FabHK

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by FabHK 7y ago
Eh? 4 bits minimum to get a uniform 1-16, and each bit requires requires 2 numbers that are not identical. (Ah yeah, I thought that in turn requires a bit more than 4 numbers, but it requires only a bit more than 2 numbers (probability that
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by FabHK 7y ago
Excellent point. The algorithm in the article is predicated on a specific distribution and iid, GP algorithm is predicated only on iid.
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by FabHK 7y ago
Would be slightly biased, though (256 is not divisible by 10, you'd have to reject if >=250, say). EDIT: and don't forget to add 1.
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by FabHK 7y ago
That works and is perfectly uniform (if the people are i.i.d.), but requires quizzing around 20, 40, 60 or more people for a number before you can deliver one, while the algorithm described only requires one or two. EDIT: Not quite that man
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by FabHK 7y ago
The architect, Meinhard von Gerkan, wrote a book about it, Black Box BER , back in 2013, after they were fired in 2012. It's a bit self-serving, unsurprisingly, but highlights some of the issues arising when you change plans mid-const
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by FabHK 7y ago
Sydney vs Canberra, Zurich vs Bern, Amsterdam vs The Hague, Istanbul vs Ankara, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) vs Hanoi, São Paulo vs Brasilia, Ottawa vs Toronto, Beijing vs Shanghai, New Delhi vs Mumbai, Wellington vs Auckland, ...
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by FabHK 7y ago
Anyone got any idea what the "primer" [1] represents? It is vaguely reminiscent of the Pioneer plaque [2], but not really. EDIT to add: Oh, it's the Arecibo message [3]. Hope the aliens are smarter than me. [1] https:/&
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by FabHK 7y ago
The mic drop: Nuntii Latini finiti Nuntii Latini Radiophoniae Finnicae Generalis, qui inde ab anno millesimo nongentesimo undenonagesimo (1989) iam triginta annos septimanatim emittuntur, post hanc emissionem finiuntur et decreto moderatoru
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by FabHK 7y ago
Requiescat in pace.
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by FabHK 7y ago
> Ive isn't even a company officer. I can't say it better than Wikipedia: > On 26 May 2015, the firm announced that Ive was promoted to chief design officer (CDO), at the time one of only three C-level executives at Apple al
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by FabHK 7y ago
1. People have already been abducted illegally in HK, so this is not hypothetical. 2. A population cowering in justified fear is not "only feelings", but indicative of bad government.
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by FabHK 7y ago
A well-written article mixing personal narrative with exalted principles, and concluding with this stirring appeal: > At the G20 summit, world leaders should ignore the protestations of Beijing and insist on discussing not just the Hong
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by FabHK 7y ago
GP is not implying that Apple products are like cancer. He is trying to show that GGP's argument was invalid, by applying to a different case where it obviously doesn't hold. A: "X is not bad, because millions have used and l
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by FabHK 7y ago
I can't speak for "the market", but personally I like the seamless integration (of UNIXy base & consistent GUI, of hardware & software, across different devices). Not the super-sleek design. Like many users, I'd
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by FabHK 7y ago
Yes, looks like the industry cannot solve that problem alone, just like the electricity and chemical industries somehow didn't achieve clean air and water out of the goodness of their hearts. Another market gap. Or, wait, a case for go
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by FabHK 7y ago
In Germany, I pay about 12 USD per year for a travel insurance that covers an unlimited number of trips up to two months each, including repatriation if medically advised.
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Defectors call for tourists to steer clear of North Korea(m.dw.com)
1 points by FabHK 7y ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 7y ago
True, but at least it is supposed to. What about "the internet"? Which parts of that will still work when there's a power outage? Not your home Wifi, presumably. Mobile data? For how long?
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by FabHK 7y ago
1. POTS aims at "5 nines" reliability. [1] 2. > the chances of them all being down at once is far lower than your POTS line being down. That depends crucially on the correlation. If there are common fault modes (such as: inte
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by FabHK 7y ago
POTS is not dependent on the ordinary house electric system, either.
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by FabHK 7y ago
> 2.) A general laissez-faire attitude toward the homeless. [...] There's widespread opposition to criminalizing homelessness and say arresting or tazing homeless people. I want to point out that it is a departure from laissez-faire
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by FabHK 7y ago
That's not a point for batteries. I cannot imagine a circumstance where, during cruise or even descent, you'd wish that you'd be carrying more mass (except possibly to have a higher AoA and thus higher V_a if you want to fly
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by FabHK 7y ago
They advocate a change in the rules applying to everyone in their situation, not just to themselves.
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Story of MCAS: How Boeing’s 737 MAX system gained power and lost safeguards(seattletimes.com)
6 points by FabHK 7y ago|1 comments
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by FabHK 7y ago
> > improved modern materials means you can just have most of your take-off mass be battery, compensating for the poorer specific energy > Again, this can be done for any aircraft, not just the electric ones. Not only that: you bur
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by FabHK 7y ago
Obligatory xkcd ("Survivorship Bias"): https://xkcd.com/1827/
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by FabHK 7y ago
An insightful book that touches on these issues in more depth is Robert H. Frank's Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy . Good argument for the estate tax, by the way. https://press.princeton.edu/
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by FabHK 7y ago
As mentioned in the article: > More likely it is “regression to the mean”, or in simple terms, a return to business as usual.
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by FabHK 7y ago
Similarly, there is a business computing custom indices that a bank uses in products. The bank is perfectly capable of computing the index itself, but it needs to be handled by a third party that is paid handsomely to just re-calculate what
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by FabHK 7y ago
Yes, it would be "Widerrechtliches Parken wird angezeigt" in German German.

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