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lewiso1

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lewiso1··on Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
Allen Downey’s books are very good. For example: Modeling and Simulation in Python

https://allendowney.github.io/ModSimPy/

lewiso1··on Beginner Fountain Pens
“Proper” writing technique has the pen being right angled to the line, which puts the wrist below the line and avoids smudging. It’s pretty uncomfortable at first, but can be learned.
lewiso1··on The enormous heat pumps warming cities
Surely the earth 50-100m down is warm due to radioactive decay deeper in the crust, rather than from “absorbing sunlight over millenia”!
lewiso1··on Show HN: G-Script – Visual Scripting for the Web
It would be really useful to see a real example of a use-case. Is there one available?
lewiso1··on UC Berkeley launches SkyPilot to help navigate soaring cloud costs
Looks great! Do you anticipate any pushback from cloud providers, who might one day decide to restrict access to stop people getting a better price elsewhere?
lewiso1··on Repulsive Curves
One of the insights here is using the “tangent point energy” as part of the repulsion loss function. If anyone’s used, or knows of, a python implementation of this TPE function then please lmk!