samscully

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by samscully 11mo ago
The point is that you actually cannot explore a spectrum of ideas without committing immediately because you are forced to live and living forces you to commit and make moral decisions every day.
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by samscully 2y ago
For anyone looking for an introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis that goes deeper than most videos but is still accessible to someone with a STEM degree I really enjoyed this video series [1] by zetamath. I understood everything in Profesor
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by samscully 2y ago
This video [1] shows laser cutting, 3D modelling, and hand grinding of diamonds in a diamond factory. They discuss when and why they use laser cutting machines a bit. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyPo-MEvMA
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Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long(graphite.dev)
84 points by samscully 3y ago|124 comments
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by samscully 3y ago
The book Mining of Massive Datasets [1] has useful information on building an efficient similarity index using Jaccard/minhash. I would also recommend Otmar Ertl's papers on extensions of minhash that approximate Jaccard better in
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Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript(nytimes.com)
4 points by samscully 4y ago|0 comments
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First deep faked audio book(youtube.com)
2 points by samscully 4y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 4y ago
It does appear to be true for humans. Though interestingly there isn't a correlation between species size and cancer risk [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox
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by samscully 5y ago
There are infinite shapes that cannot fall down the matching hole, but the circle is the easiest to manufacture. A circular cover is easier to manufacture than e.g. a Reuleaux triangle shaped one.
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Craziest x86 Instructions (with comment from designer of RdSeed) [video](youtube.com)
6 points by samscully 5y ago|0 comments
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A compositional approach to Ruby performance(noteflakes.com)
1 points by samscully 5y ago|0 comments
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Status Update 2021 (Prawn PDF Ruby Gem)(github.com)
2 points by samscully 5y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 7y ago
My halls at Imperial College had double and triple shared rooms [1]. Looks like they don't use those buildings as halls any more though. [1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/memories/JoaoCabral.sht...
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by samscully 7y ago
Here are some notes I made when I worked for a company that did very well in SEO. This was a few years ago now, so this might be horribly out of date now. Hygiene factors - Never expose an error page to Google. - Never expose an empty page.
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by samscully 7y ago
The ad business would pay the search business for ad placement. The search business would also be free to auction ad space to other providers.
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by samscully 7y ago
Vast AI ( https://vast.ai ) are good, 1x GTX 1080 comes to about $170/month. You are charged by the hour unlike Hetzner. There are obviously downsides to renting time from random individuals though, so it's not suitable
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by samscully 7y ago
Empirically, from running a quick script on the data in the article, it seems like you only need to sample 5 numbers to get a distribution that looks uniform using this "sum mod 10" method.
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Puma 4: New I/O 4 Your Server(schneems.com)
2 points by samscully 7y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 7y ago
I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.
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About Ruby Certification(thesmartnik.com)
1 points by samscully 8y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 8y ago
You pay the person you borrow the stock from a fee.
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Is any job really better than no job at all?(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
2 points by samscully 9y ago|0 comments
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Functo: Composable method objects in Ruby(github.com)
1 points by samscully 9y ago|0 comments
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StorJ – Decentralized Cloud Storage(storj.io)
2 points by samscully 9y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 9y ago
A core Libertarian value is individualism. So something like trafficking would be anathema to any Libertarian. Furthermore, I'm sure many would acknowledge that under a certain age it is not credible that any child has the ability to c
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Ask HN: Information on the impact of big data, AI, etc on consumers?
2 points by samscully 9y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 9y ago
I've been reading "The Business Blockchain" [0], it's been good so far. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Applicat...
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by samscully 9y ago
The thresholdout method [0] for preventing overfitting on a test set is an interesting application of this. Here's a talk on differential privacy applied to the overfitting problem [1] [0] http://andyljones.tumblr.com/p
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by samscully 9y ago
There is very little demand for professional athletes so training to a very high level in mathematics or finance is a much less risky proposition.
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Ruby's Dark Corners(norswap.com)
2 points by samscully 9y ago|0 comments

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