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chrisgpon Avoiding fusion plasma tearing instability with deep reinforcement learning

Why doesn't simpler control theory work here, like PID controllers?

chrisgpon US Moving Toward Creation of a Digital Dollar

Considering how much demand there is for stablecoins this seems pretty positive. Don't need to worry about Tether counterparty risk if the backer of a US dollar coin is the US treasury.

Maybe this is what gets us to <1h settlement ACH transfers?

chrisgpon JetBrains Suspending Development of Projector

Amazing how much better VSCode Remote is than JB Gateway so far. Constant crashes in Gateway, and manages to get really tripped up trying to work with a corporate firewall that VSCode handles easily. Hoping Gateway gets there in the next few versions.

chrisgpon E Ink Gallery 3

I remember this project from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726 Very cool idea but the screen used was $2k+, and two years later the price is the same.

Seems like we're still a long way off from reasonably priced large e-ink displays -- very curious to see any progress in this space.

chrisgpon The tech bubble that never burst

"...and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war anymore"

chrisgpon The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive down

The NYT removed a few words from the original list that were seen as more obscure, but otherwise it seems like they just copy-pasted the client-side code.

chrisgpon Show HN: Goopt – Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3

Does the full version of this require Strong AI to truly replace the internet? What level of AI is necessary to convincingly replicate human understanding and explanation of information?

chrisgpon United Airlines will buy 15 planes from Boom Supersonic

Aren't all of the proposed routes for supersonic planes over oceans?

chrisgpon The most expensive number in engineering

In finance and gambling, the kelly criterion is used to evaluate maximum bet sizing while keeping risk-of-ruin near 0. Using it correctly requires understanding your own expectation and variance to a high degree of confidence. Everyone in these industries uses kelly to figure out the maximum size they can bet based on these careful expectation and variance calculations, then just divides by 2.

chrisgpon Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?

Best: Good research is about the quantity and throughput of ideas you can test, not the quality of individual ideas.

Worst: Code should be designed for users, not any individual engineer's philosophical preference.

chrisgpon Credit Suisse Takes $4.7B Hit on Archegos Meltdown

Just curious, is that still true if your model of daily returns isn't gaussian? If prices have intermittent shocks (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, etc) is the daily vol much higher?