BlahBoy3

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by BlahBoy3 7y ago
I was thinking about the case of the Navy SEAL who wrote about the UBL raid[0]. Same outcome- lots of surrendered money... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Easy_Day
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by BlahBoy3 7y ago
From my understanding, SARSA could be more ideal when there is a greater cost associated with making a mistake whilst learning. SARSA is more conservative, as it takes into account possible large negative rewards during the exploratory phas
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by BlahBoy3 8y ago
It's possible that they're referring to this crypto-currency backdoor that was slipped into the event-stream dependency? https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116 Edit: it attempts to s
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by BlahBoy3 8y ago
Just because it's not a "life or death" situation doesn't mean people shouldn't say something. What kind of attitude is that? I mean, is the rule for when we should speak up against negligent practices or stay sil
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by BlahBoy3 8y ago
> It’s quite disappointing, as the literature we read actually holds some cultural value. For me, the biggest problem is that most instructors never really mentioned this. Instead, we ended up having 50 minute discussions about why the
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by BlahBoy3 9y ago
It was actually a Houston airport; here's an article that talks more about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waiting...
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by BlahBoy3 9y ago
Jeremy was one of my professors last semester at IU! Really smart guy- nice to see his blog post getting some recognition here.
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by BlahBoy3 9y ago
I personally like this one: http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters
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by BlahBoy3 10y ago
Not trying to start a flame war, but to offer a counterpoint: I don't believe that taxes should be used as a means to control people's behavior. If you put huge taxes on products that you deem to be socially unacceptable, you are
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by BlahBoy3 10y ago
I go to what could be considered a fairly diverse high school, and in my experience, your comment is pretty much right on the money- especially the second part. Sure, there may not be legal barriers per say, but take one look at the cafete
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by BlahBoy3 10y ago
It's censorship, but so what? It's a private company. They're allowed to display or hide whatever they please.
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by BlahBoy3 10y ago
Huh, didn't even know this. So this is why BuzzFeed comes across as ADD in website form...
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by BlahBoy3 11y ago
So you have a problem with open source putting out alternatives, but you're perfectly fine with the free market, in which companies put out competing products all the time? I'm not trying to start a flame war here, I'm just