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Reminds me a lot of StumbleUpon, which coincidentally, just shut down this year (June 30 2018).

I think GitLab has been around a lot longer than MetaMask, so probably the other way around if anything.

How is it that inverse seems to be used as "multiplicative inverse" in this context? It seems like a really ambiguous term, because it could also be interpreted as either:

inverse of the square root (which is just the squaring operation), or

the inverse of some other binary operator, like addition or anything else...

As a consequence, are people that have had children found to have higher incidences of Alzheimer's?

Do you have any hints on how one might implement this on mac OS? I'd love to have my keyboard configured like this...

Wait, isn't that the entire point of high-frequency trading and their low-latency access to markets?

I don't know about other places, but on the highway in Michigan near construction sites they sometimes have signs saying something like "If you injure a worker, it's a $5000 fine and up to 25 years in jail".

Note the precedence of the $5000 fine before the 25 years of jail time. Clearly the Michigan DOT thinks that fines and jail time are necessary incentives to not kill or harm construction workers.

FYI, that last line says "patents", not "patients".

The call for larger sample sizes isn't always appropriate. It can often lead to spurious inferences.

As Jacob Cohen (famous statistician) has said, "all null hypotheses, at least in the two tailed forms, are false".

That is, with nearly any hypothesis about differences between groups, given a large enough sample size, you're likely to find a significant difference.

I'm finishing my PhD, and starting a post-doc in the fall. I had wanted to break out into industry, because I didn't see myself in academia in the long term, but I didn't get anywhere with job applications, so here I am.

I have a few questions:

1. My work consumes most of my time and energy - how would one find time to work on side projects and build a portfolio, when the academic workload is so all-consuming

2. I felt like I had to apply for industry jobs in my niche, otherwise I would be competing against a much larger pool of general engineers/science graduates. Considering that I've spent most of the last 5-6 years focusing on work in a specific niche, how can this be used for leverage for more general technical positions?

Thanks for the interesting article!

What an amazingly complex game it would be if he decided to include relativistic effects of time-dilation.

I don't understand that distinction.

In selecting a typeface, you're also necessarily selecting the font, so why make the distinction?

From an artistic and technical point of view I get it, but from a user perspective the two are not separable quantities.

I think research funding in general could take some cues from the Y Combinator funding model, in the sense that if you give smart people money and time, they'll discover/create amazing things.

You would think the value and return you get from investment in science would be apparent to anyone living in the modern age.

Is that supposed to be a trick question?

I can't tell if the answer is n(n-1)/2 or just n(n-1), because I'm unsure whether you would be looking to count a "bidirectional TCP connection" as 1 or 2 TCP connections...