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I generally agree, though direction, intuition, and domain knowledge are still relevant. Your breadth-first-search framing feels right, but you still need a sense of which paths ar…

> if you tell me someone just stumbles onto and old coin... I found a bill from the Weimar hyperinflation era. Its face value was several billion (Milliarden). Its only value was a…

> I don't think his Usonian concepts have had much impact on society. The word Usonain has vanished, but the style's influence has not. > In 2024, I spent $750,000 on a 1200 sqft r…

Wasserstein distance (Earth Mover’s Distance) measures how far apart two distributions are — the ‘work’ needed to reshape one pile of dirt into another. The concept extends to mult…

There is an analogue of the CLT for extreme values. The Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem is the extreme-values analogue of the CLT: if the properly normalized maximum of an i.i.d. s…

> Are they financially screwed I’ll share an anecdote I witnessed in my extended family–it was horrible. When US Air went bankrupt, employees with decades of service, expecting hig…

This is an instance where Conway's Law applies: state and county systems were kept separate so that maintenance and repairs crews wouldn’t accidentally duplicate work. https://en.w…

There are many physical scale models of the solar system around the world, many walkable, some bikeable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_model I've seen several, Planet …

how helpful was ai for this? The paper is light on details, but it says the agent was used to generate a kind of seed set (rank-1 bilinear products) that were then fed into the sub…

My hope is that a lib like this one or similar could rally mindshare and become integrated as the new standard, and adopted by the wider developer community. In near term, it comes…

you can reverse the playback, all the physics of billiards bouncing around works equally well in either time direction. > If the balls start clustered together, they will scatter o…

Sharing a simple thought experiment that was shared with me years ago that explains (to me at least) why this is an interesting question. Imagine a billiard ball with nonzero veloc…

I thought the article would discuss physics of flight, but it's about physics of iridescence. Cool, but not what I expected. I've seen butterflies fly in a stiff wind. It seems imp…

your comment introduced me to the term permaculture, looks interesting. Do you leverage numerical optimization - linear programming or integer programming for example - in your wor…

That's a clarifying response: I've applied (non)convex programming (LP, QP, MIP, etc) to all the above and a few more, all of which i'd classify as classical applications. Less tra…

LPs (and MIPs) are used for scheduling, planning, and logistics. These are some of the earliest applications of LPs, dating to the 1930's and 1940's, and these applications are sti…

Thank you! -- and thank you to the others who shared!

> An extremely useful law to remember.... Would you be willing to provide an example where you applied Little's Law?

Martin Gutmann's recent talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Z9IpTVfUg ) supports your point. While Shackleton is celebrated for overcoming disaster, Admunsen reached the south…

You are missing the joke. The correct line would read: isHexadecimal("HADC0FFEE"); // false