with a group of N other Gaussians? This proof clearly implies that fact, but none of the discussion seems to remark on it. I can imagine a distribution such that the "random seed" puts things closer to the tails based on the measured variance of a group of other normal distributions. Intuitively it seems like that ought to be able to be a normal distribution itself; I don't follow why that is not true.

I have this book. It's cute.

GChat/Google Chat were never official branding question any time. Only users used those names.

They are very valuable to many people, but if the cost is borne by a group that acquires no benefit (UC Berkeley, which can use them for its own students for free regardless), then it is not worth that cost.

It is absolutely the case that these created more than a million dollars of value per year while they were up. But UC Berkeley, by design, captured none of that value.

Actually, UCB is running multi-million-dollar deficits, they're pretty cash strapped already.

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Early-career developer currently doing small-scale contracting, looking to expand my horizons toward working in data science. Already well-equipped for 'Data Engineer' and general ML research assistant roles, willing to take internships for purer data science experience.

I've never gotten many leads there, but the ones I've gotten have been high-quality.

Words with similar letter distributions will tend to be from the same root languages, which frequently maps to category of discourse (scientific, sophisticated, coarse, exotic, etc.)

A scoring rule I'd like to try maximizes the product of the lengths of the chunks / length of the word. This makes individual letters shuffling less interesting and many medium chunks most interesting, which matches my intuitions.

On one hand, he has reputation to risk. On the other, he has reputation to burn.

All you need is cross-party cooperation and an anti-fascist alliance of urban workers and rural farmers.

Yup, we're doomed.

When Earth's magnetic field reverses (it's periodic and we're overdue), it does not protect from solar radiation for a while, making the outdoors toxic and destroying most electronics as a result.

I don't see why this is illegal, any more than counting cards in blackjack.

Most politicians do in fact do what they say they will. It's not actually rare.

Thank you for sharing the eShares 101; reading it showed me two things that would have been dealbreakers before we could waste any time talking.

(They were required 8:30 AM start time once a week in the more distant office and How To Win Friends and Influence People being required reading, for the record.)

I don't think it's fair to call the Pauls more central examples of libertarianism than Johnson. They're more moderate on most things but also have a strong strain of cultural conservative that cuts against the libertarian strain.

This has been decreasingly true in recent years, in fairness. They've still been standing up for the principles of a liberal society consistently, but it's gotten polarized like everything else.

Authoritarians are very possibly not welcome. Non-authoritarian members of the religious right, cultural conservatives, etc. are very likely welcome. (And of course any variety of libertarian.)

Backlash from the tons of big companies still using it will become lobbying to keep it supported. I don't expect them to stop in the next couple years, or the next few, etc.

There's less muscle behind keeping Python 2, but there's a lot less muscle needed to keep it going than to extend copyright.

Pull the other one, it exists with probability 10^-22.

One who likes integer ratios and more precision than 7/10 gets you?

EOL was extended once. Why not twice? Why not every time Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain?

I suspect Python 2.x will be extended like copyright.

The single/double checkmark is used with Signal's client as well. When you're sending unsecured texts, you get a single checkmark when you send it; when you are sending encrypted messages, a lock symbol and a single check when sent, and a double check when received.

Wiles was weird at the time. Math is done in public, he just really wanted to be the one to have the final valid proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

>Today we’re excited and proud to be launching in San Francisco. Not that we planned it or anything. Literally we just decided an hour ago to do this because somebody asked us to go live and we said “cool okay.”

Startup culture at its finest right here.

I started App Academy two years ago. I had programmed in college and was generally code-literate, but had no portfolio, no confidence, and no idea how to build either convincingly. And I didn't actually have an idea of how code is written in a business context.

I learned what they were teaching easily, but it didn't really teach me to code in any way different than I had for tiny self-contained projects in college. I was on the hunt for 10 months, got a job, and lost it a few months later. I still don't really know how code is written in a business context, and I'm probably heading back to academia now.

Overall, would not recommend.

I kind of hate that blog. They make fun of things for basically being slightly tacky. A lot of the criticism feels like it's just 'Stop Having Fun' Guy. (The heating bills for mcmansions are another story, but that's unrelated to the criticism.)

If you want examples of architecture like this, try reddit.com/r/evilbuildings