While waiting for my Dishy, I decided to find and buy the Starlink router separately. Sure, it might be just a WiFi router, but it was very curious what’s inside. Spoiler: there are some inte…
If anyone had been in the mood to argue with my previous missives
about getting a vaccine out quickly, they could have easily found an
objection. "You're only addressing testing", they might have said,
"and the real problem is manufacturing. It's fine to tes…
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price. Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a life that is a little more free from the herd, and a bit more open to the spontaneity and wonder of new things.…
One of the watershed moments of my life was as a 20 year old intern attending a workplace presentation about personal finance. Over the course of one hour, I learnt about the power of buy-and-hold …
Always know where your NuGet packages come from by centrally mapping them to target sources. If you use multiple package sources for your projects, this is a...
There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in its place: nowhere!
First and foremost, we want to thank you all again for your incredible outpouring of love and support for OBS. Everyone on the team is incredibly thankful and humbled by your …
Is it possible to define a coefficient of correlation which is (a) as simple
as the classical coefficients like Pearson's correlation or Spearman's
correlation, and yet (b) consistently estimates some simple and interpretable
measure of the degree of dependenc…
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