a_tartaruga

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by a_tartaruga 2mo ago
There are a lot of different twitter accounts that are fun to follow. @Lvision_trading on twitter is doing particularly great work counting ships. Danny Citrinowicz analysis on Iran and Carnegie Connects media for how the foreign policy e
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by a_tartaruga 2mo ago
That book is just so cool.
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by a_tartaruga 2mo ago
The recent major geopolitical shifts and their intersection with energy commodity markets. The book Virtual Barrels by Ilia Bouchouev. The details and mechanics of financial option pricing.
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Ask HN: Concerned about Hormuz?
2 points by a_tartaruga 4mo ago|1 comments
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Hormuz Strait Monitor(hormuzstraitmonitor.com)
1 points by a_tartaruga 5mo ago|0 comments
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by a_tartaruga 7mo ago
I don't disagree with everything you are saying. But you seem to be assuming that contributing to technology is a zero sum game when it concretely grows the wealth of the world. > If everyone had an oil well on their property that w
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by a_tartaruga 7mo ago
> Wouldn't it be simplest to just legalize the people who are here I recently went down this rabbit hole a bit thinking this was the obvious solution and was surprised to learn that the Reagan administration legalized all illegal im
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by a_tartaruga 8mo ago
Out of curiosity why has the LLM math solving community been focused on the Erdos problems over other open problems? Are they of a certain nature where we would expect LLMs to be especially good at solving them?
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Millennium Prize Problem Bench(mppbench.com)
2 points by a_tartaruga 8mo ago|0 comments
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by a_tartaruga 10mo ago
Pain relief is a major reason to go to a hospital. There is no safe way to get pain relief in a home birth. It is obviously a very personal choice. > if anything goes even a tiny bit sideways you just throw your hands up and expect to
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by a_tartaruga 10mo ago
The two biggest benefits are reduction of iatrogenic harm and comfort for the mother delivering. Midwives are medical professionals who have the equipment and expertise to intervene in the most common scenarios that require it.
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by a_tartaruga 10mo ago
Home birth is absolutely a rational choice in many cases. The author had a very strong reason to require hospital birth but in scenarios with lower risk it is safer in some respects to avoid the hospital. It will still cost you 5 - 10k for
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by a_tartaruga 10mo ago
Me neither. David Deutsch had some interesting thoughts on why finitists are wrong in TBOI but I never fully understood it.
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by a_tartaruga 10mo ago
> He wanted to show that every efficient local algorithm can be turned into a Lebesgue-measurable way of coloring an infinite graph To me this is quite surprising. Distributed systems were not designed to solve measure theory problems.
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
It is an expensive research project. Actually doing this starting from no experience or tools you're probably looking at 6 months - 1 year and 10k. A little support from trained biologists would help a lot though. Using DIY tools and n
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
It's a bad idea for a bunch of reasons but you could always do it yourself: https://nanoporetech.com/products/sequence/minion
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Discovering new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics(deepmind.google)
1 points by a_tartaruga 1y ago|1 comments
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
No major changes professionally other than that I have become a bit more careful about keeping my geopolitical opinions to myself. Also having some coworkers living in the Middle East makes the two recent Qatari strikes feel scarier. I ha
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
I have no idea the current status but five years ago I knew an acquaintance who was building this: https://sourcecred.io which I think is pretty close to what you're talking about.
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
TAN ETF is basically this if you think about it
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
Blockchain people consider Ligero as a modern construction worth using. At least last I checked 6 months ago. This work isn't reinventing the wheel and appears to be targeting a nice problem in service of a practical system. The autho
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
The surprising part of STARKS and SNARKS comes down to the nature of polynomials. It's surprisingly easy to tell two polynomials apart with a small number of random checks (Schwartz Zippel lemma). In light of this it's not surpri
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
This is my setup too. It's nice to keep the Claude tasks on a remote machine with no important state so there's no chance of privacy leaks or in case you accidentally allow them to rm -rf ~
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
You're probably leaving speed on the table but these tools are not hard to pick up in the future if you have good engineering fundamentals. If your career is going well and you have no need to go faster don't worry about it.
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
Basically everything is just faster and I can focus either on solving things that matter more or I can work less. I've never been a great developer but now it feels like I have the option to be one as defined circa 2020. Code base is w
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
3 weeks ago pair programming with Cursor in "Ask" mode and ignoring all agents was the most productive I could get with these tools. Since then I've noticed this triple working really well: 1. Ask mode Cursor for my main trac
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
Genetic engineering and synthetic biology. Synthesizing DNA and transforming cells. Designing better methodologies to improve efficiency, robustness, cost or scale up of common bio lab processes. Mapping out all bio lab processes used in ge
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
Don't worry you will still get to do plenty / more of the most fun thing: fixing code.
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
Came here to post this it is precisely right.
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by a_tartaruga 1y ago
I have to disagree with this strongly. Git is probably the perfect software. It is designed around a mental model that is exactly matched to its use case. Far from copy pasting experienced developers are often fluent in the git model and

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