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Embrace, extend, extinguish going well for them with open source.

What’s the message?

I might use that as my title for my partner case. Automating (super dull financial industry department) is the industry of superstars

Really good writing style. So much info in such short, simple sentences.

Do I need to think of 260 different keys? Gonna take a while to practise that, and I feel like there is a separte mechanics processor to my core processing motor, so I can think an…

Having worked a bunch of years in finance, Excel has more impact than any other single tool.

Yes - most papers just present one idea, as part of a field. Although, the original paper of an idea, I often find, has the most human-readable explanation. Pearl's 1986 paper of B…

The hammer that is still looking for a nail, since 1986. Anyone seen one really be useful?

Jira, trello, skype, a lot of bloody email, Sharepoint, badly. Starting with confluence.

NASA: Swingers. I don't mind if you upvote or downvote me. Tell me your experience.

Low in expectation. The site argued she just didn't expect it to be successful. She seemed to agree.

The Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse. It's supposedly about the author himself in 1920s Germany, also about depression, existentialism, and recovery, in a surreal context. (hence, my u…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers#Peig

I had the fortune to grow up simultaneously in a few variations of christianity. None of them dealt adequately with the argument why animals don't have souls, nor referred to the b…

Eighths are pretty nice in decimal..

So rich, and sounds like a racket.

I remember my maths teacher teaching that in 1995. He was pretty good at explaining it, but not as good as this video. We should really be seeing a great education dividend from th…

Better for hygiene with a retractable, digital meat thermometer. (that's what she said)

I just used it to consult with a young woman who cancelled her open heart surgery today, which gives her two years to live. The result was low expectancy, and the advice is indeed …

The English language versus the German language is like data scientists versus actuaries. English had no quality control; the oxford still uses adverbs but ignores ye for plural se…

For polishing and drilling marble, for example. Not for polishing diamonds. The diamonds are different qualities.

Nah, you need all sorts of quality grades for drilling, polishing, etc.

The inventors of synthetic diamonds at General Electric didn't receive anything other than their normal wage (perhaps a little bonus, I don't remember).

It makes no sense from a capital perspective. The software provider would need to hold risk capital (money in the back pocket) like a bank or insurance company, but in proportion t…