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ChatGPT and family has been effective for me, even to connect equations I’m familiar with to areas I hadn’t encountered before.

You are not storing these things in your head at the expense of anything else. You’re “training” the existing underutilized capacity in your brain for something useful.

wow, this whole blog is a treasure!

not sure if it's just bait but their is_prime function does not actually do what its name suggests.

Pidgin (and its OTR plugin) used to be the most popular client for OTR (Off-The-Record, an encryption protocol) messaging. That was my experience about 10 years ago and back then I…

If it was desirable you would still want to isolate it

They are just paying their respects.

by measuring the Deuterium content

See also (M^T M)^-1 M^T

Problem is that most of the time the signs are wrong.

I spoke to a few Alameda/FTX people over drinks before summer. They were delighted to brag about the lack of separation between the two entities. Really there wasn’t any.

The comment section is full of people complaining in general. Nice job OP, I think it looks great.

The pressure is high at the intake

Sure we add up the numbers, but there are thresholds for everything anyway. We might not be concerned about something within a 1MM range let alone a floating point inaccuracy. The …

I got this too. Even with a strong interest in the business area and multiple hours of interviews going well: “You’d be a great fit here”, “You were technically strong”, … , “We do…

Not sure why you couldn’t just resize the window here?

That’s an autobiography. You read it to hear the author talk about themselves.

This is exactly statistics. This is an expectation of a utility function with respect to some distribution.

What do you mean by hide the uncertainty? To me Bayesian modelling is about making explicit the uncertainty.

I guess they should go ahead and indict Musk and the rest of crypto Twitter too then.

I don’t really agree that Apple is similar. I am no Apple fanboy, but if you want hardware will all the same features, complexity and polish; in particular a phone, there is no com…

My impression is that most of this stuff is bought by shallow people to show off their wealth to other people. Meanwhile, many others waste a significant portion of their income on…

They’re completely different tools. Tensorflow is a specialised matrix math library. Pandas is just for sql-like data handling.

One example: > Two decades ago, neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and physicist Max Tegmark were among those who launched outright broadsides. Hameroff and Penrose responded, an…

Your comment is grey, but I think you’re right.