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Why doesn't simpler control theory work here, like PID controllers?

Considering how much demand there is for stablecoins this seems pretty positive. Don't need to worry about Tether counterparty risk if the backer of a US dollar coin is the US trea…

Amazing how much better VSCode Remote is than JB Gateway so far. Constant crashes in Gateway, and manages to get really tripped up trying to work with a corporate firewall that VSC…

I remember this project from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726 Very cool idea but the screen used was $2k+, and two years later the price is the same. See…

"...and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore"

The NYT removed a few words from the original list that were seen as more obscure, but otherwise it seems like they just copy-pasted the client-side code.

Does the full version of this require Strong AI to truly replace the internet? What level of AI is necessary to convincingly replicate human understanding and explanation of inform…

Aren't all of the proposed routes for supersonic planes over oceans?

In finance and gambling, the kelly criterion is used to evaluate maximum bet sizing while keeping risk-of-ruin near 0. Using it correctly requires understanding your own expectatio…

Best: Good research is about the quantity and throughput of ideas you can test, not the quality of individual ideas. Worst: Code should be designed for users, not any individual en…

Just curious, is that still true if your model of daily returns isn't gaussian? If prices have intermittent shocks (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, etc) is the daily vol much higher?