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doovd··on 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower
Same here dude. Was sad when it turned out NOT to be the yellow flower!
doovd··on A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
Can't tell if this is sarcasm but this is, on balance of probabilities, not true.
doovd··on India proposes law to ban cryptocurrencies, create official digital currency
Ye idk what the guy above you was trying to say TBH
doovd··on London will be overwhelmed by Covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS briefing
You will tolerate deaths until it becomes a loved one or yourself. At that point you'll realise that all you need to do is stop being an idiot and understand that with some restrictions we can significantly reduce deaths and at some point in the near future resume "free life".

"It's crazy" how much people are willing to risk just because they can't be patient.

doovd··on Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
Can't beleive they actually had "PIN IDENTIFICATION NUMBER" written on the display in the movie itself
doovd··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
Very interesting, thank you!
doovd··on Pentagon Puts F-35 Full-Rate Production Decision on Hold
> they didn't quite trust their missiles not to launch straight up and come back down on the ship.

This sounds like some ridiculous cold war propaganda, source?

doovd··on Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned
You are right to be suspicious. This story has so many holes.
doovd··on AirPods Max
"The lower class" lol. Could you not phrase that better?
doovd··on First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
You are asking why an already infected person who receives the vaccine may still be able to spread it? The virus is still able to spread while the body fights it. In fact I'm not even sure there is a significant advantage of giving the vaccine to someone who already has the virus (as after all the vaccine teaches the body what the virus looks like and therefore how it can be tackled). This specific vaccine looks as if it simulates certain aspects of the virus, therefore not entirely necessary for someone who already has the virus I believe. But yeah - it's not like you get jabbed and you have instant immunity. Your body needs to learn to fight it, and then actually fight it - and if you already have it you are still infectious during this period.
doovd··on Imperial mathematician scoops $3M Breakthrough Prize
Nice, he can get a shed in South Kensington now. Nice and close to Imperial.
doovd··on Snowpack 2.0
Indeed, there's nothing O(1) about this and is precisely still O(n) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
doovd··on Show HN: Tracking stock trading by US Senators
Kelly Loeffler clearly does hft part-time
doovd··on The formula for pi buried in a hydrogen atom
The formula is also buried in a simple circle.
doovd··on The Light Phone
You're missing the point - having these "essentials" shouldn't cost 350
doovd··on Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
Oh yeah, 40k engineers, apologies
doovd··on Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
250,000 engineers at JPMorgan.
doovd··on Holes in T. rex's skull now thought to have regulated body temperature
More like "let's just test in Prod"
doovd··on A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics
Woooosh...
doovd··on Oil traders are watching workers’ phones to spot problems at refineries
Yes it is. Placing orders you don't intend to be executed is spoofing. From the OP: "faked a bunch of activity"
doovd··on Oil traders are watching workers’ phones to spot problems at refineries
This is called spoofing and is illegal.
doovd··on Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped
Fair enough
doovd··on Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped
This sounds like bs to me. There is a significant number of users with profile photos that don't contain a face and this is the first time I'm hearing this...
doovd··on Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012)
> This is an extremely flawed initial assumption. There is no requirement for chance to be centered around zero. Consider rolling a dice: sometimes you'll get more than the mean, sometimes less, but you'll never roll a negative number. You can certainly win on chance in the long run, that's the foundation of casinos and insurance companies. It's hard to imagine a scenario where trial and error can possibly lead to knowledge regressing.

Casinos and Insurance companies don't win on "chance". There is an expected value of the events that are in consideration here, and these firms price their services such that their return is higher than the expected value...very little down to chance. It's as if we played a die roll game where I paid you the value on the dice each time you rolled it and you paid me >3.5 units per roll to take your turn. That's the house edge.

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