@sharifelkomi @evanbuhler @paulg This is actually not true.
You are thinking of "median", not average.
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Ben Joffe
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Ben Joffe
@benjoffe
Software developer. Date & time enthusiast. Probate specialist.
Sydney Katılım Temmuz 2007
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@evanbuhler @paulg The definition that matters in this statement is “average”
50% out of any sample are below that sample’s average, by definition, regardless of the metric you’re using
The average splits a group exactly in half making half about average and half below it
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Ofc it’s a British dude calling people he’s never met “stupid.”
Paul Graham@paulg
Do I worry about stupid or biased readers now? To some extent. I have to take extra care to give the intellectually dishonest no room to misinterpret me. And certainly a lot of endnotes are armor against misinterpretation. In the future I'll just be able to do no-look passes.
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@memecrashes Finite new guests (K) can fit by making everyone move from their room "n" to min(n*2, K + n).
This will fit all the new guests and involve the same or less moving than the infinite case.
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Replaced the civilFromDays algorithm in zeit with @benjoffe's new one. 5.3x faster than the previous one I had used (Hinnant) on my M4. 💪
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A faster full-width is-leap-year function:
benjoffe.com/fast-leap-year
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@djdlc_1895 Hi! Compilers are not always very clever, but fortunately they are able turn those into bit-shifts. There's also a `* 512` term that compiles to `<< 9`.
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Counting dates backwards for a 30-40% speed gain:
benjoffe.com/fast-date-64
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@benjoffe What is your use case? It seems strange that this would be a bottleneck
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New Fast Date Algorithms Part 2 - Overflow Safe
benjoffe.com/safe-date
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A New Faster Algorithm for Gregorian Date Conversion
benjoffe.com/fast-date
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I have published a new paper:
The Smoital System — A method of timekeeping on Mars based on UTC
marspapers.org/paper/Joffe_20…
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2025 Australian Federal election date announced for 3rd May.
Slogans are in for both sides!
We got: 'Easy-Peasy Albanese" for @AlboMP
And: 'Peter Dutton, Cute as a Button' for @PeterDutton_MP
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Check out my new Web App:
benjoffe.com/weekle
It teaches you to easily calculate the day of the week for any date.
It includes a daily game, my result for Day 1:
⭐⭐⭐
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Streak: 1️⃣
Perfect Streak: 1️⃣
#weekle
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GreasePig has created an animated history video for all the champions and top 10 throughout history in Perfect Dark, give it a watch! youtube.com/watch?v=AiRcPD…
YouTube
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Kicking off a new YouTube series, video game speedrunning history visualisations:
youtube.com/watch?v=XpounX…
YouTube
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Long data tells even more than big data.
Time is longer than it is wide.
Diachronic versus synchronic.
wired.com/2013/01/forget…
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Can you stack a deck so that no matter where the cards are cut the dealer wins? Yes! @benjoffe shows how: benjoffe.com/holdem
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