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https://archive.ph/dabX9 TL;DR: modelling the stock market incorrectly with a normal distribution leads to the conclusion that the current circumstances arise once every 43 thousan…

Is there an unstated connection to computational complexity here? The article focuses on the number of possibilities and basically argues that N is impractically large, but I think…

I think trust is important, yes. Self awareness is, too—sometimes it's enough for the gatekeeper to stop and ask themselves if they've checked their biases. Another tool is for the…

A compelling post. Something it doesn't mention that I immediately wonder about is how you ensure the decision to escalate from "a quick DM" to a "full business case review" (or wh…

I didn't know Gor very well, but I had the pleasure of interacting with him at a handful of WG21 meetings. Upon first meeting him, I was overawed by the chance to meet such a lumin…

I'm working on a proposal for C++29 to extend `std::execution` by introducing a type-erased sender (P4223 https://wg21.link/p4223 ). I discovered this week, while the paper was bei…

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