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I gave up trying to avoid to be surveilled. It takes a lot of energy, I lose out on too much utility, I make it into the data anyway transitively from sources I don't control, and finally I don't feel any more interesting than the rest of the world. If I get uniquely screwed over somehow, so be it.

"And likely just creating more debt down the road"

In the most inflationary era of capabilities we've seen yet, it could be the right move. What's debt when in a matter of months you'll be able to clear it in one shot?

> he said his films had been misunderstood: “My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.”

I read a few Krasznahorkai novels in past few months since his Nobel Prize, some of which Tarr has adapted to screen, and that was my biggest surprise. They were so much funnier than their reputation, my tears were rolling at times. He is such a master troll at using his slow grinding, bleak prose to deliver "unintentionally funny" moments completely intentionally.

I have never watched Tarr but now I'll have to.

I agree. It's almost all prep. In fact that's exactly what I recall him saying in an interview once, that he still gets stressed by the amount of reading he has to do before each and every episode. He never winged it and rely on his knowledge alone.

And making broad connections across topics wasn't his style anyway. He's a legend but the show can totally go on without him, and it should.

Base 6 has six digits, 0 through 5. Perfect fit for the human hand, you get place value notation and counting to 35 decimal (55 seximal) for free.

Base 6 would've been the real deal.

The puzzling thing is why they chose to adopt a term used to describe "only a scaling of power" to talk about log10 values. If 1 Bel simply meant 10x, I'd get it, but Bel has baggage and also means sqrt(10)x.

Is odds a power-like or amplitude-like quantity? If you can't tell, dB isn't the most fortunate choice. It's not like mathematicians need fake units to talk about unitless ratios and their logarithms.

The denominator isn't the issue. The context-dependent base of the logarithm is, which makes 1 Bel = 10x for some things and 1 Bel = 3.16x for others.

I've never heard of decibels used in probability theory. Did they adopt it with the same baked-in bastardizations? Please tell me +10dB(stdev) = +10dB(variance) isn't a thing.

Oh, so that's why some services have separate codes for login and transacting. Didn't know it was an EU regulation.

Still better than in-house crap.

Here's how 66% compares to the trivial predictor: "pick the team with the higher win rate and flip a coin if they're equal" gives you 64% for the 2024 season I just tried it on.

I'm not even considering home/away, let alone win margins, recent form, strength of schedule etc. I'm almost amazed this model couldn't make any use of them.

Bitcoin and every other chain will migrate over to a quantum safe fork if it becomes a practical threat.

The real value of bitcoin isn't the algorithm, it's the address balances, viewed as a more important scorecard than the rest of crypto put together. Those numbers can be moved elsewhere, if necessary.

I thought the point of bet exchanges was that you're betting against other users, so the exchange doesn't have to care how good you are or how much you're betting. Why would they add friction for high rollers? Old bookmaker habits, or they're more than just a platform provider and are participating in the markets?

I don't think starting with XYZ and color matching functions is a good idea. LMS and cone response functions are a more fundamental and intuitive description of human color response, so if you're going to bother with XYZ at all, you should arrive there from first principles, via LMS.

You only need to mix two different wavelengths to render any human perceptible color. They give you four parameters to work with (wavelength1, brightness1, wavelength2, brightness2) which makes it an underdetermined system with an infinite number of solutions for all but the pure, spectral boundary of the gamut.

I'd generate new cards such that the number of pairs on screen is anywhere between 2-5. Which means sometimes you'd create two unpaired entries (which means the turn reduces the number of on-screen pairs by 1) or two different, but paired to existing entries (turn increases pairs by 1). You could sometimes throw in generating an outright pair because why not (turn maintains the number of pairs).