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The local version of this is: there are only two seasons in Michigan—winter and construction.

So this writer took an gorgeously-designed and adorable little machine, and haphazardly stuffed it in an old white sock as a travel case? Grody and a bit sacrilegious. At least get a sock of comparable craftsmanship, like Darn Toughs.

Not OP, but I think this is a great (and obscure?) book on neural networks: https://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/

Published in 1996, but the content is all foundational.

Levy is also a very talented (and entertaining) teacher, in my opinion.

That should be covered in the original A layered grammar of graphics paper: https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.html

And then there is an entire ggplot2 book (there are many, but this one was written by Hadley): https://ggplot2-book.org/

By comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the year 2000 was ASCI White, which did 4.9 TFLOP/s. It cost $168M in 2020 dollars, took up 12,000 sqft, weighed 106 tons, and used 3 megawatts (+ another 3MW for cooling... = 6,000,000 watts). Granted, it had 6TB of memory and 160TB storage...but with 7,000 disk drives. (https://www.top500.org/resources/top-systems/asci-white-lawr...)

The M1 Max itself is a the size of a postage stamp, 10 TFLOP/s, costs ~$200 to make, and uses ~100 watts (= a single incandescent lightbulb).

Completely bananas.

They probably meant:

explicate — to give a detailed explanation of

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explicate

It seems like a relatively newer word in its usage: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...

Fun(?) fact: Demis Hassabis (CEO of DeepMind) was the lead AI programmer for Black & White.

My experience with a Michelin star restaurant (Maydan, in DC) was “what I normally eat, but better”—much, much better. The menu items themselves were not exotic (hummus, beet purée, pickled vegetables, ribeye, chicken kabobs), but the execution and complex cascades of flavors were on a whole new level of reality. The prices/portions are generous as well (e.g. $10 for the best hummus you’ve ever tasted, $50 for a cut of ribeye that would cost $30 at Whole Foods).

Along the same lines is the McHale Packs site (legendary custom backpacking/mountaineering packs): http://www.mchalepacks.com/

The terrible irony of this post is that they use a completely wrong definition of expected value. They write down an integral...but then implement something totally different.

You cannot calculate the EV of a random variable X by taking the mean of random samples drawn from the distribution of X (e.g. try it with the Cauchy distribution—see if you get something approaching the actual EV). The only thing they accomplished is building up a very convoluted way of calculating a sample mean—which is already trivial with Numpy or just standard Python. Why do this? I’m perplexed.

This is the issue with software engineers writing scientific code—they often flagrantly misunderstand basic mathematical definitions, and then obfuscate this misunderstanding with their “pure” and “robust” code.

Sorry for the harsh criticism, but I’m tired of seeing this kind of thing.

Top comment from the post announcing HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124):

> Well its not a totally useless link submission...

Even our earliest comment ancestors had the signature HN venom.

I like the time pressure aspect, but I agree the animations should be snappier. Different TOKES for different FOLKS, I GUESS.

I’d also enjoy some form of global leaderboard of some sort (maybe a scatterplot comparing time and accuracy?), so I can assess how inferior/superior I am to others.

> Fascinating to think about cosmic events as large as two galaxies passing near/through one another.

This simulation of Andromeda doing a mating dance with the Milky Way is definitely fascinating:

https://youtu.be/fMNlt2FnHDg

You can see it spreading into Ohio (and elsewhere) in these maps from 2001 to 2019: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html

> It would be difficult to do if the person had worked themselves into a situation where they have unreasonably high debt burdens (e.g. $200K+) but no career to speak of, so it's not a magic bullet.

There is a way: income-driven repayment plans. There are several flavors, but you pay ~10% of (your_income - 1.5 x federal_poverty_wage). The poverty guideline depends on household size (info here: https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...). Most loans are eligible.

Any balance that is left after 20 years is forgiven. It’s a lot harder to default on these loans, and it’s the best way out for people with an insurmountable amount of debt. Actually, it’s probably the best repayment plan for most people, and there has been talk about making them the default plan.

