phalf

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by phalf 3y ago
I could be mixing things up here, it's been too long ago. I think this was about a directed graph, so the number of edges is actually N^2 and your walk roughly of that length.
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by phalf 3y ago
50mph on a 65mph road may be "impeding the flow of traffic". 63mph certainly isn't. I'm a bit confused regarding your insinuation of an "agenda" in my comments? I've been in enough situations where somebod
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by phalf 3y ago
A while back I interviewed with a networking company in the bay area and one of the things the interviewer asked me do was to devise an algorithm to walk the fully connected graph without visiting any edge twice if possible. Was a nice prob
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by phalf 3y ago
> Nearly every study on the topic has concluded that faster vehicles get into less accidents Citations definitely needed. Not just of the studies that perhaps support your point, but of the reviews that do a quantitative overview of that
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by phalf 3y ago
> This is largely because speed limits are too low. Research is clear. For every 5mph increase on a highway you can calculate how many people per year per mile will die more. If you want more people to die, then sure, speed limits are to
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by phalf 3y ago
> Driving below the speed limit increases the amount of drivers who need to do overtaking, Nobody "needs" to overtake or is "forced" to doing something dangerous outside safe margins. Seriously, this is blame shifting
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by phalf 3y ago
> the average reaction time of a gamer is 150ms It's rare that those gamers have a crying toddler in the backseat while being sleep deprived and the sun coming from a less than perfect angle.
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by phalf 3y ago
It's even great in the sense that a speedometer tends to make people aim for "I need to go 65 mph" instead of "I should not go above 65 mph" which a speed limit is actually intended to mean. The speed limit became a
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by phalf 3y ago
Your comment would be significantly more accessible to the general HN crowd if you explained what BI and MAU stand for.
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by phalf 3y ago
> Parking is a problem in a lot of European cities. On the flipside, the inner cities are much nicer. You have fewer of those seas of concrete just for parking. I wish it was even more so and street parking as well as open lots would jus
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by phalf 3y ago
Sorry, I don't see how my post relates to NIHism. Could you elaborate?
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by phalf 3y ago
But this is Hacker News where people who build things hang out. If you are fine with the state of the world and are not involved in advancing it, good for you, you can close this discussion. But many people around here are building the next
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by phalf 3y ago
> IMHO, you should only reach for this understanding when you realize you need it Issue is that often times people don't know that a certain tool exists, so they re-invent a 100x worse version and just hack something.
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by phalf 3y ago
Which exactly describes the problem with today's culture of people watching a 10 minute youtube clip and then thinking they are experts on the subject matter. Be it microservices, coronavirus or taxation.
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by phalf 3y ago
But that's exactly what you did! You just counted which fraction of all kids is boys. You threw away that this is about pairs of kids, about april 1 on which one of them has their birthday and is a boy, and we want to know the sex of t
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by phalf 3y ago
And what do you do with non-discrete attributes?
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by phalf 3y ago
Nice! What's really fun about this problem is that you can have very convincing arguments for 1/2 being the correct answer, and very convincing arguments for 1/3 being the correct answer. And for either you can make subtle re