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This is where I started getting that feeling: > The curse of dimensionality is not theoretical — it’s painfully practical. In high dimensions, naive distance metrics degrade quickl…

Arguably XSLT

This is "relative color" syntax, it works with a range of color spaces/color functions. The key is the "from" at the front. Here's the MDN documentation: https://developer.mozilla.…

> In one case, we ran a simple a/b test as a proof of concept on whether to pursue the idea further and it added an extra million bucks a year in revenue. I'm with the people who d…

> Not sure if there is some way to iterate given online feedback. There have been a some novels and novel-length works written a chapter at a time in public. The Martian by Andy We…

> I just don't understand how they still have users. Because this post is here and not somewhere else. Strong network effects.

This application of "base rates thinking" was helpful for me - a bit out of left field, I'm aware of the concept and use it sometimes but wouldn't have thought to do so here. Thank…

Thanks for sharing. I've used megaparsec a little but never looked at ReadP. Your tutorial is concise and helpful, I'd have ended up with better intuition faster if I started there…

It's a shame that these aren't parallel. Why couldn't it be "insular gigantism" or "island dwarfism"? (But not both!)

Would you be equally happy if you were sick enough to be hospitalized as you are when you're healthy? If not, that's a cost. I doubt the out-of-pocket medical costs are the most im…

This doesn't address all of your comment but specifically with patient confidentiality – Israel agreed to share more data with vaccine manufacturers in order to get quicker access …

In some ways the argument against Excel is like the argument against Electron: if you're comparing it to an elegant, purpose-built and well-tested application, yes... it falls woef…

You're being downvoted, but I think this sentiment is right and if you take it seriously, it's an argument for the SAT. Pretty much _everything_ in the USA is pay to win, not just …

Yes, you can can replace that with the magic number 49 if you want, ord('1') == 49 because ord returns the unicode code point for a character. Documentation is here for the curious…

Sounds like this only works if people who listen to smaller bands/indie music listen to fewer songs on average. I'm not sure if this is true. People who find themselves exploring n…

I'm a bit surprised to hear it put this way. Aren't physics students usually welcome in finance as quants?

A probability has to lie between 0 and 1 but not every value between 0 and 1 is a probability.

It has, Safford Unified School District v. Redding is probably the canonical case here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safford_Unified_School_Distric...

It isn't thrown away, though. If your district picks a third party, you send a third party representative to Congress. You'll have different choices in district-specific and state-…

But all the prior blocks are static, that's the point. If you can break the cipher used at some time t, anything that people had "stored securely" by encrypting it and putting it o…

You probably wouldn't see it in "natural" use but it's a potential attack vector if you ever deserialize arbitrary JSON (e.g. JSON bodies in API requests). Of course you should hav…