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Here it is in one static image: https://i.imgur.com/qJsTjpp.jpeg

"Sabiro" for a suit comes from "Savile Row", a street in London famous for its tailor shops, which in turn is named after Dorothy Boyle, Countess of Burlington and Cork (née Savile).

This article links to that blog post and quotes from it.

> Elements of Statistical Learning

"Elements" is a great reference book, but it isn't really a textbook. There's a popular introductory textbook by some of the same authors called "An Introduction to Statistical Learning", which focuses on applications but elides a lot of the mathematical details.

> about 60% on its first 100 bets

This isn't really the appropriate metric. For example, a strategy which is short favourites and long underdogs needs a win rate much lower than 60% to overcome the house edge (and pay for this software).

In these slides, Icelandic type designer Gunnlaugur SE Briem begins by enumerating some basic steps to improve one's existing cursive handwriting. There follows an overview of historical handwriting styles and an argument in favour of the Italic handwriting revival begun by Alfred Fairbank in the early 20th century. Finally, there are some steps for learning this superior style along with tips for left-handed people.

I was recently in Iceland with some Polish-Canadian friends and they were amused by the number of Polish people we encountered.

> I think it proved too expensive for much action to be taken though.

Iceland beginning, let alone completing, a major infrastructure project in the 21st century? Impossible.

See also:

Shaving Is Too Expensive: https://www.johnwhiles.com/posts/shaving

Your Stuff Is Actually Worse Now: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23529587/consumer-goods-qualit...

Your Sweaters Are Garbage: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/sweat...

I have always thought that instrumentation alone would be a better classification than genre.

> There's a Curry-Howard isomorphism [between] logic [and Bayesian statistical inference].

This is an odd way of putting it. I think it's better to say that, given some mostly uncontroversial assumptions, if one is willing to assign real number degrees of belief to uncertain claims, then Bayesian statistical inference is the only way of reasoning about those claims that's compatible with classical propositional logic.

> Unicode is a standard that aims to unify all human languages, both past and present, and make them work with computers.

This is doubly wrong.

First, it conflates languages and writing systems. Malay and English use the same writing system but are different languages. American Sign Language is a language, but it has no standard or widely-adopted writing system. Hakka is a language, but Hakka speakers normally write in Modern Standard Mandarin, a different language.

Second, it's not that case that Unicode aims to encode all writing systems. For example, there are many hobbyist neographies (constructed writing systems) which will not be included in Unicode.

Isn't Nate falling for the Table 2 fallacy here? (Edit: Perhaps not, but it took drawing the DAG for me to be convinced.)

On work-from-home businesses that are not open to the public: you can report these, and it seems that if you have a good track record of submitting corrections to Google Maps, your reports are handled fairly swiftly.

This comment undervalues cold baked potatoes. They are a great snack.

Just the other day he posted about how they were able to modify the one member of the family identified in their paper which is not an aperiodic monotile into one that tiles without reflections.

Someone tell that to Peter Jackson before he makes another They Shall Not Grow Old.

The bar for notability also somehow ended up a lot lower for the kinds of things that appeal mostly to the Wikipedia editor demographic, although there has been some improvement on that front in recent years.

Indeed! You may reasonably regard this to be a bug or a feature.

Some people play by drawing from a deck of dice rolls without replacement in order to reduce the variance.

All four, since it's fairly easy to find an odd wheel in the tiling.

Tolkien lifted a bunch of names straight out of the Icelandic sagas and Edda.

Driving is net subsidized, even before pricing in these externalities.

So much commentary on the landscape of TV and film today reminds me of the Dogme 95 movement. Maybe those guys were on to something after all.

I have always wondered about why the Yugoslav system of market socialism didn't succeed. It sounds like Brezhnev was trying to move toward that model.

When Japanese enthusiasts scoured American thrift stores for the last remaining stock of vintage American denim, it supposedly constituted the largest ever transfer of clothing from the USA to Japan, exceeding even the postwar used clothing charity drives.

Well, it's only in the context of the radical casualization of menswear since the mid-60s that jeans and a t-shirt can be seen as stylish. When men first started wearing this outfit, it was considered rebellious in part because it was so obviously inappropriate to wear in public. The t-shirt originated as a military undergarment and jeans as mining equipment.

People in the developed world usually point to the Internet and mobile phones as the most prominent example of big societal changes in their lifetime, and those are obvious picks, but I think the end of rock as the dominant (super-)genre of popular music is overlooked.

Much of the appeal of Eon is that it describes a fairly believable and coherent post-scarcity/transhuman society.

Rudy Rucker recently released Mirrorshades for free on his website: https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/

I have a work-in-progress PDF edition of it on GitHub here: https://github.com/jdonland/mirrorshades