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Nick Yoder: How I earned $50k using polling data and some Python code(nickyoder.com)
2 points by simulate 6y ago|0 comments
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Luck is the Opposite of Efficiency(jdmoyer.com)
1 points by simulate 6y ago|0 comments
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How the ‘Beer Game’ Helps Retailers Solve Toilet Paper Crisis(bloomberg.com)
1 points by simulate 6y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 7y ago
I built a web interface for this type of nurse scheduling optimization. Mine uses CPLEX instead of the CP-SAT solver but the Python set up is very similar. Here's the web interface to the nurse scheduler: https://forio.com&#
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If AI's So Smart, Why Can't It Grasp Cause and Effect?(wired.com)
1 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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Death on Mars(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
4 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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Training GPT-2 to Play Chess(slatestarcodex.com)
157 points by simulate 7y ago|37 comments
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by simulate 7y ago
Scott Alexander of Slatestarcodex provided some anecdotal evidence of this issue last year: > Last month I moved into a small cottage behind a big group house. The cottage is lovely. The big group house is also lovely, but the people in
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by simulate 7y ago
WTA probably means winner-takes-all in this context.
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Detection of a Strange Particle(nature.com)
2 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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Google Confirms Achieving Quantum Supremacy(gizmodo.com)
2 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
477 points by simulate 7y ago|259 comments
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Imagining Best Case Scenarios(jdmoyer.com)
2 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 7y ago
I remember this Bret Victor piece from 2011 and I was thinking about it recently when Google announced Soli for the Pixel 4. https://www.cnet.com/news/project-soli-is-the-secret-star-of... Soli and other gesture-based
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What was it like to be an executioner in the Middle Ages?(livescience.com)
75 points by simulate 7y ago|25 comments
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by simulate 7y ago
Why would you use Monica at a start-up or Fortune 500 company? I had assumed that Monica was purely for personal use. It never occurred to me that a start-up, much less a Fortune 500 company, would use Monica for anything.
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by simulate 7y ago
I've been using Monica for a couple of years now and I'm very happy with it for my personal network. It's a great tool to remind me who is connected to whom and what to ask about before attending a party. The online version i
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by simulate 7y ago
It's ironic that Earth is running out of the second most abundant element in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elem...
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by simulate 7y ago
There was a similar post on HN about four months ago describing an air quality monitor with a slightly different stack: Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi https://news.ycombinator.co
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by simulate 7y ago
In 100 years will we wonder why recumbent bicycles took so long to catch on? MIT's David Gordon Wilson, the writer of the excellent book Bicycling Science, had been advocating for recumbents as a more efficient design to replace tradit
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America’s New Redneck Rebellion(ft.com)
1 points by simulate 7y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 8y ago
This article was published around 1999. Russel Ackoff mentions he is 80 in the article and he died in 2009 at the age of 90. The Systems Thinker started in the 1980s and discontinued publication in 2013. https://thesystemsthinker
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by simulate 8y ago
Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) provided a meta-study and also described how reducing CO2 in his cottage reduced headaches, fatigue, and poor sleep: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/08/23/carbon-dioxide-an-ope
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What it’s like to be too big in America(theatlantic.com)
5 points by simulate 8y ago|0 comments
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by simulate 8y ago
The elderly are generally more susceptible to internet fraud. Last summer the New Yorker had this story about how an 85 year old was scammed out of her life savings: My Mother and Her Scammer https://www.newyorker.com/cultur
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by simulate 8y ago
This is identical to how all other phone OS vendors work where the OS vendor pre-installs apps as part of their ecosystem. If you consider them crapware, then there are no major mobile OS vendors who don't install crapware. iPhone prei
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by simulate 8y ago
All phones have undeletable apps provided by their manufacturers. For example, on iPhones you cannot delete Messages, Phone, Safari, Clock, Photos, Health, App Store, and Camera in a conventional way.
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by simulate 8y ago
Like the iPhones, phones distributed by Google, starting with the Google Phone G1 in 2008, and continuing to the Nexus phones and today's current Pixel phones (Pixel 1, 2, and 3), have never had crapware.
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Truck Owners Are Deliberately Blocking Tesla Supercharger Spots(jalopnik.com)
2 points by simulate 8y ago|0 comments
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People Are Road Raging at Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars(azcentral.com)
4 points by simulate 8y ago|0 comments

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