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The point is that you actually cannot explore a spectrum of ideas without committing immediately because you are forced to live and living forces you to commit and make moral decis…

For anyone looking for an introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis that goes deeper than most videos but is still accessible to someone with a STEM degree I really enjoyed this video…

This video [1] shows laser cutting, 3D modelling, and hand grinding of diamonds in a diamond factory. They discuss when and why they use laser cutting machines a bit. [1] https://w…

The book Mining of Massive Datasets [1] has useful information on building an efficient similarity index using Jaccard/minhash. I would also recommend Otmar Ertl's papers on extens…

It does appear to be true for humans. Though interestingly there isn't a correlation between species size and cancer risk [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peto%27s_paradox

There are infinite shapes that cannot fall down the matching hole, but the circle is the easiest to manufacture. A circular cover is easier to manufacture than e.g. a Reuleaux tria…

My halls at Imperial College had double and triple shared rooms [1]. Looks like they don't use those buildings as halls any more though. [1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/centenary/me…

Here are some notes I made when I worked for a company that did very well in SEO. This was a few years ago now, so this might be horribly out of date now. Hygiene factors - Never e…

The ad business would pay the search business for ad placement. The search business would also be free to auction ad space to other providers.

Vast AI ( https://vast.ai ) are good, 1x GTX 1080 comes to about $170/month. You are charged by the hour unlike Hetzner. There are obviously downsides to renting time from random i…

Empirically, from running a quick script on the data in the article, it seems like you only need to sample 5 numbers to get a distribution that looks uniform using this "sum mod 10…

I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.

You pay the person you borrow the stock from a fee.