If housing supply stays constant and there is more demand for housing than available, then prioritization is necessary. Allocation priority is often assigned either by
willingness to payinduced by a market economy,
first come, first serveinduced by rent caps.
When choosing a programming language or database, there are so many options to
choose from. And people regularly create new options since they are not happy
with the existing ones. But for version control, there exists essentially just
one option: Git. And while it takes some getting used to, it must do something
right, if nobody wants to spend the effort to improve upon it. This is a
small introduction.
Cynical people like to call me naive, whenever I suggest how good or neutral intentions could have lead to a situation where they suspect malice. But naivety implies there would be no thought behind assuming best intentions, just lack of experience. And this is not the case.
If there is one thing this pandemic has taught us, then it is that few people truly understand exponential growth. This post is an attempt to explore this magical function with minimal prerequisites.
Probability theory is best understood through the lense of “the expected value”. We are fundamentally trying to understand what we can expect so the expected value is a great place to start
Linear functions define matrix multiplication and make matrices and linear functions effectively interchangeable.
Let’s say we want to approximate a function $f$. In an area around $a$ the value $f(a)$ is probably a decent approximation for $f(x)$.