2026-01-08 04:57:29
@… this is on mobile safari on iOS 18.7.2, if that matters. (I am/was trying to do some back-of-the-napkin math while away from a larger computer.)
@… this is on mobile safari on iOS 18.7.2, if that matters. (I am/was trying to do some back-of-the-napkin math while away from a larger computer.)
Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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Brewer’s Blackbird, patiently waiting for lunch to be served. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. May, 2023. #cambriaca #moonstonebeach #blackbird
We're about 50/50 hosted/self-hosted on CI. Been doing a bit of napkin calculations, and it seems like our total GitHub CI bill will go down by a bit after this #github change. Of course, it reduces incentives to continue migrating workloads to self hosted actions.