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by fireflies_ 7mo ago
This is where I started getting that feeling: > The curse of dimensionality is not theoretical — it’s painfully practical. In high dimensions, naive distance metrics degrade quickly. > > Scaling and normalization are not optional d
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by fireflies_ 9mo ago
Arguably XSLT
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by fireflies_ 1y ago
This is "relative color" syntax, it works with a range of color spaces/color functions. The key is the "from" at the front. Here's the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2F
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by fireflies_ 2y ago
> In one case, we ran a simple a/b test as a proof of concept on whether to pursue the idea further and it added an extra million bucks a year in revenue. I'm with the people who decided to ship this. The organization will need
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by fireflies_ 2y ago
> Not sure if there is some way to iterate given online feedback. There have been a some novels and novel-length works written a chapter at a time in public. The Martian by Andy Weir, for example is probably the most commercially success
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by fireflies_ 2y ago
> I just don't understand how they still have users. Because this post is here and not somewhere else. Strong network effects.
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by fireflies_ 3y ago
This application of "base rates thinking" was helpful for me - a bit out of left field, I'm aware of the concept and use it sometimes but wouldn't have thought to do so here. Thanks!
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by fireflies_ 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've used megaparsec a little but never looked at ReadP. Your tutorial is concise and helpful, I'd have ended up with better intuition faster if I started there.
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by fireflies_ 3y ago
It's a shame that these aren't parallel. Why couldn't it be "insular gigantism" or "island dwarfism"? (But not both!)
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by fireflies_ 5y ago
Would you be equally happy if you were sick enough to be hospitalized as you are when you're healthy? If not, that's a cost. I doubt the out-of-pocket medical costs are the most important part of this decision.
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by fireflies_ 5y ago
This doesn't address all of your comment but specifically with patient confidentiality – Israel agreed to share more data with vaccine manufacturers in order to get quicker access to the vaccines. There are obviously problems with bila
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by fireflies_ 5y ago
In some ways the argument against Excel is like the argument against Electron: if you're comparing it to an elegant, purpose-built and well-tested application, yes... it falls woefully short. But is that really the right comparison? Lo
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Hardening critical attack surfaces with formally proven message parsers(microsoft.com)
3 points by fireflies_ 5y ago|0 comments
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by fireflies_ 5y ago
You're being downvoted, but I think this sentiment is right and if you take it seriously, it's an argument for the SAT. Pretty much _everything_ in the USA is pay to win, not just the SAT, and the more subjective factors like essa
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by fireflies_ 6y ago
Yes, you can can replace that with the magic number 49 if you want, ord('1') == 49 because ord returns the unicode code point for a character. Documentation is here for the curious: https://docs.python.org/3/l
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by fireflies_ 6y ago
Sounds like this only works if people who listen to smaller bands/indie music listen to fewer songs on average. I'm not sure if this is true. People who find themselves exploring niche tastes are probably "enthusiasts" w
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by fireflies_ 6y ago
I'm a bit surprised to hear it put this way. Aren't physics students usually welcome in finance as quants?
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by fireflies_ 6y ago
A probability has to lie between 0 and 1 but not every value between 0 and 1 is a probability.
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by fireflies_ 6y ago
It has, Safford Unified School District v. Redding is probably the canonical case here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safford_Unified_School_Distric...
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The Hey Way(hey.com)
2 points by fireflies_ 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid-19 Can Last for Several Months(theatlantic.com)
6 points by fireflies_ 6y ago|1 comments
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
It isn't thrown away, though. If your district picks a third party, you send a third party representative to Congress. You'll have different choices in district-specific and state-wide races but you could also have a third party s
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
But all the prior blocks are static, that's the point. If you can break the cipher used at some time t, anything that people had "stored securely" by encrypting it and putting it on the blockchain before time t is vulnerable.
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
You probably wouldn't see it in "natural" use but it's a potential attack vector if you ever deserialize arbitrary JSON (e.g. JSON bodies in API requests). Of course you should have general limits that would catch these
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
Me too. I can't imagine trying to maintain a project written like this so I'd still consider you a member of the "clever programmer club" in good standing. Ideas like this make sense when the language gives you good supp
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
Probably a rewrite – HNers always seem to have stories about being brought in to work on companies with incomprehensible rats nests of code that are impossible to extend any further. I bet that's pretty common, more common than technic
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by fireflies_ 7y ago
Do you have any resources about this? It sounds like a fascinating story.
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The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple(corbinstreehouse.com)
263 points by fireflies_ 8y ago|88 comments
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by fireflies_ 8y ago
Your code is doing something pretty different from the examples above. You're just calculating the nth fibonacci number, not creating an infinite fibonacci _sequence_. Eliding the explicit recursive structure is the point of the exerci
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by fireflies_ 8y ago
Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex makes some good points about this effect here[1]. The problem isn't the lack of moderation per se but the dynamics of starting an unmoderated alternative to an existing service. The kinds of people tha

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