rcyeh

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by rcyeh 2mo ago
I thought the title was an homage to François Fleuret's Little Book of Deep Learning. https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html
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by rcyeh 7mo ago
Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.) OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45 nucleotides,
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by rcyeh 8mo ago
Agreed! I learned Perl after trying C; and after struggling with `scanf` (not even getting to tokenization), the ease and speed of `while (<>) { @A = split;` for text-handling made it easy to fall in love. This (in the mid 90s, before
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by rcyeh 9mo ago
Similarly: "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html https://archive.ph/vQkwl
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by rcyeh 1y ago
I'm trying to reconcile your numbers with the Wikipedia "Aviation safety” article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety which for 2019 describes "0.5 accidents per million departures" and
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by rcyeh 1y ago
Since slugs are cold-blooded, I wonder if it was captured by the (presumably backlit) doorbell touch panel because of the panel's warmth.
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by rcyeh 1y ago
Not a lawyer, but liability waivers may not apply if there is determined to be gross negligence or recklessness. Making a reasonably-designed API available, only if connected to an inaccessible network, doesn't sound dangerous, but the
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by rcyeh 1y ago
Can confirm. US passport photos want a neutral expression and explicitly say (not in the below page, but elsewhere during the renewal process) not to smile. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports
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by rcyeh 1y ago
Yes! Automobile fuel efficiency is now probably the classical example of Jevon's paradox: some cars are more fuel-efficient; and (therefore?) we in the United States are driving 35% more miles each year in 2024 (3.3e12) than in 1994 (2
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by rcyeh 1y ago
Nice! One nit: if playing an archive game (from a previous date), when opening the calendar, would you show not the current month, but the month of the game? This would make it easier to go back to other dates.
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by rcyeh 1y ago
When I subscribed to Kagi, my block/lower/raise/pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones. It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings optimize for something other than useful sites
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by rcyeh 2y ago
Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a one-party or two-party (for consent to recording) state? If a
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by rcyeh 2y ago
Just going through the numbers: 363 BB tons / (1 ton / cu m) / (1 BB cu m / cu km) is the mass of a 9-km-diameter ice ball, smaller for rockier materials. 363 BB tons / 10 years = 100 MM tons / day. By comparis
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by rcyeh 2y ago
Interesting, I initially thought this factor was probably negligible, because the cohort was aged "62.8 ± 7.8 years" (either before or after the 7-year observation period). I still think it's small, but perhaps not negligible
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by rcyeh 2y ago
I speculate your comment has been downvoted because you haven’t explained why you’d “like to see generative AI try to reconstruct the full image”. What would be the purpose of that reconstruction? To help visualize the most likely original
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by rcyeh 2y ago
This is exactly the right argument. Accepting the lawsuit would give precedent to an insidious combination: Matthew+chilling effect
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by rcyeh 2y ago
Interesting! To translate to the language of stock and bond offerings: TicketMaster ~ bookrunner/sponsor; scalper ~ underwriter; The general population cannot participate in IPOs, just like we cannot buy primary-market tickets to popu
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by rcyeh 2y ago
Agreed, the presentation of summarized statistics in the web page seems intended to shock, and it’s hard to reconcile some numbers: According to the Census 2020 Current Population Survey[1]: * There are 44.9 MM foreign-born in the US, of wh
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by rcyeh 3y ago
We can do this passively with corner cubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
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by rcyeh 3y ago
GE no longer owns or operates the GE Appliances business. Haier bought GE Appliances in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances
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by rcyeh 3y ago
This story describes Pajaro, an agricultural community in California with a local water-management agency, the origins of that agency, and how other communities, facing water shortages, are looking to that model. Farmers in Pajaro will pay
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by rcyeh 3y ago
Echoing several of the comments here about learning by doing, I think Ben Horowitz’s “Hard thing about hard things” may recommend that too. See section (and blog post) “If you’ve never done the job, how do you hire somebody good?” with pitf
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by rcyeh 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. At the dealer last year, I thought it strange when, after I refused the Starlink Security Plus subscription with fee, they offered it “for free”. Starlink Safety Plus is already included for the first three years. L
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by rcyeh 3y ago
Taking the driver’s license should happen already through the points system (3+ points upon conviction for red light or speeding; 11 points in 18 months to license suspension)[0], but perhaps it’s not enough? I looked up the license plate o
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by rcyeh 4y ago
Wow! I was about to comment: when there are so many unheeded “noise” warnings, it can be easy to miss rare ones and new ones. I remember a codebase with thousands of warnings, and hiding among them were a few with the word “intend”, like: “
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by rcyeh 4y ago
tl;dr: 51 days is the wraparound point of a signed 6-byte counter running at 33 MHz, used to invalidate stale data from instruments.
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by rcyeh 4y ago
phi = protected health information pii = personally identifiable information
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by rcyeh 9y ago
In particular, publishing executive salary information has been blamed for fueling an arms race in executive pay [0], and by inference, inequality. As a thought experiment, if we were to add everyone else's information, it's not c