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A puzzle of two unreliable sensors

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Suppose you are trying to measure a value P and you have two unreliable sensors. Sensor...
Suppose you are trying to measure a value P and you have two unreliable sensors. Sensor A returns 0.5P + 0.5U, where U is uniform random noise over the same domain as P. Sensor B will return either P or U with 50% likelihood. In other words, sensor A is a noisy measurement of your variable, and B is sometimes the co...
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Typographic Pictures Composed Entirely of Brass Rule (2024)

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In the dimly lit “printing cellar” of Media Museum and Archives Merkki is a remarkable and...
In the dimly lit “printing cellar” of Media Museum and Archives Merkki is a remarkable and curious object. It’s a mosaic of tightly arranged brass rule and spacing material, made by a Finnish typographer Valto Malmiola in 1937. Note, it’s not a single piece of metal, and it’s neither engraved nor etched… it’s thousa...
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Fun with -fsanitize=undefined and Picolibc

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Reasoning Models Can Be Effective Without Thinking

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Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author

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On Monday morning this week I started a dot point list of notes I wanted to...
On Monday morning this week I started a dot point list of notes I wanted to hit in this week’s bad review, then I looked up and it was lunchtime and I was 1200 words into something much, much bigger.It was going to be about the first few chapters of the audiobook of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Ze...
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Significant performance improvements with Edge 134

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100th Anniversary of the Great Gatsby: The Chicago Connection

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This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.”...
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of fortunes made and lost on Wall Street. Fitzgerald distilled real-life experiences into his characters Daisy Buchanan and Nick C...
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First confirmed footage of a colossal squid captured

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The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a...
The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat - a 30cm juvenile, at a depth of 600 metres near the South Sandwich Islands. Colo...

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Archeology of React (2016)

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This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Just three...
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Just three and a half years ago we open sourced a little JavaScript library called React. The journey since that day has been incredibly exciting. Commemorative T-Shirt In order to celebrate 50,000 GitHub stars, Maggie Appleton from eggh...
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A protein folding mystery solved: Study explains core packing fractions

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The physics of bowling strike after strike

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More than 45 million people in the US are fans of bowling, with national competitions awarding...
More than 45 million people in the US are fans of bowling, with national competitions awarding millions of dollars. Bowlers usually rely on instinct and experience, earned through lots and lots of practice, to boost their strike percentage. A team of physicists has come up with a mathematical model to better predict...
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Adding Structured Data to a Rails Application

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When it comes to SEO, content is king. However, content is not exclusively what can be...
When it comes to SEO, content is king. However, content is not exclusively what can be seen or read, metadata is also part of the content, and it helps us better communicate what the content is about and what entities are part of it. In this article, we will learn how to add structured data, a.k.a. schema markup, to...

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015)

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I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in...
I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of Biostatisti...

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CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract

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The Fraudulence of "Waste, Fraud and Abuse"

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This was my first Substack post after leaving the New York Times. Reposting now — new...
This was my first Substack post after leaving the New York Times. Reposting now — new post coming in a few hours — because it holds up pretty well, although I underestimated the damage Musk would causeFirst things first: welcome to readers new and old. Now that I have written my last column for the New York Times, t...
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Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

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Opinion The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last...
Opinion The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds. Or so we think: the whole business has been massively obfuscated by that special blend of state secrecy and l...
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How I Use Audio Journaling and AI to Improve My Trading Decisions

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US abruptly turns off funding for CVE program

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US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database...
US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday. The 25-year-old CVE program plays a huge role in vulnerability management. It is responsible overseeing the assignment and organizing of unique CVE ID numbers,...
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Flexport Is Hiring Software Engineers

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Figma confidentially files for US IPO after $20B Adobe deal collapse

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(Reuters) -Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the...
(Reuters) -Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, more than a year after a $20 billion deal to be acquired by Adobe was shelved due to regulatory roadblocks. Figma had been widely considered as a candidate to go public after antitrust ...

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Show HN: Particle - News, Organized

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An Interactive Introduction to Rotors from Geometric Algebra

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Mushroom A.stiptica Bitter Compounds and Human Taste Receptor Activation

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Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case

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