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https://www.natesilver.net/ i was a casual reader of 538 back in the day. his substack feels pretty similar, if smaller in scope.

> Completely bespoke models are typically trained in Python using tools like TensorFlow, JAX or PyTorch that don't have real non-Python alternatives The article outlines some inter…

The actual paper is hidden behind a Nature paywall. There is a preprint on arxiv here https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18510

I mean, it _could_ be the job. But a lot of older doctors feel like the younger generation needs to go through the same struggles and hardships they did. This reminds me of somethi…

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I think it's a pretty simple, and timeless, aspect of human nature: "People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which …

carriers can be used to project power in scenarios short of all-out war, which is the common case, at the moment

and cheating

one of my favorite pieces of financial journalism ever, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon... , explains how he got the bux during wework's collapse: > [s…

i've been reading this blog off and on for years, it's fantastic. a good introductory entry for those not familiar with the concept of a mcmansion: https://mcmansionhell.com/post/1…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarium_(software)#Screensh...

like-new restoration of various old objects: - https://www.youtube.com/@mymechanics annotated reviews of high-level chess games: - https://www.youtube.com/@ChessNetwork blender tut…

rules for thee, but not for me

"perfect synchrony" is kind of meaningless, might be better and more accurately titled as "first solar system with a six-planet orbital resonance has been found"

I didn't say it was a surprise; I said the marketing claim made me laugh.

I know Docker isn't something Apple makes, but still, this makes me laugh. I run a fair number of containers as part of my daily workflow and the memory overhead, compared to a gen…

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not too familiar with this scene but I'd like to get one, and not the crappy $14.99 version at the local big box retailer.

13K commits over the past year works out to almost 40 commits per day. Curious what the workflow is to accomplish that and the nature of the commits. Irrespective of that, that is …

This is just terrifying. The only thing I can imagine worse than having it myself would be my child having it. Nightmare fuel.

From https://github.com/ammario/redjet#streaming To minimize allocations, call (*Result).WriteTo instead of (*Result).Bytes. WriteTo streams the response directly to an io.Writer s…

Wrong title - this is James Cameron's speculation based on unnamed sources.

This is really cool! But unfortunately for me, it gives me vertigo after a minute or two. Anyone else have that sensation and/or any pointers to resolve? I'd like to keep playing w…

The author demonstrates attaching services to a context, which afaict goes against the Go authors' usage recommendations in https://pkg.go.dev/context : > Use context Values only f…

I'm no astrophysicist, but the paper and some web data show - Sag A* has a mass of ~4,000,000 times the sun, and an event horizon of approximately 12,000,000 km (0.08 AU). This is …