Sergey Slotin

I don't understand how engagement baiting is still a thing in recommendation systems. Somewhere in the trillions of tweets and YouTube shorts, there should be enough statistical information for a model to penalize a movie clip with an intentionally omitted name

@TheIndexInsider The number for Russia is wrong/misleading. We have two separate postgraduate degrees, "candidate of sciences" equivalent to PhD and "doctor of science" awarded to much more senior academics. About 0.3-0.4% of population are at least candidates

@Aella_Girl It would be helpful if, instead of limiting attributes to a narrow range, the app would run a regression controlling for them (e.g., the relative change of body count with BMI, other things being equal)

Try limiting the age range and check again! (You can set age range in the filters section on the left)

@PHChess @FIDE_chess Petrosian was born and grew up in Tbilisi, briefly moved to Yerevan at age 17 and then to Moscow at age 20, so he has little connection with Armenia besides ethnicity. It is hard to claim that Georgia was occupied by the USSR as the union itself was ruled by a Georgian (Stalin)

Dear @FIDE_chess, Could you please stop using the Soviet flag? Armenia🇦🇲 was illegally occupied by the Soviet Union, and lost its independence for 71 years. But is now fully independent. Do not refer to their players as Soviet, but to their respective countries thanks!

@Aella_Girl May also be self-reporting bias (people who boast about IQ are the same who boast about having many sexual partners) or effects of education (smarter people pursue advanced degrees or complicated careers and delay settling down)

My data at least gestures to this being true! (The IQ scores are inflated; my guess is this is at least partially an artifact of "smarter kids are much more likely to have adults notice and then go get them iq tested" selection effects)

@lenka_colenka Им нужно ECH отключить, что делается с платным тарифом и (или?) отдельным доменом

А сайты на Cloudflare pages открываются из России?

@Mental_Institut @puredunce @TheIndexInsider Many women left at the start of the war, men aren't allowed to

@pmddomingos I keep forgetting and mentally rederiving it from p(a|b) * p(b) = p(b|a) * p(a) every time, which doesn't feel hard enough to be called a theorem

Bayes' theorem should really be called Laplace's lemma.

@moonshiiro I think a librarian would rather use some combination of radix sort and binary insertion sort

Anthropic just released a massive new Economic Index Report, and it’s one of the most data-rich looks yet into how Claude is actually used in the real world and what that means for jobs, productivity, and inequality. 🔹 Most Claude tasks are high-skill, often requiring college-level education. 🔹 Productivity gains are real especially on complex tasks but success rates drop as task difficulty rises. 🔹 Globally, high-income countries use Claude more for personal and collaborative use, while lower-income countries focus on coursework and automation. 🔹 In the US, Claude adoption is rapidly converging across states, outpacing the spread of previous tech by 10x. 🔹 The report warns of a potential “deskilling” effect, where AI takes over the most skilled parts of some jobs leaving behind the grunt work.

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

@LJKawa Berkshire is a holding company whose intrinsic value is simply the sum of other businesses it owns. The only reason you'd look at Berkshire itself is to analyze the risk profile of its portfolio and get some insight into Buffett's future decision-making

Berkshire Hathaway is the ninth-biggest company in the US and only three analysts on Wall Street cover the stock.

@Leonov_mr Учитывая местные цены и налоги, $40k гросс в США ощущается как примерно 85к рублей в месяц на руки в России

Обожаю тот факт, что в англоязычных видосах с финансовыми советами буквально не существует доходов ниже 270 тысяч рублей в месяц

@lemire 99% of all my serious writing is Markdown coupled with html/pdf generators, slightly customized, with changes tracked in git. This setup lacks a good built-in spellcheck, smart line wrapping and diagram generators; I might eventually switch to Typst for that

I have co-written three textbooks using Microsoft Word. Two of these books, I need to update from time to time because technology changes. E.g., my Python book did not cover 'uv' initially and described venv. I had to change that. The Java book is still mostly Java 8 and does not cover all the neat stuff added between Java 8 and Java 25. Updating a complex Word document is a terrible experience. Maintaining consistency is needlessly difficult. There is no perfect solution when writing technical books... But if you want to self-publish and you do want to pay for an editing team... Microsoft Word is easily the worse option in my opinion. I only ended up with Microsoft Word because that's what my great co-author (Godin) used at the time. Microsoft Word has no builtin programming code highlightning. There are plugins that 'sort of' work, but they are clunky. My latest book and, I hope, all my future technical books, will be written in MarkDown. It is not perfect. My friend @pshufb spotted various technical issues in the first draft of the book. However, I can correct most issues with a reusable script. I think that there is a valid use for Microsoft Word: short documents that you are going to throw away later or simple text-only document. For nearly everything else, there are better solutions if you are tech savvy.

@apoznyakovskiy @shalomrussia Кого припомню среди особо успешных основателей: Николай Дуров (Telegram и VK - IOI и IMO), Adam D'Angelo (Facebook, Quora - ICPC), Greg Brockman (OpenAI, Stripe - IChO), все кто основал CognitionAI имеют золотые медали IOI. Среди лауреатов научных премий межнарников очень много

@shalomrussia А можно пример нобелевского лауреата или основателя компании с миллиардной капитализацией, который до этого был победителем международной олимпиады для школьников?

>Смотрите какая у нас школьная система, лучшая в мире. Никто на детей не давит, учат что хотят, ноутбуки бесплатно раздают. >Вау, как как же либерально и демократично. А какие успехи у таких учеников на международных олимпиадах для школьников? >Никаких

I did a project on making an optimized implementation of the S+ tree. The result is 40x speedup over plain binary search! It builds on Algorithmica's post on S-trees and the famous paper "Array layouts for comparison based searching" by @pkhuong. 🧵 curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-s…

@deedydas It doesn't seem to be true. This rating is not based on live competitions but past problems with all sorts of leakage issues. codeforces.com/blog/entry/137… codeforces.com/blog/entry/133…

OpenAI o3 is 2727 on Codeforces which is equivalent to the #175 best human competitive coder on the planet. This is an absolutely superhuman result for AI and technology at large.

@lemire @brave I've used Brave for a while but switched back because its ad blocker and anti-tracker are so aggressive that many sites just break

Install @brave You won't even need an ad blocker.

@popdemography @bd86bed4e35a4a5 Есть более прозаичная гипотеза — контракт во время войны разрывать нельзя, и воюющие просто на два года повзрослели

@bd86bed4e35a4a5 @sergey_slotin Вероятно молодые контрактники, служившие к началу войны, в значительной степени уже вымерли, а им на смену приходят новые умирающие контрактники, которые весьма возрастные по многим демографическим и социальным причинам

Приблизительный медианный возраст погибшего на войне россиянина, лет, по месяцам 2023-2024 гг