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I agree -> even if someone spends their time "rediscovering" an existing solution, I think that the learning experience of coming up with a solution without starting from current best solution is really valuable. Maybe that person doesn't reach the local maximum on that project, but having a really good learning experience maybe enables them to reach a global maximum on one of their next projects.

If I want some novel ideas from a group of people, I'm going to give them the framework of the problem, split them into groups so that they don't bias each other, and say: go figure it out.

All kinds of people from all kinds of places read HN, so maybe better to use more general language - referring to “Chinese shipbuilding capacity is over 230 times greater than _ours_”

I like to rent/buy eBooks for the first-time read, and if I like the book, buy the physical version.

Few things are more satisfying to me being able to hand a book off of my shelf to a friend when I think that they would like it, and having them report back they read and liked the book.

I mean, I love pringles

Are you able to / have you tried turning off the video view of yourself? I do this on some calls and it helps a lot.

Well said. I like to imagine some old guy holding the pink FT pages in a London cafe, peering over his reading glasses while egg drips off of his toast onto his pleated houndstooth trousers.

Well I’ll be damned if it didn’t make my day to read somebody talking so honestly about their life. Thanks for the being relatable, and for putting yourself out there.

It’s always refreshing for me to hear share what they did _not_ know, especially when it’s seems like “something obvious” that they absolutely “should” have known. Thanks for being honest and open - I can personally really relate to this anecdote, and also in the context of biology, genetics, etc.

Thank you for this - I had the same experience with Strang’s book/style when I tried to learn linear algebra, maybe I’ll pick up Lay & McDonald!

Nature Communications paper link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53373-4

GitHub link: https://github.com/Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD

8.7k hours in an entire year.

So if you assume 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours working, and 8 hours of free-time per day, this means spending virtually every waking, non-working hour playing Battlezone 98 Redux for 3 years. Wow.

Could also be the "iesus Christus" cockroach.

What an informative comment, thank you

wow, cool

What is math notes?

This is such a well-written and informative article. Wow.

I’m sorry you are in a workplace where this level of creativity is required to simply take a nap.

To ignore _all_ clinical studies because “nothing useful comes out of them” seems extreme. Yes, there are poorly run studies, and conclusions can be inappropriately drawn from studies (ex: when a study wasn’t meant to answer certain questions).

However, well-run randomized control trials (RCTs) in medicine absolutely exist and can be a very strong form of evidence when interpreted correctly. This is especially true in comparison to other disciplines (economics, etc.) where such RCT trials are impossible and researchers wish that they a research tool as valuable as an RCT.

this is so inspiring. thanks for posting.

I’m 100% in agreement that there is a massive reproducibility crisis in science and that the publish-or-perish model is broken.

But, for completeness, paper retractions can happen for many reasons, not all of them nefarious, though it could be that most retractions are from authors trying to game the system and getting called out. For example, if the terms of using a certain data set change, you could be required to retract your paper and remove that data from the analysis.

One of the comments in the article says “The times I've visited Munich, the thing that stood out the most was seeing regular-ass working folks in business attire, dresses, whatever, riding every kind of bike you can think of- mostly old, well maintained steel” this has been my experience in various German cities, seeing guys going to work on a construction site riding a bike.

This post is an “Ask HN” about trying weight loss drugs. I don’t think a comment suggesting that people who want to lose weight have low self-discipline and are lazy is very helpful.

I wish he would wear a helmet, show the young kids that it’s okay to wear one.

"maybe go try some wasabi pea dust ice cream."

I can't recreate the error now, but going to www.moosejaw.com in the EU used to give me the error "we can't offer products in EU... We're working on it. but until then, maybe go try some wasabi pea dust ice cream." I have a screenshot, thank god.

^list of zip codes that map to more than one U.S. state

Does anyone know why they put so many reflective stickers inside of the machine? Is it to dissipate heat?

I had a similar situation in Paris with an iPhone. The Police were so helpful, knew exactly what to do, and were also very excited, but ultimately the Find My location wasn’t granular enough to find the phone. In an urban environment like Paris with big apartment buildings directly adjacent to each other, I think Find My is difficult. I’d have to be lucky and catch the phone during transit from one place to another, I think.

Edit: being able to use my iPad with Find My was an amazing experience, it’s almost worth having one just for that situation, where I didn’t have to bumble around with 2FA and logging in from my laptop, which isn’t Apple. I could also erase my stolen phone remotely, which gave me so much peace of mind.

incredibly interesting, thank you

You seem very knowledgeable about this… do you have any resources that you could point me to, or a Steuerberater that you would recommend?

similar experience here. I wrote a Masters dissertation and the feedback was effectively “why are you introducing and explaining any of these basic concepts, the audience is expert researchers who know this stuff already.” I wanted to be able to give it to a curious friend who isn’t an expert but has enough background that with some help they could understand what the dissertation project was doing.