johndcook

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   by johndcook 6mo ago

   Thanks. That was a mess. Don't know what happened, but I fixed it this morning.
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   by johndcook 10mo ago

   Fixed again. I missed one. :) Thanks.
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   by johndcook 10mo ago

   Thanks. Fixed.
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   A Documentary History of the Nock Combinator Calculus(urbitsystems.tech)

   2 points by johndcook 11mo ago|0 comments
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   by johndcook 1y ago

   Yes. Thanks.
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   by johndcook 1y ago

   The original post had an error. I just updated the post with a correction.
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   Do flu shots increase your risk of getting the flu?(wmbriggs.com)

   2 points by johndcook 1y ago|0 comments
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   Why US Navy ships are rusty(twitter.com)

   1 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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   Collection of NYT headlines about life on Mars(twitter.com)

   3 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel(divisbyzero.com)

    8 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    Prediction markets need dumb money as well as smart money(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

    2 points by johndcook 2y ago|1 comments
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    A one-kilometre Monster Telescope(barsoom.substack.com)

    3 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    I Love Calculator(karpathy.ai)

    2 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    A tour of the equational theories project(terrytao.wordpress.com)

    4 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    by johndcook 2y ago

    I believe the SVG file has a transparent background, but the img tag has style="background-color:white". Some browsers honor the background-color setting and show a white background behind the equations, even in dark mode. Some do
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    by johndcook 2y ago

    Thanks. Fixed.
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    by johndcook 2y ago

    Thanks. Fixed.
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    A deep dive into corporate surveillance technology(eff.org)

    3 points by johndcook 2y ago|0 comments
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    Stuck at the Mall of America for Days on End(sometimesgibbs.com)

    1 points by johndcook 2y ago|2 comments
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    Why Dune II Fails(becomingnoble.substack.com)

    4 points by johndcook 3y ago|0 comments
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    Abraham Lincoln and Confidence Intervals(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

    1 points by johndcook 3y ago|0 comments
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    Car Privacy Is Horrid(podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com)

    2 points by johndcook 3y ago|0 comments
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    AI Generated Propaganda(twitter.com)

    123 points by johndcook 3y ago|110 comments
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    New Book on Naming Things(namingthings.co)

    2 points by johndcook 4y ago|0 comments
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    Secret Patents(slate.com)

    2 points by johndcook 4y ago|0 comments
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    Simple Standard Event Logging(github.com)

    1 points by johndcook 4y ago|0 comments
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    by johndcook 4y ago

    The paper begins by citing an equation that isn't explicitly in the book referenced. I wrote up some notes filling in a few missing details. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/01/16/pi-bernoulli-num
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    Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

    93 points by johndcook 4y ago|121 comments
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    Decoding the Artemis I Orion vehicle(destevez.net)

    2 points by johndcook 4y ago|0 comments
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    by johndcook 4y ago

    The comments here are in line with what I vaguely remembered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276468