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Interpreting Covid-19 Test Results: A Bayesian Approach(medium.com)
1 points by AQXt 6y ago|0 comments
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by AQXt 6y ago
My only take from the article is that some people take their entertainment too seriously... "Netflix is disregarding the smaller but powerful fandoms it's creating, where people are left crying out for show renewals" "La
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by AQXt 6y ago
Assuming a time to restock of 30 minutes per machine, it would still require a workload of 90+ hours per week. I guess a team of two could do that.
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by AQXt 6y ago
tldr; Kakoune is a public domain project. Which means that anyone is free to do anything they want with the source code of the editor, no questions asked.
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by AQXt 6y ago
> Basic English doesn't allow the word "tolerate" but does allow "put up with". That's a false economy. That's a very good point! "Put up with" is an idiomatic expression that native speaker
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by AQXt 6y ago
The vocabulary is designed to deal with two distinct levels: 1. The 850 words sufficient for ordinary communications to idiomatic English. 2. By the addition of 100 words required for general science, and 50 for any particular science I
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by AQXt 6y ago
I would love to see this in Dutch and many other languages!
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by AQXt 6y ago
It might not be a good investment, according to the article: - Many of the best locations — places with heavy foot traffic, or large worker populations — are already saturated with machines. - Some owners have to make 100+ calls before land
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by AQXt 6y ago
A better title would be: Basing your self-worth on financial success can lead to loneliness . According to the study co-author Lora Park: "When people base their self-worth on financial success, they experience feelings of pressure an
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by AQXt 6y ago
If you started your life very poor, you didn't fail. Now imagine that you started your life very rich, and lost everything; asking for help would expose your financial "failure" to everyone.
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by AQXt 6y ago
History, Ancient Technology A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry - https://acoup.blog/
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by AQXt 6y ago
Here are some Latency numbers every programmer should know ( https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375 ): L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
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by AQXt 6y ago
What about dumping? From wikipedia: "Dumping, in economics, is a kind of injuring pricing, especially in the context of international trade. It occurs when manufacturers export a product to another country at a price below the normal p
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by AQXt 6y ago
For one moment I thought it was "FizBuzz As A Service"...
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by AQXt 6y ago
Here's an interesting article about the downsides of Forth: "My minimal stack of layers is – problem, software, hardware. People working on the problem (algorithms, UI, whatever) can't do software, not really. People doing so
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by AQXt 6y ago
If you want to understand Forth, I recommend this article: A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 systems by Richard W.M. Jones "LISP is the ultimate high-level language, and features from LISP are being
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Leverage Points – Places to Intervene in a System [pdf](donellameadows.org)
1 points by AQXt 6y ago|0 comments
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by AQXt 6y ago
Talking about AI, I wonder if Civilization is more complex than Go, and, in that case, if AlphaGo Zero could beat human players in Civ.
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by AQXt 6y ago
Why do you consider this particular number NSFW?
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by AQXt 6y ago
> I considered that, but wanted to preserve Crockford's partial defense against accidental profanity... I don't understand the point of this "partial" defense against profanity. In the same way you can write "FV
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by AQXt 6y ago
Or that Base32H satisfies anyone's use cases...
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by AQXt 6y ago
> And Crockford makes the better tradeoff by addressing I/1/l ambiguity instead of U/V. Exactly! It is much easier to mistake "l" for "1" (lowercase L for number 1) than "5" for "S"
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by AQXt 6y ago
> NSA: Use our curves. They were selected randomly . Promise, wink wink. Here's a better explanation about this cryptic tweet: Backdoors in NIST elliptic curves Of particular concern are the NIST standard elliptic curves. There i
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by AQXt 6y ago
> When simulating protanopia, reds should appear darker, due the lack of L cones. However, many simulators incorrectly display red as bright green instead. For those who can't "see" it: For people who have protananomaly, b
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by AQXt 6y ago
Thank you for writing this. I have a common type of red-green color blindness which makes red look less bright (protanomaly), and I can attest that your suggestions make the charts clearer for me.
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by AQXt 6y ago
What if I tell you it is? Will that information back-propagate into your brain?
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by AQXt 6y ago
> "For this post, I’m going to take artificial general intelligence (AGI) to mean an AI system that matches or exceeds humans at almost all (95%+) economically valuable work." One doesn't have to be "economically valu
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by AQXt 6y ago
Probably.
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by AQXt 6y ago
Amazon SNS enables you to send messages or notifications directly to users with SMS text messages to over 200 countries, mobile push on Apple, Android, and other platforms or email (SMTP). https://aws.amazon.com/sns/
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by AQXt 6y ago
Some methodological problems (identified by the authors): "There are also several threats to the validity of our results. Our survey was conducted in the presence of one of the authors, which could lead to a social desirability bias. A

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