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by jsweojtj 5mo ago
I want to know what was the first and last question asked of Jeeves.
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
I've recommended this exact talk many times! It's excellent.
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
I've used it to convert 40 page pdfs into text, and it did an impressive job.
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
Related (but not identical), Facebook research just released an open source pdf -> markdown reader (that does a good job w/ equations in latex). https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
I loved seeing his technique. This is a 2 min video of him cutting up a raw chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDsNRXPKE8 . He's going slow because he's explaining, but it's so smooth he's still fas
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
Can you expand a bit more about what you mean when you say you're a competitive typist? are these in person tournaments?
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
Sure, I think the depth of thinking or problem solving is clearly important. But, I don't think your claim is in tension with the article's claim that being able to type fast lowers a barrier (or provides a benefit) that's mo
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
I completely agree with this. I've been working on my own 30 day challenge to boost my typing speed, and the reason is similar to what's stated in this article: it's about latency, it's not the seconds saved. It's m
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
It looks like it renewed automatically on the 17th every month, and then... it was reactivated on the 20th? I think this lends credibility to the idea that someone on the account tried to watch something 3 days after the subscription ended,
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by jsweojtj 3y ago
Very nice! I've been a fan of your other data viz gallery work w/ python especially. I love how clearly you explain how to build up these results as well.
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by jsweojtj 4y ago
Which part of the horizon of the ocean was lower than another? I'm asking if looking East would be higher than South?
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Discovering Creative Insights in Promotional Artwork(netflixtechblog.com)
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by jsweojtj 4y ago
You state in the top level comment that this claim stains the article: "Stating that git breaks Jupyter notebooks is quite a flex." But you are saying here: "If you leave git diffs in your files, whether Jupyter notebooks or
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by jsweojtj 4y ago
There could be a time advantage, where the probability weighted expected benefits of starting N years ahead of time is much larger than the sum spent preparing. You could think of it as purchasing an option, which businesses definitely do.
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by jsweojtj 4y ago
Can confirm. Prof. Kim Griest at UCSD named MACHOs (deliberately contrasting WIMPs).
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by jsweojtj 5y ago
PI is Principal Investigator (think professor in charge of a research group) and R1 is the rating (top tier) research university. See a list here, https://www.brandeis.edu/diversity/dei-recruitment-hiring/ou...
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by jsweojtj 5y ago
I'm jumping into this thread, but I think I see how you're talking past each other. Here's my read of the situation. Take an idea like Newton's Law of Gravity, and let's separate the words that Newton wrote, and the
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by jsweojtj 5y ago
The ensemble average is the expected value, and the expected value is positive. For a bet of $X, the expected value is: (1.5 * X) * 0.5 + (0.6 * X) * 0.5 => 1.05 * X. The ensemble average per round is positive (1.05) and over multiple ro
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by jsweojtj 5y ago
> This bet either has a positive EV or a negative one and if it’s positive it’s going to tend to infinity when repeated. This is wrong. The bet as described has a positive EV and the time average for a single player tends to zero as the
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by jsweojtj 5y ago
Note: the link in the post to the pdf doesn't work.
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by jsweojtj 6y ago
I can't seem to read this in any other way than you are asking something like "why is it harder to find one hundred $100 million opportunities than one?" Finding one such opportunity is hard, finding two is harder because you
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by jsweojtj 6y ago
I wonder if some hedge funds looking to short their next target might do a cost benefit analysis of how much a hit to Intuit's stock price might occur for $X spent in lobbying for widespread free tax return prep.
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by jsweojtj 6y ago
What is a dollar worth besides what it can purchase? Put another way, if the number of dollars is constant in your account between today and tomorrow, but you can purchase less with it, you've lost wealth.
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by jsweojtj 6y ago
Lose weight, loose pants.
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by jsweojtj 6y ago
Your post in https://fromtoschool.com/why-most-programming-tutorials-are-... has links at the bottom to books and courses -- both point to https://fromtoschool.com/courses which gives me: page not found.
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by jsweojtj 7y ago
I understand. There is a distribution of leading digits that looks like: d P(d) 1 30.1% 2 17.6% 3 12.5% 4 9.7% 5 7.9% 6 6.7% 7 5.8% 8 5.1% 9 4.6%
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by jsweojtj 7y ago
This is exactly the question I was going to ask. I wrote: > The leading digits of a uniform distribution does not follow Benford's law. And @EGreg wrote: > I’m sorry to tell you this, but you inadvertently misled people with th
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by jsweojtj 7y ago
The leading digits of a uniform distribution does not follow Benford's law. Look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340018 from elsewhere in this thread or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by jsweojtj 7y ago
One of the key assumptions that's being made, throughout this thread, is that astronomy is mostly imaging. Taking or stacking images. A ton of astronomy is spectroscopy, which is nothing like a stack of static images with one that has
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by jsweojtj 7y ago
Hey you're back! I asked you previously "That might work for imaging, but what's your fix for spectroscopy?" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577081 You replied "Optical, RF, or Xray?&qu

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