OscarCunningham

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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The level you change the cell in will be destroyed by a wave of chaos radiating outward from the original damage, leaving boring 'ash' patterns in its wake. The levels below that one will be unaffected, faithfully simulating the c
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
It needs to be able to compute, but also to be able to place cells in such a way as to 'display' the result one level up.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Yes that makes perfect sense. So why is int(-1.5) == -1? It should be -2.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Floating point numbers have the highest precision when they're near 0. So if you know a number is going to be near 1, like exp(x) when x is small, then it's better to calculate the offset from 1 rather than the number itself. Prog
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
If they found the material properties of that tile, they would be doing 'spectroscopy'.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Yes, I agree that in principle every person should have a probability for each event. But what does the market tell us about what our own belief should be? If you don't have any nonpublic information and you trust the market to be effi
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Yes, but instead of getting a single number you'll get a range. Like it might be that if the probability of Biden winning the election is anywhere between 49% to 55% then it's not worth betting for him or against him. The worse
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
It would be nice to have a site like electionbettingodds.com but with intervals rather than point preditions. Given the betting odds it's possible to calculate upper and lower bounds on the probabilities. Ideally you would take into ac
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Thank you, that's very helpful!
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
It's known that it's connected and simply connected. So if it's locally connected then I think it has to be contractable.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Yes, but how exactly are the bulbs arranged? Wikipedia says 'Not every hyperbolic component can be reached by a sequence of direct bifurcations from the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. Such a component can be reached by a sequence
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
What is the conjectured topology of the Mandelbrot set if MLC is true? My understanding is that there's a certain number of bulbs, each centred around a point which becomes periodic with period p after k steps. But how do they all stic
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The space needed for landfills is negligible. Any country with room for farming has room for landfills.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
I've heard people being told 'sanitize your inputs!' too many times. The advice should be 'escape your outputs!'.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The way to think about Leibniz notation is that there's a manifold M, and all the quantities f,g,x,y… are functions from M to the reals. Then you can talk about the derivative of any of these quantities with respect to any of the other
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Would there be a problem with disposal of these if they were widely used? The quote they give says. > Atomic energy batteries are environmentally friendly. After the decay period, the 63 isotopes turn into a stable isotope of copper, whi
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
For January and February dates, the 'Memorable date' is adjusted based on whether it's a leap year or not. Would it be easier to pretend that they are part of the previous year, by subtracting 1 from the year whenever the mon
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
An interesting consequence of the HashLife algorithm is that when people design patterns in Conway's Game of Life they sometimes try to tailor them to the algorithm. The rule of thumb is that any repeated components should be laid out
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The unknot isn't a prime knot for the same reason that 1 isn't a prime number.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The 'deleted records table' they suggest at the end of the article is a really good alternative!
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
They actually curve the line of the measuring tool so that it follows the geodesic.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Do ships still use rhumb lines? I'd have thought that modern technology was good enough to guide them along geodesics.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
But the Mercator projection doesn't show shortest-paths as straight lines unless they're north-south or the equator.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Sure, but in terms of understanding what to expect git to output, the two points of view should be equally valid.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The diff from the first parent. This isn't breaking any symmetry between the parents, since git already treats the first parent as special.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
If we don't care about implementation details then isn't it mathematically equivalent to say that a commit is a diff or a snapshot? Each commit knows its parent. So from the diff you can calculate the snapshot, and from the snapsh
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Are you thinking that the nine month salary wouldn't be worth it to save $115,000? I think the idea is that SpaceX will use multiple copies of this part.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
Would this have already been legal under the parody exemption?
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
They're using 'contain' to mean 'keep isolated'. If you put some malware in a docker container, you can't rely on docker to keep the rest of your system safe.
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by OscarCunningham 3y ago
You have invented the pink ghost from Pac-Man.

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