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Decisions and Dragons

decisionsanddragons.com

This site gathers my responses to reinforcement learning questions from various social media platforms and interactions.Each...
This site gathers my responses to reinforcement learning questions from various social media platforms and interactions.Each answer begins with a concise explanation, accessible to those with relevant background knowledge. Of course, if you’re here, you may not have all of the relevant background knowledge. This sit...
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Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law

gizmodo.com

The cryptocurrency industry has long been fueled by a libertarian ethos that sees government oversight and...
The cryptocurrency industry has long been fueled by a libertarian ethos that sees government oversight and regulatory scrutiny as the enemy of economic freedom. At the same time, it is also an industry that has sought to reproduce goods and services that already exist in the traditional, regulated economy. In theory...
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The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost

newstatesman.com

In 1790, 126 years after John Milton was buried beneath the floor of St Giles’s, Cripplegate,...
In 1790, 126 years after John Milton was buried beneath the floor of St Giles’s, Cripplegate, his coffin was broken open by builders renovating the church. The verger, drinking in a local hostelry, boasted about the find. A crowd gathered. Soon the poet’s remains were being torn to pieces. A publican tugged at the t...
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Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints

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AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing

frost.kiwi

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Clearest Health (YC S23) is hiring a full-stack engineer in NY

ycombinator.com

We are looking to make our first engineering hire at Clearest Health. This role will report...
We are looking to make our first engineering hire at Clearest Health. This role will report directly to the CTO.We are in an unsexy $300 B market that desperately needs better incentive alignment, which can only be achieved through better technology. Your work will directly impact the health and savings of 60% of th...
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Show HN: Retry a command with exponential backoff and jitter (+ Starlark exprs)

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Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables

defence24.com

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Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings

techcrunch.com

Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak...
Microsoft plans to let Teams users clone their voices so they can have their sound-alikes speak to others in meetings in different languages. At Microsoft Ignite 2024 on Tuesday, the company revealed Interpreter in Teams, a tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers “real-time, speech-to-speech” interpretation capabilit...
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Lush: My favorite small programming language

wordpress.com

I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind...
I meant to write about this when I started my blog in 2009. Eventually Lush kind of faded out of my consciousness, as it was a lot easier to get work doing stuff in R or Matlab or whatever. The guy who was maintaining the code moved on to other things. The guys who wrote most of the code were getting famous because ...
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FireDucks: Pandas but 100x Faster

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Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books

abebooks.com

Let's start with the definition. An ex-library book is a book that once belonged to a...
Let's start with the definition. An ex-library book is a book that once belonged to a public library or institution and has been 'discarded' after being deemed no longer useful. These books often gravitate into the hands of used booksellers and end up for sale on online marketplaces such as AbeBooks. A 'friends of t...

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Show HN: DDoS Photon Cannon – A Toy DDoS

codeberg.org

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Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab

mozilla.org

A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we...
A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we can experiment with some messages to help users understand the value of signing up for / signing into a Mozilla account mconley landed a patch to make the heuristics for the automatic Picture-in-Picture feature a bit smarter. This ...
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Loading the World OpenStreetMap Import in Under 4 Hours

crunchydata.com
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Trivial REST server in various languages to compare

github.com
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Why don't you move abroad?

orkohunter.net

An Indian's answer from the Heart instead of the Mind I just wrapped up a tech...
An Indian's answer from the Heart instead of the Mind I just wrapped up a tech conference here this week in Salt Lake City. I was one of the speakers. It was a special moment for me. Strangely enough, the very first time I came to US, it was also as a speaker at a conference. “Did you just say you are a speaker...
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Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset

simonwillison.net
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Windows 365 Link Preview

microsoft.com
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Yemen's 'uninhibited' attacks push French warship to exit Red Sea

thecradle.co
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Unified Checkout: Streamlining Uber's Payment Ecosystem

uber.com
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Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars

jaguarusa.com
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Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke

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Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now

letsencrypt.org
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