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A similar insight from economist Daniel Davies from 2005: >> The optimal frequency of disasters is not zero. This graceful formulation is due to Prof. Richard Portes, who used to s…

Right, one of the explanations is in the Psychohistory essay in the Gold collection of essays, which you can read here: https://novel122.com/gold-the-final-science-fiction-collecti…

Hey HN, We often use R and AWS, but felt limited in our ability to use them together. While AWS provides SDKs for many languages, R is not one of them. This led us to ask: how hard…

> Perhaps surprisingly, given how fundamental optimization is to so many fields, there isn't consensus on what's best. And as I previously hinted above, the answer may change with …

Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI) does this to an extent with machine learning papers from arXiv: http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/

On Windows, use ggsave, or if not using ggplot2, use Cairo. Linux's png output device has antialiasing.