ispeters

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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   https://archive.ph/dabX9 TL;DR: modelling the stock market incorrectly with a normal distribution leads to the conclusion that the current circumstances arise once every 43 thousand years.
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   Is there an unstated connection to computational complexity here? The article focuses on the number of possibilities and basically argues that N is impractically large, but I think that means there's an implicit claim behind that that
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   I think trust is important, yes. Self awareness is, too—sometimes it's enough for the gatekeeper to stop and ask themselves if they've checked their biases. Another tool is for the metagatekeeper to periodically review the gatekee
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   A compelling post. Something it doesn't mention that I immediately wonder about is how you ensure the decision to escalate from "a quick DM" to a "full business case review" (or whatever) isn't unreasonably bia
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   I didn't know Gor very well, but I had the pleasure of interacting with him at a handful of WG21 meetings. Upon first meeting him, I was overawed by the chance to meet such a luminary in the C++ world, but he instantly put me at ease o
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   I'm working on a proposal for C++29 to extend `std::execution` by introducing a type-erased sender (P4223 https://wg21.link/p4223 ). I discovered this week, while the paper was being reviewed by SG1, that I've acci
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   by ispeters 3mo ago

   https://archive.ph/d4mT2