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I've taken to calling it autoincorrect. The prediction model for phone text seems to only consider word frequencies and blindly replace "were" with "we're" or its with "it's" every time it is encountered without regard for grammatical context. It's incredibly frustrating to type the correct word only to have it mangled by an algorithm that is less sophisticated than MS Word 95.

Apple had a huge head start with Siri but has been surpassed quite handily by Google and Amazon for some time now. I'm not sure we can simply rely on the passage of time for Apple to improve these large projects.

Both situations should require full disclosure, otherwise I don't see anything wrong with the F grade assessment.

Only a few milliseconds at the speed of light. We could eliminate the problems of traffic, infrastructure, energy, and housing costs if we could only agree that forcing everyone to meet in the same place at the same time is no longer necessary for most work.

Rosalind is a great intro to the fundamentals like graph and set theories, efficient string algorithms, combinatorics, etc.

My one criticism is that the examples for some problems are trivial and don't adequately account for any of the complexity of the problem. It can feel a bit like the "Learn to Drawn an Owl" meme: Step 1) Draw an oval. Step 2) Draw the rest of the owl.

That justice is not blind to personal wealth is a travesty, not something to celebrate.

The niche for this device is high random read performance in workloads where the dataset is too large to fit in RAM, for a significant price premium. Random write and sequential read/write performance is poor value compared to cheaper and higher capacity NVME ssds from Samsung.

The one standout feature apparently is that performance is reliable and not subject to GC stalls or degradation as the drive fills up.

> This whole thing is expensive, unnecessary, user-unfriendly and confusing (to the average user).

And yet, very profitable for the companies rolling it out so poorly, who can charge more for products featuring the new ports and nickel-and-dime us with expensive adapters, dongles, and cables to replace the perfectly functional USB-A ecosystem.

It's quite a clever trick they've managed to pull on their customers -- convincing us all our problems can be hand-waved away with a single, forceful utterance of "it's the future", thus relegating any criticism to "whining and moaning" about first-world problems.

That even Apple can't manage to simplify the mess within its own laptop line, let alone tablets and phones, is indicative of how poorly thought out this whole idea was from the start. They seem to have a device for just about every combination of incompatibility that is possible.

The goal was noble:

- provide enough power to charge an external device and ditch the bulky power supply and second cable

- support extremely high-speed devices like monitors and SSDs

- standardize the connector with a slimmer, symmetric design

So far it's been an utter failure of execution.

And the install process has a non-negligible chance of bricking your car until you get it towed back to the dealer.

This is perfect. The only thing that made Adafruit less than ideal was the shipping cost and delay for small purchases. If I can just hop over to a local retail site and get what I need for my projects I will be so happy!

In this case, a more relevant example from World War II might be the exploitation of flaws in the Enigma machine, namely:

1) the re-use of common phrases in weather reports, and

2) the fact that a letter could not be encoded as itself in the ciphertext, providing a mechanism of contradiction that drastically sped up elimination of possible settings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma#Op...

Numberphile gives a nice, succinct explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8

John Siracusa and Marco Arment are great at getting to the parts where Apple can improve. My only fault with them is their idea of Windows seems stuck in the days of XP.

Casey Liss, however, is just a cheerleader who would rather self-flagellate about his unworthiness to see Apple's blinding genius.

Probably not a good sign that FaceID failed on stage for Craig on his first try (had to use a passcode to log in) during the demo.

Robert Durst got away with killing and dismembering his victim because his defense claimed self-defense while shifting the jury's attention and anger toward the prosecutor for being an ambitious woman. If you haven't seen HBO's The Jinx it's well worth the time and absolutely terrifying to see how easily manipulated a jury can be.

They're certainly not putting a 300 Watt gpu in an all-in-one enclosure. The only way that would work is if they used the closed loop cooler version, which is too bulky.

I found this note in the appendix interesting with respect to why we don't seem to notice this latency

> Terminals were fullscreened before running tests. This affects test results, and resizing the terminal windows can and does significantly change performance (e.g., it’s possible to get hyper to be slower than iterm2 by changing the window size while holding everything else constant).

Perhaps we don't notice because it's so much lower at window sizes much less than fullscreen?

It's a lot faster if you use python's itertools and operator itemgetter:

  def gen_stats(data):
    start = time.time()
    stats = []
    data.sort(key=itemgetter(0))
    for p_id, p_items in itertools.groupby(data, key=itemgetter(0)):
      num_orders, _, total_quantity, total_price = map(sum, zip(*p_items))
      p_id, num_orders, total_quantity = map(int, [p_id, num_orders/p_id, total_quantity])
      stats.append([p_id, num_orders, total_quantity, round(float(total_price/num_orders),2)])
    end = time.time()
    working_time = end-start
    return stats, working_time

Results:

  Dataset size 55096 records
  [[1, 8, 340, 22.55], [2, 4, 94, 15.83], [3, 2, 97, 3.89]]
  [[1, 8, 340, 22.55], [2, 4, 94, 15.83], [3, 2, 97, 3.89]]
  All results equal: True
  Runtime (s)
  gen_stats_slow: 28.489468574523926
  gen_stats_fast:  0.06000018119812012

How do you know if it's "catching" anything other than noise? Have you done any kind of comparison against a gold standard method like a sleep study?

From what I can tell, none of these accelerometer-based methods work at all and the companies pushing these as sleep trackers are making false claims.

Case in point: Tycho Brahe's exceptionally detailed and accurate astronomical observations. His recorded work on the position of Mars allowed Kepler to establish the laws of planetary motion using elliptical orbits around the sun. Without that data (and logarithm tables and trigonometry), it may have been impossible to test theories of celestial mechanics and physics that kick-started the scientific revolution.

Grand Prix racing involves a 1500 pound car hitting a wall at +200 mph, with fuel. Death used to be guaranteed during the course of a season, but now any serious injury is rare.

Dismissing safety as impossible "because physics" is just silly. Technical solutions are the easy part. It's the culture change that is difficult.

Why bend over backwards and cut yourself off from your college community just to cater to jerks? Do you think the mods of HN are "hyper-sensitive pricks" for trying to preserve the quality of discourse here?

People seem to live under this illusion that the internet is somehow completely removed from real life, that the bigotry and hate doesn't count if it's over a computer. "Just close your eyes and pretend it isn't happening. So what if people are calling your house, your employer, your family; stalking you everywhere you go; threatening to kill you on an hourly basis; calling in a SWAT raid. Just ignore it!"

On the contrary, I think it's long past time our society grew up and stopped trying to make excuses for outrageously bad behavior. These aren't harmless pranks. They're part of a culture that normalizes hate to the point that it emboldens people to commit violence, on college campuses and elsewhere.

https://wamu.org/story/17/05/24/wake-college-park-murder-cam...