Analog24

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by Analog24 11y ago
You have a point but it's also ridiculous that mobile game consumers expect every game to be free. Game studios often spend tens of thousands of hours developing a mobile game, why should that be free? The freemium model is just an unf
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by Analog24 11y ago
Good catch! It has been corrected in my comment.
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by Analog24 11y ago
The structure of elements/atoms is well understood based on their subatomic constituents. Naively, you might think that can you just keep combining increasingly larger numbers of electrons, protons, and neutrons to create new elements.
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Could Saudi Aramco Be Worth 20 Times Exxon?(wsj.com)
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by Analog24 11y ago
You bring up some good points about the DRC but I have to disagree with you on Phnom Penh. It was, and still is, one of my favorite cities I've ever visited. At the same time, I find it hard to express in words why I liked it so much.
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by Analog24 11y ago
This was a human driver, Tesla's don't have a real autopilot system that can literally drive the car for you. The "autopilot" feature is just to avoid collisions, so in this case it just applied the breaks when it detect
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I've always found British and Australians to be the loudest. Americans are certainly on that side of the spectrum though
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It's essentially a way to look up meta data about the different data files produced by the CMS detector. There are petabytes of data produced by the detector and these are stored in countless data file. In order to determine which data
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by Analog24 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/3lodsj/m...
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At the moment there is only the auto-detection. A "custom" option is on the top of our to-do-list but we want to gauge the amount of interest in the product before we invest too much more time.
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by Analog24 11y ago
Relativity does tell us that there are no preferred inertial reference frames. But the comment I replied to was asking about a very specific reference frame: the galactic center. And to one up your pedantry: relativity allows us to define
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by Analog24 11y ago
No. Unfortunately it's not relative to anything. Nasim Haramein, the guy behind that animation/idea, is a known physics quack. In the future I would suggest being skeptical of anything coming from his "institute": The Re
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by Analog24 11y ago
I think you have a stricter definition of what an algorithm is than what is used in the context of this study. The general concept of the random forest algorithm (for example) is the same in each implementation but the exact details of how
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by Analog24 11y ago
I agree in the context of the non-deterministic algorithms. If there is too much variance between runs then the ones that do well are probably just overfitting the data and won't actually perform well when deployed. However, I wouldn&#
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These algorithms are all fairly complicated with numerous parameters involved in the calculations. Most of the packages (I can't speak for all of them since I'm not familiar with all of them) make it easy to implement these algori
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by Analog24 11y ago
It's not really correct to think of them as only differing by their energy state. The second and third generations of quarks (strange/charm and bottom/top) have additional quantum numbers, flavor quantum numbers, that also ne
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by Analog24 11y ago
I think it was implied that "truths" meant scientific truths, which are well defined as anything that can be verified beyond statistical doubt with experimental evidence.
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by Analog24 11y ago
"we cannot say that we understand all there is to know about electromagnetic phenomena because we can make a few simple predictions" This is quite an understatement. QED, which is the underlying theory of EM, is the most accurate
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by Analog24 11y ago
The complexity of gesture typing opens the door to a lot of interesting questions that aren't relevant for "normal" typing. I really enjoyed reading through this notebook, it's very clear and presented well. What'
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With enough data, a traditional Bloom filter "fills up", after which it has a false-positive probability of 1. I don't think this correct. The false-positive probability wouldn't become 1, it's just that every qu
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by Analog24 12y ago
That is an interesting article but it's not the same thing. The ATOMIK keyboard, presented in the paper you reference, was designed to minimize the movement necessary to spell words in English. We optimized the layout to minimize the
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by Analog24 12y ago
Yes, I believe you're right. However, I don't think they're likely to do it for a random user who wants to try a new layout given that each one of these is not a negligible calculation.
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Technically it could be done and the framework we wrote allows you to create keyboards of any geometry but, as you already pointed out, the number of possible keyboards blows up with every extra parameter you add. Plus this would be even wo
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I think it's a bit more complicated than just rearranging the layout since the autocorrect and the swipe interpretation algorithm are likely to depend on the specific layout. This way you could optimize the calculations to speed it up
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I'm the other author of the blogpost and we're both happy to answer any questions anyone has.