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Efficient algorithms, the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and losing the plot

Posted by sebg on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:31PM
from the argmin.net dept.

https://www.argmin.net/p/galactus-the-devourer

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 675

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:55PM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-675

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There's No Such Thing as Society in the Objective Function

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:08PM
from the laurenleek.substack.com dept.

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-society-in

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The Economic Organisation of a POW Camp [pdf]

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:50PM
from the courses.cit.cornell.edu dept.

https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/econ4260/out/radford_pow.pdf

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A (lukewarm) defense of Minsky and Papert

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:37PM
from the federicomilanesio.substack.com dept.

https://federicomilanesio.substack.com/p/a-lukewarm-defense-of-minsky-and

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Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:24PM
from the florianwilhelm.info dept.

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/

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Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it

Posted by sebg on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:55AM
from the josephheath.substack.com dept.

https://josephheath.substack.com/p/reproducing-civilization

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Why I like the word "exercise" when we learn math

Posted by sebg on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:34AM
from the kidswholovemath.substack.com dept.

https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/why-i-like-the-word-exercise-when

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Cleanyourtv – Debloat Any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:11PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 674

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:04AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-674

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Diplomatic Ways to Critique AI Slop

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:52AM
from the seascapemodels.org dept.

https://www.seascapemodels.org/posts/2026-10-20-diplomatic-critique-of-ai-slop/

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DrinkR: Estimate your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) (right in the browser)

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:49AM
from the rasmusab.github.io dept.

https://rasmusab.github.io/drinkr/

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Safespace: A Safe Space to Experience Pull Requests

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:43AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/jonocarroll/safespace

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 673

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:17PM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-673

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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

Posted by sebg on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:55AM
from the patreon.com dept.

https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430

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Alien Crash Site

Posted by sebg on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:38PM
from the aliencrashsite.org dept.

https://www.aliencrashsite.org

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 672

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:11AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-672

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Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:30AM
from the blog.scientific-python.org dept.

https://blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/searchsorted/

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Distilling Stockfish with One Billion Positions

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:19AM
from the blog.lukesalamone.com dept.

https://blog.lukesalamone.com/posts/distilling-stockfish/

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Trump Tourism Effects

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:55AM
from the kieranhealy.org dept.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/10/01/trump-tourism-effects/

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Some simple models of induced demand

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:40AM
from the datascienceconfidential.github.io dept.

https://datascienceconfidential.github.io//economics/2026/10/04/induced-demand.html

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Why Vim Is More Than Just an Editor

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:24AM
from the ssp.sh dept.

https://www.ssp.sh/blog/why-using-neovim-data-engineer-and-writer-2023/

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 671

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:56AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-671

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The Rock's rise and fall. And the end of a certain type of movie stardom

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:54AM
from the statsignificant.com dept.

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rocks-rock-bottom

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Happy 100th Anniversary, Arizona (With an Asterisk?)

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:21AM
from the sharonlohr.com dept.

https://www.sharonlohr.com/blog/2026/9/21/happy-100th-anniversary-arizona

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How many strings can you create per second?

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:46AM
from the lemire.me dept.

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/25/how-many-strings-can-you-create-per-second/

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Partial pooling as an answer to the reference class problem

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:23AM
from the sudippaul.substack.com dept.

https://sudippaul.substack.com/p/partial-pooling-as-an-answer-to-the

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Servers in Dawn-Dusk Orbit

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:12AM
from the johndcook.com dept.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/25/dawn-dusk-orbit/

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Report of Summit on PhD Math Education in the Age of AI [pdf]

Posted by sebg on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:06AM
from the cmsa.fas.harvard.edu dept.

https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/media/2026/09/Summit-on-PhD-Math-Education-in-the-Age-of-AI.pdf

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