flâneur

Chris Axon

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  • business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of i
    Curius / Onboarding
  • Hacker News. I can’t say I un­der­stand the pur­pose of this site, founded by ven­ture cap­i­tal­ist Paul Gra­ham. I have two guesses. One is that it’s like Red­dit for pro­gram­mers, but they can claim that us­ing it is work, not goof­ing off. My other guess, since it has no ads, is that it acts as Mr. Graham’s panop­ti­con into his com­mu­nity of in­ter­est, as Cere­bro does for Prof. Xavier. Any­how, what­ever bored pro­gram­mers are spend­ing their money on, it’s def­i­nitely not me.
    Effluents influence affluence | Butterick’s Practical Typography
  • Two ambiguous regexes: a|a on the left/above,a
    The Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) cheat-sheet | by James Davis | Level Up Coding
  • $ conda activate cenv (cenv)$ conda install ipykernel (cenv)$ ipython kernel install --user --name= (cenv)$ conda deactivate
    How to add conda environment to jupyter lab
  • ghlight me with your cursor
    Curius / Onboarding
  • Step 7: Consider everybody in G except P. These people form a group of k people, so they must all have the same age (since we are assuming that, in any group of k people, everyone has the same age).
    Classic Fallacies -- All People in Canada are the Same Age
  • tate of a bit is a number (00 or 11), the state of a qubit is a vector. More specifically, the state of a qubit is a vector in a two-dimensional vector space. This vector sp
    Quantum computing for the very curious
  • just compute the matrix product H HHH it turns out to be the 2 \times 22×2 identity
    Quantum computing for the very curious
  • I wish I could start with high-level abstractions for quantum computers. However, we’re still in the early days of quantum computing, and for the most part humanity hasn’t yet discovered such high-level abstractions.
    Quantum computing for the very curious
  • If you store your qubit in a neutrino then the state will actually be pretty well preserved.
    Quantum computing for the very curious
  • istribution, and may be co
    The Hacker FAQ
  • How should I manage my hacker? The same way you herd cats. It can be a bit confusing
    The Hacker FAQ
  • We're creating a map of kinda ambitious, sorta bright, and mildly interesting students.
    Mindbook