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Chapter 2 has a plot of our understanding of the impact of all natural and human causes on the change in temperature: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/img/figure/figure2_1.png It's…

Simple median is a very good (in many applications) nonlinear filter.

I don't know what it took but they did it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17919297

Interesting. Do you have any sources where I could read about it? Flynn effect is fascinating me - if it holds in the future we'll have, in developed nations, an average IQ of 130 …

Right right, I'm not sure anyone really knows why this happens. My point is that 15 points per half-decade is just baseline. Doesn't mean we've picked up any useful correlation.

> Poles and Italian immigrants in the US raised their average IQ scores over the 1st half of the 20th century -- by over 15 points! So did everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

It's 19% of the capital gains, not of the invested money. The parent comment makes it seem like the tax is absurd. Here's a list of countries that implement this tax, including Pol…

Well there are more people that are willing to pay than just Coinbase. A more comprehensive answer would be that arbitrage is not that up to speed in the Bitcoin world, especially …

Unicode to the rescue! Here's how to make 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 text: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi Looks a bit ugly, but works.

SSD is probably not as fast as RAM, but it's much much cheaper, in the order of 10x per gigabyte. With SSD-GPU bridge you can have fast access to a multiple TiB training set, on a …

This would be incredibly useful for distributed machine learning - imagine a Tensorflow implementation that almost entirely bypasses CPU.

They do, if though nothing else then through multi-billion acquisitions. Another thing is that we all know crises come every now and then. Being tight on cash when it hits the mark…

Without disagreeing that some portion of global profit comes from "taking things from the planet", do you think that all the value we've created since emerging from Africa somewhen…

I believe somewhere at the core of the issue lies inadequate recognition of the critical importance and difficulty of parenthood. It's crazy expensive, eats up half of your life, a…

While we are on this topic I would like to recommend to all who have not seen it yet "The Seventh Seal", Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece on dealing with death and God's silence when w…

I admit, it looks like it's quite hard to find many sources for this information. To the point I started to doubt it. I was basing on this article (in Polish), translation: https:/…

Fun fact: during the six-day war the Israeli military command decided to use exclusively Polish in communications, as a cheap and quick method of "encryption". Most commanders coul…

Phage therapy is also present in Poland. There is a research centre in Wroclaw, they produce and send experimental samples upon request. The numbers look very nice, although it's s…

I bought some of these absurd notes to give tips in bars, or to light cigars. Sounds cheap, but always makes everyone laugh. Definitely recommend :)

I wonder why so few people in Europe realise that. Despite how bad the consequences are (eg. Greece). Luckily my country (Poland) still prints its own currency and manages its own …

It is a reasonably good advice. After all there is plenty of programming work that does not require ever learning how does quicksort work or what is a mutex. Accessible to nearly a…

Hmm, looks like you're right. It's interesting that the effect is so intensive. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=probability

I doubt that NOx can be captured by such a filter. And according to the article particles level is already well below the limit.

All those probabilistic programming languages will become exponentially faster once we have feasible quantum computers, since BPP \in BQP. We currently use a weaker inclusion, BPP …