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Dynamic programming. Although if you don't know the distribution of how the bets will look beforehand, there's no real optimal strategy. Think you see first bet has 99% chance of g…

We're in such a bull market, even shortages grow.

I'd refine it as 'If feasible, try fixing your diet before going for pills'. The body is adapted to function within a healthy nutritional range. If your diet falls outside that ran…

Humans are very inefficient when it comes to navigating the web, but also take actions pretty fast when completing forms. You don't really need advanced ML to see bots spend two se…

You can't reasonably expect generic ASR to infer tmux from "tee-mucks". "tee-em-you-ex" works reliably if you're ok with capitalisation for your use case.

How is anyone making money from courses if dabeaz isn't? He's got the word of mouth going on, celebrity status in the Python world, world-class courses, it doesn't make sense to me…

When on Speaker/hands-free mode, it just closes screen. They assume you wouldn't press lock button while against your ear, because it closes the screen automatically. The problem i…

Markets and evolution are both knowledge processes. I think you would enjoy Donald Campbell's essay on evolutionary epistemology from 'The Philosophy of Karl Popper'. Parent's comm…

Were 8 billion people all working toward more detail? Isn't civilization also the process by which detail is pruned, compressed and made into abstractions small enough for one mind…

I usually view it the opposite way from the article's perspective. There's surprisingly little detail we rely on, yet things work out somehow. There's the Popper observation that a…

Was discussing the content, not the author. Yes, I am challenging vague discourse about echo chambers, since the mechanism behind an echo chamber is selectively listening to some o…

> isolating themselves & having their [...] views spread far and wide > most cancerous developments & the less contentious it becomes Your comment complains that people cannot arti…

Relational algebra, EAV model, MVCC, Nix and a few principles around removing data only if you can prove it's reconstructible some other way. My email's on my profile.

I'm developing a similar project, I also added scripts to it so it works like an hermetic/replayable system too. Do you use yours for anything cool? Maybe a truth maintenance syste…

I heard people with dogs claiming similar effects.

I'd like to imagine that the creator heard the 'Einstein zebra puzzle' (the puzzle about different nationalities having different pets and smoking different brands of cigarettes) a…

Actual stealing is an even more impressive skill. Usually involves intensively trained sleight of hand, elaborate ruses, a very good understanding of theory of mind regarding the v…

This is a pre-AI phenomena. I observe it quite a lot with stuff I did in high school but usually with complex problems. What's generally happening is that you were working with pen…

You can go down or right at any point. To go in bottom-right corner, you need n down steps and n right steps. In how many ways can you arrange n things on type A and n things of ty…

I'm not sure I'm following you. What does 'duplicate Google Docs' mean? We already have OSS rich text editor (ProseMirror) and CRDT implementations (yjs, automerge). Are you talkin…

An option won't fire you 1 day before cliff.

> Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. > Nowadays every business in America says how warm it is and how much it cares — loan companies, supermarkets, hamburger chains. …