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by robzyb 6y ago
Depends on exactly what "average" means in this context. The most naive of interpretations (e.g. averaging each of the R/G/B values) is generally not what we want. Would be super cool to add some different averaging sche
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The World of Blind Mathematicians (2002) [pdf](ams.org)
35 points by robzyb 6y ago|5 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
Yeah I tried to research Go Assembly ~12 months ago and came up with relatively little. It's great to see this!
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by robzyb 9y ago
For comparison, this is a calculator that was built by actuaries[1] for the Australian market: https://supercalcs.com.au/ris9/mst Some really important things that are built into it are: - Everything is given in "
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by robzyb 9y ago
> They are a public traded company, and for us casual users of Twitter the only change that has been in the talk the last couple of years has been to increase the character limit. I think that's a bit hyperbolic. But, that being sai
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by robzyb 9y ago
I saw Layla (the director of UDMH) give an excellent presentation at PechaKucha Tokyo last month. I look forward to flicking through this document.
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Voice-Over for Startup School in Japanese(youtube.com)
2 points by robzyb 9y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
This is not a product that I'm interested in, but may I provide some feedback on your website? It took me a little while to understand what Clickrouter does. The very first line, "Monetize Outbound Clicks", contributed a lot
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Old Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 superjumbos may be broken up for parts(traveller.com.au)
4 points by robzyb 9y ago|0 comments
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The Elgin rectangle: why couldn't people lock their cars in Carlton?(theage.com.au)
20 points by robzyb 9y ago|3 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
I don't (yet) have an opinion on this, but it's important to note the other side of the coin... > Hope everyone's paying attention to the identity of these investors behind this horrid behavior. Travis is not without his f
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by robzyb 9y ago
I don't think this is a realistic concern. There are many things in life which technically give a perversive incentive to murder or commit other crimes, yet the perverse incentives aren't a show stopper. One example of this is &qu
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by robzyb 9y ago
I come from the retirement industry, and attention to tontines has been increasing at a steady rate for a number of years. Some of the drivers of this are: 1) Ageing populations. 2) The people currently pondering retirement have significant
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by robzyb 9y ago
Care to expand on the potential perverse incentives? Like everything, there are downsides, but there's nothing terribly crazy-bad about tontines.
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by robzyb 9y ago
I think that you raise some interesting considerations, but I don't think it paints a full picture, and some of the missing parts of the picture are important. While there are some parallels between coins and penny stocks, there are al
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by robzyb 9y ago
You know, I wanted to same the same thing as you, but in actual fact I found it quite interesting and insightful. Although, surely not as interesting and insightful as the talk itself would've been.
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An anti-ageing startup is offering transfusions of blood from young people(vanityfair.com)
63 points by robzyb 9y ago|75 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
I love it. I was trying to think up an emoji project (especially with URLs) a little while ago, but didn't come up with anything. I wish I'd thought of this.
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by robzyb 9y ago
> Ironic that the "hub for open-source projects" could become a walled garden if the latter happens. I would say that the irony occurred when the "hub for open-source projects" is a closed-source platform. (And I woul
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by robzyb 9y ago
Well... the conversation piqued my interest partly from a pedagogical perspective, and partly from a philosophical perspective. The pedagogical aspect relates to the fact that the thread's OP clearly isn't lacking in intelligence
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How can there be collisions in Hashing functions?(np.reddit.com)
1 points by robzyb 9y ago|2 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
TravisCI Pro Bootstrap direct is $69: https://travis-ci.com/plans TravisCI Pro Bootstrap via Github is $89: https://github.com/marketplace/travis-ci/plan/MDIyOk1hcmtldH...
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WD files for arbitration over Toshiba chip unit(www3.nhk.or.jp)
2 points by robzyb 9y ago|0 comments
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by robzyb 9y ago
Wouldn't a copy of the DOM be even better than a screenshot? I.e. DOM copy > screenshot > wget?
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by robzyb 9y ago
Your criticism would make sense if the title of the article was "Does Docker affect energy consumption?". However, the article is titled "How does Docker effect energy consumption." It is about an experiment which aims t
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by robzyb 9y ago
This is really cool. I might need to build a IDE soon, and I briefly looked at using VS Code for a base, but determined that it was a bit of overkill for my purposes. Out of curiosity, what was Sourcegraph running prior to this in-browser V
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by robzyb 9y ago
This is a criminal act, and of course I don't condone it, but at the same time I do hope that some good comes out of it - particularly with regards to the attention which all organisations given to IT security. Most organisations would
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by robzyb 9y ago
I didn't know the answer, but I just did a bit of Googling to determine that one of the reasons that pass-by-value can be preferred is because it makes life easier for the garbage collector. See golang escape analysis: http:/&#x2
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by robzyb 9y ago
This is really cool! Python is my usual language of choice, but recently I picked up Go for some data processing because there was a lot of benefits to parallelising the task - which Go made easy.
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by robzyb 9y ago
> This sort of intuition is seductive, because we're generally told "debt bad, equity good!" But it's not correct, for the very simple reason that debt and equity are, in many ways, fungible: each type of financing ca

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