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by milanhbs 2mo ago
For people interested in the related math, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos" by Steven Strogatz is a great book! Pdfs abound online.
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by milanhbs 2mo ago
You might want to maximize owner occupancy because you care about the poor homes who don't have local owners - as an owner living in the home might be better incentivized to take care of it and provide decent living conditions, for exa
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by milanhbs 8mo ago
A good general rule is to make it hard for people to do bad things, and to not create incentives to do so. This seems to do the opposite.
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Dijkstra: The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994)(cs.utexas.edu)
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by milanhbs 1y ago
Isn’t homeowners insurance subsidised in the US in some places, especially in high risk areas? I can‘t find good resources on this - is there a logic behind this beyond pleasing the people that have vested interests in those areas (like own
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by milanhbs 1y ago
I agree, I've found it very useful for search tasks that involve putting a few pieces together. For example, I was looking for the floor plan of an apartment building I was considering moving to in a country I'm not that familiar
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by milanhbs 2y ago
Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.
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by milanhbs 2y ago
Are we going full circle from TV to streaming back to TV? Probably not, but I do really enjoy the discovery aspect as well as reducing the overwhelming options of streaming down to a few channels. This has a super smooth feel and throws you
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by milanhbs 2y ago
How has the LMB changed?
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by milanhbs 3y ago
Your driveway drains to a nearby body of water, most likely, while your bathroom trains into sewage which is treated.
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by milanhbs 3y ago
In both of your examples I could see the model becoming the default, with humans double-checking, if even that. If things go wrong as you describe, humans are pulled into the loop by the humans wronged (unless they give up before). There is
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by milanhbs 3y ago
I live in Basel, Switzerland, where it is common sport to jump into the river Rhine on a hot day, and float right through historic downtown. It’s a marvellous thing, even just to watch. Really adds to quality of life! Edit: Missed the other