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np_tediouson Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

Lol. Def not for 5 year olds but it's about exactly what I needed

How about this:

Take a lot of pictures of a scene from different angles, do some crazy math, and then you can later pretend to zoom and pan the camera around however you want

np_tediouson A Fond Farewell

https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...

They appear experienced at navigating this confusion

np_tediouson Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

If your number of AB testing combos cohorts is fewer then 100 then yeah this passes for being uniform

np_tediouson Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?

Well I was curious, but there's a lot there I didn't understand. Apparently I'm good enough at math to do the proofs, but not to write the exercises.

Exercise left to the reader:

Prove 7*n^3 + n is divisible by 2

np_tediouson Five years of React Native at Shopify

What does "DB queries" mean here? The on-device sqlite stuff?

np_tediouson Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

That article is mostly about speed. The following seems like the one thing that might be relevant:

> Naively, you could take the random integer and compute the remainder of the division by the size of the interval. It works because the remainder of the division by D is always smaller than D. Yet it introduces a statistical bias

That's all it says. Is the point here just that 2^31 % 17 is not zero, so 1,2,3 are potentially happening slightly more than 15,16? If so, this is not terribly important

np_tediouson Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)

The user ID is non uniform after hash and mod? How?

np_tediouson Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

> Liv, for instance, said that her creator team included zero Black people and was predominantly white and male.

There were definitely Chinese and Indian males too

np_tediouson Microsoft Copilot Customers Discover It Can Let Them Read HR Docs and CEO Emails

I think they had been relying on lazy security by obscurity and it pretty much worked... until copilot

np_tediouson Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

I do think sugar should be regulated more and probably excised taxed, but banning is a different thing altogether

np_tediouson Should Sports Betting Be Banned?

So is sugar. Would you ban that? People have agency and choice

np_tediouson WP Engine is not WordPress

The revision system is not (not is it claimed to be) a sacred principle of life, morality, or society at large. It's a core tenet of WordPress.

np_tediouson How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

Idk much about him but stacking school busses on top of each other with a crane or driving a train into a sinkhole seem like pretty interesting things to do. Better than geeking out over the bloodiest Mortal Kombat fatality or whatever I was doing at that age. What's an example of the more "crap" content?

np_tediouson How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)

If you really think that, then you should be all the more interested in what it means to execute on that allegedly-harmful effort well vs poorly

np_tediouson Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?

I have a crush on dang but it hasn't gone anywhere yet

np_tediouson Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)

There is another big reason not to call him "sunshine and rainbows"

np_tediouson Google's shortened links will stop working next year

Are links generated from Google apps like

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xxxxxxx

going to continue working?

np_tediouson Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

I took my parent post as meaning the app language dependencies. Pip packages or ruby gems or "must be exactly python 3.12"

np_tediouson Ruby: A great language for shell scripts

Most shell-ish scripts probably use no dependencies and will not be picky about exact version

np_tediouson Starlark Language

Meta also uses (nearly) this for scripting to the search index. Both at index and query time. I think it's a good for that

np_tediouson Kalman Filter Explained Simply

If you're in an abstract/general mathematical function, then sure: single letters. If you're doing more business logic kind of stuff (iterating through a list of db/orm objects or processing a request body) then the names should be longer

np_tediouson Neal Stephenson was prescient about our AI age

Snow Crash is definitely overrated. I loved Cryptpnomicon, Baroque cycle, Anathem, REAMDE, Diamond Age

np_tediouson Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?

HN of a stack exchange of a reddit

(special shoutout to Money Stuff)

np_tediouson Some fish live beyond 100 and get healthier as they age

So long as they remain capable of reproduction in those later years

np_tediouson Wikipedia daily most viewed pages

Are people really reading Youtube, pornhub, facebook, Instagram pages this frequently or are these misclicks from search result page?

np_tediouson Pokémon is no longer just a game – it's a lifestyle

Ah, but it was not like zombies! It was actually a very social phenomenon. I played during that summer (2016?) after not thinking about Pokémon for 15+ years. It was "dumb" but it was cool to have a shared mission, however arbitrary, with so many others. Coworkers pooling money to buy lures, strangers on the street recognizing what you were doing and pointing you the right way wishing good luck, massive groups in city parks.

You are correct that respect for private property or business purpose was likely violated by Pokémon Go players. But "zombie" is not a good description.

np_tediouson In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)

It's not forced labor. Your are welcome to not get paid.

Also, many people find a reason (even if arbitrary / contrived) useful for prompting creative endeavors

np_tediouson In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (2019)

Hey it doesn't need to be efficient when you're just throwing money around. Pay someone else to rank them and pick the best ones. Some amount of them will be good