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by 314 4y ago
It would probably be more apt to have an overly generic name that doesn't capture the phenomenon quite so well: IIWII (It Is What It Is).
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by 314 4y ago
> Countless people never smoked. Countless people stopped. Some people act like quitting smoking is some insufferable thing that others will never understand. Everyone has bad stuff they do that’s just as hard to quit. While smoking is a
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by 314 4y ago
Those kids would be really upset if they could read.
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by 314 4y ago
The satire came through loud and strong. Perhaps consider that feedback from hn is somewhat biased on the spectrum? I thought the style was a refreshing change.
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by 314 4y ago
One of the main discussions in the paper is about the difference between arithmetic means and geometric means, and how people have different perceptions of annualized returns. Perhaps you should read it (again)?
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by 314 4y ago
Bernie Madoff promised high returns while obfuscating his business model as well. It went well until it no longer did.
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by 314 4y ago
Interesting site, thanks for the link.
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by 314 4y ago
Nice effect, but it looks more like smoke than a fluid. A constant pressure source instant of an instant splat would probably give more of a fluid effect.
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by 314 4y ago
No, because the other regions of the world also use metric. America is an outlier.
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by 314 4y ago
Reading material quickly remains more comfortable than watching a sped-up video. There are many cases in which written material is a better way to transfer information than video. A case in point would be this article, as it is clearly writ
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by 314 4y ago
In addition the early reward for mining a block was 50 bitcoins, there was no way to "mint" a smaller number.
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by 314 4y ago
Shuffle is very broken as it does nit perform a shuffle. Instead it performs random selection with replacement. It is much worse but the devs do not care and insist their way is "right".
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by 314 4y ago
Without any background in general relativity at all I can see that it got the basic arithmetic wrong in the last paragraph. Presumably the answer is about 69 years if the math in the precedence paragraphs is correct.
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Well, they would need to know something about the topic. The easiest way for them to do this would be to read about it. When picking what to read they would need to be able to estimate if it contained valid information. The meta-skills that
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by 314 4y ago
Some other names that I've encountered for these kinds of programming constructs: * simulation variables (presumably because the separation into x/x' is similar to the now/next calculation of state in a lot of simulation
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by 314 4y ago
There is a strong "thought leadership" vibe.
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by 314 4y ago
The downside of how they did it is a complete lack of memory protection. So not only can processes corrupt one another, but all of the coprocessors that are used to offload tasks have access to the entire memory space. The result is certain
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by 314 4y ago
fraud: wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. If you sign a full-time contract and claim that you are only working a single job, while holding down multiple jobs then you are lying for financial gai
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by 314 4y ago
Go handles this very cleanly with channels and goroutines.
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by 314 4y ago
> That’s not how typical users work, and I don’t think it’s how they want to work. This hits the nail on the head: most users are not programmers. While the unix philosophy works well for programmers it is not suitable for non-programmin
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by 314 4y ago
He expanded the idea into a book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_Explainer
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Panik!! Kalm. Panik!!
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by 314 4y ago
Until the box was opened the cat was neither alive nor dead.
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> In order to enforce copyright, every computer will have to be locked down so that they only execute "compliant" software. This is not true. While it is one possible approach to enforcing copyright, it is not the only possible
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by 314 4y ago
They don't seem like a very good answer. Allowing creative output to be freely used, while forcing creators to subsist on the crumbs thrown back is a two-class system. It seems unfair to those doing the work in such a system. Copyright
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by 314 4y ago
If this was to happen, and we created a world where there was no form of copyright: why would somebody spend their life in a creative industry making new things?
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by 314 4y ago
I don't think there is any work on that yet, but if the model is known it should be possible to derive the probability that a particular image is the output from it.
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by 314 4y ago
It feels like you a word.
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by 314 4y ago
Both the vision systems at Tesla and the bot-detection at Twitter are classifiers. Both would have trained on large datasets. Both would have domain specific feature detection sitting below a more general algorithm. Both would have a simila
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by 314 4y ago
All recovered now actually. The extra framing and escaping was what allowed me to reconstruct the broken unicode encoding.

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