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Agree, Hunter S Thompson would've never written fear and loathing were he not a sports journo first

This is my favourite proof in all of maths (that I've been exposed to). Truly unreal feeling proving a statement is unprovable using godel numbering in an exam

manipulate foreign equity markets

That one took me back to high school art history. Agree, as much as I dislike AI generated art, it still is art. An Andy Warhol of today would could be making his screenprints using AI.

You really can't say, 'art should be this', 'art isn't that'. It's just art, it is what it is, people have a lot of emotions wrapped up in the art they like but it simply is what it is.

Yea agree, I worked at a bank during covid and helped do some work that tangentially helped relief/social security payments go through. Warmed me heart it did

Don't feel left out, big data architect in NZ and didn't even hear of this.

the flood!

NOAA is fantastic, I was alpine climbing in the very bottom of south america near El Chalten and NOAA is pretty much the only place to get a reliable forecast down there. Fantastic service.

computational reducibility/irreducibility is a big topic in computer science and is incredibly interesting. It allows us to prove that certain "computers" are the same through proofs and that they can carry out the same tasks regardless of the actions that take place within them. I would suggest looking into that as it really opens your eyes to just how similar computationally so many things are

subtle off green PCB, my god, that's really nice

I wonder why no one has introduced a hybrid of the two, for example, you have a private key on your Gov ID, you turn up to the polling station, sign your paper with your ID, bob's your dads brother.

Seems like this would solve the ballot stuffing issues as well as being easily electronically verifiable, it's just not a fully digital solution

I work in finance and it's great having big historical datasets, even if the figures are far lower in previous years it's good to see system 'shocks' and these can be used at a different magnitude/scaled for future forecasting

Amex isn't very popular in my country but they meet a really good intersection between the old school white glove service and an easily usable hassle free modern service

I imagine the "talks" amount to one of them (probably ghostface) telling them to go f themselves

I grew up lower middle class, which gave me a good hunger to go to college, get a degree and make some money. VCs are trying to incentivise that same mindset except by making with riches equity instead of opportunity

It's a great thing to do, I get the warm fuzzies when I help someone on a mailing list,even on big projects like Apache Spark, I'm not the smartest guy and can't help write a query planner but if I can help someone fix a bug it's good enough for me

that's such a sad statistic, people in the prime of their life, mainly caused by being out enjoying life at the wrong time

My computer programs always crashed in my first year of college, clear sign computers fail spectacularly

you took on the settlement risk and got paid for it, if you look into financial markets and central clearing and OTC contracts, central clearing/exchanges effectively get rid of that issue.

I somehow think the ccp might look favourably and ignore some liabilities if someone else becomes the new bag holder, you know, saving their RE industry and stuff

seems you missed a vital step of selecting something after your search

I was being a bit naive/non-descript in my first comment but I'm a pretty firm believer they already had some secret sauce that could do the same job of summarising the information they collect into a human useable level

Haven't we been in that era since the Patriot Act and Five Eyes?

Cambridge did a great study on how 'real' these credits are https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/carbon-credits-hot-air

I really really like partitioned data formats like Parquet/Delta etc that allow this for this reason. Often do stuff like this in our data warehouse but hadn't thought of 'psuedo partitioning' the data like this on an operational DB

What do I care if the King of Sweden does the math problem or the guy at the desk next to me? Only knowing the answer is correct is what matters to me

ML Flow solves most of these issues for models, I haven't used it in relation to data versioning but it solves most model versioning and deployment management things I can think of

I worked at a rather large bank at the start of covid and we overnighted a bit of networking kit on a first class flight when everything was more or less grounded, I think there was a 50x multiple to the cost of the item vs the cost of transport for it, time is very much money

Love stuff like this, it's how kids get into computers. I used to make minecraft servers for my friends and I to play on when I was 12, which lead to a software engineering career. Sounds like you've got something similar on your hands

yea lol there's no economics at play here other than greed, which I guess can be a form of economics lol