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Would it be bad if we made advertising... illegal? In small part because it would reduce the principal-agent disparity between what you want to do and what Google wants you to do, …

That dip is more than 4M people, so I think it's still unexplained. Perhaps due to a shift in response rates or another artifact of COVID churn in the survey methodology?

You can actually drag and drop multiple notes into a tag, no find and replace necessary. Minor point though.

They have a grammatical error ("deliciously looking") in their (2) step.

Handling delays (and the uncertainty they entail) is a huge challenge, and I think it'll be a rich area of research. The simplest part of the problem is that delays in action or pe…

Yup, it's definitely an advantage to get all the correct values from the game state. But not as much as you might think; the vision portion of a DQN or similar trains quite quickly…

Once a startup gets bought, I look for alternatives. If they don't shut down, I still learned something new! But usually they do. In this case, I landed on Fantastical [1] — it's a…

I independently wrote a version of this for OS X: https://github.com/willwhitney/live-earth-desktop

Would it be possible to blacklist forbes.com links? They now block viewers who are using ad blockers, and have recently been serving advertising malware to visitors [1]. They also …

Help.

I'd love to do live variable inspection (like the Chrome Dev Tools) — it's something I'm thinking about for the future. There's a (nascent) project called `jmp` (for Jupyter Messag…

:D I mean, if you're offering...

Right now it only works with local kernels, but that's on the to do list for sure.

The development experience for statically typed languages is often _amazing_ compared to that of dynamically typed ones; we sometimes choose dynamically typed ones anyway because o…

I haven't tried the Ruby kernel - let me know how it works, and post an issue if anything breaks!

Thanks Bill! Atom has been improving really fast - it's my editor of choice now.

I'm looking forward to that Elixir kernel!