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by emsal 2y ago
Doesn't this fundamentally misunderstand the Pareto principle? The 80% and 20% of causes in standard examples don't refer to portions of a sequential effort, but rather slices of competing agents/producers/customers in a
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by emsal 2y ago
I think the "repulsive attitude" I'm referring to is shouting "Just grow a thick skin!" to someone who is saying that they're suffering from abuse. In some cases, the suffering is so acute and so deep ("bu
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by emsal 2y ago
OP replied to my comment and I now see that it makes sense as an observation. The narrative I was referring to is something that I see common in discussions surrounding abuse; "there's nothing to be done about it; [people should]
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by emsal 2y ago
Perhaps I replied to the wrong comment then. Sorry for being confrontational.
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by emsal 2y ago
Unfortunately HN is no longer a place where you can assume good faith observations when something like that is said. OP's words play into toxic narratives that need to be called out for the sake of other people reading the comments. I
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by emsal 2y ago
You might be correct but it still stands that nothing is added to the discourse by just telling people to grow a thick skin. It's a repulsive attitude and I had to call that out.
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by emsal 2y ago
"hey reminder that" does make a difference, but that difference is invisible because it's exclusively in the form of incidents that did not happen. Remember that everyone reading the comment is a human too and some will be re
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by emsal 2y ago
Many public figures have social media and PR teams to help deal with stuff like this, you really expect that every individual out there should just grow a thick skin as culture is continually encouraging us to have more and more of a public
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by emsal 2y ago
Perhaps this is the obvious comment, but I really hope that something that employs technology like this can get off the ground and become a services company. The ideas about democratizing the AI inference hardware space and making it energy
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by emsal 3y ago
https://youtu.be/hph9OeKjg3w -- here's a video about this about a research effort to accomplish precisely this.
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by emsal 5y ago
I once attempted to make something like ProxySwitchy for DNS[1], but I didn't work on it long enough to get off the ground. This article made me think about it again. Is there actually a use case for that kind of thing? [1]: https:&#x
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by emsal 5y ago
This is awesome! I really wonder if GPs will see an uptick in usage in the future, I've seen a lot of interest in them lately. Also, thanks for including the source so they can be seen in the browser dev tools, don't know if that
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by emsal 5y ago
As imperfect measures as they are, statistical significance measures like the p-value are more epistemologically sound than any arbitrary rule of thumb-threshold on the size of the effect.
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by emsal 5y ago
> The fragment synthesis procedure uses a powerful, but computationally expensive, algebraic rewrite-based search algorithm to identify non-trivial compositions of blocks. The performance of the algorithm depends on the complexity of the
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by emsal 5y ago
Ideally you'd be able to accurately gauge your progress without having intense negative emotions attached to it. Certainly it shouldn't undercut a person's feeling of validity in the world. I think "feeling behind"
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by emsal 6y ago
That's true, I don't even remember the ending to Snow Crash which I read some ~6 years ago. The unraveling premise that comes about in the ~3rd quarter of the book is what stuck with me. Think it'll be the same for Cryptonomi
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by emsal 6y ago
Tangent, but Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson[1] is a good novel that touches on WWII cryptography topics really well, going decently mathematically deep into the mechanics of how they work. I'm about 75% of the way through. [1]: http
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by emsal 6y ago
For what it's worth, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, who wrote one of the books that this article draws on, has a fascinating set of lectures, free online, from his Human Behavioral Biology course at Stanford[1]. I personally haven't listene
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by emsal 6y ago
Key caveat here is that it only works on AMD cards currently.
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by emsal 6y ago
I'm definitely not as savvy - can you expound on how the decisions that Ballmer and Muglia made paved the way for Nadella's success?
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by emsal 6y ago
This kind of writing makes me upset. * It's really self-important. Not only is it selling you on a particular strategy for attaining success, it also tries to sell success in things like public speaking and doing architectural work as
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by emsal 6y ago
What's scary about Googling for specific ML questions beginning to look like googling some Windows problems? This kind of dichotomy already exists between people who interact with ML only through keras and those who use a more flexible
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by emsal 6y ago
This is really concise, thanks! Removes a lot of the mysticism that is all too present in mathematics writing for laypeople (this explanation is just as understandable).
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by emsal 6y ago
Theoretical physics is sporadically coming back into my mind again after a lot of time learning CS and Stats. I'm wondering now, is the goal of theoretical physics sort of like the goal of topological data analysis[0]? Reading about th
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by emsal 6y ago
I don't think the password managers do, for master passwords. So if you ever consider it, you can set your master password to a strong one generated here and let the pw manager generate those 30 char random strings that fill all of the
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by emsal 6y ago
There was this listing by a professor of Physics of all the topics you need to study in order in order to become a "GOOD Theoretical Physicist"[1] [1]: https://www.goodtheorist.science/
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by emsal 6y ago
I think there's room for both self-directed aggregation (à la reader sites) as well as the centralized aggregator model. It's quite shackling to never have any control over the content that you're about to consume, and being
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by emsal 6y ago
I'm no expert but I think that the async-await pattern is quite similar to CPS.
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Show HN: A Bag of Resistors(emsal1863.github.io)
4 points by emsal 6y ago|1 comments
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We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing(rachelbythebay.com)
402 points by emsal 7y ago|302 comments

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