Viewing profile — michaeltoth

I just moved to the Bay Area and visited Big Basin for the first time two weekends ago. I had never seen trees that large in my life. I'm grateful that I took the opportunity to go…

There's a big difference between saying Trump didn't conspire with the Russians (what Greenwald said" and saying the Russians didn't attempt to interfere. It's astonishing how peop…

I was expecting a generative art algorithm for drawing trees

I'm always shocked by the lack of integration among Google's various products. The amount of time my Google Home replies to a simple question with "I'm not sure how to help with th…

SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist Location: New York, NY or Remote Email: mt.toth [at] gmail.com Website: https://www.michaeltoth.me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelttoth …

This is a cool idea, but I imagine this isn't legal, right? Creating an actual business out of this would have to require buy-in from the content creators

1000x the current mining power is 10% of global energy consumption. So they'd be spending 10% of global energy consumption for a year. This is infeasible unless done by a consortiu…

It's doubtful that they would diverge significantly, unless the currency controls are so onerous that Bitcoin mining is the only solution to get money out of the base currency. Why…

Thanks for the detailed response. You point out some interesting challenges that I hadn't fully considered. Overall, do you still prefer to contracting process and role to a tradit…

A bit off topic, but I'm curious - how did you get started in contracting and how do you go about finding clients? Is it through people you've worked with in the past, or do you so…

Yes, the payments are interest, so you need to pay tax on these even if you reinvest in further loans.

Scientists are also incentivized by the publishing system to find noteworthy results, which often leads to finding evidence where there is none, especially in fields like nutrition…

Except a ride from Brooklyn or Queens is $2.75 and a ride from Philadelphia is around $80 on Amtrak. Also, you're assuming that he lives directly above 30th Street Station and work…

It's going to be harder to do just about anything related to data analysis in Haskell than in R. In R I can load a dataset, do some formatting, and produce a well designed plot in …

In the United States bonuses are taxed as ordinary income. Companies may withhold a higher percentage than a standard paycheck, but this is generally because they treat the bonus a…

When people refer to interest they often are referring to investment gains, rather than actual bank interest. Specifically, it is generally assumed that a diversified investment po…

Thanks for the articles. I recall reading about this last year when the paper was published, but I had since forgotten about this form of attack. This is definitely interesting.

Not really. For an attack to be possible, the attacker needs to generate an alternate blockchain faster than the honest blockchain. This problem can be thought of as a binomial dis…

I wouldn't underestimate the effort of buying new Altcoins, especially with dollars. If you already own bitcoin it is easier, but buying new altcoins requires that you go through p…

This chart plots the "share" of each question on the site, so the total is always 100%. If you read the chart from left to right you will see that the languages whose share increas…

It's a bit slow and prone to crashes, but mapnificent is a decent tool for this: http://www.mapnificent.net/

I think this is a good idea for a site, but I'd caution that it could give users a false sense of security. As the site gains popularity, the site-specific passwords are only as se…

What hosts does everybody use for these side projects? I'm interested in working on some of my own, but I'm just wondering if everybody is paying for hosting and as you expand into…