FabHK

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by FabHK 1y ago
So, fun fact: Between 0 and 1, you have about a quarter of all floating point numbers (and then a quarter > 1, a quarter < -1, and a quarter between -1 and 0). Between 1 and 2, you have about 0.024% of all floating point numbers (for
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by FabHK 1y ago
> certain values will be far more likely than other values That's fine, as for the normal understanding of uniformity on the interval, you want the probability that a value is chosen to be proportional to the "space" betwe
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by FabHK 1y ago
There's another approach for doing this: generate a random number between 1 and 2 (they all have the same exponent) and then subtract 1 (that's the default implementation in Julia [0]). But I think it also just gives you 2^53 diff
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by FabHK 1y ago
2) The US is considered a common law jurisdiction.
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by FabHK 1y ago
So, you liked the Lisa?
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Around one book every 12 hours.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Typo: Declarative (think of declaration, not declarition)
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by FabHK 2y ago
I got an email from the restaurant saying "We will confirm your dinner reservation as soon as we can", and Apple Intelligence summarizing it as "Dinner reservation confirmed." Maybe it can not only summarize, but also se
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by FabHK 2y ago
Sure. By deflecting the air down. > Cambered airfoils generate lift at zero angle of attack. When the chord line is horizontal, the trailing edge has a downward direction and since the air follows the trailing edge it is deflected downwa
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by FabHK 2y ago
Not at all. Imagine two roads, parallel mostly, but then one takes a detour, like this: ____ ____/ __ \____ -> _____/ \______ _______________ -> _______________ Now imagine them full of cars, bumper
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by FabHK 2y ago
The very short answer is that the wing pushes the air down, thus (by Newton's 3rd law) the air pushes the wing up.
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by FabHK 2y ago
This article is much better, more informative, and factual than I'd have expected from the title. Note that it's part of an 8-article series. Worth a read if you're ever fitting functions.
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by FabHK 2y ago
I got the same choice presented several times in a row.
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Maybe they called it "face" and not "edge" because an edge is normally understood to be what's between two vertices (of a graph; so an edge has two vertices, beginning and end), while here "face" is what&#
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by FabHK 2y ago
> Placing a penny on top of skyscraper Great intuitive metaphor, btw.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Yes, there is no state and state transition matrix, really. Kalman filters are good where you have a system with a state, and an estimate of the state, and you act on the system, and then you measure the outcome, repeatedly. Acting on the s
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by FabHK 2y ago
Sorry, if there are N clients, and M servers, then there are N+M endpoints, but N*M links, which is a lot more.
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by FabHK 2y ago
The government letter demands giving control back to tenured academics (from students, activists, and administrators).
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Agreed. I think at this point we can discard the assumption of 4D chess. (This is not to say that there aren't some Project 2025 plans in the background that parts of the administration are aiming to push through.)
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by FabHK 2y ago
"Nice smartphone business you have here..."
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by FabHK 2y ago
Runner up: Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy)
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by FabHK 2y ago
Thanks for illuminating the mindset. One thing I want to say in support: The argument in favour of free trade is that it increases the pie, so that everyone can be better off (a Pareto improvement). However, given that trade does produce wi
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by FabHK 2y ago
If the betting site is used as a hedge, then the equilibrium prices don’t reflect real-world probabilities. Suppose people predicted that Trump would tank the economy and wanted a few extra dollars in that case. An extra dollar in a Trump w
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by FabHK 2y ago
Ah, missed that. Sorry.
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by FabHK 2y ago
May I suggest that you look at The Economist and the FT. Still an outside view, though.
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Agreed. The advertisement oligopolies Alphabet and Meta basically destroyed special interest journalism, and regional journalism. These kinds of papers (special interest, regional) had an interest in long-term relationships with their reade
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by FabHK 2y ago
In my view, both the FT and The Economist are better, more balanced, more centrist, and less conservative/neoliberal than many people give them credit for.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Disagree. The Guardian has employed identity politics that are very in line with current left-wing politics, but quite at odds with classical liberalism.
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Nobody said "very" left-wing. Nobody seems to disagree that it is left-wing.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> They are lucrative, but I don't think exceptionally so. Probably not as lucrative as the despicable academic publisher parasites.

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