AndrewOMartin

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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
That whole page is so crisp and clean.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
I also went to Maplins (UK Radioshack) and bought some infra red LEDs to hack together something to achieve this same effect. In the end I just taped the Wii Sensor Bar to my glasses!
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
My go to phrase for the equivalent observation is "If they ever make a machine that can make a coffee at the press of a button then all the coffee shops will have to close" /s.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder has done a video on this. To paraphrase; she says she notices a subject people are talking about but she's not an expert in, and so she accesses some recent papers on the subject, ideally including a literature revi
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Not to mention his book, about when he found an Cuneiform tablet circa 1800BC telling the story of Noah and the flood, which included more detailed instructions on how to build an ark than the biblical accounts and so he went and built it.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Yeah, I think the jargon which will impress some people in the room is "I'll timebox an investigation of 2hrs/days/weeks".
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
- Time's getting thinner. - and Leon's getting laaaaarger. -- Stephen Stucker as Johnny
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
> Peter Cook, [...] talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the ’30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War. Tom Lehrer - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7275489-i-don-t
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Some people in Europe have Televisions, too.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
The compression ratio will likely skyrocket if you sorted the list of bases.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Please do not tap on the glass. It distresses the fish, and gives the cat ideas.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Id software open sourced the Doom engine, so anyone could play custom levels or enjoy community assets without directly benefiting Id. That's why Doom, and by extension Id software, disappeared so swiftly into obscurity.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Put a restriction on your router or on a pi-hole and put the settings behind a big password. Then write the password down and give it to a friend/colleague and tell them to only give you the password out of hours. This was definitely o
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Funnily enough, I think this is because in Medieval times the most common state for traders and merchants was to be mobile and traveling. It was only the guys selling stuff to universities (like the medieval equivalents of ink, pens, paper,
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Once you have three layers (i.e. one "hidden" layer) then you can map to arbitrary functions, so a three layer network has the same "power" as an arbitrarily large network. I'm sure that's what the text book me
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
The stoners who have an interest in not being exposed as such.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
This reminds me of a quote from Bob Monkhouse who wrote a lot for radio. Paraphrasing, "I admit TV can do some things radio can't do. But it can't do some of the things radio can do."
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Indeed, it would be useful to know why each of these points are not enabled by default (including a huge amount of non-free and less verified software is an obvious one). In particular the `sbin` one I assumed because it's stuff you&#x
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Dollars to doughnuts this is collecting keypress-cadence data for fooling anti-automation algorithms with natural typing speeds.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
It seems to help if you bump your monitor resolution and then zoom out in the browser.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
The trick is to start in second gear.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Just a really nice article about data science.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
I just can't resist, pointing out that a "minute" is what you get when you split up an hour into 60 minute (i.e. the word pronounced my-newt) pieces, and a "second" is what you get if you break a minute into 60 piec
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
> I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death. > I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep,
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
There was an article, I can't recall if it was a reliable source, that said the home field advantage is vanishing because "before" if many players were playing away they'd take advantage of their being away from home by
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
"We lose money on every sale, but make it up on volume" > https://barrypopik.com/blog/we_lose_money_on_every_sale_but_...
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Which leads to > I don't see what's so hard about DNS, it's just cache invalidation and naming things.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
There already exists a saliva-based method that's all but guaranteed to avoid pregnancy.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
As far as I can tell, it's Bell's Theorem which shows that results we see can't be the result of hidden variables, so either this guy is throwing out this very well known and uncontroversial point, or he's doing somethin

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