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madcaptenor

2,432 karmajoined 17 yıl önce
Data scientist, math blogger

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madcaptenor
·evvelsi gün·discuss
Every now and then HN falls apart
madcaptenor
·evvelsi gün·discuss
IIRC her best-known song saw a spike in popularity around the 2024 solar eclipse. (I know I played it a few times.)
madcaptenor
·evvelsi gün·discuss
"Strong Songs" podcast breaking down Total Eclipse of The Heart: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/s07e06-total-e...
madcaptenor
·4 gün önce·discuss
I am an Italian-American and would presume to speak for Italian-American foodways but not the foodways of Italians living in Italy.
madcaptenor
·13 gün önce·discuss
Bluey would never do this.
madcaptenor
·17 gün önce·discuss
I had wondered if getting wordle in 1 based on social media data was possible! Now I know.
madcaptenor
·17 gün önce·discuss
see also "absurdle": https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
madcaptenor
·19 gün önce·discuss
These exist for various medical usages. I've seen one to compute the due date of a pregnancy (from either the date of conception or the last missed period). This was at an obstetrician's office. It was probably dropped off by a sales rep and had the logo of some medication or other.
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
That's what I was thinking.
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
Tax brackets are also inflation-adjusted, so shouldn't that cancel out?
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
It's hard to be totally sure, but I also don't think that's a picture of Dudley.
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
From a glance at the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371) it looks like they're using self-reported ethnicity.

"We only attempt to identify adverse impact based on self-reported racial information and do not impute data, noting that we do not have access to features like applicant name. 62.35% of all applicants in the data do not self-report race as belonging to one of the four racial groups we study."
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
I should clarify. I remember the fact that I read them but I don't remember anything about them.
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
I share this feeling. When I want to free up some space, the books I get rid of are the ones I don't remember reading.
madcaptenor
·geçen ay·discuss
I had the same confusion - I'd move the [...] to the following sentence.
madcaptenor
·2 ay önce·discuss
Another case: when Brexit happened, IIRC some people in Scotland were suggesting secession from the UK post-Brexit so they could rejoin the EU.
madcaptenor
·2 ay önce·discuss
Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. But he didn't want to be Michael A. Fox because that sounded too much like "Michael, a fox."
madcaptenor
·2 ay önce·discuss
right, but giving English-speaking kids the following would help them:

- a bear that looks like B

- an orange that looks like O

- a snake that looks like S

- a tree that looks like T

(and so on; that's just what I can think of off the top of my head)
madcaptenor
·2 ay önce·discuss
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/

(in short, people have found the "Eureka" part in Asimov but not the "that's funny" part)
madcaptenor
·2 ay önce·discuss
It also helps that newborn poop doesn't smell particularly bad. It only starts smelling like poop when they start eating real food.