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Somewhat surprising that the Tuxedo cocktail is not on the list... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedo_(cocktail)

Seems to me that many people do not care about part 3 anymore.

The headline is brilliant.

Indeed. It's so much bigger (in notional terms) than the underlying stock market that you can manipulate it by making large bets in the derivatives market, then move the underlying…

Not binary. Each weighing can give you left, equal, right. So a ternary tree, if you want.

Exactly. Same kind of thinking gives you bounds on what can be done. For example, can you do 13 marbles in 3 weighings? 2 13 14 > 3^3, so definitely no.

Boat + bowling ball => level drops. 1) Imagine pushing the boat down into the lake, displacing water. The level would go up . 2) Imagine the ball instead of being in the boat, is a…

How about Mountain Lion vs Lion?

Indeed. Until around 2021 or so, more people had been to the moon than to the bottom of the ocean (Challenger Deep). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep

That's because you get (particularly initially) quite some reduction of risk with little loss of expected return. Diversification (incl. across asset classes) is the only free lunc…

BTW, you are correct technically that if the expected return of the investment is positive, then you maximise the expected return by putting in everything now all at once. However,…

While banks often pay crap rates, real rates (e.g. from government bonds) have largely been positive (except the short end after GFC and COVID). https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/…

Wonder what would happen if the objective instead were to minimise sum of quadratic wait times (ie, penalise long waits explicitly).

Reminiscent of the resource curse, the observation that many countries "blessed" with an abundance of natural resources actually fare pretty badly (including lots of corruption). h…

From the linked discussion (in which the withdrawal was announced) [0]: Dear Colleagues, This is a historic moment in cryptology: AI has beaten humans at cryptanalysis. We would li…

Apple does prioritise their users even above their developers, fair enough.

> > Indeed, if ratings requests were initiated by Apple, then Apple could go as far as to ban developer-initiated ratings requests in the App Store. > They did! It's a one-shot dia…

> I rate any app that nags (ie: more than thrice) me to rate it too. Interesting. Apps can only ask three times a year (from Apple's documentation, my highlights): "Asking for rati…

We agree. New buildings can be designed and built with induction stoves without destroying precious Japanese cooking culture, just as gas (and wood for that matter) has been replac…

Apropos, anyone else saw "fast user switching" in Tahoe turn into "excruciatingly slow user switching which after a minute of switching without success rebooted the whole damn mach…

Induction is the trick. It's nearly as fast as gas.

> someone who doesn't want a people to live. Who doesn't want a people to live? Where do they say that?

DHH's blog post reads: >> When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. Looks like some of the controversy is whether "them" refers to "the gypsies" or "the gypsies who ta…

Ah, interesting, so em-dash without spaces really is more of a US convention. My LLM pushed back against that assumption of mine :-)

Furthermore, the conventions for the first (parenthetical) use case, as far as I understand, are either em-dash without spaces (Anglosphere convention), or en-dash with adjoining s…