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I want to know what was the first and last question asked of Jeeves.

I've recommended this exact talk many times! It's excellent.

I've used it to convert 40 page pdfs into text, and it did an impressive job.

Related (but not identical), Facebook research just released an open source pdf -> markdown reader (that does a good job w/ equations in latex). https://facebookresearch.github.io/…

I loved seeing his technique. This is a 2 min video of him cutting up a raw chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDsNRXPKE8 . He's going slow because he's explaining, but it's …

Can you expand a bit more about what you mean when you say you're a competitive typist? are these in person tournaments?

Sure, I think the depth of thinking or problem solving is clearly important. But, I don't think your claim is in tension with the article's claim that being able to type fast lower…

I completely agree with this. I've been working on my own 30 day challenge to boost my typing speed, and the reason is similar to what's stated in this article: it's about latency,…

It looks like it renewed automatically on the 17th every month, and then... it was reactivated on the 20th? I think this lends credibility to the idea that someone on the account t…

Very nice! I've been a fan of your other data viz gallery work w/ python especially. I love how clearly you explain how to build up these results as well.

Which part of the horizon of the ocean was lower than another? I'm asking if looking East would be higher than South?

You state in the top level comment that this claim stains the article: "Stating that git breaks Jupyter notebooks is quite a flex." But you are saying here: "If you leave git diffs…

There could be a time advantage, where the probability weighted expected benefits of starting N years ahead of time is much larger than the sum spent preparing. You could think of …

Can confirm. Prof. Kim Griest at UCSD named MACHOs (deliberately contrasting WIMPs).

PI is Principal Investigator (think professor in charge of a research group) and R1 is the rating (top tier) research university. See a list here, https://www.brandeis.edu/diversit…

I'm jumping into this thread, but I think I see how you're talking past each other. Here's my read of the situation. Take an idea like Newton's Law of Gravity, and let's separate t…

The ensemble average is the expected value, and the expected value is positive. For a bet of $X, the expected value is: (1.5 * X) * 0.5 + (0.6 * X) * 0.5 => 1.05 * X. The ensemble …

> This bet either has a positive EV or a negative one and if it’s positive it’s going to tend to infinity when repeated. This is wrong. The bet as described has a positive EV and t…

Note: the link in the post to the pdf doesn't work.

I can't seem to read this in any other way than you are asking something like "why is it harder to find one hundred $100 million opportunities than one?" Finding one such opportuni…

I wonder if some hedge funds looking to short their next target might do a cost benefit analysis of how much a hit to Intuit's stock price might occur for $X spent in lobbying for …

What is a dollar worth besides what it can purchase? Put another way, if the number of dollars is constant in your account between today and tomorrow, but you can purchase less wit…

Lose weight, loose pants.