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crawftv··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
The biggest red flag in all these stories is getting a call from a customer support person trying to help you. When it seems like it’s impossible to get ahold of them in a real emergency.
crawftv··on 'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting
Is it still going? I watched "The Art of the Steal" documentary and thought it shut down.
crawftv··on Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)
This just means your boss needs a spreadsheet model guy. "Bosses" would rather die than enter a formula in spreadsheet.
crawftv··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
This was the whole issue. California made it illegal for insurance companies to raise rates, so the insurance companies stop renewals. Leaving everybody uninsured. Homeowners couldn't buy insurance at any price.
crawftv··on University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics
The glass recycling in my area is hauling my glass to a container and it gets turned into fiberglass.
crawftv··on Anthem drops controversial new plan to cap anesthesia coverage after backlash
There is a specific type of nurse called a CRNA that is basically a replacement for anesthesiologists. And half the nurses I know are going to school for that. It seems like hospitals and insurers want to replace the MD here.
crawftv··on Scientists peek into the kitchen of the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization
To answer your last question, we would need to have a good idea of what the language sounded like. Linear B was deciphered, we think, by doing frequency analysis but using the Greek language. so it was a script for the Greek language in Crete. It seems impossible to decipher the script without a sound of the language.
crawftv··on Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?
I second this. Do t be scared off by it being for math Olympiads. A lot the first volume deals with concepts across much of the field. Lots of practice and ideas for logs, exponents, word problems. And it comes with a solution guide which helped me a lot.
crawftv··on S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week
As long you have tolerance for it to keep dropping further you’ll be fine. Don’t expect to know where the bottom there is. People forget the second part of the famous saying. “But when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.
crawftv··on Show HN: ChessCoach: Find mistakes in your chess games, and improve
This is very neat. I'm glad someone figured this problem out.
crawftv··on Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
The reason is that they are highly levered with many small short term trades. >dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/senate-inquiry-faults-hedge-funds-tax-strategy/https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/senate-inquiry-fault... “Jul 21, 2014 Within these complicated financial structures, Renaissance Technologies was able to borrow as much as $17 for every $1 in the account.”
crawftv··on Ask HN: Why does anyone still use Medium?
Exposure is one reason. Two of my articles have over 3k views. On medium you can make good content and get a decent amount of views much easier than hosting own blog and growth hacking.
crawftv··on WeWTF
It all really comes back to Trump in the end.
crawftv··on Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python
With advancements in saved/pretrained models I think answer is or will be a raspberry pi. I think a more interesting question is “what is the smallest computer that can learn chess”
crawftv··on The Effect of Sleep on Happiness
In my experience, I think the momentum/flow and thrill helps. Also hacking turns into late-night-hacking as I try to dig myself out of hole. So it ends up being productive by trying to finish something before bed.