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Comment · 4 months ago
It's pretty clear that he doesn't just mean Israelis
Comment · 9 months ago
So you still have other stuff with AWS?
Comment · 9 months ago
Lol. Def not for 5 year olds but it's about exactly what I needed

How about this:

Take a lot of pictures of a scene from different angles, do some crazy math, and then you can later pretend to zoom and pan the camera around however you want

Comment · 1 year ago
https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...

They appear experienced at navigating this confusion

Comment · 1 year ago
If your number of AB testing combos cohorts is fewer then 100 then yeah this passes for being uniform
Comment · 1 year ago
Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.

Exercise left to the reader:

Prove 7*n^3 + n is divisible by 2

Comment · 1 year ago
What does "DB queries" mean here? The on-device sqlite stuff?
Comment · 1 year ago
That article is mostly about speed. The following seems like the one thing that might be relevant:

> Naively, you could take the random integer and compute the remainder of the division by the size of the interval. It works because the remainder of the division by D is always smaller than D. Yet it introduces a statistical bias

That's all it says. Is the point here just that 2^31 % 17 is not zero, so 1,2,3 are potentially happening slightly more than 15,16? If so, this is not terribly important

Comment · 1 year ago
The user ID is non uniform after hash and mod? How?
Comment · 1 year ago
> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male.

There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too

Comment · 1 year ago
I think they had been relying on lazy security by obscurity and it pretty much worked... until copilot
Comment · 2 years ago
I do think sugar should be regulated more and probably excised taxed, but banning is a different thing altogether
Comment · 2 years ago
So is sugar. Would you ban that? People have agency and choice
Comment · 2 years ago
The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.

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