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> Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs This is incorrect. Not all ETFs. These funds are sector focused (vehicles). A regular S&P500 ETF will not hold NKLA.

WSJ.com is now reporting that a top secret US navy system did detect the implosion - on site commander was informed.

How cool! Free of jargon and loads of intuition

"Manufacturers may intentionally damage a portion of their goods ... "[0] The intel chip example has already been mentioned in comments. The general idea of "Damaged Goods" (and ho…

Oops. You're right.

> but I feel like this is just a password you can't change Not quite. IBM has (had?) a research program on "cancelable" biometrics. I do not recall perfectly, but I think they were…

I despise how they operated from start through 2017. But do I wish Uber had never happened? Nope. Also, when you say "letting them get away with .." are you including Macron, Biden…

Haha... pegged to 1 + e^(i pi) i.e. 1 + cos(pi) + i sin(pi) i.e. 0. Nice of them to make the satire obvious in the twitter post image itself.

Thank you @iamaaditya and @eklitzke . Very informative

Question about terminology (no background in AI). In econometrics, estimation is model fitting (training, I guess), and inference refers to hypothesis testing (e.g. t or F tests). …

Commenters are clearly trying to help. They can do better if you provide more context. What kind of math do you want to do? This does not have to be related to your dissertation ar…

Quite unusual. It's also harder to purchase devices with 2 (physical) SIM slots (a popular feature in Asia)

> they've cut off security upgrades Same reason I switched to Apple last year -- after being android only since original Motorola Droid (2009).

How thoughtful of Tesla ;-) One nearly backed into me a few months back. I banged on the car to alert the driver. It stopped. There was no one in it. Owner was summoning her car in…

Very wide range. On the cryptography side: new signature schemes, cryptographic proof systems. Research on voting systems, economic incentive design, coordination and trust problem…

Outstanding researchers and educators! But a "founding research team"? Are they leaving their day jobs for this? Don't think so.

A bit OT: Simple frequency counts (this page, @ 104 comments). Netflix -> 103 Apple -> 39 HBO -> 24 Disney -> 19 Amazon -> 14 Hulu -> 5

Zed Shaw's "Learn C the hard way". Had years of scientific programming before that (R, Matlab). But I used to be afraid of working with "real" code bases. This book (which still ha…

Aha.. I'm an idiot. Took a minute to figure out nothing needs to be changed for remotes starting with git@github.com .. this is about remotes starting with git://

Thankfully, things are not too crazy at the children's hospital at present. Of course, the kids still there are the ones too sick to be sent home :( . But the staff bring them gift…

Dropped off my wife at work around 7. She's on call at the hospital. Fortunately, it is not -40 here ;-) Happy holidays all!