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hackandthink
2,268karma·1,108submissions·October 2, 2022
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More than interesting anecdotes of an american diplomat.
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WireCard was really bad. Journalists (FT) who investigated and reported on the Wirecard scam were prosecuted. BaFin (Financial Supervisory Authority) supported WireCard (prohibiting short selling). h…
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Sigmar Gabriel (Ex Foreign minister, SPD) At the beginning of April 2022, it was announced that Gabriel would become Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (Arms industry).
(Wi…
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Common Table Extensions are often good enough: With
americans as (select ...)
select from ..., americans ... https://www.draxlr.com/blogs/common-table-expressions-and-it... …
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Best friends with Purdue/Sackler. Wikipedia: "In February 2021, McKinsey paid $600 million to settle investigations into its role in promoting sales of OxyContin and fueling the greater opio…
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About David Brooks explanations: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2015/06/16/the-david-... …
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"At a high level, in probability, a convolution is the way to determine the distribution of the sum of two random variables." Probability of a certain sum value s is: sum of probabilities of…
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This is a nice article: https://aperiodical.com/2022/03/now-im-calculating-with-cons... …
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The constructive axiom of choice is fine. It's quite subtle, Per Martin-Löf: "There is therefore a need to investigate how the
constructive axiom of choice, validated by the Brouwer-Heyting-…
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And we should switch to constructive reals in software. IEEE floats suck and mathematicals reals are in general not computable.
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Hauke Ritz and Ulrike Guérot have a cinemascope version of this accusation. All an evil plot of the USA. "From American sources, they deduce that the Russian-Ukrainian war is a long-prepared Amer…
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Homotopy Type Theory
(Univalent Foundations for Mathematics) A dry topic - but the authors manage to convey their enthusiasm and make a lot of effort to pick up the uninitiated Lots of background and …
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"How are "little languages" different from a bunch of functionality wrapped into a library/module?" This is called a shallow embedding in the Haskell world. Deep Embedding is …
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Fair enough. I will try. Metaculus: Pending This content now needs to be approved by community moderators.
2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
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Interesting point. It seems to be related with regression toward the mean.
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Did not know: "correlation is 80% between test and retest, meaning you being you explains less than 64% of your test results" "IQ decorrelates as it goes higher" "So “very low…
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I can't find the Nordstream blow up on any prediction market (Metaculus, ..). Did I miss something or is "who dunnit?" here taboo?
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Javascript ESM Modules need no build system. (actually using Next.js)
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This is a nice but sometimes lengthy analysis. I disagree on total war. It's neither a total war for Ukraine/NATO nor for Russia. It shouldn't be too hard to find a compromise and I gue…
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Machine Learning (LDA): "By finding eigenvectors we’ll find axes of new subspace where our life gets simpler: classes are more separated and data within classes has lower variance." https:&…
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It's a kind of nice mystery, at least nobody died (I hope so). There will be novels and movies.
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OK, this is at least a theory: Putin wants to continue the war. He takes away his possibility of selling gas to Western Europe so that he is not tempted to make peace and sell gas. And his fellows can…
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Germany lost momentum in transitioning to renewable energy when Merkel/CDU gained power in 2005. Cheap gas was nice for people and politicians back then, in 2014 and would be nice now. I do/…