SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
You're really claiming that an F1 will beat a Civic on a gravel track? Or perhaps you misread? How about in the snow? How about a road with random 2-inch-high debris? How about a road with lanes of uneven pavement? And how's t
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I know that this article is meant for the general masses, but it's rather misinformed in nearly every sentence it utters regarding MIDI 1.0. That's a shame. I'm pretty bummed out about MIDI 2.0's prospects. The protoco
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
"While Toyota has offered all-electric vehicles in China in the past, the bZ4X could be considered its first battery-electric vehicle since it’s the first to use a BEV-dedicated platform and to be available globally." This is gibb
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Follow the broken logic. 1. "Banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer to online abuse." 2. Primary section in support of #1 makes the far weaker claim: "Many abusers are not anonymous" 3. Primary support
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I like everyone appreciate the opportunity to both dump on and defend gifted and talented programs. But if I may engage in some Ad Hominem for a moment: America's Future is conservative advocacy organization with secret donor lists an
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
* x+0.0 cannot be optimized to x because that is not true when x is -0.0 Wait, what? What is x + -0.0 then? What are the special cases? The only case I can think of would be 0.0 + -0.0.
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Terence Eden is British.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Such a long discussion and no mention the Knuth algorithm?
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Perhaps you might consider how big that output function ideally is, then compare to the capacity of the neural network they used and the number of samples provided.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
That's only ~365 values. XORshift32 has a period of 2^32-1, a good portion of that (I'd imagine) unique. If XORshift had really good randomness properties, at the extreme we'd expect that the NN would have to special case
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> What they are doing is essentially encoding the binary circuit of the xorshift128 PRNG as a neutal network. The fact that you can encode abritrary binary circuits as neural networks is well-known, so it's not surprising that it is
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Unlike many countries, US doesn't have a national required ID card, so voter ID schemes must resort to other kinds of identification. Republican-controlled states have often restricted forms of identification to those sorts that many
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> Most countries have id requirements, and it's not viewed as a slippery slope towards voter suppression. Other countries have actual ID cards. They are issued for free to and required of every single citizen. The US does not: it
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Are you fine with corporate personhood in other respects, but not this one?
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> Because of this the pharmaceutical companies end up doing most of the funding of the FDA instead of the federal government. 45% is way too much, but it is not "most of the funding". IIRC that was an urban legend that got sta
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Nearly all of biotech is snugged up right next to NIH. There's a reason Amazon picked DC for HQ2.
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> but it’s not like it became a tech capital What? Let's put aside the massive government contractor industry. Even without it, DC's internet history includes MAE-East, UUNet, AOL, Equinix, Network Solutions, and Microstrategy
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??? DC is extremely strong and has been for decades. It's also very stable in this regard.
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My bad! I thought I had selected it.
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Wait, wait, wait. The Framework is supposed to be entirely customizable. Except I have to buy Windows 10 Home, which has an OEM cost of, what, about $100? And I have to have the little Windows icon on my keyboard. This alone gets me t
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Citation needed. Use of police force in the ways you're describing is exceedingly rare in the US. If there is an uptick in the last 4 years, it would seem to me mostly due to the increase in death threats against politicians and thei
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> USA broke their back. They opened their private banking. This sounds like you think this was a bad thing. But a not insignificant amount of swiss bank holdings, and profit, stemmed directly from dormant accounts of holocaust victims,
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Pagani. Pininfarina. Technically Bugatti. Alfa Romeo. > I don't really count Maserati, they make SUVs and stuff. Uh, so does Lamborghini.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I'm probably too old for that, but yes. Actually I'm now in my 50s and perfect pitch starts going south as you get older, at least for me and a number of others I know. I easily get locked into thinking things are a half-step low
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Those tunings are not so off as to be annoying, so I don't really have much of an opinion of them except to think that they're kinda silly. Other tunings (like 31 EDO) I just can't handle.
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I have perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is basically rounding the frequency to the nearest pitch in your resolution. As a pianist, my resolution is more or less half of a semitone, so I can tell that a note is off, but it doesn't get re
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I don't think he's saying that it'd be good if Apple and Google did that. He's saying they should have done that if they had had their strategic thinking caps on.
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NetBeans was killed by competition with Eclipse. IDEA had nothing to do with it.
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> I can't help but feel that you missed the point of my comment. New users should be encouraged to make those changes themselves if they feel the need to. If that's not something they're interested in, why use Emacs? This
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Did they bother analyzing the rest of the Shakespeare canon to see how often "the" appeared? The article doesn't say.

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