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New comment by zaik in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

zaik — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:55:11 +0000

It would still be detectable though: Does sum(price of all Yes) have an early unexpected down draw?

New comment by zaik in "Python 3.15"

zaik — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:43:36 +0000

I hope something comes along that has a much more powerful type system like Rocq. I also dream of tagging certificates to values such as "this string has passed SQL validation".

New comment by zaik in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

zaik — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:03:53 +0000

This post makes me want to buy Nvidia stocks.

New comment by zaik in "What should we tell our students?"

zaik — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:52:35 +0000

Funny because monks discovered a lot. Genetics and the Bayes theorem come to mind.

New comment by zaik in "What should we tell our students?"

zaik — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:50:25 +0000

Most of my fellow math students work now in software engineering or consulting. There aren't a lot of professor positions available.

New comment by zaik in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

zaik — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:30:51 +0000

This is of course wrong, no matter what the comment was, but it is strange that the article does not say what the comment was.

New comment by zaik in "America.gov"

zaik — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:31:30 +0000

They should hire people from the Grok team. By now they should have lots of experience fixing "bugs" like this.

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

zaik — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898877

Points: 152

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New comment by zaik in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"

zaik — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:13:48 +0000

You're in luck: Some people already thought of this, submitted an RFC to the IETF and implemented it. It goes by the name XMPP.

New comment by zaik in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

zaik — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:23:55 +0000

How do you verify you get the right data from your peers? With torrents we know the correct hashes for each block. YouTube probably doesn't do this.

New comment by zaik in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

zaik — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:30:33 +0000

Monal is decent on iOS.

New comment by zaik in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

zaik — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:57:29 +0000

> The current approach to resource distribution worked so far.

For you.

New comment by zaik in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

zaik — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:20:58 +0000

With this new functionality, you could store 10000 samples of the distribution in the cell. Then broadcast your computations to the sample axis.

New comment by zaik in "Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red"

zaik — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:33:34 +0000

Seems like it got stuck on a Ghost enemy.

New comment by zaik in "F-Droid 2.0"

zaik — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:40:09 +0000

What Accept-Language header are you sending?

New comment by zaik in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

zaik — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:37:39 +0000

Why is Claude missing on the "Factuality" graph?

New comment by zaik in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

zaik — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:21:55 +0000

He should be awarded the FIFA Environment Protection prize.

New comment by zaik in "Measure internet censorship"

zaik — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:14:41 +0000

It's part of nixpkgs so I tried it out. I killed the process when it started writing something big to my disk. Why is it doing that?

New comment by zaik in "Measure internet censorship"

zaik — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:15:46 +0000

Yes, I do know people who voted for the party that pushes things like this in my country.

New comment by zaik in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

zaik — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:21:28 +0000

Hopefully I'm looking at the right thing, but it looks like market expections are that you will get more USD per EUR in the future: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/fx/g10/euro-fx.quotes.html