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ajay-d··on Expected Soon: First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole
"The data were too voluminous to transmit over the internet, and so had to be placed on hard disks and flown back to M.I.T." One can only wonder how 'large' they're talking about.
ajay-d··on History of Biosphere 2
Where'd the cockroaches come from? Presumably from the outside?
ajay-d··on Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Ethiopian Airlines crash
Boeing says they'll issue a software update in the coming weeks. Is that what the problem was? https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...
ajay-d··on Amplituhedron
I need the 3 brown 1 blue video to understand this one
ajay-d··on New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer Uses SMS and Bluetooth
The actual skimmers are still "traditional" in the sense. This thing just relays that stolen information.
ajay-d··on Plotting hearts with Python and C
Here's a widget to play with: https://love.imaginary.org/

The time actually has a write up on the formula too https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/science/math-algorithm-va...

ajay-d··on List of stories set in a future now past
My favorite HN posts are these types of wikipedia articles
ajay-d··on Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry
60 minutes had a segment last night on plastic reaching the most remotes parts of the ocean. Incredibly disheartening.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch...

ajay-d··on Soulja Boy Is Selling Cheap Emulators as His Own Consoles
Reminds me of the $100 iphone x clone https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmkdd/counterfei...
ajay-d··on Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data
posted this before: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-27/hedge-fun...
ajay-d··on Leaving NYC for Nashville
I probably shouldn't have been biased towards my political preference.

I'm just saying there's other factors, not mentioned by Wes, that me and many others deem important when choosing a place to live. And taken as a whole, NYC and TN are polar opposites in that realm.

ajay-d··on Leaving NYC for Nashville
Political makeup, racial diversity, gun laws/beliefs, views on immigration are vastly different between the two areas. Donald Trump won the election in Tennessee with 60.7% of the vote, the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate for either party since 1972. At least Nashville is in one of the blue counties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

ajay-d··on The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy
Interesting that the trading strategies have a shelf life, and they're basically trying to keep him in court / jail until they deem those strategies no longer valuable.
ajay-d··on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say
60 Minutes also profiled Andy recently. They even show a machine (over 100 years old) to move train switches, by manually pulling antique levers. Scary to think how these things operate.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mta-why-has-the-nyc-subway-gone...

ajay-d··on Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, Touch ID
Both ports are on the same side though...
ajay-d··on Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?
NYC public schools use a version of this too: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/nyregion/how-game-theory-...
ajay-d··on Faster R with FastR
This is true. Even if you manage to build 2 billion + matrices, with bit64, I don't know any modeling packages that can handle those objects.
ajay-d··on Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It
How about tracking corporate jets to buy stock in companies before a merger / acquisition. That blew me away when I first read about it.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-27/hedge-fun...

ajay-d··on Tensorflow 1.6.0 Released
Looks like it's on pypi now https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow-gpu
ajay-d··on Core ML: Integrate machine learning models into your app
The python package, coremltools, to convert the trained model is only for python 2.7??
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