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Background in Physics, EECS, Math. Currently working in algorithms development for compressive sensing and image processing with interests in optimization based approaches.
If it's up to me I'll write a 5 page math derivation before every 50 lines of code - but that code will do some crazy stuff.
I think there's an issue with the histogram rendering in this post. The rapid descent from the spike on the left is not consistent with high ECDF impact and the apparent binning resolution visible in the piecewise…
AirFlow 2 was released in 2020. You're saying you knew that these issues were fixed, and then an article is published on your webpage in 2022 knowingly comparing against the technical properties of a major version…
FYI some of the Airflow issues are out of date / can be resolved with config changes. AirFlow 2 is designed to support larger XCOM messages, so the guidance to only use it for small data no longer applies. Your DAG…
Have we found diseases that could propagate across the world either (1) with virality greatly in excess of modern diseases, i.e. R0 >> omicron or (2) untreatable/curable and potentially latent for weeks to months? A…
Obvious no-true-scotsman. Believing that the goal of crypto is to circumvent laws regarding possession and theft is at most a fringe belief. The fact that this is at the top of HN demonstrates how devoid of merit crypto…
I think in mechanical metamaterials the characteristic length defining the "metamaterial region" is rather the wavelength of pressure waves in the material you're considering - much like in electromagnetics you want the…
The sample distribution of viruses is incredibly important for this sort of analysis, and much of the argument here only makes sense through the lens of uniform virus sequencing. If you have imbalanced sequencing and…
Thanks for the reply!
Renting housing is generally not rent-seeking - that's exactly my point. If a property goes up for sale one can (1) choose to invest capital to purchase it, and (2) offer a contract for housing at a managed property to…
The economic concept of "rent-seeking" as it's used now has relatively little to do with rental contracts as they pertain to housing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking E.g.: "The classic example of…
Staking is not any more rent seeking than mining is. Stakers calculate and propagate valid new states for the chain. I also don't see anything entrenching or perpetual about it. It's not as though increased mining…
I keep seeing the argument that Proof of Stake is more centralizing than Proof of Work, but it doesn't really add up with what I'm seeing in practice - Bitcoin mining centralized heavily around cheap electricity sources…
I think the issue most have with the "no external stake" is that there was a common misunderstanding regarding Bitcoin value propagated for a while - that is, the cost of the consensus mechanism (compute + electricity)…
I don't particularly care to rebut the author point by point, but "asset valuation" is an extremely common term that anybody discussing the properties of a novel currency should understand:…
Why do unsophisticated, redundant, vitriolic takes like this get upvoted on HN so much? Is there some common ax to grind here? The strongest point here is the strawman presentation of the altered security model that PoS…
Do you believe animals literally conspired to transmit to humans? I believe what you're describing is rather "the coordinated malevolent animal transmission theory".
If taxes affect upside for investors (especially in large gain outcomes) then it would definitely reduce rational risk appetite. Say it's rational for some untaxed investor to take a chance on 1% on no less than $10M…
If the lab leak was real, covering it up to the extent they did requires a literal conspiracy (not to mention hypothetical function gain research). In the absence of concrete evidence, it is quite literally a conspiracy…
I understand the argument that medical associations intentionally limit supply to prop up their own salaries. I don't think there's sufficient evidence to demonstrate that's a critical factor. Any form of licensing…
You probably want to compress your figures - I think your line plots are stored in some vector format. The paper is 30MB and rendering chokes on those ultra dense figures (and the data resolution is not buying you any…
In the past I wrote a simple formula evaluator in Python I used to replicate some multicell calculation - the spreadsheet I had took the form of mostly simple algebra being performed in a scanning pattern against…
It seems like analyzing fault here is important. Maybe driving late at night makes it more likely you will be hit by another driver (e.g. a drunk driver)?
I'm not sure that works when you paid for X cheese dogs per hour.
Would it make sense for the TLA+ source to just be a subset of LaTeX, then? At least some fraction of the potential userbase is already familiar with that.
Choosing to engage in these sorts of bets systematically exclusively and not individually only makes sense if you're not maximizing expected return. You also don't know if I engage in these sorts of bets systematically.