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As an aside, bit-player.org is an amazing blog and resource. Recently I've been thinking about what will happen when Brian Hayes, its author, shuffles off this mortal coil. Other t…

Appears to be down. Archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230301110743/http://h14s.p5r.o...

When do you get a yellow square? I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so I took a look at the code. Here's what I found: For each guess, Worldle calculates a proximity score f…

Anecdotal, but: I work in an engineering department at a major U.S. university. Non-citizen grad students (i.e. grad students) I personally know -- and their friends at other unive…

For what it's worth, the price/bandwidth in Cologne isn't bad: https://www.netcologne.de/privatkunden/telefon-internet/tari... . And not surprisingly, it appears to be fiber (FTTB …

My question was slightly sarcastic, but primarily sincere, in that I want to hear first-hand accounts from cancer patients in other OECD countries. Rudy Guliani said this in a camp…

"But none of these is her most gnawing, ever present concern. That would be the convoluted medical bills that fill multiple binders, depleted savings accounts that destroy early re…

I also enjoy this: "Why Lie Detectors Don't Detect Lies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyDMoGjKvNk -- 4.5 minutes long.

"Recently they ran an ad featuring Bob Dylan which made laugh, or would have, if had made not me so angry." Wait, is Roger Schank an AI trying to convince humans that AIs are impot…

One day not too long ago I changed my Facebook News Feed settings from "Top Stories" (the default), to "Most Recent". It was eye opening -- so many friends (and "friends") whose po…

I think you meant to say "coördinate". :^) I've been a subscriber for almost two decades now. If I had to subscribe to just one magazine, The New Yorker would be it. The article I'…

It's pre-pay.

This is a good article, with a particular focus on Sweden: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/imagining-a-ca... It's beginning to happen in the US, too. One of my favori…

It's just that if security is a core priority, you'd expect to see this mentioned at least once. Based on what I read, the core priorities are speed, privacy, and convenience. Comp…

I'd feel a little better if the words "secure" or "security" appeared at least once in the marketing material: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/whatsnew/ , https://www.mo…

More here: http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-fi... "The Manchester computer had a special instruction that caused the loudspeaker—Turing called it the 'hoot…

This is the definition of chutzpah: "The [sugar] association also questioned the motives behind the new paper. “Most concerning is the growing use of headline-baiting articles to t…

It's worth comparing this account with Joshuah Bearman's reporting in Wired in May: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/ . The NYT article describes a frustrated IRS agent (Al…

I was taught to go element-by-element: element c_ij of the product = the linear combination a_ik*b_kj. What's presented here is the "same" but represents a higher level of abstract…