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Here are the lecture notes for Modern Regression (bottom of page): http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/mreg/15/ Looks pretty serious to me

How do you understand the lease-vehicles line in the balance sheet? From $4.1bn down to $2.3bn. I understand there's some accounting change, but I don't see where the other side of…

Well, the first Pope was literally called The Rock (Peter). Jesus appointed him by saying "you are The Rock, and I'll build my church on this rock". Exactly what he meant has led t…

How about the most silent lecture? "Cole’s lecture was different. He did not speak a single word. He simply went to the board, and began to calculate. On one side of the board, he …

"But new research shows that it may not be the sound itself that distracts us…it may be who is making it." For me, the absolute perfect background noise is people talking in a lang…

I seem to increasingly get unsubscribed from mailing lists because of not opening them, which is very frustrating. Sometimes it's because I'm reading but not triggering their track…

Not quite the Crimea, but you might like the novelist Amin Maalouf. He primarily writes historical novels set in the medieval Islamic world -- with protagonists who travel a lot, s…

Something I would love to see is an open-source attitude entering into the furniture manufacture ecosystem. What Ikea sells you is, essentially: a) a set of instructions for making…

Earlier iterations are buggier and have poorer dev tools. So the God intelligence has more need to smite and command the AIs within the game. After a while the bugs are ironed out,…

Easier than avoiding triggers -- and almost as effective -- is just to delay the response. Let yourself check your phone, but only 10 minutes after you feel the urge to do so. This…

Berlin is pretty dense, even without skyscrapers. Tightly-packed six-storey buildings can get you very high density (look at Paris for a more extreme demonstration). The area of Kr…

I've occasionally suggested* a dirty bomb as the only way to make London livable again. Just enough radiation to scare away the rich, not enough to actually harm anyone ;) And in B…

open/free data sources are likely to become very important. AI hasn't yet been super-important in the open data world, but I'd expect it to gain a lot of prominence as time goes by…

A decent amount eventually ends up at archive.org [not all, because archive.ort needs to be a bit more careful, but they have a decent symbiotic relationship]

No, it's "learn by building things" with a very tight feedback loop . When copying, you can immediately see where your expert has done something differently from you. And you can e…

You didn't hear about the recent lettuce heist? http://globalnews.ca/news/3356810/romaine-calm-hamilton-poli...

Currently 1337, which seems appropriate

Last year I wrote this summary of how it happened: http://ohuiginn.net/wp/?p=2175 Roughly, the printer industry set up self-surveillance in the 90s, because they figured the altern…

I'm not sure why you find that Sokal-style. Unfamiliar terminology aside, it's clear and unambiguous -- you could directly rewrite it as a mathematical definition, for example.

Amanda Feilding, who this article is about, is a fascinating person. In the 70s she drilled a hole in her own skull ("trepanation"), then ran for political office to promote the be…

maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493152 ?

Backblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.

Can tmux give each user their own cursor? That's an essential feature for realtime collaborative editing.

Thanks, that makes sense