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But capital gains - and business income taxes in a way, given how profit is calculated - do pay an inflationary tax since they're calculated on nominal gains, so I'm not at all convinced tha…

I’m a complete layperson on graphics and such, so please someone help me here: does this mean we’re now able to simulate old video game visuals on crt? That would be the best Christmas gift ever

It's kinda funny, the general dread regarding AI in tech circles is mostly due to fears that all jobs will be automated away, while the concerns expressed by the researchers according to the auth…

Super interesting and thanks for sharing. If I understood the license page on the repository correctly, the DSL is MIT-licensed since it's not within the enterprise directory, right?

It's funny that copyright somehow got mixed with the concept of canonicity over time. That a company or a person has the right to oxymoronically define the reality of a fictional universe is a bi…

That's a lot of work to write lisp without parentheses /j I joke, really interesting project, props to the team

I think you’re being too dismissive of a third kind of player that is neither “leader” or “manager”, which is “owners”. There’s a saying (which I’m sure has an English equivalent) where I live that go…

All those in favor of eventually dying are welcome to do so at their own convenience, after a long and fulfilling life. To the rest of us, the stars, please.

It doesn’t seem so, but by a slight majority on overall respondents it seems like changing the name was favored. From the post it seems that anglophones were significantly (as in statistically) more l…

I does not make sense to rely on an employer to guarantee your retirement income. Ideally you want it to be managed by an organization that is heavily regulated and specializes in this activity, inste…

As a user of Homebrew I'm glad and rooting for the team to find financial sustainability for such an important piece of software.

A couple of months ago I tried using z3 to create an itinerary for my honeymoon. It seemed like a very straightforward implementation of a TSP with a few extra restrictions. It's 2024 and I had a…

Just wanted to share a fun experience I had when visiting Pompeii last month: we were walking around the city (the archeological park, that is) and I wanted to see one of those roman public bathrooms.…

One of the first "hacker" breakthroughs in my first startup was due to following citations on a paper kind of related to my problem until I got to a paper from '61 implementing the exac…

I think I've said this before on this forum, but it bears repeating: if there's one thing that I'll never forget from my Industrial Engineering degree is that all processes can be desig…

Great work, thanks for sharing! In a somewhat tangent note, does anyone have a good resource for designing probabilistic data structures? At a high level, I'm looking for something that helps me …

I'm not nearly smart enough to state this confidently, but doesn't [1] imply that exotic embeddings can always be replaced by larger Euclidean embeddings? [1] https://en.wikipedia…

Loved the idea! Admit I should use for a while because it's unclear if it's really ergonomic, but overall super interesting. Congratulations on the launch!

Not to be a skeptic or anything, but how do we know normal maps etc weren’t enriched into the datasets by the image gen companies? I understand this paper links to open source model where that can be …

Any reason to pick DBSCAN instead of HDBSCAN*?

For the life of me I don't know how people don't think twice about subscribing to Netflix and others while consider it unreasonable to subscribe to YouTube. It's easily 10x the value.

PSA: Scipy has been offering a MILP and regular LP solvers for a few versions now. Very simple to use, was a delight to find out I didn’t need extra packages for a problem at work

https://blog.vslira.net Great initiative :)

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