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where do you purchase yours out of curiosity? My incandescent light bulb dealer on Ebay stopped selling them...

one nice thing about having the terminal within vim is that you can manipulate the output like any old buffer. So for instance if you want to copy something from the terminal into …

Do you regret doing your PhD in math? Reason I ask is that I thought about going to grad school for math but decided against it. It just seemed like it would be postponing the inev…

I've found that I often get better results on google if I click "Tools" under the search bar and change "All results" to "Verbatim". It seems to force it to just do the query witho…

I'm still using my "dumb phone" from 2010. I like it cause it has a physical keyboard, a long battery life, and I can drop it without worrying about breaking the screen. Plus I don…

Using bit manipulation to calculate chess piece movements is really quite satisfying. If magic bitboards are too confusing, the precursor - "kindergarten bitboards" - are a bit eas…

Does anyone have any recommendations for learning to write modern, idiomatic C++? I used C++ in college for data structures and algorithms, so I have some familiarity with the basi…

in case anyone was curious how a bitboard chess engine works, I wrote one from scratch in python and included a writeup describing my general approach (mostly focused on the move g…

The course itself is great too - CMU actually posts the video lectures on their website, and the labs are available as well: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-s16/w…

If you find out, let me know! One thing I'll caution you about is there's sometimes a bit of a disconnect between "doing math" as perceived by someone who studied e.g. CS versus so…

I prefer listening to a familiar podcast to fall asleep. It's easier to do while lying down in bed and I can do it with my eyes closed, unlike TV/Netflix. The lack of visual stimul…

Definitely agreed. I was introduced to functional programming via Pyret, which is similar to Racket and draws from HtDP in terms of pedagogy. It's a much gentler introduction than …

Jeremy Kun also has a couple good articles about SVD: https://jeremykun.com/2016/04/18/singular-value-decompositio... https://jeremykun.com/2016/05/16/singular-value-decompositio..…

That website seems to be under construction but I found an alternate link: https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...

Yep, for important written communications (e.g. CRAs, the IRS, debt collectors, etc.) I always use certified mail and request a return receipt. For any clueless millennials such as…

I know it's not the same type of AI, but in chess there's a whole scene for computer + human play. A chess engine on its own can have trouble seeing strategic ideas that humans can…

I'm guessing the reason so many companies are in Utah County is because of tax incentives, but it's still weird to me. I would think that it's harder to attract talent to an office…

There's some great chess people on youtube - I'm a fan of John Bartholomew. He has playlists called "Chess Fundamentals" and "Climbing the Rating Ladder" that are geared towards be…

Options solve it in the sense that you limit your downside, but you can still very well lose your premium. Even if you're 100% convinced that $TSLA is overvalued, markets can remai…

At least for me, the "fluff" ends up being quite practical. I often remember stuff by thinking back to where I saw it in the book. With a physical book, my brain associates content…

My understanding is that short selling is still a useful tool for signaling that a company is overvalued. Without short selling we would see even more asset bubbles and then eventu…

for those unaware, "CP" often refers to child pornography

I really enjoyed this, it was a nice way to practice/learn some command line tricks. In particular I got better acquainted with the find command. Nice work! My only suggestion woul…

I think the analysis that says that is somewhat misguided. Matt Levine (my go-to for financial stuff, his writing is insightful and accessible) wrote a good piece on it here https:…

Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but it does bother anyone that the NYT title calls it "election hacking"? To me that sort of slyly suggests that the actual election / voting proces…