Hacker News: bldavies

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

bldavies — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:43:53 +0000

Article URL: https://flowingdata.com/projects/dishonest-charts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064502

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by bldavies in "Maths and science animations (2018)"

bldavies — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:09:16 +0000

3B1B is incredible. I loved his video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6sGWTCMz2k) using Fourier series to make epicycle animations. I worked through the details to make my own: https://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/

Euclidean Fairness and Efficiency

bldavies — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:48:30 +0000

Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12193

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37267994

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Comparing equal- and value-weighted portfolios

bldavies — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/comparing-equal-value-weighted-portfolios/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36777216

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Option Value of Waiting

bldavies — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 01:49:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/option-value-waiting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753208

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Stroads are ugly, expensive, and dangerous

bldavies — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:38:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36302993

Points: 47

# Comments: 1

Tyler Cowen calls for models of the AI apocalypse

bldavies — Mon, 15 May 2023 18:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/models-ai-apocalypse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35952526

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Marginal Revolution Metadata

bldavies — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:28:05 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/marginal-revolution-metadata/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481919

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Making Normal Conversations Better

bldavies — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:17:48 +0000

Article URL: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/making-normal-conversations-better

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35292316

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

You can't reach the brain through the ears

bldavies — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:37:43 +0000

Article URL: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/you-cant-reach-the-brain-through

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35284381

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Stravadata, an R package for accessing Strava activity data

bldavies — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bldavies/stravadata

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34208792

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Running fast races when you're unsure how hard they'll be

bldavies — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/optimal-pacing-random-energy-costs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958572

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Homophily and the Strength of Moderate Ties

bldavies — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 01:19:52 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/homophily-strength-moderate-ties/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32873946

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

If truth doesn't matter, it's better to be an ideologue with ideological friends

bldavies — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 17:41:28 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/truth-seekers-ideologues/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32140991

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Snowball sampling bias in program evaluation

bldavies — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:35:20 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/snowball-sampling-bias-program-evaluation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28417802

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Models of human predictions can out-perform the humans those models are based on

bldavies — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/improving-human-predictions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28211188

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Auctioning Vaccines

bldavies — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:13:37 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/auctioning-vaccines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25464964

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Winning strategies for white elephant gift exchanges

bldavies — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/white-elephant-gift-exchanges/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25324028

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Social learning and peer selection lead to polarized beliefs

bldavies — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://bldavies.com/blog/polarized-beliefs-social-networks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932379

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bldavies in "My Fourier Epicycles"

bldavies — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 04:58:48 +0000

For those interested, I explain some of the math involved in computing epicycles from sample data here: http://bldavies.com/blog/computing-epicycles/