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I'm not sure I had a well formed question. I saw the post title, didn't get a clarification in the article and started searching. The entropy rate seems like a pretty natural defin…

OK, no, I'm wrong. The entropy of a Markov chain with stationary distribution v is [0]: -\sum v_i p_{i,j} \log(p_{i,j}) That is, the "entropy" of the transition matrix modified by …

So how does one calculate the entropy of a Markov Chain? Is it actually specified? If so, it seems buried. The Markov chain provided as an example has the edge labels swapped (np s…

You've talked past the point. Both can be true. It took 10-15 years before the stock market got back to the level it did pre dot-com crash [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do…

The SQL planner is most definitely "AI", we're just so used to it that it's become trite to say so. I'm having trouble tracking down the version I heard about, but this essentially…

And him receiving a lifetime achievement award here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40v2JFzgEPY&t=4802s

[0]: > If you refrain from participating in the software of the commons, the only thing that you're doing is surrendering more of our collective agency to abusive centralized power…

I think people are missing one of the points of the article. It's not just that agents are hammering the site, it's that there might be lurking vulnerabilities that allow malicious…

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Thanks, this is really embedded in the documentation and is not at all even hinted at in the above documentation. This seems like a huge DoS security hole. I encourage you to write…

Could you go into more detail about this issue and provide some links to the documentation? I'm absolutely no expert, I'm just reading about it now, but from the SQLite WAL documen…

Give your email or send me a message (abetusk@mechaelephant.com) so I can send the invite.

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I was given my invite from a decent person who, I believe, basically has an "open door" policy. I'm happy to pay it forward and give you an invite if you want it. abetusk@mechaelep…

These look really nice and I love the idea. Does anyone have a resource for something like this but under a libre/free license?

Yeah, that is odd. Maybe a mistake? I don't think this is what's going on here but CC0 was expressly created because not every jurisdiction had a concept of "public domain", so a s…

Anything the US government publishes directly is in the public domain, including the contents of climate.gov, when it was online. One of the reasons the migration could happen with…

Population estimates for that era (2,000 BC to 1,000 BC) are anywhere from about 25M to 150M [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimates_of_historical_world_...

OK, their methodology is pretty concrete [0]: > This list ranks ... the dollar value their companies generated for shareholders ... If one defines "share holder" as "general popula…

Linus Torvalds - $8.8T [0] Maybe Stallman deserves to be on that line as well. I do wonder where on the list people like Fabrice Bellard and other folks of the FOSS community would…