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How to Shuffle a Big Dataset (janestreet.com)

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Scientists in Antarctica say they were left alone against sexual harassers (go.com)

a year ago | alexmolas | go.com | frontpage

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How far can you jump from a swing? (alexmolas.com)

a year ago | alexmolas | alexmolas.com | frontpage

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A 3D Game of Life (lukesalamone.github.io)

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Show HN: I made danluu's blog easier to read (danluucination.github.io)

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How Correlated Are You? (allendowney.com)

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Coin Boys (reddit.com)

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Answering “Why did the KPI change?” using decomposition (maxhalford.github.io)

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Analyzing Gender Gap in Chess (alexmolas.com)

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Good Science, Good Engineering (alexmolas.com)

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Good Science, Good Engineering (alexmolas.com)

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A collection of quant riddles with answers (nigelcoldwell.co.uk)

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Stopping at 90% (austinhenley.com)

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Counting License Plates (alexmolas.com)

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You're the Best at Something (alexmolas.com)

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Median – A Tale in Three Functions (martinfowler.com)

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Ask HN: What's going on with posts getting hundreds of upvotes in minutes?

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Chess.com: “We're experiencing a DDoS attack” (twitter.com/chesscom)

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You're the Best at Something (alexmolas.com)

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Automate Your Static Blogroll (alexmolas.com)

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Perspectives on Diffusion (sander.ai)

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About math limitations (alexmolas.com)

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Nobody cares about your blog (alexmolas.com)

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Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning (bair.berkeley.edu)

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Ask HN: Which are your favourite blogs in terms of aesthetics?

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Why did I make my blog uglier? (alexmolas.com)

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Why do we minimize the mean squared error? (alexmolas.com)

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George R. R. Martin uses a 36-year-old DOS software to write his books (wikiofthrones.com)

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Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias (arxiv.org)

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An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python (statlearning.com)

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First Zuckerberg tweet after 11 years (twitter.com/finkd)

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Building Personal and Organizational Prestige (lethain.com)

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Bill Thurston: What's a mathematician to do? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)

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A game for the next 15 years: counting license plates (alexmolas.com)

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Codon – high-performance Python compiler (exaloop.io)

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Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Pizzas (maxhalford.github.io)

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Go Get the Data (allendowney.com)

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How (not) to compare 2D scatter plots (liorsinai.github.io)

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GPT-4 Beats Humans in Pitch Effectiveness (clarifycapital.com)

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How Much for Your Brain? (alexmolas.com)

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Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking (eugeneyan.com)

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Renting Your Brain (alexmolas.com)

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Hacking Myself to Prove a Point (macchaffee.com)

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St. Petersburg Paradox (alexmolas.com)

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Debunking the Myth of Dollar Cost Averaging (alexmolas.com)

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Debunking the Myth of Dollar Cost Averaging (alexmolas.com)

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Debunking the Myth of Dollar Cost Averaging (alexmolas.com)

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Graph Components with DuckDB (maxhalford.github.io)

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Ask HN: Which is your favourite blog?

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Did ChatGPT cheat on your test? (hitz-zentroa.github.io)

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Randomized Voting Strategy (alexmolas.com)

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A Randomized Voting Strategy (alexmolas.com)

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A Randomized Voting Strategy (alexmolas.com)

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Interactive point-based image generation (reddit.com)

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Larger language models do in-context learning differently (googleblog.com)

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Loss of Jobs vs. Time (vivekaithal.co)

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Causation, Collision, and Confusion (docs.google.com)

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Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf] (princeton.edu)

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Gender Gap in Chess (alexmolas.com)

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Gender Gap in Chess: Is It Just a Statistical Artifact? (alexmolas.com)

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Travel time ~ 750 * distance ^ 0.6 (vitalik.ca)

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Students using adaptive curriculums got up to 11% better in math tests (innovamat.com)

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1% of Your Day (raamdev.com)

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Lichess Voice Recognition Beta (lichess.org)

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Library of Babel (libraryofbabel.info)

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These Shapes Are Topologically Equivalent (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)

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Thomas Fitzpatrick (wikipedia.org)

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How to Help (ucla.edu)

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What's a Mathematician to Do? (2010) (mathoverflow.net)

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Homemade Baby Movement Monitor: Our Journey (medium.com/todbotts.triangles)

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How to Initialize Your Bias (amolas.dev)

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St. Petersburg Paradox (amolas.dev)

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Google’s quantum computer hits key milestone by reducing errors (nature.com)

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Yes, you should understand backprop (2016) (karpathy.medium.com)

a year ago | alexmolas | medium.com | newest

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Refactoring Guru – Refactors and Design Patterns (refactoring.guru)

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The Error of the Error (amolas.dev)

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Problem solving with dimensional analysis (gregorygundersen.com)

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Data-free diagnostics for Deep Learning (weightwatcher.ai)

a year ago | alexmolas | weightwatcher.ai | frontpage

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Curated Papers on Machine Learning in Production (github.com/eugeneyan)

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The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)

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Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution (2021) (yang-song.net)

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The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967) (chomsky.info)

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Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Tom Morello (1996) (chomsky.info)

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Estimating square roots in your head (gregorygundersen.com)

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A Watermark for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

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Feynman's Restaurant Problem (amolas.dev)

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The Transformer Family (lilianweng.github.io)

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Fake-Git-history: Generate Git commits (github.com/artiebits)

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Looking for the best Chess960 starting position (amolas.dev)

a year ago | alexmolas | amolas.dev | frontpage

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The Sweet Spot for Buying Used Cars (amolas.dev)

a year ago | alexmolas | amolas.dev | frontpage

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Tractrix and Truck Tricks (qedcat.com)

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Discovering the Best Chess960 Variation (amolas.dev)

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The Sweet Spot for Buying Used Cars (amolas.dev)

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Ask HN: How do you review your posts?

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There are no better starting positions in Chess960 (amolas.dev)

a year ago | alexmolas | amolas.dev | newest

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Machine Learning and Schools (avc.com)

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ELO Rating as a Logistic Regression (stmorse.github.io)

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Age Geek (agegeek.com)

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Ask HN: Which are your favourite machine learning blogs?

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750 Words (750words.com)

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