malingo
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Comment · 1 year ago
"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"
Comment · 1 year ago
No "level set"?? Booo
Comment · 2 years ago
Miles Davis, 1953: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEfofdhwpc
Comment · 2 years ago
Just this morning when I couldn't sleep I was reading the Wikipedia E-M algorithm page with its illustration of clustering the bimodal eruption distribution of Old Faithful: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza...
Comment · 2 years ago
I've always loved Penn Jilette's account of attending a space shuttle launch:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221026023636/https://www.tumbl...
Comment · 2 years ago
> Decisions should be made by those with the best information.
Sounds a lot like the Chevron Deference doctrine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820949
Comment · 2 years ago
Obligatory link to "The Really Big One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...
Comment · 2 years ago
Reminds me a little of hammock-driven development [1]
> the background mind is good at synthesizing things. It's good about strategy
[1] https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
Comment · 2 years ago
PSA tests are easy and cheap enough that any concerning single result should be followed up with several more to see if there's an increasing / accelerating trend. An elevated but flat trend could be BPH, and as others have mentioned, a single elevated result can be caused by many things (prostatitis, etc).
Comment · 2 years ago
The story of Daniel killing the dragon with hair cakes is also pretty good: https://biblehub.com/catholic/daniel/14-26.htm
Comment · 2 years ago
Ha I did the same thing after that apple was on our fridge a few days. I wondered "how does it know which letter tile is inserted?" Looked at the back of a couple of the tiles, sure enough, binary. Good catch on the ASCII values!
Comment · 2 years ago
git diff-tree [1] is also super helpful. I've use it a lot to ensure the codebase after a complex rebase is in an identical state as before.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Sand is one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-r...
Email: dave malingo.net