justjonathan

My JS is terrible, and I find it’s really hard to make even simple tweaks to complex JS built pages. I really miss platypus (a wysiwig editor that generated user scripts from edits). I’ve searched and searched but there seems to me no functional equivalent today.

I’d love an easy way to run a regex on some particular part of a page.

Sorry to be pedantic, but the perpetual is a swap not a future.

Having removed ~10,000 bees from my attic, I was surprised to learn, that they fit in a 2 gallon container. 20,000 seems like “a lot” but mass and volume, it’s really not much.

Dance like no one‘s watching, or staging a coup.

I suspect lot's of folks here already read Matt Levine's Money Stuff col everyday, but if you don't, it is highly educational and genuinely funny (and free via email).

> People don't automatically adopt new better things. I don't know why though.

I consulted for Motorola many years ago. I remember one of the Sr guys explaining to me their product view. New things needed to be 10x better than existing in order for MOT to be excited or want to invest in a new product, otherwise the switching cost / effort made it too risky that people wouldn’t bother to adopt a new thing.

>WARNING: AMATEUR AND PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES LICENSEES AND OPERATORS MAY NOT USE RADIO EQUIPMENT TO COMMIT OR FACILITATE CRIMINAL ACTS

But if one licenses spectrum, then it is not an offense, in its own right, to facilitate criminal acts? (Though the acts themselves of course still are...)

I went to see him give a guest lecture at a university, a few years ago. It was a great disappointment. It was a terrible lecture. I’m not sure anybody who attended got anything out of it other than being close to the “great man“.

From: kaggle.com/c/jane-street-market-prediction/overview/code-requirements

"Freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models"

A former ecologist seeks to apply mathematical rigor to the study of human history.

Here is the academic paper: https://osf.io/7ahqn/download

I learned about this from the excellent BBC Radio series a brief history of mathematics with Marcus Du Sautoy. Here is the relevant episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00stcgv

I wholehearted endorse 3B1B, The linear algebra series is excellent, the rest of his work is too!

The reason it fell?https://xkcd.com/904/

Maybe it is copyright infringement, maybe it’s fair use. Either way it is unsurprising. When I got the physical paper it was easy to share it with a coworker (I just handed him the newspaper) or I taped it up in the office kitchen to show everyone, or I clipped an article and sent it to a friend (you know in an envelope with a stamp,) If it was time sensitive I could call someone and tell the to buy today’s paper... They didn’t have to subscribe to read one day’s paper, much less a single article. *For the record, I’m a paid WSJ subscriber.

Mods: Maybe merge this with the other go post: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/31/21408861/fbi-doorbell-cam...

TLDR: LE is worried about about ring doorbells recording them.

Warning from internal police bulletin: IOT Cameras... “If used during the execution of a search... LE personnel could have their images captured, thereby presenting a risk to their present and future safety.”

I was under the impression that LE did not have any right to privacy while engaged in official activities, furthermore it’s unclear what reasonable basis LE might have that images of them engaging in official business would represent a risk to their safety. Sorry, but part of being a member of LE is that you may be recorded while doing your job.

This is an explanation (from the amazing three blue one brown) of the DFT not the DCT, but this was the first thing that ever really made sense to me. It is explained by someone who really knows math incredibly well and is an amazing teacher, with amazing visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

You could not create a new Twitter account with out a phone number last week. (Attempting from US). It rejected my disposal number as invalid too. :(

His autobiography, A Man for All Markets, is terrific. It has wonderful stories of his childhood chemistry pranks, his blackjack adventures, his work with Claude Shannon on a wearable computer for beating roulette, and his quant trading (which included discovering Black Scholes option pricing model, but just using it to price option, not publishing as well as stat arb.

Talking about production costs of drugs, as an input to price, is as relevant as discussing download cost as input to software prices (or any digital media prices).

One of my favorite examples is Garkov, the auto generation of Garfield strips using Markov chains.

http://joshmillard.com/garkov/

I remember in the 90s when I was first exposed to Richard Stallman’s ideology of only using free software. At the time, It seemed crazy not to use free (as in beer) software, but of course he was right in so many ways.

We now live in a world where most people’s primary computing devices are made by only 2 companies. One of them has complete control over what the device owner can run, and the other has effective/de facto control over what the device owner can run.

Say what you will about zealots, but they are looking out for problems before they become problems...

This brings to mind my favorite affinity on of (small p) political speech. Political speech is about saying something based on the reaction you want rather than what is true. When I first heard things framed this way political, speech struck me as dishonest and manipulative. It certainly can be that, but with the distance of perspective I see that it can provide listeners with the truth in a way that they can react in positively. How’s my new haircut? Honest, clear, direct: pretty bad, among the bottom 5% of haircuts you’ve had. Political (deceptive, manipulative):Great! Political (honest but motivating positive action): I don’t think it is as good as your last one.

+1 for Giordano's deep dish.

While interest may not be charged, the payment remain the same.

From:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/politics/trumps-corona...

WHAT MR. TRUMP SAID “To help our students and their families, I have waived interest that all student loans held by federal government agencies, and that will be until further notice.”

This needs context. Interest rates will be temporarily waived for borrowers, but their monthly payments will not actually decrease, according to a Department of Education spokeswoman. Instead, borrowers’ full payments will go toward the principal on their loans.

I came to recommend the same thing. It’s a fun read and filled with lots of great science history.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Disappearing_Spoon....

I’d taken calc and linear algebra in college but I retained little and had not used either in 15+ years.

I took this class 3-4 years ago and got a lot out of it.

I also highly recommend Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Strogatz

It is embarrassing, but I only know how to write HTML like it’s 1999. The last new thing I learned was an iframe, the kids tell me CSS something I should learn...

This looks kind of interesting. Has anybody played it enough to have feedback whether it would be good for a bright 10-year-old?

"I am much less interested in investing around bitcoin as a currency unit or a currency equivalent, or even the blockchain as an accounting ledger. I am thinking much more about the protocols. In other words, what is the underlying protocol going to do as a consequence of which, which tokens are valuable or not," Hutchins said.

What nonsense.