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by ianbooker 21d ago
PageRank is fascinating, since it is so easy to explain. Yet, this is not even half the work. It like a third of the way. Before you could have invented PageRank, you must think in graphs. That is possible in 1996, but not as widespread as
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by ianbooker 2mo ago
> Since John Hammond "spared no expense", it is fair to say he picked 1GiB version at $3,598 a piece. That would give them 7 GiB of storage for a 2026 equivalent of $33,223.70. In 2026, 7 GiB of HDD would cost $0.49. Did anyone
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by ianbooker 2mo ago
I use USB to teach students about European Union regulatory policies, because this is one obvious standard they all can connect to. (Pun intended). Throughout the years they were cautious when it was introduced, thankful after it was establ
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by ianbooker 2mo ago
> This couldn't have happened 10 years ago. I agree. Something similar could have happened 30 years ago, and it did, see Transport Tycoon (or a lot of early games). But from 2000 to 2020?
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by ianbooker 3mo ago
I see "AI and R" in three perspectives: First, usage: Using R for our undergrads in time of LLMs is brilliant. ChatGPT slops out working code for their needs. Not pretty but works better that in 2022. Second, development: Masterin
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by ianbooker 3mo ago
Things lost to time: The Minolta Dimage A1 had contacts for detecting when gripped, so it could ready itself without any button pressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minolta_Dimage_A1 (You see it in the pic, but its n
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by ianbooker 4mo ago
Confounders are included and therefore controlled for, and causality can be assumed since the DV is an event/hazard. This is also the reason you end up with the seemingly high average...
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by ianbooker 5mo ago
Why is Nvidia so central to LLMs? Because they embraced ML a decade ago. Apple did as well, machine learning is central to so many things in the iPhone. Its not so surprising then, that a strong showing in ML sets you up good for LLMs..
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by ianbooker 8mo ago
Its been years since I felt urged to congratulate someone for their "webdesign", but this is really good. No boring glossy landing picture, but a distinct claim, and the the before / whoisit / after Element is unique, in
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by ianbooker 9mo ago
Kidnapper is likely not Deutsche Bahn but a regional subsidairy. This is an effect of privatization gone wrong, with the national service, the infrastructure, the regional services (each), the network (not in infra), cargo and then some (su
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by ianbooker 9mo ago
The reverse is kind of true: In the beginning, SVGs were not really an option since it lacked adoption across all major browsers, or more specifically its integration was very heterogenous. So a SVG you authored 20 years ago for some browse
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by ianbooker 1y ago
Solar sun roofs for ICEs were a thing 20 years ago. Solar was able to ventilate your car on sunny days.
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by ianbooker 1y ago
Not so sure if Google "still controls 90 of web search" and if this means what it meant three years ago. Many prompts could have been a web search. The metric of interest must evolve here.
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by ianbooker 1y ago
The article states that the purpose of this is "lost to time". I can image that by now its function is equivalent to a "brown M&M clause".
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by ianbooker 2y ago
Zoom is a thing in Germany.
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by ianbooker 2y ago
The early version of Google Play Music asked for your MP3s, so you could have them in the cloud for streaming. I guess they did this for a baseline of data and music and now I wonder if this was an elaborate hack to circumvent legal implica
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by ianbooker 2y ago
How is the photo quality? I love the pictures from the old 12MP sensor + Googles software, but I understand this is not in Lineage?
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by ianbooker 2y ago
https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_ebb0df1b-4db3-4b3c-ad... Is this a Nokia Watch or rather a Nokia Cuff?
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by ianbooker 2y ago
Most sports would profit from a deeper understanding and application of statistical inference. Or even of descriptive statistics. The fun lays in the operationalization, a step most applications of AI will likely omit, since AI will work o
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by ianbooker 2y ago
Great work, it really captures the feeling of Marble Madness. Its maybe to deep of a thought, but I really fancy the spin of the marble, something that the original was not conveying as fancy as your version does.
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by ianbooker 2y ago
There is also a German word "Frankfurt bath", when you place the shower in the kitchen, with some of these arangements still present in flats today.
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by ianbooker 2y ago
My first job was to write news to teletext for German public broadcast. It required the author to compact even complex news into essentially two old tweets (I think around 300 characters) and deliver some context. Very good training!
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by ianbooker 2y ago
There are many concepts called stepwise regression, its so weird that statistics, as a field, are so bad in delineating concepts. I teach my students what you see in most social science papers, and in the light of the article at hand, I wou
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by ianbooker 2y ago
This is exactly the Volvo / Polestar philosophy. There is a Decoder podcast with their CEO about just this sentiment.
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by ianbooker 2y ago
VW has Chinese joint ventures since decades. They already sell their "jv-EVs" in China, just not in Europe. I think in that regard, they are undecided wheter these products will meet brand standards in Germany. VW as a brand went
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by ianbooker 2y ago
Read the abstract and then imagine someone or somebot would study your medical condition in similar depth. This is myutopia.
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by ianbooker 2y ago
This is a expertly crafted narrative of presumably complicated research.
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by ianbooker 3y ago
I had tinnitus as a post stress reaction after my thesis. Its well known in my family and so I was extremly woried. I got a shake of different supplements, just to rule this out, did not help. After a week I accepted this as permanent and a
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by ianbooker 3y ago
I just realized that the standard time watch face feels like it will follow the sun rising from left to set on the right side. But since the sun is rising in the east, it should be horizontally reversed. Or you should always look to the sou
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by ianbooker 3y ago
There was a time when it was clear to everyone that MiniDisc failed, but when alternative technology had not caught up for some of the applications. We hunted portable MiniDisc recorders on EBay for our student radio station, since some Son

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