areyousure

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by areyousure 6mo ago
The paper explicitly states that n is greater than 2, but the issue is whether a,b,c can be 0.
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by areyousure 9mo ago
I have wanted one general application of this idea in a spreadsheet. Specifically, I track some of my running, including speed (pace), distance, and time. Under different circumstances, I have exactly two of the three available and I want
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by areyousure 10mo ago
Vlad Tenev tweeted about it here: https://x.com/vladtenev/status/1994922827208663383
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by areyousure 10mo ago
In case anyone is curious, there is a discussion of AI in Section 5 (page 8 of the PDF). This direct link might work: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.14653#page=8
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by areyousure 10mo ago
> The real question is why they’re paying $100K per truck > The test equipment can’t possibly cost more than $100K. That leaves $26.9M of “you’re doing something obviously wrong”. It seems clear from the original text ("It costs
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by areyousure 1y ago
> Ask four mathematicians whether something is a Commutative Ring or not and they'll all agree. Amusingly, there are at least 3 different definitions of commutative ring. The principal issue is whether it must have a 1 (unity, ie a
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by areyousure 2y ago
Suppose we designate a unit line segment, and from that we pick out a line segment of (what we now call) length 2 and separately a rectangle of area 3. To "an ancient" (like Aristotle), does it make sense to add the length and th
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by areyousure 2y ago
You are correct that the Memorandum is rather short. The promise to seek UN Security Council action is only in case Ukraine is attacked with nuclear weapons.
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by areyousure 2y ago
Sadly, firms abuse odd lot rules to give people terrible prices: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/2y01-1s13/d... In example 3, the NBBO for stock ABC is 495--500, but there is also an odd lot
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by areyousure 2y ago
My research suggests that the majority of on-exchange trades are odd lots. For stocks like SPY (those over $500 per share!), the vast majority of orders are odd lots. This article is many years old and already has data strongly in that dire
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by areyousure 2y ago
> You can't just go get 2 shares of SPY off the lits, so where dyou think those are coming from? Why can't you just get 2 shares on an exchange?
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by areyousure 2y ago
In case anyone was curious, I computed some popular margins of victory defined as (%popular vote of winner) - (%popular vote of highest other candidate). I got the following small margins of victory smaller than the 1.5% in 2024, five of wh
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by areyousure 2y ago
In case anyone was curious, the interest being paid on the national debt is of the order of $1 trillion per year, while the amount collected in taxes (federally only) is of the order of $5.5 trillion per year.
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by areyousure 2y ago
For those who didn't understand, this is a search result and its AI response: https://www.google.com/search?q=no%20soot%20in%20the%20pyram...
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by areyousure 2y ago
In case anyone was curious, Wikipedia calls the California Forestry Association a "timber industry lobbying group".
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by areyousure 2y ago
https://www.mersenne.org/primenet/ suggests 127 PFlop/s average over the last month, which would put it in the top 10 on https://top500.org/lists/top500/2024/06/ I used a rando
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by areyousure 2y ago
Do operating system accessibility controls help you distinguish the colors? For example, both Windows 10/11 and MacOS have "color filters". https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/ windows/use-color-fil
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by areyousure 2y ago
ln(5) ~ 1.6094379 is much closer, differing by about half of a percent of a percent.
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by areyousure 2y ago
Today around 9am (Eastern time), Robinhood retroactively canceled all orders filled(!) between 1:45am and 4am.
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by areyousure 2y ago
That paper does not prove that Sokoban is NP-hard. It does, however, cite an earlier paper proving the stronger result that Sokoban is PSPACE-complete: Culberson, Joseph. "Sokoban is PSPACE-complete." (1997). https://er
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by areyousure 2y ago
In case anyone was curious, the 2011 Virginia earthquake was magnitude 5.8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
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by areyousure 2y ago
> But the terminology is a bit confusing because aerodynamic lift is a byproduct of air being a compressible medium, whereas water is not. Maybe lift means something different when we're talking about water? A https://en.
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by areyousure 2y ago
The page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Saint-Denis states > Although known as the "Basilica of St Denis", the cathedral has not been granted the title of Minor Basilica by the Vatican.
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by areyousure 3y ago
Your number "3.5%" refers to US military spending as a proportion of GDP. The original number "5%" refered to NASA spending as a proportion of the federal budget. These baselines currently differ by approximately a facto
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, they are welcome to read the following UN Security Council resolution that was vetoed by both China and Russia: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N23/320/92&#x2
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by areyousure 3y ago
Because many of them work in the city, bringing in a lot of tax revenue for New York (city and state) as well as providing services to the residents.
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by areyousure 3y ago
I think one of the reasons people might be harping on you is because the "Special military operation" started on 2022 February 24, which is 652 days < 1.8 years ago. In particular, even after you add 6 weeks to it, it's s
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by areyousure 3y ago
> The wikipedia page for the shootdown incident [4] lists the time as 1349 GMT. In case anyone is curious, the Wikipedia page mention of this time is as follows: "at 13:49 UTC (49 minutes after take-off), KAL 007 reported that it ha
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by areyousure 3y ago
> Wasn't this in Iranian territorial waters. In case anyone is curious, the topic of discussion appears to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_(FFG-58)... All sources appear to indicate that
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by areyousure 3y ago
You probably meant "C" as the final one, instead of "A": https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=12+in+base+13

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