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Logged in to say this. Market share is a confusing stat when customers don't exclusively use one service. Netflix is still adding subscriptions at a good rate. https://www.business…

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> It was used so extensively that it was the language of courts and newspapers in the Pacific Northwest from about 1800 to 1905. This makes it sound like all the newspapers were in…

Saturation or oversupply seem possible. Number of bachelors degrees awarded in 2015 was 14% higher than in 2010, but US population increased only 3% during this time. https://nces.…

The Rock Warrior's Way: https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Warriors-Way-Training-Climbers/d... Nominally about rock climbing, but really a study of the ego, why we invest so much effort i…

The Thomas Watson quote (only a market for 5 computers) is a bit of an urban legend: http://geekhistory.com/content/urban-legend-i-think-there-wo...

I think this is a good youtube video for someone starting from zero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA An issue is how to enter the symbols. The way I do it is I created …

I upgraded from 2 to 3 last year. I'm liking it. I've embraced type hints. Although they have no run-time effect, there is a command line tool called mypy which enforces correctnes…

A light rail system over Sepulveda Pass would probably require drilling a tunnel. Early estimates are at least $6B: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sepulveda-pass-t... …

There is precedent for charging $2 tolls in CA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_73

Vehicle capacity on the northbound 405 has increased from 10,000 vehicles per hour to 11,700 vehicles per hour at peak times. http://thesource.metro.net/2015/05/28/study-finds-traf…

Releasing all drug offenders (both federal and state) would reduce the US prison population 14%: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-...

> Is that even statistically significant? Not if your significance level is the customary 5%: > 1 - pbinom(2, 7, 1/7) [1] 0.06522914 The astronauts carried dosimeters, and all got …

jq is a command line tool and also a language for expressing transformations on JSON with concise one-liners. It is useful for processing the output of mongoexport or an elasticsea…

My downloads: - ac-005: Analytic Combinatorics - aofa-006: Analysis of Algorithms - neuralnets-2012-001: Neural Networks for Machine Learning - nlp: Natural Language Processing

Yep. In LA Large empty lots are hard to come by. A 6k square ft lot might be 100k for an undesirable location in an undesirable nbhd, but 400k is probably typical. Not sure how muc…

The Venezuela wikipedia page makes it sounds as if the Bolivarian Revolution is a repeat of history: The election of Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1973 coincided with the 1973 oil crisis,…

Space elevator shadow wouldn't look like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra,_penumbra_and_antumbra

> You always "encode" something into bytes, and "decode" bytes back into something. There should be exactly two functions, because the functions have different types: "encode" is s…

The paper uses results from "Grandes valeurs de la fonction somme des diviseurs et hypothèse de Riemann" by Robin, which is not available online, as far as I can tell.

That number is the result of the massive, largely volunteer effort led by HUD to count the homeless that is done every January. There are other numbers, but they tend to involve a …

Some more numbers: US 578,424 318.9M 0.18% LA County 44,359 10.02M 0.44% LA City 25,686 3.88M 0.66% https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2014-AHAR-P... http://www.lahsa…

I'm thinking the energy to boil the amount of water which falls naturally on California is about 500 times what the electrical grid currently delivers (300,000 Gwh). Estimating avg…