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"The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy", by David Graeber might be good for this one, though some of Graeber's other books also apply.
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Ah, I was guessing feet, so I couldn't find anything. Apparently, the US is literally the only country not to use meters for depth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom
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I remember there was a story of an American sailing yacht which got reported for shooting at the orcas. (Someone heard the shots and used AIS to report the boat to the coastguard) Spanish police entered the boat, found the weapons and last
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128k is a pretty expensive one. I've done week long holidays on much cheaper boats. The cost of boats is more in maintenance and storage, which tends to be 10-20% of the price of the boat per year.
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its meters. Depth calculations are usually in meters. I think that might even be true in US coastal waters?
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Steve Ballmer is worth $147 billion. Not by any stretch of my imagination is the man underrated. I'd say, like many American CEO's, he has vastly been overrated through a failure in capitalism. If I do some back of the envelope ca
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I work in the field. The reason has not been mentioned yet. It's because (for an unknown reason), having coding and software development in the training mix is really helpful at most other tasks. It improves everything to do with logic
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> Returns from stock investing come from increasing stock prices. There are other ways to make returns. Return from stock comes mainly from increasing stock prices and from dividends. But fundamentally, it comes from profits. > Stock
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That is too strong of a condition. The economy doesn't need to grow for passive investing to work. Even when the economy is flat, passive management works. As long as companies are economically productive, capitalism will hand over a c
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I love the ambition, but also like to point out that today we still have smokers, that you can find cigarettes everywhere and that the number of smokers are on the rise again.
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And context, so much context. The sqrt(-1) sometimes doesn't exist, sometimes it's 1i. 2+2=4, except in literature where it can be 5. 1+1=2, but sometimes 3 in advertisements or in ironical text. We often have some ideas about e.g
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I work in the field. The issue is that you will find 2+2=5 literally a hundred times more in all big datasets than 6+3=9 A lot of information is wrong, a lot is only true in context (e.g. 2+2=5 features prominent in the book 1984), even mor
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I have been stuck on this exact question a few weeks ago. Does someone know how the same could be done in python? Could a thread class be made that allows this kind of testing? Could it be written in C with e.g. pybind?
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RL expert here, the problem with vision is that most likely, it takes too long to render and to process the render in your NN. At that point you need to run the game real-time instead of faster, so you need a lot of compute to generate your
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Ha, the funny thing is, there are conjectures both ways! Some people think winners get noisier and noisier, the spaghetti code conjecture. Others actually think the winners get cleaner and cleaner, the clean code conjecture. Personally, I a
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The stack traces when something goes wrong are inscrutable under recursion. Same when looking at the program state using debuggers. Fundamentally, the actual state of the program does not match the abstract state used when programming a rec
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And UK elections in less than 2 weeks which will most likely result in a change of the political landscape. That might have been the trigger on the timing?
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FWIW, I am one of his constituents in Camden, and he helped us out tremendously in a pickle with Home Office when the latest war in Ukraine broke out. The issue went from 6 months in limbo to being resolved within a week. I am not commentin
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It's not like banning cars, it is like banning horse carriages on high ways. We have better technology nowadays, including for plotting, so why not ditch the old? The author of the blog post has some good arguments. From your post, I c
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I was thinking the same thing while reading, but the author does mention them at the end (together with the bee swarm plot or sina plot, which I think is the better version of a violin plot) https://www.rhoworld.com/i-swarm-
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The Sentinel-2 mission is doing that [0]: > Systematic global coverage of land surfaces from 56° S to 84° N, coastal waters, and all of the Mediterranean Sea The constellation is not complete yet though. Sentinel-2C is planned to launch
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Now in the UN, or at the next climate conference, people can actually say: "Look, Vietnam, you are somehow responsible for 12.2% of the marine plastic in the ocean, with only 1.23% of the world population. We are making this trade agre
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Wait, you don't need to be rich. With pay-to-publish (also known as free access), it is an absolute goldmine. People generally don't want to do the work of editing and publishing, or lack the academic knowhow to do it. But if that
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Thanks, this was very interesting. I was happy to see that my play was indeed near optimal.
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I'm actually interested in being coached by the solver, so it can tell me when I made a suboptimal move and what the optimal move would have been. Like in chess, playing against stockfish isn't very fun, but having it as a way to
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Yes, these are like 10 smoke alarms each. 360k becquerel each, and a smoke alarm is about 30k.
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I checked, and on the 28th of May, arXiv has seen 14 submissions with "transformer" in the title, and I found 3 of them with proposals tested on larger datasets (I did not check all of them, there might have been more than these t
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I am not sure how much experience you have in this area of research, but maybe I can shed some light on the background here. The "Attention is all you need" paper is now almost 7 years old. Those 7 years have seen a flood of propo
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> we evaluate the presented attention mechanisms on MNIST, CIFAR100, IMDB Movie Reviews, and Amazon Reviews datasets. It sounds amazing, but I'm not holding my breath this one will scale.
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Among the sailing cruisers, it's become clear this is not a factor. Sailing vessels have been attacked with their propellors on brake, with their props disengaged or with props running. In general, marine mammals don't mind the so

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