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It seems part of the problem is that only health insurance premiums that exceed 10% of your income are tax-deductible. Insurance through employers comes fully from pre-tax income. …

A beautiful related result is the Crofton Formula [0], which says that you can measure the length of any curve by appropriately counting the number of straight lines that intersect…

Author here— Yes, this is a great question! I think there's a lot more interesting work to be done here. It would be great if we could understand e.g. why layer-wise learning rates…

Another author here– I'll add to Jared's comment above that for long-running experiments (like the ones our Dota team runs), it can be useful to track this statistic in real time t…

One of the authors here. Thanks for the comment! Yes, we mention this work and number of others in the blogpost and paper. This isn't the first (or the last) paper on the topic but…

I often wonder how much damage the term "affordable housing" has done to the goal of true housing affordability. Politicians can pretend to be working on improving housing prices, …

> The phrase "affordable housing" has come to mean "cheap housing for poor people." I like to call it what it really is: "lottery housing." It is only affordable to the lucky few w…

Great explanation of this: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/the-cancer-of-the-great-la...

True, but there are some kinds of data that people are still uncomfortable sending to Google. Medical data is considered especially private, and aggregation of medical data is a hu…

Any hints on getting f.lux to work in sync with a Hue bulb on macOS?

When I bring the screen closer to my face, the area where I can detect the movement becomes larger. Far away from my face, I can see only a few spinning. If this area corresponds t…

Since we experience this distortion for anything we look at, aren't our brains equipped to handle it? Can we really call it a distortion if that is true?

Very interesting writeup. How did you determine the number of topological sortings for your "Yes" and "No" examples? I'm getting 360 and 144, rather than 120 and 48 that you wrote.…

It seems like a lot of intersections are darker than the streets surrounding them. I'm assuming this is due to stop signs or stop lights. Perhaps this could give us some informatio…