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by cgrubb 5y ago
Logged in to say this. Market share is a confusing stat when customers don't exclusively use one service. Netflix is still adding subscriptions at a good rate. https://www.businessofapps.com/data/netflix-statistics
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by cgrubb 7y ago
tmux attach
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by cgrubb 8y ago
> It was used so extensively that it was the language of courts and newspapers in the Pacific Northwest from about 1800 to 1905. This makes it sound like all the newspapers were in Chinook Jargon. But the only such paper I've been a
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by cgrubb 9y ago
Saturation or oversupply seem possible. Number of bachelors degrees awarded in 2015 was 14% higher than in 2010, but US population increased only 3% during this time. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/ta
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by cgrubb 9y ago
The Rock Warrior's Way: https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Warriors-Way-Training-Climbers/d... Nominally about rock climbing, but really a study of the ego, why we invest so much effort in protecting it, and how little w
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by cgrubb 9y ago
The Thomas Watson quote (only a market for 5 computers) is a bit of an urban legend: http://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-wo...
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by cgrubb 10y ago
I think this is a good youtube video for someone starting from zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA An issue is how to enter the symbols. The way I do it is I created some input methods for Mac and Windows whic
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by cgrubb 10y ago
I upgraded from 2 to 3 last year. I'm liking it. I've embraced type hints. Although they have no run-time effect, there is a command line tool called mypy which enforces correctness. It has caught more than a few errors for me. De
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by cgrubb 10y ago
A light rail system over Sepulveda Pass would probably require drilling a tunnel. Early estimates are at least $6B: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sepulveda-pass-t... . It could get built, but I don&#x
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by cgrubb 10y ago
There is precedent for charging $2 tolls in CA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_73
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by cgrubb 10y ago
Vehicle capacity on the northbound 405 has increased from 10,000 vehicles per hour to 11,700 vehicles per hour at peak times. http://thesource.metro.net/2015/05/28/study-finds-traffic-on... So
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by cgrubb 10y ago
Releasing all drug offenders (both federal and state) would reduce the US prison population 14%: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-...
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by cgrubb 10y ago
> Is that even statistically significant? Not if your significance level is the customary 5%: > 1 - pbinom(2, 7, 1/7) [1] 0.06522914 The astronauts carried dosimeters, and all got rad doses below what some DOE employ
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by cgrubb 10y ago
jq is a command line tool and also a language for expressing transformations on JSON with concise one-liners. It is useful for processing the output of mongoexport or an elasticsearch query. The basic constructs are "filter expression
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by cgrubb 10y ago
My downloads: - ac-005: Analytic Combinatorics - aofa-006: Analysis of Algorithms - neuralnets-2012-001: Neural Networks for Machine Learning - nlp: Natural Language Processing
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by cgrubb 10y ago
Yep. In LA Large empty lots are hard to come by. A 6k square ft lot might be 100k for an undesirable location in an undesirable nbhd, but 400k is probably typical. Not sure how much cost "zoning and permitting" really adds on to
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by cgrubb 11y ago
The Venezuela wikipedia page makes it sounds as if the Bolivarian Revolution is a repeat of history: The election of Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1973 coincided with the 1973 oil crisis, in which Venezuela's income exploded as
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by cgrubb 11y ago
Space elevator shadow wouldn't look like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra,_penumbra_and_antumbra
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by cgrubb 11y ago
> You always "encode" something into bytes, and "decode" bytes back into something. There should be exactly two functions, because the functions have different types: "encode" is str -> bytes, "decod
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by cgrubb 11y ago
The paper uses results from "Grandes valeurs de la fonction somme des diviseurs et hypothèse de Riemann" by Robin, which is not available online, as far as I can tell.
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by cgrubb 11y ago
That number is the result of the massive, largely volunteer effort led by HUD to count the homeless that is done every January. There are other numbers, but they tend to involve a lot more guesstimating and a lot less data.
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by cgrubb 11y ago
Some more numbers: US 578,424 318.9M 0.18% LA County 44,359 10.02M 0.44% LA City 25,686 3.88M 0.66% https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2014-AHAR-P.
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by cgrubb 11y ago
I'm thinking the energy to boil the amount of water which falls naturally on California is about 500 times what the electrical grid currently delivers (300,000 Gwh). Estimating avg rain fall over the state at 15 in = 38.1 cm, so 1.62
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by cgrubb 11y ago
You source appears to be for federal prisons only. Those numbers only add up to about 200k inmates. Most people are imprisoned by the state or county.
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by cgrubb 11y ago
prison population by type of crime (2012): violent: 47.7% property: 17.1% drug: 20.5% public order: 13.8% "public order" includes drunk driving, weapons possession, and prostitution. Source http://
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by cgrubb 12y ago
Thanks for the note. I didn't interpret it as an attempt to take credit. No offense taken.
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by cgrubb 12y ago
I like Houston but I have only visited. If I were to live there, I would live inside the 610 loop, which has reasonable density. It is still a driving city, though. The closest thing to a walking city are the underground tunnels downtown.
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by cgrubb 12y ago
7mph is a speed a lot of people can't run. Those are 8 1/2 minute miles. It corresponds to a speed of 26min for a 5k. This article http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4612823 has some sta
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by cgrubb 12y ago
also make, which is stuck at 3.81 (2006) sort appears to be (2005), and doesn't have the -R flag for shuffling also missing: head -n -NUM (all but last NUM lines) and tail -n +NUM (all but the first NUM lines)
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by cgrubb 12y ago
The Sympy guys have a good comparison: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/SymPy-vs.-Sage

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