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The reason for the reaction is described in my post. We now have community transmission 50 miles away from my office that was undetected for at least 2 weeks. At the moment, nobody knows how many case…

This is the email I sent my team last night. We should consider working from home. You may all have seen the news by now. A patient was just diagnosed with COVID-19 at UC Davis after having no known…

I sent this email to my team last night. Feel free to steal it for your own workplaces. We should consider working from home. You may all have seen the news by now. A patient was just diagnosed with…

Maybe just selling?

More than that, "expensive" new housing is typically half the price of the single family homes next to it. It's just marketed as "luxury" because everything is. Typically the …

The further you zoom out, the more tree-like it gets, but if you zoom in on any particular node in the tree, like hominids, then it becomes a tangled mess.

Thanks for the clarification. If it's a definition that applies to literally every physical good in a market economy, then it doesn't have much explanatory power to explain why some things a…

It isn't the price of housing that's the root problem, it's the arithmetic. There aren't enough homes in places people want to live for the people who want to live there. The price…

> You are absolutely correct that the root cause of the housing crisis is capitalism and the commodification of housing. Every other commodity in my life, food for instance, is dirt cheap and get…

Oh, my sweet summer child... https://twitter.com/eean/status/1228182747149025280 https://twitter.com/neversassylaura/status/96939949395841843... …

> Making the reviews transparent wouldn't have mattered because in the end the paper was published. Maybe one of the reviewers raised the issues but it was published anyway, so published revi…

It seems like the peer review process is more likely to establish importance than correctness.

I periodically submit this to HN, but it never seems to get traction. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22268810 …

I started worrying at one point that all the techniques I learned when I started my career for working with big data were becoming obsolete, but they aren't. What you needed to do before to make …

The datasets grow to meet the computing available to them. The things gathering the data themselves become more powerful, and so more of that data makes it downstream. I'd define "massive&qu…

I wrote a guide to the Minhashing family of algorithms that goes into a little more depth than is covered in the LSH section of this course. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2018/11…

Can you elaborate on that or provide a link? The OP made it seem like it was strictly more general, and I was getting excited to dive in through that route.

You should read the article before commenting.

I would love a more detailed description of what the solution actually was. Ideally with some math.

I don't think re executing by default would be beneficial. I just don't want state present in the interpreter that isn't in any live cell, and I only want time to flow one direction. Ot…

I want a notebook where causality can only flow forward through the cells. I hate notebook time-loops where a variable from a deleted cell can still be in scope. 1. Checkpoint the interpreter state af…

Note that they just reverted the part of the change that was perceived to blur the lines between ads and results.

> Last week we updated the look of Search on desktop to mirror what’s been on mobile for months. We’ve heard your feedback about the update. We always want to make Search better, so we’re going to…

32 is plenty to represent the numbers we care about, but you'll find you probably want 64 to do math with those numbers. 64 has always been enough for me to never have to care about the precision…

This seems like a more readable source for what this is about. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-of-new-x... …