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My understanding is a lot of the probability puzzles in Allen Downey's Probably Overthinking It [1] also boil down to similar selection effects (the inspection paradox is definitel…

> He is not an outlier. According to [1] the average pre-trial detention in Cook County was 51 days in 2017-2019 and 76 in 2020-2021. Searching for Agustín Toscano I see many refer…

I have also found that LLMs do not help me communicate my ideas in any way because the bottleneck is getting the ideas out of my head and into the prompt in the first place, but I …

For some reason I parsed "fed" here as "fed[eral agent]". If anyone else was confused, the headline is referring to someone (possibly a lawyer on his side) feeding him answers thro…

Wow this looks really well done, congratulations! One question: I was exploring the public spaces and I'm wondering are these your real finances, or is this just a mocked-up exampl…

Not OP, but as a native English speaker and former scientist (though not in this area), I would interpret "x does y on English tasks" to mean "we tested this in English and don't k…

The article does not really explain what it means for it to be "cheaper" to rent than to buy here. Do they mean mortgage payment + taxes is higher than rent? Or do they mean that m…

I used to get mosquito bites but I stopped getting them as an adult. I realized after a while that my skin stopped reacting to them even though the mosquitos were still biting me. …

I think the argument would be that formerly corrupt enforcement entities, or entities with no track record, would use a blockchain as proof of their commitment to impartial enforce…

I don't know if it's right for everyone, but the way I did it was to practice a bunch of leetcode style questions and send out resumes go for job postings at big companies. That wa…

Where can you get this test for $50? From a cursory Google search in NYC the only place I'm seeing with prices costs more like $200: https://www.fitnescity.com/resting-metabolic-ra…

The full theory on how the names are selected is here: https://www.ietf.org/timezones/tzdb-2021a/theory.html#naming For most zones, it's the largest city in a region where the time…

It's unclear from the article, but the author may mean "Why do people talk about microdosing for these benefits and not about walking in the park?" The author even mentions that mi…

No idea if what OP is doing is or isn't fair use, but fair use doesn't require the content creator's permission, and in fact if you have the content owner's permission you generall…

I'm pretty sure the answer is, "You don't need to do anything about this." Note that Brett Cannon (Python Steering Council member) said that more people +1-ing or liking the issue …

They can still do this if the old code base is under a permissive license, since permissive licenses like BSD, Apache and MIT are compatible with proprietary licenses.

I occasionally did check up on stories, but people rarely do follow-up reporting (especially for things that don't pan out), and Google searches usually just turn up 50 variations …

One thing that might be important to note about this: to the extent that pip is a client for PyPI, a strategy of freezing the last supported version of pip indefinitely may not wor…

FYI, some of the sites on there that bill themselves (or have billed themselves) as "public domain" actually use proprietary licenses that are not compatible with public domain dec…

This says it's under "creative commons" license, but there are many creative commons licenses and the link just goes to creativecommons.org . I'm guessing you meant to use CC-BY, C…

You are correct that installing a wheel doesn't execute arbitrary code. If you use `--only-binary :all:`, that is equivalent to --wheels-only. Though not all packages ship wheels

Yes: https://pypi.org/project/backports.zoneinfo/