Akiva Leffert

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The wretched refuse of your teeming shores
@simrob I saw this go by recently and it has a bunch of stats on sports gambling https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment spoiler they’re very bad
The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers

Don't Worry About the Vase
Thrilled to be on the winning team for the 199th annual international pretzel stacking competition and take home this incredible prize
@lea @lindsey the most impressed I’ve been by tech in years was at the dentist a few years ago when I needed a new tooth implant. they scanned my mouth with a wand and I could watch the mesh appear in real time. the dentist dragged some points around to fit my face better. then while I was still at the dentist they c&c’d a tooth, baked it, and put it in my face. whole thing only took a couple hours. mind boggled. I almost quit my job and went to work on medical devices right there
has anyone out there in the world used spanner graph and understand its performance? running into some issues I would love to talk to someone knowledgeable about. it seems very hard to get it to behave performantly

analysis: soft, rounded approximations
algebra: rigid, spiky syntax

in the 1930s, nicolas boubakiki sought to encompass both under a new unified treatment

@simrob when I was a kid, the suburbs would always get hammered but we had more uncertainty
I think more things in life should be you can pay for this or you can really commit to the bit
@chrisamaphone david brin has a murder mystery, kiln people, that I remember thinking was solid but it was a long time ago
@simrob @carnage4life there’s no way it’s the right abstraction for just merging. I can sort of imagine some sort of record and replay system maaaaybe working
@lindsey @rntz I think I would probably also abstract network but maybe a thing with the properties of a network is a network? but e.g. communicating processes on the same machine might be a network?