Best part about https://www.state.gov/biographies/donald-j-trump/ is how the time (but not the date) seems to be changing all the time.
Numerical instability in the simulation?
SciPy 1.6.0 just made it in before the end of 2020! [0] I'm personally quite happy with how its new matching solver came out. [1]
[0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/scipy-dev/2020-December/024468.html
[1] https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.sparse.csgraph.min_weight_full_bipartite_matching.html
Yet another December well spent with #AdventOfCode! Yet, feels so good to get rid of the 5:30 alarm.
https://adventofcode.com/
https://github.com/fuglede/adventofcode
I was a bit surprised to see that comma.ai explicitly values programming competition participants in recruiting, but seeing geohot feature on https://adventofcode.com/2020/leaderboard explains a lot.
Back of the envelope: So, according to a more or less randomly picked internet source [0], 1 mink causes about 10 kg of CO2eq emissions over its lifetime. So, culling 15 million of them will save us about 150000 tons CO2eq per year (not counting production of whatever people will wear instead). Compare that with the Danish target of reducing emissions by 20 million tons CO2 per year by 2030. Did we just get about 1% closer to that target?
[0]: https://www.cedelft.eu/publicatie/the_environmental_impact_of_mink_fur_production/1131
Danish investment bank Saxo Bank recently introduced minimum brokerage fees on a 1 month notice; as such, customers with small positions are now forced to either close immediately (paying a fee to Saxo Bank) or wait (paying an even larger fee to Saxo Bank); pest eller kolera, as we'd say.
If this is legal(?), what would keep a unscrupulous investor platform from introducing sky-high fees to force the hands of smaller customers?
How to solve a well-known open maths problem in 3 simple steps:
1. pip install burau
2. >>> from burau.curve import calculate_polynomial
3. Find four positive integers a, b, c, and d so that
calculate_polynomial(a, b, c, d)
produces the empty dictionary. Or show that that's impossible.
UncensoredDNS now has full DNS-over-HTTPS support!
Support for ECDSA keys and certificates was also added to all servers. This means you might see a new fingerprint for existing DNS-over-TLS setups.
More info at https://blog.uncensoreddns.org/blog/33-hello-to-dns-over-https-and-ecdsa-keys/
Version 1.2.0 of everyone's favorite .NET assignment problem solver is now available: https://github.com/fuglede/linearassignment/releases/tag/1.2.0
Have you ever had to assign opinionated stuff to other stuff, be it workers to jobs, players to teams, students to classes, or something else, then this sort of thing might be useful to you.
As Danish Defence Intelligence Service is caught spying on Danes on behalf of the NSA, let's revisit our parliament's response from when the allegations first came up: https://information.dk/indland/2014/01/ingen-grund-antage
Sometimes all you can do is marvel in disgust at the utter incompetence on display.
Supposedly, GPT-3 is almost so good at generating text that we humans no longer have to. At first, I was curious why we didn't see much discussion around whether it was just plagiarizing training samples or not (and why doing so wouldn't be optimal as far as "generating human-like text" goes), but seeing this Q/A with itself on the topic of entropy, it seems like that's not going to be much of a concern. I think it's 1021, by the way, but I'm sure that's still a huge range!
If you did have a Danish corona test taken and have NemID, having the material destroyed is easy enough:
1. Go to your e-Boks at https://www.e-boks.dk, click "Ny besked", choose "Statens Serum Institut" and "Hovedpostkassen"
2. Write something like "Jeg vil med henvisning til databeskyttelsesforordningen samt sundhedsloven anmode om, at alle personoplysninger, herunder biologisk materiale, fra min COVID-19-test af {{DATO}}, destrueres."
Windfarm optimizer, quantum topologist, PhD, researcher, nerd.