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New comment by thrasibule in "Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors"

thrasibule — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:45:32 +0000

N!! is pretty standard I think.

New comment by thrasibule in "Show HN: Rust library for numerical integration of real-valued functions"

thrasibule — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:58:09 +0000

R integrate is just a wrapper around quadpack. It works with arbitrary functions, but arguably dnorm is pretty well behaved.

New comment by thrasibule in "Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after mass layoffs"

thrasibule — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:29:06 +0000

Zstd already existed before Yann Collet joined Facebook.

New comment by thrasibule in "Sam Bankman-Fried and the geometry of conscience"

thrasibule — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 13:17:13 +0000

Bill Hwang of the Archegos blow up has got to be up there too. He lost 20bn in a couple of days.

New comment by thrasibule in "Modeling a Wealth Tax"

thrasibule — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:57:51 +0000

How do you get to your 15%? Long term capital gains in the US are taxed at 20% + 3.8% net income tax + state tax. In a city like New York, you're talking close to 40% depending on your tax bracket.

New comment by thrasibule in "Mrustc: a Rust compiler written in C++"

thrasibule — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:36:53 +0000

F# is not a superset of OCaml. There are many things in OCaml that are not in F#. The second link you pointed out lists them.