anukulrm

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by anukulrm 2y ago
Bookmarked and will be sharing this with my friends. Separately, glad to see you, @ctbergstrom and (now Prof) Jevin West still collaborating :). You gave me the opportunity to spend a few days as an undergraduate in your lab 15yrs ago when
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by anukulrm 6y ago
A trip down memory lane for sure! I can't help but feel that a list for 2020 has to include the Macbooks with the M1 chip. Personally, the difference between my mid-2017 Macbook Pro and my M1 Macbook Air has been astronomical. The batt
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by anukulrm 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! Are there any good resources describing query planning algorithms (other than the excellent SQLite one that was shared by another comment)?
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by anukulrm 11y ago
Great, thanks! I'll check those out.
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by anukulrm 11y ago
As much as I'd like to be on the cutting edge of science/math, I (suspect most of us here) don't have the tools to understand, let alone evaluate this preprint. So before we make a tweet storm and start blowing our horns, let
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by anukulrm 11y ago
This is great! Also, check out this easter egg which makes every video rick roll haha: https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs/blob/master/stor.py#L12...
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by anukulrm 11y ago
That statement is intellectually lazy at best. It is factually correct, but it wholly misses the context of the fact. And that is the centuries of slavery, the decades of Jim Crow, and other policies that have systematically deprived opport
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by anukulrm 11y ago
Yes, only 1/5 of the prisons, but it could still be that they wield a lot more influence than that figure suggests. There aren't very many lobbying for the imprisoned, so an organized private lobby of even a small number of privat
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by anukulrm 11y ago
This. Before we can fix anything that requires a majority of the nation's participation, we need awareness and acknowledgement that racial inequality is deep rooted in the American psyche. A lot of posters even here on HN seem to think
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by anukulrm 11y ago
This wouldn't work for larger projects, but if it's a smaller project, maybe Slack[0]? It has a pretty good free-tier as well. [0]: https://slack.com/
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by anukulrm 11y ago
Flexbox has made our life much better. But we still run into a bunch of implementation bugs, meaning that it will take a few more years for the promise to become reality: https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
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by anukulrm 15y ago
It seemed to work just fine in the fifth element!
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by anukulrm 15y ago
Just curious, does anybody know of any studies that supports the OP's claims about willpower? The OP describes it as though willpower were a muscle.
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by anukulrm 16y ago
If you want to lift free weights, a great place to start is Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.
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by anukulrm 16y ago
i don't play WOW or any other MMOG. But I think that old saying that most things in moderation are good for you, seems to apply here as well. I have no concrete evidence to back this and I haven't defined 'most' or 'moderation' but I have n
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by anukulrm 16y ago
Matthew Arnold's essays are very interesting and fun to read. He is from lay 1800s but the writing is superb!
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by anukulrm 16y ago
RIP Rudin.