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It goes deeper than Little's Law. Every decent textbook on introductory queuing theory has the result that on a normalized basis, fast server > multi-server > multi-queue. That ana…

To me it sounds like they hacked the editor/code signing tools to insert malicious code on save/commit by devs. Having iron-clad CI toolchains don't help you with that. Need to foc…

> So how do we guard against this type of attack? Looks like they compromised the editor. If so, then I imagine checking checksums for each component of the toolchain would work. T…

The act of measurement on the second particle destroys the entagled state of the pair. That effect can be measured on the first particle's side (which may be far away... on the oth…

> effective, accessible because they all run as root > , and easy to use yeah

It's a strong statement but it definitely leaves the door open. Given that there's so much at stake I can't imagine a different statement. On the other hand, if you read the CISA a…

Take a look at Google Private Join and Compute[1]. But be aware that the problem you frame is an unsolved research problem with an active global community. The topics you are looki…

Probably never. Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility[1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/srep01376

True, but OTOH CA will likely start to change it's forestry management practices as a result of this. The distribution of surface fuel is a joint effect of drought and policy/manag…

You're assuming that the reward function is giving you the community you want. In reality the reward function is to maximize engagement, which is a proxy for ad revenue. When there…

Real world incremental complexity is very high. To say nothing about the lack of an ecosystem. I fondly recall interviewing at one of the faang companies years ago, when they ran o…

We have theorems that say that's impossible, so I guess the answer is no? Or maybe Betteridge's law?

I think "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" is a better starting point for Pearl. Not much easier but more familiar ground if you're coming from today's ML mindset. As…

It's not clear that it spreads via aerosols, in fact it's more likely that it spreads via droplet and contact. Thus the virtue of the mask is that it keeps the individual's fingers…

I remember going to the first SciPy conference at Caltech in 2002. IIRC Most of the talk was about needing better package management. What happened since is just amazing.

Mark Newman would like a word with you regarding power laws. So would HN, honestly: [2007] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16414279

It's important to understand that there's a difference between "R&D" as it lives in most people's minds here, and "R&D" as it presents in financial reporting. The former is associa…

Thanks. I've been meaning for years to learn more about him.

Thanks for that. It made my day.

No offense to all the great people working at Docker over the years-- but after they came to see us right after they raised their series B, it immediately occurred to me that they …

Wake me up when it's dead and we can start working on what comes next.

The realization that I came to was that by speaking up I was usually asking a question that many people were not asking; by providing a strong opinion it would help to catalyze del…

Haha. 10 years ago the carriers were flogging the voip ISPs over putative origination fraud and _robocalls_. Lots of us in the industry proposed solutions(mine)[1]. We also built s…

Thank you

Also, write a treatise about how they discovered queueing theory... seems to be part of the pattern.