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It's like military officers in failed states. They are covered head-to-toe in medals an epaulets. "Honors is epaulets. My pop pop taught me that." -RPF

Clay Christensen used to tell a story about the atmosphere at HBS reunions over time. It sounds like this person learned early on the lesson that HBS graduates learn by their 25th …

If you carefully read OP's response in the PR, he says he tried static typing make_list in addition to iterate_list . Your comment elides the resource allocation step. Like OP, I o…

Günter M. Ziegler, Professor for Discrete Geometry at Free University Berlin, gave a talk on the Polyhedron shown in the "Melencolia I". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gw_SgnlSdk…

This was a phenomenal article. "A small number of unelected agents, operating largely behind closed doors, are increasingly important to the lives of millions who barely know of th…

Here's an example that illustrates the phenomenon. If memory serves me right, index latency is superlinear in dimension count. import time, torch from itertools import product N = …

Tools to make GPU development easier are sorely needed. I foolishly built an options pricing engine on top of PyTorch, thinking "oooh, it's a fast array library that supports CUDA …

"In fact, I believe that those in power who snicker about credible reports of strange objects in the sky and stymie research into them, including access to classified data, have be…

If you work in private equity, it's the worst. Your company isn't actively trading stock, but you still get banned from options, shorts, and need pre-clearance for every single tra…

Maybe we shouldn't burn ethanol in cars. Maybe we shouldn't load up every food product with corn syrup.