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I thought the title was an homage to François Fleuret's Little Book of Deep Learning. https://fleuret.org/francois/lbdl.html

Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.) OP'…

Agreed! I learned Perl after trying C; and after struggling with `scanf` (not even getting to tokenization), the ease and speed of `while ( ) { @A = split;` for text-handling made …

Similarly: "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html https://archive.ph/vQkwl

I'm trying to reconcile your numbers with the Wikipedia "Aviation safety” article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety which for 2019 describes "0.5 accidents per millio…

Since slugs are cold-blooded, I wonder if it was captured by the (presumably backlit) doorbell touch panel because of the panel's warmth.

Not a lawyer, but liability waivers may not apply if there is determined to be gross negligence or recklessness. Making a reasonably-designed API available, only if connected to an…

Can confirm. US passport photos want a neutral expression and explicitly say (not in the below page, but elsewhere during the renewal process) not to smile. https://travel.state.go…

Yes! Automobile fuel efficiency is now probably the classical example of Jevon's paradox: some cars are more fuel-efficient; and (therefore?) we in the United States are driving 35…

Nice! One nit: if playing an archive game (from a previous date), when opening the calendar, would you show not the current month, but the month of the game? This would make it eas…

When I subscribed to Kagi, my block/lower/raise/pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones. It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings o…

Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a o…

Just going through the numbers: 363 BB tons / (1 ton / cu m) / (1 BB cu m / cu km) is the mass of a 9-km-diameter ice ball, smaller for rockier materials. 363 BB tons / 10 years = …

Interesting, I initially thought this factor was probably negligible, because the cohort was aged "62.8 ± 7.8 years" (either before or after the 7-year observation period). I still…

I speculate your comment has been downvoted because you haven’t explained why you’d “like to see generative AI try to reconstruct the full image”. What would be the purpose of that…

This is exactly the right argument. Accepting the lawsuit would give precedent to an insidious combination: Matthew+chilling effect

Interesting! To translate to the language of stock and bond offerings: TicketMaster ~ bookrunner/sponsor; scalper ~ underwriter; The general population cannot participate in IPOs, …

Agreed, the presentation of summarized statistics in the web page seems intended to shock, and it’s hard to reconcile some numbers: According to the Census 2020 Current Population …

We can do this passively with corner cubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector

GE no longer owns or operates the GE Appliances business. Haier bought GE Appliances in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

This story describes Pajaro, an agricultural community in California with a local water-management agency, the origins of that agency, and how other communities, facing water short…

Echoing several of the comments here about learning by doing, I think Ben Horowitz’s “Hard thing about hard things” may recommend that too. See section (and blog post) “If you’ve n…

Thanks for posting this. At the dealer last year, I thought it strange when, after I refused the Starlink Security Plus subscription with fee, they offered it “for free”. Starlink …

Taking the driver’s license should happen already through the points system (3+ points upon conviction for red light or speeding; 11 points in 18 months to license suspension)[0], …

Wow! I was about to comment: when there are so many unheeded “noise” warnings, it can be easy to miss rare ones and new ones. I remember a codebase with thousands of warnings, and …