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This is a limitation known to several radio telescopes. For example, the Arecibo telescope couldn't aim much until they added the arm in 1997. They could aim the telescope not by moving the dish, but by moving the focal point/re
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Yes, I bought Industries of Titan day 1 on epic games store because the game director is an old acquaintance ;) Agreeing with sibling comment. This works for some games, but not others. The examples you mention are based around a core gam
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They haven't taken consumer's money, but they're not without funding. I know they've had investment from the Indie Fund ( https://indie-fund.com/games ) Though I don't know if they've had oth
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Seems so, looking at network traffic, 11:10am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... 11:12am https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/generated/v7/hi... Both
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Reasons not to use something like this: 1. Want to run a build from a version from a few months ago, well things are fixed at the head of the main branch, but a todo in the old version are now bad and break the build. No binary searching f
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That is a surprising thing to note. Though it does help set up two of the most important scenes in the movie: Lightsabers are used in the dramatic battle between Vader and Obi-Wan; It's good to have them in a few scenes if the first
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One thing I heard, and have absolutely no idea if it's correct, is that submarines are given giant hard drives to have uncrackable encryption. Basically, use a sufficiently secure source of randomness to produce a couple copies of an e
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Thanks for this explanation, it made it click for me. The benefit of doing far less additional sampling in the rejection case is very intuitive, especially when the numbers are very large. It also seems this technique could be extended to
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In a similar vein, I wonder if medical privacy laws are hurting us in this pandemic. If every time the hospitals filled up with patients, camera crews went through and documented all of the people suffering and dying, would those who aren&
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Well, 3% into the video he mentions it's a sponsored video, so I'm not sure that saying it's too ad like is valid criticism. Perhaps him using his platform for ads is a valid criticism, but nearly every Youtuber makes their
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Any title will change the state of the reader's mind. The question is what is the split of benefits or harms between the reader and the writer. This goes beyond Youtube, and even interactions motivated by money. This is an area where
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This used to be the case but isn't anymore.
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Check out the Tom Scott videos - the presenters get a screwed up perspective, but sight lines work correctly. Also, anything aligned with the video panels (most notably the floor) is correct from all angles.
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If you think this stuff is neat, there's a neat improvement on this using what are essentially video walls. Replacing the greenscreen removes the problems with green or white, and gives presentors/actors better idea of their spac
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From 2020-04-29: https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-mo... > Until now, Meet has only been available as part of G Suite, our collaboration and productivity solution for businesses, organi
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I recommend the excellent video by Youtuber Tom Scott "YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU While I agree with the OP in broad stroke
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As best as I can tell, this article is from 2014. Only date I found for it was in the rss feed.
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My read on the situation is: 1. Google wanted her gone, ranging from good reasons (she was too abrasive) to possibly suspect (in this instance she was being abrasive about a paper with ethical questions on Google's practices being stop
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They stopped scanning emails for ads years ago: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in... Of course, computers are very complicated and it's effectively impossible to personally verify a
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They no longer do any ad personalization based on the contents of your email, and AFAIK, they never did for paying customers. Obviously, other systems process the contents of your email, eg spam filter, the frontend displaying the email to
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My list of recommended Youtube subscriptions, built from over a decade of curation. No Particular ordering within the categories. (D) means possibly defunct, hasn’t uploaded in awhile. A tier educational / edutainment 3Blue1Brown -
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I had a required ethics course for my CS degree. I can't recall anything from it. I also took a one day ethics course at a FAANG that was excellent. Far better than a "I'm not stupid" checkbox. I think both of these
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That math is pretty easy to make a ballpark guess. Using stats from: https://backlinko.com/twitter-users $3.72 billion (2020 revenue) / 12 = $310 million average monthly revenue $310 million / 353.1 million (mont
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I have. Back in early days of Oculus, I was using one of the development kits (DK2?, maybe DK1) and making something in Unity. The Oculus had one screen, with lenses over the left and right halves. To give depth perception, it renders a
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That precision of language is not the way most people would use that word, eg "a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values" - https:/&#x2
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> 61% of participants also think they are better at maths than average. Yeah, given my discussions about math with people in non-technical fields, I think this answer is very skewed.
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You can hold a mechanical calculator in your hand, so I imagine if an industry of effort on perfecting mechanical computation, it could get quite small: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
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I can't quite tell if they're doing this in the video, but you can project things out of a 3d display. You just have to avoid the object touching the sides of the screen. With that, you could have participants feel like their ha
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I prefer imperative code over collector like APIs for two reasons, both visible in this example: 1. The intention of the code is obscured by more layers of abstraction, increasing complexity. 2. Small changes to what the code is conceptuall
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To add to this: He lists two reasons why people want to dismiss "crazy new ideas": envy, and the desire to seem sophisticated. Using Copernicus as an example simply does not fit these claims. Reasons to dismiss Copernicus's

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