However, you may have to pay taxes in the forgiven amount. There are some edge cases where you could pay more over the life of the loan if your income increases dramatically, but it’s unlikely.

More info: https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-d...

All of the planets orbit the sun on approximately the same plane (since we started as a swirling pancake of gas and dust that eventually snowballed into planets, and then you and me). It looks like this: https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/000/285/2...

If the orbital plane was a surface of water and the northern hemisphere is bobbing above the water, then up is perpendicular to the plane (away from the water, looking down on the top of Earth).

But Delta has been the only game in town for a while now (>99% of cases since late August), so this recent rise in the wastewater viral levels shouldn’t be attributable to a change in the proportion of variants (TBD on Omicron?).

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...

Maybe there is a Pareto principle (80/20 rule) effect with these side projects: for these, you get 80% of the benefit (vs. working on it full-time) with only 20% of the hours. And for the main gig, maybe it’s 90% of the benefit for 80% of the hours. So, 1.7 for the price of 1? Sounds like free utils to me.

Plus: positive effects on employee morale/retention, skill and network building, (pseudo?) R+D / asset development, etc.

Disclosure: I’m far too dumb to work at Google. Discount accordingly.

Hmmm, a damp sea-sponge-on-a-stick doesn’t sound so bad...

> “Worse, the tersoria were probably reused and shared by all fellow butt-wipers who came and went throughout the day.”

Ok, I’m logging out for the day.

Before I go, here’s a list of sane alternatives in case any of you find yourselves in ancient Rome by accident (snow and lamb’s ears are the Rolls Royce of natural TP, but pinecones and rocks work quite well in a pinch): http://ultralightbackpackintips.blogspot.com/2012/09/liberat...

This is completely wrong—being vaccinated does reduce your likelihood of getting infected (and thus reduces likelihood of infecting others).

> In September, unvaccinated persons had a 5.8X risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a 14X risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to vaccinated persons.

Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...

It’s a reference to a 50+ year old economics joke: https://worldin.economist.com/article/17506/edition2020dont-...

This person is prolific and has a ton of great tutorials, free books, and more in their repo (I like the numpy book: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/). Major thanks to the author for sharing all this knowledge.

I mean...what mood is red light for? When you want to feel like a reptile basking in a terrarium?

I’m on team having many light fixtures with dimmable warm light LED bulbs—adjust the mood via intensity and number of fixtures turned on (so to speak).

> ...boss expects you to work more than the standard 8 hours and not be paid for it. In many many places you're shamed by co-workers if you leave on time (leaving earlier isn't even an option), or if you need to take days off for personal reasons. It's also not unusual to make it hard for people to take vacation days (we have 21 days of vacations per year), and even when you do take vacations you are expected to be available if needed.

You were describing US work culture perfectly until the 21 days of vacation part. In the US you are legally entitled to 0 vacation days (also, 0 days for maternity leave), though 10 is more standard. Our minimum wage is about the same ($7.25), and has not changed since 2009 ($7.25 today is equivalent to ~$5.50 in 2009).

I think you may have misinterpreted this (subtle) comment. They likely meant to imply that the US lost the war (context: in the US, “Afghanistan” and “Vietnam” are essentially synonymous with the wars in those countries, sadly).

And then there are people like me, who seem to believe that if their resume spacing is off by a nanometer, then the entire world will view them as an unemployable failure.

Excellent, I love a good mystery.

I mis-remembered the Bongcloud as: 1. f3 2. e5 Kf2 (i.e. “fianchettoing” the king :D), but that is apparently called the Hammerschlag.

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess_Opening_Theory/1._f3/1...

From the article:

> Nigel Short played against a strong player on Internet Chess Club who used the opening; Short suspected his opponent of being Bobby Fischer.

> English Grandmaster Nigel Short dubbed the opening an "insult to chess".

So...I wonder how the game against Fischer (?) went.

You can get Mathematica for free on any Raspberry Pi (~$35), so that more or less renders the point about expense moot: https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

There is also a pretty nice introductory book that is aimed at students: https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd...