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Looking ahead, I have some ambitious goals that I hope to achieve in the next 10 years. My intent is to spend my 40s building the empire that I will use in my 50s to establish my legacy.
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Learn how to make performance reviews less stressful and more accurate with a simple, low-tech solution.
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Trimmed Hodges-Lehmann location estimator, Part 2: Gaussian efficiency
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aakinshin.net
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3 years ago
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This post evaluates the finite-sample Gaussian efficiency of the trimmed Hodges–Lehmann estimator. In Pragmastat, Center achieves 95% asymptotic Gaussian efficiency with a 29% breakdown point — without any trimming. Confidence intervals are available via CenterBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous post , we introduced the trimmed [[hodges-lehmann-estimator|Hodges-Lehman location estimat..
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Good tools are those that help users accomplish something while mostly staying out of their way. Browsers should be such tools, and there are many of them to choose from. Sadly however there are effectively only two browser engines available. Those would be the engines behind Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Name me any fairly mainstream browser and there are overwhelming odds that either one of those engines is powering it.
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Good tools are those that help users accomplish something while mostly staying out of their way. Browsers should be such tools, and there are many of them to choose from. Sadly however there are effectively only two browser engines available. Those would be the engines behind Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Name me any fairly mainstream browser and there are overwhelming odds that either one of those engines is powering it.
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I had been meaning to check out David Wilson's System Crafters post detailing his presentations style achieved with the help of org-present and his own customizations. If you're looking for ways to present from Emacs itself, David's post is well worth a look. org-present's spartan but effective approach resonated with me. David's touches bring the wonderfully stylish icing to the cake. I personally liked his practice of collapsing s....
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Trimmed Hodges-Lehmann location estimator, Part 2: Gaussian efficiency
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aakinshin.net
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3 years ago
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This post evaluates the finite-sample Gaussian efficiency of the trimmed Hodges–Lehmann estimator. In Pragmastat, Center achieves 95% asymptotic Gaussian efficiency with a 29% breakdown point — without any trimming. Confidence intervals are available via CenterBounds . pragmastat.dev github.com/AndreyAkinshin/pragmastat In the previous post , we introduced the trimmed [[hodges-lehmann-estimator|Hodges-Lehman location estimat..
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I love reading books. But I also like to read books on my tablet or my laptop. Using an application like Honkit, you can create great-looking ebooks from markdown files. These ebooks are easy to distribute and can be read using the browser. This article explains how to create ebooks with Honkit.
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Learn how to make performance reviews less stressful and more accurate with a simple, low-tech solution.
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Now that it's a new year, let's take a look back at some of the amazing 2022 Snyk developer security platform highlights.
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Important Mootxico announcement! 1 new board s have been created: - /hob/ - Hobbies This board is meant to house specific hobby threads, such as Drawing, Anime, Tabletop, Video Games, Do-it-Yourself projects and anything else that can be considered hobbies (shitposting is not a valid hobby!) Feel free to post multiple threads for variants of your hobbies if you want. Do remember that / lol / - I n t e r n e t is ..
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Soyjak.party/Jakparty.soy Some of the worst of the worst cancer anon has seen in recent years. 711 /i/nsurgent pointed out they adopt anything spammed on their site as their own, which we could use to our benefit. >Debatebro retards on Twitter People like Destiny who act pompous over Twatter and argue with people over petty topics on livestreams. Also brought up on 711/i/. Feel free to provide moar suggestions for lulz. ..
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Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact
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abdulapopoola.com
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3 years ago
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Measuring a manager's impact is hard since outcomes take time. The manager takes full responsibility for the team - be it stagnation, execution woes, poor collaboration, churn, or a lack of focus. This post provides early evaluation metrics as well as tips for course correction.
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Animals Do Not Care Which Theory You Cite to Justify Not Exploiting Them.
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joshbaldwin.substack.com
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3 years ago
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Josephine Donovan writes in “Feminism and the Treatment of Animals” that feminist animal care theory was created in reaction to the prevalent animal rights theories in the early 1980s.
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Fiction It’s that part of the late afternoon where the sun has dipped below the horizon but it’s not dusk yet. I walk out of the air-conditioned sanctuary of my house, and step onto the porch. The now weakened humidity of the mid-September breeze envelopes me. I love Indian summer. My bare feet relish the feel of the unvarnished, and uneven wood below. The road is full of dust. The sky is baby blue, and gradients all the way to pin..
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Fiction It’s that part of the late afternoon where the sun has dipped below the horizon but it’s not dusk yet. I walk out of the air-conditioned sanctuary of my house, and step onto the porch. The now weakened humidity of the mid-September breeze envelopes me. I love Indian summer. My bare feet relish the feel of the unvarnished, and uneven wood below. The road is full of dust. The sky is baby blue, and gradients all the way to pin..
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This is my take on software engineering ladders and what it takes to be promoted from one band to another.
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At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter notebook—with feedback cycles so fast and joyful that it feels almost tactile. Having used them for some time now this is the only way I’d ever want to write tests.
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At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter notebook—with feedback cycles so fast and joyful that it feels almost tactile. Having used them for some time now this is the only way I’d ever want to write tests.
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Join me once again for my annual media roundup, celebrating the best games, movies, shows, and books I experienced in 2022! Read the whole thing .
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Join me once again for my annual media roundup, celebrating the best games, movies, shows, and books I experienced in 2022! Read the whole thing .
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I encourage people who fetch my keys to verify over multiple bands; for instance, they can fetch it over both Web Key Directory and DANE. They can also use something like Keyoxide to verify that it is associated with many other online accounts, perhaps including the account I was using when I first met that person. The later isn’t exactly verifying “out of band”, but it’s super helpful. If you’re willing to do some of that (a big “if”: ..
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Purchasing a property is a significant expense and buyers have worked hard over years to make it happen. Upon receiving the deed though, owners are not able to sleep safe and sound − there are rules and taxes, impeding on the peaceful life that owners had dreamed of.
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Full credit to the original author here for a pretty good recipe. Its tasty and simple, but I felt that there we’re a couple odd things I would change. I’d decrease the amount of worcestershire include. The flavor was pretty good, but I just continued to taste it over the other flavors so I think […] The post Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff first appeared on hypergeometric .
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You may or may not have heard the IndieWeb term POSSE , which stands for "Publish (on) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere". Although the term itself is relatively new to me, the approach that it describes is one that I've preferred for a long time. Syndication, though, has generally been something that I've treated as a manual task: tweeting/posts links that I think are likely to be of interest (often skipping more general posts like th....
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About a week ago, I added an Emacs function to insert SF symbol names . This is specially useful for SwiftUI. I didn't bother too much with inserting symbols themselves since I hadn't figured out a way to render them for all buffers. That's now changed. Christian Tietze and Alan Third both have useful posts in this space: Emacs, fonts and fontsets Use San Francisco Font for SF Symbols Everywhere in Emacs I'm currently using the f..
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In a previous post I documented my experience with the Meshtastic project and one of the TTGO T-Beam boards. Since then, I've experimented more with meshtastic and its capabilities, while the new version 2.0 of the project got released, so some updated notes are in order!
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Maximising privacy and control: Rooting and Installing Valetudo on Roborock Vacuum Cleaners
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daanmiddendorp.com
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3 years ago
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I am not a fan of “smart” devices; they try to bring some upper class luxury to the middle class using technology. For example, vacuum cleaners: those who cannot afford a cleaning lady, can probably afford a robot vacuum cleaner that does some vacuuming for you. However, these devices come with the cost of privacy as everything it does do is sent back to the vendor. Is it possible to have both the privacy and cheap comfort? Roborock Somew....
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These caught my eyes on the way to my eldest’s soccer game. Really interesting undulations. The post Storm Clouds first appeared on hypergeometric .
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Another year, another books roundup. This one is slightly late because I was traveling with Yee Aun at the beginning of the year, so please file any complaints with her. Some changes in reading technology - This year, I got a bookshelf - the Ikea Hemnes, which turned out to be slightly taller than makes sense for my room. I'm still very happy with it. As a consequence, I ended up buying and reading more physical books. I also got a n....
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Adding an extra dimension with the power of quaternions, orthographic projections and a whole lot of churn.
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Adding an extra dimension with the power of quaternions, orthographic projections and a whole lot of churn.
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If you find yourself in a team that needs to largely increase in size (happened to me twice at Uber) whether at a big company or a rising startup, you will end up interviewing a lot.
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I’ve been adding Sorbet and type checking gradually to a legacy Ruby codebase dating back to the 2010‘s. First up was getting all or most files as (a topic for another day): # typed: true Now I’m gradually adding method annotations, using sig annotations, to tell Sorbet what types a method accepts and returns, like so: sig {params(x: SomeType, y: SomeOtherType).returns(MyReturnType)} def foo(x, y); ...; end Docs: https://sorbet.org/d..
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My favorite ~200 articles out of the ~2,700+ that I read in 2022. Particular favorites are marked with a star (⭐). Book Reviews The Dawn Of Everything by Erik Hoel at Astral Codex Ten Exhaustion by “Van Occupanther” at Astral Codex Ten ⭐ Too Like the Lightning by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it Seven Surrenders by @bormgans at Weighing a pig doesn’t fatten it How Molecular Forces and Rotating Planets C....
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