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by fyp 5y ago
There's actually an entire branch of math (galois theory) that spawned from the fact that it doesn't generalize! In particular, there's no formula for polynomials of degree 5 or higher. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by fyp 5y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21720656
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by fyp 6y ago
There are a lot of similar failure modes in humans. Sometimes they're are used for good, like making drivers slow down: https://www.insider.com/optical-illusions-3d-crosswalk-drivi... But other times they cause crashes
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by fyp 6y ago
I don't know the details but I heard the original codebase was javascript but they used an automated script to convert it to coffeescript as an hack week project! That's some serious long term damage they did in that one week. Edi
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by fyp 6y ago
Another similar project by Mark Rober for darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTizZ_XcUM
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by fyp 6y ago
This is probably premature optimization, but what's the performance cost of updating a deeply nested field inside a jsonb? What about indexing it? (compared to storing in some normalized form or in other popular document stores)
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by fyp 6y ago
Uber/airbnb/lyft were considered in the same tier as facebook/google before corona. With google also slowing hiring, are the engineers laid off all going to be absorbed by facebook?
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by fyp 6y ago
I have not read it myself but the answer can probably be found in the book "The Science of Interstellar" [1] Kip Thorne, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, worked as the science advisor for Interstellar so the hollywood bs is pretty
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by fyp 6y ago
Isn't that the wrong direction for the optimization? I would assume you would want to compile adding two numbers into shifting by one, not the other way around. (I know nothing about hardware, it just intuitively seems like moving a bu
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by fyp 6y ago
Even with worst-case scenario of bias, this is still extremely good news. My worry was always with super spreaders who refuse to isolate but the data is suggesting that those spreaders will still soon achieve herd immunity among themselves.
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by fyp 6y ago
Use a profile picture that's already public and have been crawled a bajillion times. E.g. https://twitter.com/jbverschoor/photo
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by fyp 6y ago
Hmm is the argument that you can generate infinite money otherwise? I think the two directions only look superficially the same because externalities and labor isn't taken into account?
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by fyp 6y ago
One of my colleagues loathes competitive programmers and picks much harder problems for them. His grumpy rationale is that they shouldn't have it any easier just because they do interview problems as a sport. Usually the ICPC world fin
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by fyp 6y ago
Most algebraic structures are best understood by which axioms it satisfies. For example basically every subset of axioms of an abelian group is useful enough to have a name. Wiki has a really nice table: Semigroupoid Small Category Groupoid
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by fyp 6y ago
Does anyone else think NY called their peak prematurely? It seems like there's some periodicity in the data and there's always a slight two day drop every 7 days. This makes sense since many people are still working mon-fri in the
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by fyp 6y ago
An unexpected application of feistel network is for creating neural networks that are invertible! https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07088
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by fyp 6y ago
To put this in perspective, NYC is projected to run out of ventilators early next week[1]. That means if you catch it now and need ICU, there's no medical equipment to save you. Whether government mandated or not, people are gonna stay
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by fyp 6y ago
I lived on $200/month in SF (single person) and I definitely didn't "eat like an actual human being". But the problem was definitely me and not that it wasn't possible. Usually in those financial conditions you also
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Google Code Jam 2020(codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com)
4 points by fyp 6y ago|0 comments
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by fyp 6y ago
It's definitely not an unpopular opinion, especially on HN. Pre-corona I was probably a crazier privacy nut than most so I completely understand where you're coming from. But right now our privacy is not worth more than our parent
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by fyp 6y ago
Even if you focus on pure tech problems, startups seems to be failing us in the US. Other countries have scaled out thermal imaging for fever detection, face tracking for contact tracing, and have mobile apps that can warn people where a pr
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by fyp 6y ago
Your link is already a great resource, thanks for that! I didn't know Susan Fowler was a physics major at UPenn. The tl;dr; seems to be get "University Physics with Modern Physics" and go from there?
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by fyp 6y ago
In china, a lot the spread isn't from stranger to stranger but family to family: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-28/coronavir... https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=37 How do
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by fyp 6y ago
The NY governor in your video cited that 40-60% of people are going to get it (20 min mark) and the same thing was said by CA governor a couple days ago too (56%): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633570 So it seems l
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by fyp 6y ago
Side question: How do you create the "paper" texture? Or is it just an image here?
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by fyp 7y ago
Why did we give up on containment? China and South Korea have shown that it's possible. China capped out at only 100k infected for a population of 1.4 billion. Aiming to let 56% of your population get infected of which more than 3% wil
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by fyp 7y ago
Are companies really laying people off this early? It's still unclear what the exact economic impact on tech companies will be. If they are stopping interviews, I bet it's just due to the social distancing requirements. Once they
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by fyp 7y ago
It would be so useful if I got a notification if I happen to have crossed paths with a person who later turned out to be infected so I can get tested too. This will preempt so many asymptotic transmissions. Such apps are already deployed in
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by fyp 7y ago
Confinement by itself is not enough. See Donald McNeil's interview on what china is doing: https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=32
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by fyp 7y ago
If our testing infrastructure is in place to get correct counts, yes. Countries can be "graded" based on their trajectory on this graph: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#trajectories-since-th...

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