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by DavidSJ 6y ago
It’s one reason we’ve had trouble solving climate change (I wouldn’t go so far as to say we can’t). Two more reasons: 1. It’s a classic tragedy of the commons, where many actors, at the individual, corporate, and national level, have incent
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Another problem with this demonstration is that by exfiltrating the data via HTTP, even if it ends up in /dev/null on the other side, the user’s ISP and anyone else in a position to sniff packets along the route can now know the u
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I think K is just an arbitrary natural number. The author is assuming the height is a power of 2, and giving the name K to the log_2 of that height.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
If you can get one then you can get the other, for any compression format that allows varying compression ratios.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I’ve now read the title three times, and each time I’ve made the same mistake.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Such nostalgia. I remember Kid Pix and Myst on my Mac IIsi.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
“For example, microprocessor degradation may lead to lower performance, necessitating a slowdown, but not necessary failures. In mission-critical AI applications, such as ADAS, a sensor degradation may directly lead to AI failures and henc
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Spies can eavesdrop by watching a lightbulb’s variations(arstechnica.com)
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David Hilbert discovered general relativity at practically the same moment as Einstein.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Where you say reasonable, I think you mean to say mainstream.
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It's the first ever crewed orbital flight on a privately manufactured rocket or spacecraft, and the first crewed American orbital flight since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011.
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Dragon-ISS Rendezvous in Progress(youtube.com)
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Defense in depth.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
You seem to be jumping around in terms of what position you're taking. Is times(a, b) function composition because a and b are functions, or is times(a, b) function composition because it's composition of the addition function, or
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I didn’t think you meant that numbers are functions because you said: “multiplication is a function so one [multiplication] is just a specific instance of the other [function composition]”. Thus I thought your point was that, since multipli
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Multiplication is a function of numbers, and function composition is a function of functions, so neither is an instance of the other (unless you take the unusual perspective of thinking of numbers themselves as functions, but I don’t think
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
They’re both inverses: one with respect to multiplication, the other with respect to function composition. In abstract algebra, we observe that there are many types of “products”: multiplication, addition, function composition, composition
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
The other option is that shitty and abusive parents are the default.
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
I should probably do that. Actually, my Mac IIsi still works last I checked, but that was about ten years ago!
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Recently I came across https://512pixels.net/2014/04/aqua-past-future/ and was overcome with nostalgia for System 7. Maybe it’s just that a Mac IIsi running System 7 was my first computer when I was seven yea
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
What other subjects would simulation enlighten people on?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience. Would you say your ability to visualize has declined, or you’ve just favored other methods of thinking?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
I wonder: Could you normally have two viable lineages, each with the same DNA, and each with a different expression of that DNA which is stably conserved over many generations, purely due to womb environment, etc.? In other words, if you cl
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The Ignorant Man's Book Collection: entry-level texts for a range of topics(olliezhu.github.io)
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Yes, but the point is that most Mac apps should need neither installer nor admin privileges.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Reading: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by Keynes. Studying: The Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al and Advanced Macroeconomics by Romer.
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
This is basically the same problem that cross-cultural or -temporal IQ comparisons have.
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Ford too: https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/124041736308791705...
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
Which startup is that?
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by DavidSJ 7y ago
If you can trace the cases faster than they spread, then it’s not too late.

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