malingo

"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"

No "level set"?? Booo

Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc

Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza...

I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch: https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...

> Decisions should be made by those with the best information.

Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949

Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1]

> the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy

[1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentioned, a single elevated result can be caused by many things (prostatitis, etc).

The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm

Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sure enough, binary. Good catch on the ASCII values!

git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff-tree

"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...

I had heard of this before..

>Sergey [Brin] wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor.

https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/our-favorite-part-of-...

Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff

Similar in spirit to the `until` loop.

I think it's the certain markets that determine how useful CL is--I'm also in LA. I've mainly dealt in furniture & electronics, and CL in other cities, particularly Minneapolis, was a dream, so good in fact that I didn't know FB marketplace existed until I moved to LA and had to look elsewhere after seeing how bad the CL market for used stuff was.

Reliance on the federal government, by state: https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...

I agree. The same problem (different devs with different settings) is solved by specifying line endings in per-repo .gitattributes files instead of global autocrlf settings. And we all know how much confusion that causes.

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> I refused to believe Wordle would be so evil as to have two repeated letters.

I remember VIVID which was pretty tough.

Payphones are still a thing in northeast LA. It's incredible. Most have been vandalized or destroyed but many still work. See https://www.instagram.com/payphonesoflosangeles/

Harmonization is the proper term. For a simple set of harmonization rules, check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-part_harmony Old hymnals are a wealth of examples. Take a listen to this guy's YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC6BRCej5GRFLlovfZrNswqw

Along a trail in the southwest corner of the Angeles National Forest there's a piece of T-rail stuck in the ground [1]. A closer look reveals the words "Scranton steel" and "'78" [2]. Funny to go for a hike outside Los Angeles and find a 143 year old piece of metal from PA.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/TTD2b8xqU8ZiDaS96

[2] https://photos.app.goo.gl/MWr9pCqFsMaXVYiJ6

If you're feeling listless...

Get a PSA test, and if it's elevated, get another one in a few months. If you're young you probably do not have BPH but your Dr should know to rule that out.

Other commenters have mentioned better diagnostics / better imaging / other monitoring tools. I've always wondered why not increase the frequency of PSA testing to provide a time series and reduce noise, instead of examining single PSA results in isolation? I think the normal recommended frequency 2-3 years. A PSA test is noninvasive and very cheap compared to other screening methods, so why not repeat it every 3-6 months or even monthly when there's an elevated PSA level?

A related and excellent book is The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake.

Almost 18 years later, this is still pretty funny: https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=56859&cid=5503...