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by deisner 2y ago
As an aside, bit-player.org is an amazing blog and resource. Recently I've been thinking about what will happen when Brian Hayes, its author, shuffles off this mortal coil. Other than relying on the Wayback Machine, what are the option
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by deisner 4y ago
Appears to be down. Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230301110743/http://h14s.p5r.o...
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by deisner 5y ago
When do you get a yellow square? I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I took a look at the code. Here's what I found: For each guess, Worldle calculates a proximity score from 0 to 100 -- higher is better. Each row is basi
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by deisner 6y ago
Anecdotal, but: I work in an engineering department at a major U.S. university. Non-citizen grad students (i.e. grad students) I personally know -- and their friends at other universities -- upon graduation decided to seek (and obtained) em
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by deisner 7y ago
For what it's worth, the price/bandwidth in Cologne isn't bad: https://www.netcologne.de/privatkunden/telefon-internet/tari... . And not surprisingly, it appears to be fiber (FTTB and HCF): https:&#
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by deisner 8y ago
My question was slightly sarcastic, but primarily sincere, in that I want to hear first-hand accounts from cancer patients in other OECD countries. Rudy Guliani said this in a campaign ad [1] when he was running for U.S. president in 2007-2
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by deisner 8y ago
"But none of these is her most gnawing, ever present concern. That would be the convoluted medical bills that fill multiple binders, depleted savings accounts that destroy early retirement plans and so, so many phone calls with insurer
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by deisner 8y ago
I also enjoy this: "Why Lie Detectors Don't Detect Lies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDMoGjKvNk -- 4.5 minutes long.
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by deisner 8y ago
"Recently they ran an ad featuring Bob Dylan which made laugh, or would have, if had made not me so angry." Wait, is Roger Schank an AI trying to convince humans that AIs are impotent and harmless? Pretty sneaky, Schank-bot.
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by deisner 8y ago
One day not too long ago I changed my Facebook News Feed settings from "Top Stories" (the default), to "Most Recent". It was eye opening -- so many friends (and "friends") whose posts I hadn't seen in mont
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How I focus (and live)(jasoncollins.blog)
2 points by deisner 8y ago|0 comments
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by deisner 8y ago
I think you meant to say "coördinate". :^) I've been a subscriber for almost two decades now. If I had to subscribe to just one magazine, The New Yorker would be it. The article I'm currently reading: https://
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by deisner 9y ago
It's pre-pay.
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by deisner 9y ago
This is a good article, with a particular focus on Sweden: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/imagining-a-ca... It's beginning to happen in the US, too. One of my favorite restaurants, Sw
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by deisner 9y ago
It's just that if security is a core priority, you'd expect to see this mentioned at least once. Based on what I read, the core priorities are speed, privacy, and convenience. Compare this to Chrome, Safari, and Edge (tagline: &qu
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by deisner 9y ago
I'd feel a little better if the words "secure" or "security" appeared at least once in the marketing material: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/whatsnew/ , https:/
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Build Brain Atlas of Fly Behavior(hhmi.org)
3 points by deisner 9y ago|0 comments
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by deisner 10y ago
More here: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-fi... "The Manchester computer had a special instruction that caused the loudspeaker—Turing called it the 'hooter'—to emit a
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by deisner 10y ago
This is the definition of chutzpah: "The [sugar] association also questioned the motives behind the new paper. “Most concerning is the growing use of headline-baiting articles to trump quality scientific research,” the organization sai
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by deisner 11y ago
It's worth comparing this account with Joshuah Bearman's reporting in Wired in May: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/ . The NYT article describes a frustrated IRS agent (Alford) who strongly
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Data Helped Me Lose 100 Pounds(newrepublic.com)
2 points by deisner 11y ago|0 comments
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by deisner 11y ago
I was taught to go element-by-element: element c_ij of the product = the linear combination a_ik*b_kj. What's presented here is the "same" but represents a higher level of abstraction, so that you think in terms of linear com
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After the Bitcoin Gold Rush(newrepublic.com)
6 points by deisner 12y ago|0 comments
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Cultures of Code [pdf](americanscientist.org)
37 points by deisner 12y ago|2 comments
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by deisner 12y ago
Something similar seems to have worked for Paul Krugman: "I have some recent experience along those lines. Yes, I’ve lost a fair bit of weight over the past two years (no special forcing event, just the approach of the big six-oh), and
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by deisner 12y ago
I bet the humanitarian work of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is his way of atoning.
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by deisner 12y ago
Another great article on the topic, from American Scientist: "The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second", available either from the magazine (behind paywall): http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature&
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by deisner 12y ago
Pied Piper needs to pivot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA
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Netflix speeds are down. But don’t blame Verizon.(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by deisner 13y ago|0 comments
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by deisner 14y ago
Zoom into "A Sunday On La Grande Jatte" at the Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-art-institute... Seurat knew a lot about dots -- but seriously, the resolution is pretty impressive.

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