DavidSJ

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631.
by DavidSJ 10y ago
Yes, seems so.
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Dell: “we are associated” with organizations doing “technology phone scams”(facebook.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 10y ago|2 comments
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
If you're willing to count a 40 meter hop, then 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PEXLODw9c
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
That's not the same position. You're saying you should get insurance only when EV is positive. Parent is saying you should get insurance only when the insured outcomes would be ruinous, despite negative EV.
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
I doubt that it happens myself, but out of curiosity, are you saying this because you are in a privileged position to know for sure that Facebook doesn't do this, or are you saying this based on your experience of the corporate culture
636.
by DavidSJ 10y ago
It's not proper American English either but it's becoming increasingly common.
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
If A results in B being taken as a preventative measure (to stop Q), and then C occurs as a result of that preventative measure, then the causal graph looks like A->B->C. That is, both A and B can be said to cause C, in the standard c
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
Image classification has everything to do with statistics: you're guessing the probability distribution over the classes conditional on the input image vector; the model is trained through a process of statistical inference (using grad
639.
by DavidSJ 10y ago
It is just glorified curve fitting. Glorified curve fitting is a very rich field. Another way of thinking about it (described in Wasserman's book) is that statistics is the inverse problem of probability. Probability theory asks: given
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
Interestingly, they included the full text of the Supreme Court decision in the article. I guess they could just link to the PDF these days, but would the New York Times have included the full text in the early 90's? Edit: Also of note
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by DavidSJ 10y ago
Fun fact: http://apple.com/hypercard redirects to that page.
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Kepler Finds 1,284 New Planets(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by DavidSJ 10y ago|0 comments
643.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
Until we have a deep theory of how minds work and how conscious, subjective experience relates to that, the lines we draw in interpreting the experiences of other entities are bound to be somewhat arbitrary.
644.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
That site says it assumes circular and coplanar orbits for Earth and Mars. I'm guessing it also assumes a Hohmann transfer for the spacecraft. All three of those assumptions could affect the optimal departure date by weeks.
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
There's no law that says everything a company does must be profit-motivated. Even if there are investors. Even if it's publicly traded (though SpaceX is not), although in that case you must often make your intentions clear in adva
646.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
When in doubt, learn more math.
647.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
Moderators, can you append [1616] to the title? This is old news.
648.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
"Your chain of reasoning is so wonderfully self-contained. The deduction of the dimension number 4 impressed me very much as well. The decomposition of your invariant of 'weight' zero is also very striking. Except for the agr
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Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity [pdf](pitt.edu)
2 points by DavidSJ 11y ago|2 comments
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
I realize that, but I'm suggesting that you may have misunderstood the author. It sounds like you think the author is asserting that the null test article was intended as an experimental control and that its production of thrust is evi
651.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
You have the right parity but there is a slight semantic difference between that and what I said. Sorry that I wasn't so clear. I'll try again. There's a difference between "I don't believe X" (which allows for
652.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but I don't think anyone seriously doubts that the null article produces no thrust. So it's not a question of whether the null article's production of thrust disproves the efficacy of anything. It's
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
If your program is a neural network with N parameters, or a program tree with N nodes, then testing against data takes O(N) time. With evolutionary computation, what you get for your trouble is a single real number -- the loss: how bad it d
654.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
I see, I missed the part where you assume 10 atoms per cm^3.
655.
by DavidSJ 11y ago
> about 3.9e4m^3 every second, which contains about 3.9e11 hydrogen atoms I think this step is off by 1e5. It contains 3.9e16 hydrogen atoms at 1e6/cm^3. So that 631 MJ becomes 63.1 TJ.
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Physics in 100 years(scitation.aip.org)
3 points by DavidSJ 11y ago|0 comments
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
> In your example, the building you describe is a condominium? If so, then what does it matter what your tax bill is and if they are absentee owners; if the owner maintains the property, pays their bills and taxes, then you should be hap
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
Right, now that I think about it, it's only coincidental that the objects in question represent the subsets in a partition of the reals. It seems what we have here is a finite set A (in arithmetic, A would be a finite collection of set
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by DavidSJ 11y ago
Do you know if there's been any thought on extending this to arbitrary algebras? Seems like you've already got the mechanism to define a partition of the space, and the lookup table describing the behavior of an operation with res
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A Radical Approach to Computation with Real Numbers [pdf](johngustafson.net)
78 points by DavidSJ 11y ago|49 comments

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