Certhas

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by Certhas 8y ago
How Long has it been since an inexperienced user found their way onto IRC?
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by Certhas 8y ago
People seem to have filled in what OP is doing based on the headline/first three tweets only...
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by Certhas 8y ago
Of course that's not the main aim of the person in the thread. The aim is a timeline cross referencing different data sources.
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by Certhas 8y ago
There are many such ways to approximate somewhat arbitrary functions. Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for example. The fact that NN can reproduce arbitrary functions is decidedly not what makes them special...
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by Certhas 8y ago
It seems like in this case you want to version API and program separately. API changes aren't the only thing people care about or that should be communicated in a version number. So semver would not just be "not perfect" but
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by Certhas 8y ago
"Lastly, assholes make for effective leaders." I wish that this idea would die out. I have seen no evidence for it. The most effective leaders I have worked with and under, and those I try to emulate were never assholes. Or if so
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by Certhas 8y ago
Because the secret is never in memory, wouldn't it exactly be safe against all the attacks you mention?
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by Certhas 8y ago
The article says in the introduction: > I am going to be assuming some familiarity with monads (and to a certain extent, do notation). There are enough introductions to monads out there as it is.
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by Certhas 8y ago
I am fully invested in Julia but I have found it's far from being productive for large scale projects. It's hard to encode interfaces and invariants (in practice this is done by documentation instead of code) and code is not very
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by Certhas 8y ago
More importantly to me, Julias combination of features means code is not very self documenting and error messages are (often) terrible. If I need to understand what subtle assumption of DifferentialEquations I violated stepping into the poi
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by Certhas 8y ago
If VW offers a wide range of EVs at reasonable prices the argument that we need extensions and exceptions will be hard to make. VWs move creates a regulatory environment beneficial to VWs move. TCO of EVs is about the same now and will be c
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by Certhas 8y ago
2025 does seem challenging. But remember that it's new car sales. People will operate their ICE cars for decades after that date. And in the context of the discussion of VW's investment the difference between 80% of the market bei
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by Certhas 8y ago
So it's not aspirational, but real law backed by real money and government investment.
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by Certhas 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic... 2025: Norway 2030 EU: Sweden, Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark 2030 Non-EU: India, Israel --- If you take a lifetime of 20+ years for new vehicles into accou
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by Certhas 8y ago
But that's not creating value. Unless the lottery creates value for people who buy the right tickets.
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by Certhas 8y ago
Well... the other reason might be that the German Universities got together to negotiate with the big publishers. While agreements are in reach or have been reached with most of them, Elsevier continued to try to throw it's weight arou
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by Certhas 8y ago
I think it is a very interesting question for a lot of scientists, but also an extremely hard one to answer. And an even harder one to implement. Even obvious wins that almost everyone can agree on, like getting publishing out of the hands
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by Certhas 8y ago
You're right of course. Not intentional. 0:3 picks out index 0, 1, 2. So 1:3 picks out the second and third element, which are indexed by 1 and 2 respectively. My guess is that what one prefers probably depends entirely on the data str
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by Certhas 8y ago
Could also be that C is superior in other ways, there isn't really a big difference between 0 and 1 based indexing, and thus 0 based won on the back of Cs other strengths. The Dijkstra discussion is only aesthetic preference, nothing m
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by Certhas 8y ago
Good luck with that. The 0-based indexing is non-existent outside of programming. No one who doesn't do pointer arithmetic would come up with it. In mathematics 1...N is a perfectly good notation. Julia expresses the same idea with 1:N
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by Certhas 8y ago
When I started Julia I was annoyed by it. Then I realized that 90% of my mental gymnastics with indices got simplified. Explaining indexing to newbies is now immediate where before it took a slide, several examples, and a clever picture. Sl
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by Certhas 8y ago
The approach really makes little sense to me to be honest. Latex or any competent Text processing tool should take care of most of these needs. As far as I know the tech the OP uses is used almost nowhere where people work with large bodies
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by Certhas 8y ago
A threat of veto makes sure proposals don't get to the table. If Germany had had its way, many countries would have taken on refugees in recent years. I also don't accept the idea that others don't have a place at the table f
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by Certhas 8y ago
In the EU everyone has a veto on everything. Nothing happens against the will of the sovereign states. To conflate that Germany is influential within such a supranational structure, in a situation where Germany also financially supports man
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by Certhas 8y ago
Except that that's also a caricature that hasn't been true in a while. Germany is one of several large powers in the EU, but small countries have considerable influence, and can and do block decisions/legislation all the time
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by Certhas 8y ago
You are just bullshitting. By your accounting, if your employee quits, or falls ill for a month or two, which would have the same impact as the training period for the maternal leave replacement, your kids would not be able to afford colleg
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by Certhas 8y ago
Wow. Just wow. So, in many European countries, fathers and mothers have a right to substantial amounts of parental leave. Like a year or more. In all of these places small businesses exist. In Sweden, with very extensive parental leave [1],
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by Certhas 8y ago
Eh, no. She's an established theoretical physicist. She explains her motivations here: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/02/particle-physicist...
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by Certhas 8y ago
This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalness_(physics) Hossenfelder wrote a book crtizising current mainstream thinking on the importance and role of naturalness: https://www.goodreads.com/book/
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by Certhas 8y ago
I was talking about getting your paper peer reviewed, not placing it in a particular journal. If you want to get into PLOS One I don't think your university matters very much.

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