ilya_m

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Puns and allusions to The Beatles in titles of scientific papers(science.org)
3 points by ilya_m 6d ago|0 comments
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by ilya_m 23d ago
> Which would explain why current treatments don't really work ... [they] at best slow the rate of decline This is called working! I am struck by the double-standard applied to assessing treatment options for Alzheimer's vs can
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Breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging via a laser phase plate(biohub.org)
2 points by ilya_m 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ilya_m 3mo ago
The Science article here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh0665
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by ilya_m 4mo ago
It's not the simulator, it's the simulator-assisted researcher who refuted the theorem ;-) The paper is here: https://zenodo.org/records/20189708 I venture a wild guess that the somewhat implausible "Yar
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by ilya_m 5mo ago
Your definition of an expat matches undocumented immigrants from Latin America to the US perfectly, and yet somehow the word is never used in that context.
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by ilya_m 5mo ago
How come a person living abroad is an expat only if they are white and an immigrant if they are not? I would expect better from the NYT... How about "undocumented Mexican expats" for a change?
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by ilya_m 7mo ago
Click-bait alert! It's not "federal data breach" (it's UnitedHealth, not gov't), and it happened 2 years ago. This fits the pattern of other "news" articles from the same site, see https://morni
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by ilya_m 9mo ago
A fine for faking a license plate, may be? ÁÀÂÀÄ are not in the Danish alphabet.
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by ilya_m 1y ago
I am sure if she could pull the wool of JP Morgan's eyes, she could convince Scientist-1 that it was legit. "I want to expense it under Marketing not R&D, which would let us pay you more. My CPA's eyes glaze over, can you
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by ilya_m 1y ago
No, not for international students. Stanford (I haven't checked others) is very explicit about having a limited number of scholarship for international students: https://financialaid.stanford.edu/undergrad/how&#x2F
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by ilya_m 1y ago
> I wish I'd put $1,000 into bitcoins then; I'd be a billionaire. I thought bitcoin was a Ponzi scheme. These are not mutually exclusive statements. Actually, this is how Ponzi schemes work ; -) (Somehow I never connected Bayer
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by ilya_m 1y ago
Do I think it's the best use of taxpayers' dollars (ie, mine) to screen for objectionable content on social media? No. Do I trust the government to police opinions? No, especially when there's no accountability and appeals pr
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by ilya_m 1y ago
> in Australia where individuals are expected to fund their own retirement, I'm looking at the official statistics, and this is not what they say: The government pension is the main source of income for 47% of retirees vs superannua
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by ilya_m 1y ago
Please change the title to "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)".
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> That reads like ww2 german propaganda. What did you expect. People in moscow to starve also? "Lashings of caviar"? Give me a break. For better or worse, anecdotes of the caviar delivered by the crates to the top party officia
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by ilya_m 2y ago
It's not about front-running investments _in_ passive index funds, it's about front-running investments _by_ passive index funds, which, of course, ultimately comes out of the investors' wallets. As a practical matter, since
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by ilya_m 2y ago
_Workshop_ is definitely a verb, as in "workshopping a play". Its meaning in performance arts is different from office use, but they are not too far apart.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Easy! It won't work and it would make things worse.
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A minimax chess engine in regular expressions(nicholas.carlini.com)
557 points by ilya_m 2y ago|97 comments
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by ilya_m 2y ago
I recommend Frank McSherry's real-time log of working through AoC 2023 using a SQL dialect:: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2024... The most powerful primitive that the
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by ilya_m 2y ago
The paper is here: http://www.daemonology.net/hyperthreading-considered-harmful... As its author noted, the paper has done fine ciation- and impact-wise.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Beautiful, thanks for sharing it! I think the portfolio argument is an unnecessary detour though. There's a two-line proof by induction. 1. The payoff in the base case of (0,1) or (1,0) is 2. 2. If we are at (r,b), r >=b , have $X,
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by ilya_m 2y ago
> Oh yeah, and that anecdote you told about tectonic plates screams survivorship bias; that's the problem with anecdotes. Very good point. For every tectonic plates theory or heliocentric system or H. pylori causing ulcers there are
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by ilya_m 2y ago
The only problem with this business model is that once you factored one number, you kill your market - people will stop using pre-quantum crypto. (The obvious retort is that NSA would have harvested a ton of RSA/EC-encrypted traffic by
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Is having a stable, democratically elected government a requirement for permitting a nation to keep its heritage? What about having Starbucks on every corner - is this necessary or just optional? Greece or Egypt had their share of occupatio
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by ilya_m 2y ago
Are we in a recession? I don't think so. There was (still is) a possibility of a recession, due to elevated interest rates, but the way fiscal policy works, through Congress's appropriations, it is hopelessly lagging behind moneta
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by ilya_m 2y ago
I would add to this list Bernard Russel who won the Nobel in literature for being a public intellectual.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
It's a chapter from here: Rumelhart, D. E., McClelland, J. L., & the PDP research group. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the microstructure of cognition. Volume I. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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by ilya_m 2y ago
We are talking about different kinds of "probabilistic" proofs. Igor Pak's blog post and the root message in this thread refer to statements that are validated only probabilistically. The probabilistic method, by Erdos and ot

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