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- Balaji: The Banks Are Insolvent (twitter.com)
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I want to start teaching my almost five year old son chess but it's kind of hard! Does anyone know of a simplified version of chess that might be a good first step in this direction? I'm think of something played on a…
- Chia Green Paper [pdf] (chia.net)
- Two Envelope Paradox (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
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I'm an ex-physicist (theory) looking to learn more about cryptography and cryptocurrencies. Much of the stuff I can find on cryptography are general purpose textbooks that start from the beginning with cyphers etc. For…
- How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits (quantamagazine.org)
- Ray Dalio is giving $100 for you to donate to charity (twitter.com)
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I understand that HN tries to be pretty on topic & focused and does not appreciate unrelated comments etc. As such silly jokes etc are generally frowned upon. However, humor can also be used to get a nontrivial point…
- Uber Completes Acquisition of Postmates (techcrunch.com)
- How Do Proteins Fold? (DeepMind) (economist.com)
- Book Pressure Using Active and Passive Orders (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
- Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (lesswrong.com)
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High frequency trading (or more broadly systematic trading) is a notoriously secretive field, but one that I'm trying to learn more about (specifically the quant side). I suspect that there are some decent resources out…
- Ye Combinator (yecombinator.com)
- Two Envelope Paradox (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
- YouTube auto-playing unmuted Trump ad on main page (youtube.com)
- Will Florida Kill an Innocent Man? (nyti.ms)
- Laplace Smoothing [pdf] (mindbowling.files.wordpress.com)
- Should You Play the Lottery? (mindbowling.wordpress.com)
- Growing Your Mailing List After GDPR (phd-insights.com)
- Should You Play the Lottery? (mindbowling.wordpress.com)