It was always dark outside the windows. Parents and teachers sometimes said vaguely that this was all because of Deep Green terrorists, but Jonathan thought there was more to the story. The other memb...

When taking a job you should basically always max out the equity compensation

We talked a couple issues ago about the application of Linearity of Expectation to building intuition about Copysets, and the ways that we're both...

That expectation is linear is one of my favourite facts. I got a first taste of this when I was doing an internship at an unnamed trading firm. Some guy was...

I can show you a picture of the first distributed system I ever used: (Not entirely accurate, I had a Game Boy Color.) When I was a kid, we'd spend summers...

Everything you need to know about query planning can be understood from this query: SELECT * FROM xy WHERE y = 3 ORDER BY x Imagine we have two indexes, one...

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